5/6/97 Contact: Linda Stroh, Ohio University, 614/593-0894

The Russ College of Engineering and Technology presented awards to two assistant professors at the college's annual faculty/staff banquet April 25.

Robert Lipset, an assistant professor with the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering since 1995, received the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. During his time at the university, Lipset has taught 11 different courses in engineering, with a focus on manufacturing systems and operations research.

The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Research Award was presented to Joseph H. Nurre for his paper "Smoothing Random Noise from Human Head Scan Data." The paper was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Nurre, an assistant professor within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been with the university since 1990. His principal areas of research interest are in industrial automation systems and computer graphics modeling. He has written more than 20 technical articles and conference papers.

Fritz J. And Dolores H. Russ, for whom the college and the awards are named, are longtime supporters of the university. Fritz Russ received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1942 and an honorary engineering doctorate in 1975. He was a university trustee from 1981 to 1990 and has been on the Engineering and Technology Board of Visitors for 21 years. Dolores Russ studied music at Ohio University and received the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit in 1987.