Two Engineering Alumni Inducted
Into UD’s Wall of Fame

Two UD alumni with connections to the College of Engineering were inducted into the Alumni Wall of Fame on Friday, May 5.  The award honors members of the University of Delaware Alumni Association from around the nation and the world who have distinguished themselves in professional and community endeavors.

Julie Moyer-Knowles (center), president of UD’s Alumni Association, with the newest Wall of Fame inductees (from left): Phyllis W. Sharps, T.W. Fraser Russell, W. David Sincoskie and Charles C. Allen III.

T.W. Fraser Russell, ’64 PhD and W. David Sincoskie, ’75, ’77 M, ’80 PhD, were inducted in a ceremony at Bayard Sharp Hall with two other recipients of the award.  The wall is located in the Alumni Lounge of the Perkins Student Center.

Russell, currently Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering, has also served as Vice Provost for Research at UD.  From 1979-96, he served as director of the University’s Institute of Energy Conservation, and he was chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1986-91.  He has received four patents for his work and has three pending.  Russell has authored more than 100 technical publications on a variety of subjects, and he is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Sincoskie serves as senior vice president for the Network Systems Research Laboratory at Telcordia Technologies, Inc., where his leadership has led to a number of developments in the telecommunications industry.  Sincoskie played a pivotal role in the development of the broadband packet-switching technology, which underlies today’s Internet, and, as result, he was elected to the NAE in 2000.  He is also an adjunct professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Selected from 135,000 graduates, the new inductees bring to 205 the names on the wall, including 34 from Engineering.  Among the initial Alumni Wall of Fame inductees were Revolutionary War heroes and signers of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, as well as physicians, engineers, and authors.  Recent graduates include men and women from business, law, education, creative and performing arts, athletics, religion, politics, medicine, and the military.

by Diane Kukich - Adapted from an article in UDaily, May 8, 2006, by Martin Mbugua