Professor Billington

Professor Billington, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, directs the Program in Architecture and Engineering. He earned his B.S.E. in 1950 from Princeton and has been a member of the faculty since 1960. He was named the New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1995, the Educator of the Year by the Consulting Engineers Council of New Jersey in 1998, and one of the 125 most influential people in the construction industry since 1874 by the Engineering News-Record magazine in 1999. Professor Billington has received two Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Engineering Council (fall 1988 and spring 1999). He received an honorary doctor of engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1997.

Photos by Frank Wojciechowski Above, SEAS Dean James Wei congratulates Professor David Billington.

He is the author of Thin Shell Concrete Structures (1965, 1982), The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern (1996), and Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer and Artist (1999).

His Princeton courses include CEE 102: Engineering in the Modern World and CEE 262: Structures and the Urban Environment, courses that combine the study of technology with aesthetics and are open to both engineering and liberal arts students alike.

"How great a pleasure it has been to work at the School of Engineering and Applied Science for 40 years," Professor Billington said upon accepting his award. "How stimulating it has been to be an engineering school within Princeton University and to have a sort of parity with the rest of the University. But above all, it has been an immense privilege to teach our outstanding undergraduate students. I thank their parents for sending them to us."

Professor Sedgewick

Professor Sedgewick, the William O. Baker Professor of Computer Science, was the founding chairman of the Department of Computer Science, a position he held from 1985 to 1994.

Photos by Frank Wojciechowski Professor Robert Sedgewick receives his teaching award from Dean Wei.

Professor Sedgewick developed the undergraduate courses General Computer Science and Algorithms and Data Structures. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Engineering Council (fall 1991).

He earned his bachelor of science (1968) and master of science (1969) degrees in applied mathematics from Brown University, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University (1975).

He is the author of Algorithms, Third Edition, in C, Parts 1-4 (errata); Algorithms, Third Edition, in C++, Parts 1-4 (errata); An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms, with Philippe Flajolet (errata); and Algorithms in C++.

Works in progress include Analytic Combinatorics, with Philippe Flajolet; Algorithms, Third Edition, in C, Parts 5-8 Sorting and searching strings, with J. Bentley; and Analysis of shellsort and related algorithms.