Clarkson University will grant the rank of professor emeritus to several faculty members at the commencement ceremony May 9.

Professor of Economics and Finance John K. Mullen will be honored for 38 years of service.

Since joining the faculty at Clarkson in 1977, Mullen has taught more than 5,000 students, offering more than 25 separate courses in economics and finance at graduate and undergraduate levels.

His primary teaching duties included required courses in financial management, as well as corporate finance and financial markets and institutions at the MBA level.

Drawing upon his expertise in public policy and regional science, Mullen has often focused his scholarly research on topics that impact regional economic welfare, according to a press release from Clarkson.

He has held positions as a senior research fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government and as visiting scholar at the National University of Ireland-Galway.

At Clarkson, he served on the Faculty Senate, Administrative Council, and numerous committees. Mullen was chair of the Department of Economics and Finance from 1992 until 1997, overseeing significant growth in its faculty within what is now the Clarkson University School of Business.

He has relocated to South Carolina, and is still teaching and consulting online.

Mullen received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from SUNY Binghamton, with specializations in public finance and applied microeconomics.

He has a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Marist College.

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering David J. Morrison will be be honored for more than 25 years of service.

Morrison began his career at Clarkson in 1989 as assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering and was promoted to associate professor in 1995.

He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in metallurgy, solid mechanics, manufacturing, and dynamics. Over the years, he has advised or co-advised five doctoral and 27 master's students.

He was awarded the Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Teaching Award and the Outstanding Advisor Award, and was recognized numerous times by the Coulter School of Engineering for teaching excellence.

His interests include manufacturing processes, fracture mechanics, cyclic plasticity, fatigue crack initiation and growth, microstructural characterization of materials, radiation effects, surface film effects on bulk mechanical properties, ion implantation, welding processes, metal foams, stress corrosion cracking, and hydrogen embrittlement.

His service to the University includes directing department undergraduate student recruitment efforts for 10 years; directing the department graduate program for four years; co-chairing the Clarkson University Library Task Force for four years; and chairing the Clarkson University Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee for three years.

Morrison received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan. He received an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Colorado, and a master of science degree in metallurgy from Michigan State University.

He received his bachelor of science degree in engineering mechanics from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Robert A. Meyer will be honored for more than 40 years of service.

Appointed to the faculty in 1974, Meyer's scholarship is in the area of computer engineering, with a focus on computer automation, embedded computing and applications of artificial intelligence.

He established and helped grow the computer engineering program at Clarkson.

Meyer has taught computer systems design, embedded microprocessor system design, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and the senior design lab. He has supervised six master of engineering, 21 master of science, and five Ph.D. students.

He was named ECE Professor of the Year in 1985 by Eta Kappa Nu, the student honor society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

He received the Outstanding Advisor Award in 1993, and was recognized for Teaching Excellence by the Coulter School of Engineering in 2003.

Meyer’s service is exemplary. In the late 1980s, he proposed the University's new computer engineering degree program to the state Department of Education, and helped lead ABET accreditation efforts for it. He served as the chair of the Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee for most of that time.

Working with Professor Susan Conry, he assisted in establishing the university's software engineering degree program in 2000.

Meyer authored the original proposal for Clarkson to develop a common curriculum and worked with faculty from across all disciplines within the University to develop the Common Experience Curriculum.

He has served as secretary, vice chair, and chair of the Faculty Senate. He has been the grand marshal at university ceremonies for the last 18 years.

Meyer received his Ph.D. and his master of engineering degree, both in electrical engineering, from Rice University. His bachelor of arts degree in electrical engineering and mathematics is also from Rice University.

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering James H. Kane will be honored for more than 25 years of service.

Early in his career, Kane performed sponsored research in computational stress, acoustic, and thermal analysis of continuum solids, attracting close to $1 million in financial support from National Science Foundation, NASA, United Technologies and others.

He performed development activities related to the use of computers for instruction in science and engineering. His work in that area was sponsored by General Motors, EDS, United Technologies, and textbook publishers.

Kane was assistant professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts before he joined the faculty at Clarkson in 1989 as associate professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering.

Over the years he taught statics, dynamics, strength of materials, mechanical vibrations, thermodynamics, mechanical design, design optimization, elasticity, finite element analysis, and boundary element analysis. In 2005, he stepped forward to teach capstone senior mechanical design courses.

In addition to his classroom instruction, Kane wrote 42 articles in professional journals and is the author of “Boundary Element Analysis, in Engineering Continuum Mechanics.” He also co-edited two academic books.

Kane received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut. He pursued his bachelor of science and master of science degrees, both in mechanical engineering, at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.

Distinguished Service Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Susan E. Conry will be honored for more than 40 years of service.

Conry's first appointment at Clarkson was in 1975 in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Since 1977, she has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where she has supervised 14 master's degree students and five Ph.D. students.

She has taught courses in computer engineering, ranging from software engineering, database systems and computer graphics, to digital systems design, microprocessors, computer architecture, parallel and distributed systems, and senior design.

Her research is in the area of multiagent systems, and she has received research funding from such agencies as the NSF and AFOSR. Her work has been cited by others more than 500 times, and she has served on the program committees of multiple national and international conferences.

She has also worked to improve education in engineering and computer science through her activity with ABET, the accreditation agency that sets global standards for programs in engineering, and CSAB, the Computer Science Accreditation Board.

Conry was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2006. She was elected an ABET Fellow in 2005 and a CSAB Fellow in 2006.

Her other awards and honors include the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award for contributions to the 1991 Curriculum Task Force, the 2005 IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Accreditation Activities, and the 2011 IEEE Education Society William E. Sayle Award.

Although there weren't a lot of female professors when she joined the faculty, Conry became the first woman to chair an engineering department at Clarkson, serving as chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1996-2001. She was instrumental in starting the software engineering program as well.

Conry received her Ph.D. and master of science degree, both in electrical engineering, from Rice University.

She received her bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Rice University.

Professor of Humanities Owen E. Brady III will be honored for 40 years of service.

He began his career at Clarkson in 1975 as assistant professor of humanities. At then-President Robert Plane’s request, following his tenure and promotion to associate professor in 1981, Brady became dean of the newly constituted School of Liberal Studies.

He held that position for 13 years, leading important initiatives, such as writing across the curriculum and administering a $160,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to transition to a new curriculum, which included a new two-semester course, Great Ideas in Western Literature.

Regarded as the model of the Clarkson teacher-scholar, Brady teamed with colleague Michael Bommer in the School of Business to help create the Arete Program, an innovative double major in liberal arts and business.

This program was funded by a $175,000 FIPSE grant that Brady co-wrote. In addition, he has served on more than 20 departmental and university committees.

He received three of the highest service awards at Clarkson: the Phalanx Commendable Service Award (2003), the Phalanx Commendable Leadership Award (2008) and the Phalanx Award (2008).

In addition to several National Endowment for the Humanities grants, he received Fulbright Fellowships in 1994 and 2011 to Japan and Greece, respectively.

He developed and offered courses in African-American literature, and published two books on African-American author Walter Mosley.

Brady received his Ph.D. and master of arts degree in dramatic literature from the University of Notre Dame. He received his bachelor of arts degree in English from Illinois Benedictine College.