ENG alum established endowed College of Engineering professorship in honor of his father March 2, 2021 Twitter Facebook Through her work as an engineering researcher, Elise Morgan hopes to gain insight into causes and potential treatments for diseases or conditions such as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and impaired bone healing. The College of Engineering professor and leading researcher on how mechanical forces affect biological tissue has been named the first Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design and Innovation. The professorship was established by Malek Sukkar (ENG’92) in honor of his father, a lifelong innovator whose work is aimed at improving society. Malek Sukkar says he wanted to “create a professorship that mimics [his father’s] kind of systems thinking, is interdisciplinary and improves our quality of life, much like my father.”