03/28/2014 12:00:00 AMProfessor of materials science and engineering named a National Academy of Inventors fellow. Campus NewsDepartment of Materials Science and Engineeringstory John Sandoval. (Photo by Jonathan Reynolds) This spring, Narendra Dahotre, Distinguished Research Professor of materials science and engineering, was named a National Academy of Inventors fellow for his lifetime research of laser material interactions and the application of high power lasers in advanced materials processing and manufacturing. The fellowship is a high professional distinction given to academic inventors for creating or facilitating inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Dahotre's recent creation of a new laser machine and bone-cutting technology, which is pending for a U.S. patent, could change the way surgeons operate.