Awards & Honors
ME Annual Report 2022-2023
The list of awards our faculty and students receive every year is long and prestigious and 2023 was no different. From NSF CAREER Awards to National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, our community is represented in a wide range of areas for their research and accomplishments.
Solomon Adera MLK Award for Faculty, UM MLK Awards (North Campus), 2023 Read more
Andre Boehman David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award for 2022-23, UM CoE, 2023
Ashley Bucsek William N. Findley Award for Resolving intragranular stress fields in plastically deformed titanium using point-focused high-energy diffraction microscopy, UM CoE ME, 2023 Read more
Neil Dasgupta E. & M. Ulsoy Citation Leader Award, UM CoE ME, 2023
2023 Rackham Graduate Mentor Award, UM, 2023
Allen Liu Monroe-Brown Foundation Service Excellence Award for 2022-23, UM CoE, 2023
Chinedum Okwudire Miller Faculty Scholar, UM CoE, 2023
Young Geun Park 2023 Research Faculty Recognition Award, CoE, 2023
Bogdan Popa ME's Departmental Faculty Award recipient, CoE, 2023
Jeff Sakamoto ME's Departmental Faculty Award recipient, CoE, 2023
Steve Skerlos Rexford E. Hall Innovation Excellence Award for 2022-23, UM CoE, 2023
Serife Tol John F. Ullrich Education Excellence Award for 2022-23, UM CoE, 2023
Ellen Arruda ASB Borelli Award, American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), 2023 Read more
Shorya Awtar Elected to NAE: For inventing and commercializing game-changing surgical products that have made minimally invasive surgery affordable and accessible around the world, NAE, 2023 Read more
Rohini Bala-Chandran 2023 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award, ASME, 2023 Read more
Andre Boehman Fulbright Scholar Award, Fulbright, 2023 Read more
Ashley Bucsek 2023 AFOSR YIP Award Recipients, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2023 Read more
Jerard Gordon CAREER: Understanding multiscale sintering kinetics and microstructural evolution in binder-based metal additive manufacturing, NSF, 2023 Read more
Gabor Orosz Fulbright Scholar Award, Fulbright, 2023 Read more
Panos Papalambros Elected to NAE: For contributions to complex systems optimization and leadership in advancing transformative engineering design research and education, NAE, 2023 Read more
Huei Peng 2023 Soichiro Honda Medal, ASME, 2023 Read more
Bogdan Popa Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023
Alex Shorter CAREER: Towards the Creation of a Dynamic Modeling Framework to Generate New Knowledge About Swimming Biological Systems, NSF, 2023 Read more
Volker Sick 2023 Ralph Coats Roe Award from ASEE, ASEE, 2023
2023 Edwin F. Church Medal, ASME, 2023 Read more
J. Gary Smyth Elected to NAE: For leadership and technology innovation in automotive energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, vehicle electrification, and autonomous driving, NAE, 2023 Read more
Dawn Tilbury ASME DSCD 2022 Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award, ASME, 2023 Read more
Aaron Towne CAREER: Scale-dependent reduced-order models for turbulent flows, NSF, 2023
J.A. Bursley Mechanical Engineering Awards
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Scholarship
MEUS Best Paper
R&B Machine Tool Company Scholarship
ME Department Spirit Award
Lloyd H. Donnell Scholarship Fund
S. Jack Hu Family and Friends Undergraduate Research Award
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Zhenkun Lin
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Hossein Moghimian
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Anil Alan
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Hrishikesh Danawe
Alexander Azarkhin Fellowship: Bachir Abeid
Alexander Azarkhin Fellowship: Nathaly Villacis Nunez
William Mirsky Memorial Fellowship: Pranjal Shiva
William Mirsky Memorial Fellowship: Chenyi Zhu
Ivor K. McIvor Award: Mariana Masteling Pereira
Ivor K. McIvor Award: Zhenkun Lin
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Awards for Research: Chuan He, Keval S. Ramani, and Professor Chinedum Okwudire
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Awards for Research: Professor Mihaela Banu, Metin Kayitmazbatir, and Manikandan Pandiyan
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Awards for Research: Professor Wei Lu and Tianhan Gao
Seven U-M ME graduate students have received Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2023. The NSF GRF Program's goal in offering these fellowships is to increase the nation's human capacity in science and engineering by fostering early-career graduate students, thereby bolstering a diverse and globally-engaged U.S. science and engineering workforce. With seven recipients, the University of Michigan's Department of Mechanical Engineering continues to lead nationally in NSFs awarded to mechanical engineering graduate students.
Four of the 2023 NSF GRFP Awards recipients are returning ME graduate students. They are:
Zachary Bons, PhD student (Advised by Elliott Rouse)
Thomas Coons, PhD student (Advised by Xun Huan)
Micah Thorpe, PhD student (Advised by Neil Dasgupta)
Dan Rubio-Ejchel, PhD student (Advised by Jerard Gordon)
Three of the 2023 NSF GRFP Awards recipients are incoming ME graduate students. They are:
Hannah Faustyn, PhD student (Advised by Neil Dasgupta)
Bjorn Kierulf, PhD student (Advised by Eric Johnsen)
Marty Kilbane, PhD student (Advised by Kathleen Sienko & Deanna Gates)