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2013 News Items

Atomic-Scale Heat Dissipation Studies Published in Nature (6/2013)
Ulsoy receives ASME Charles Russ Richards Award (5/2013)
Ni awarded the Shanghai International Scientific & Technological Cooperation Award (5/2013)
Improving materials that convert heat to electricity and vice-versa (5/2013)
Eight ME undergraduate students receive awards (4/2013)
Hiemstra receives CoE Distinguished Leadership Award (3/2013)
Motamarri receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (3/2013)
Sick receives prestigious Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (3/2013)
Fu's research featured as cover story of three journals (3/2013)
Siegel wins 2013 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (3/2013)
Violi receives UM Faculty Recognition Award (3/2013)
Fusion Coolant Systems Receives $600,000 in funding (3/2013)
Ahmad Almuhtady wins highly competitive award for paper on hybrid-electric vehicles (3/2013)
Professor Peng's new book explains modern transmission control systems (3/2013)
Professor Diann Brei featured in ASME Video (3/2013)
Daly selected as an NSF CAREER awardee (2/2013)
Sadat wins Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research (2/2013)
Gavini selected as awardee for AFOSR YIP (2/2013)
Ni receives SME Gold Medal (1/2013)
ME Faculty Receive CoE Awards (1/2013)
University-led energy project gets mid-term review (1/2013)

2012 News Items

Significant endowment from Manganello/BorgWarner (12/2012)
DeVries receives the 2012 ME Alumni Merit Award (12/2012)
Capturing circulating cancer cells could provide insights into how disease spreads (12/2012)
Kota selected to receive Herrick Professorship of Manufacturing in Engineering (12/2012)
ME alumna honored by ASME and SWE (12/2012)
Six ME faculty receive seed grants for MCubed projects (12/2012)
ME faculty part of $120M DoE battery research hub (12/2012)
Pan selected to receive 2012 Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering (11/2012)
Wooldridge elected SAE Fellow (10/2012)
Dowling and Schultz elected Fellows of the American Physical Society (10/2012)
Homecoming Weekend, Oct 12-13, 2012 (9/2012)
High-mileage, low-emission engine ME research highlighted by environmental groups (9/2012)
Liu Receives NIH Director's New Innovator's Award (9/2012)
Hu elected Fellow of CIRP (9/2012)
ME Welcomes Two New Faculty (8/2012)
Sick appointed Associate Vice President for Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering (8/2012)
Ni elected to be a Fellow by ISNM and ISEAM (8/2012)
Stein receives Michael J. Rabins Leadership Award (8/2012)
Ulsoy receives TÜBİTAK Special Award (8/2012)
Tilbury receives SWE Distinguished Engineering Educator Award (8/2012)
Daly and Kim receive the 2013 Hetenyi Award (8/2012)
Peng delivers keynote speech at 8th Annual IEEE/ASME MESA Conference (7/2012)
Thouless recipient of Distinguished Faculty Governance Award (7/2012)
Tilbury and Im elected ASME Fellows (7/2012)
ME faculty research featured on NPR and Web MD (7/2012)
U-M Solar Car Team wins a record-breaking American Solar Challenge (7/2012)
ME student Connor Jaeger to compete in the London Olympics (7/2012)
Thouless elected Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (7/2012)
ME Faculty win Best Paper Award at ASME MSEC 2012 (7/2012)
Papalambros wins 2011 IJRM Best Paper Award (7/2012)
U-M to host 14th PHONONS conference (7/2012)
Two important research papers accepted for publication in ACS Nano and PLoS ONE (6/2012)
Hu receives 2012 ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award (6/2012)
Gavini wins Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship (6/2012)
ME Student Jinjin Ma wins two prestigious awards for papers (5/2012)
Fu receives 2012 NSF CAREER Award (5/2012)
Reddy selected for 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award (5/2012)
Violi receives 2013 Henry Russel Award (5/2012)
Skerlos featured in MconneX 40-minute program on sustainability (5/2012)
Korybalski Lecture to Feature Dean Cristina Amon (5/2012)
Three NSFGRFP winners selected for the University of Michigan (4/2012)
Ashton-Miller to oversee research policy and compliance (4/2012)
Two ME Faculty Honored with 2012 ONR Young Investigator Award (4/2012)
Sienko Wins Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize (4/2012)
Pan Receives Two Awards (4/2012)
Awtar receives 2012 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (4/2012)
Mazumder named 2012 Distinguished University Innovator (4/2012)
ME faculty spin-out company takes 2nd in statewide award (3/2012)
ME Faculty win Faculty Recognition Awards and University Undergraduate Teaching Awards (3/2012)
Barber to be recipient of 2012 TAA "Texty" Textbook Excellence Award (2/2012)
Moura Receives Honorable Mention in ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards (2/2012)
Sick Receives Rackham Master’s Mentoring Award (2/2012)
Skerlos Honored With Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (2/2012)
ME Students Receive College Awards (2/2012)
Daly Selected as Recipient of 2012 AFOSR YIP Award (2/2012)
Mazumder elected as member of the National Academy of Engineering (2/2012)
Sick receives 2012 SAE International Leadership Citation (1/2012)
Brei receives 2011 ASME Dedicated Service Award (1/2012)
ME Faculty Receive CoE Awards (1/2012)

2011 News Items

CAFE Standards Could Mean Bigger Cars, Not Smaller Ones (12/2011)
U-M chosen to host 4th annual CIRP Conference (12/2011)
December 6 Seminar Features Li Shi (11/2011)
A Push To Make Gasoline Engines More Efficient - ME Faculty on NPR Morning Edition (11/2011)
November 29 Seminar Features Charles Doering (11/2011)
U-M grad students awarded 2nd place in design competition (11/2011)
November 10 Seminar Features Steve Elliot (11/2011)
Barber to receive the Jon and Beverly Holt Professorship in Engineering (11/2011)
Hart receives 2012 NSF CAREER award (11/2011)
November 8 Seminar Features Charles Brooks (11/2011)
Saitou Receives JSME Design & Systems Division Achievement Award (10/2011)
Awtar receives ASME DSCD Best Paper Award on Mechatronics (10/2011)
November 1 Seminar Features Peter Friedman (10/2011)
U-M Solar Car Team places third in the world (10/2011)
Daly receives 2011 ASME Orr Early Career Award (10/2011)
Awtar awarded 2011 ASME Freudenstein / General Motors Young Investigator Award (10/2011)
October 11 Seminar Features Karim G. Sabra (10/2011)
Driven to Win (10/2011)
Engineering for the Greater Good: BLUElab Projects Make Lasting Impact (10/2011)
Convergence: Design Symposium Marks Progress and Defines Agenda (10/2011)
October 4 Seminar Features Curtis R. Taylor (9/2011)
Built to Be Reclaimed (9/2011)
Kota Sparks Advanced Manufacturing Momentum in Washington (9/2011)
Awtar and Chronis receive ME Department Achievement Awards (9/2011)
ME Departmental Fall Seminar Series Begins (9/2011)
Fifth Edition of Fluid Mechanics revised and updated by Dowling (9/2011)
U-M researchers see the sun as solution to supplying fresh water (9/2011)
Awtar selected as the recipient of the 2011 ASME Leonardo da Vinci Award (8/2011)
Justusson wins 1st place in Army Research Laboratories 2011 Summer Student Symposium (8/2011)
Davis receives Young Investigator (YI) Award (8/2011)
Wooldridge receives ASME George Westinghouse Silver Medal (8/2011)
Awtar Selected for Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship and NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (8/2011)
A Sporting Chance (8/2011)
Gaurav Parmar and Siddharth Sood receive NIST-ARRA Graduate Fellowship (8/2011)
Oh, Lipps, Ashton-Miller, and Wojtys receive 2011 Cabaud Memorial Award (7/2011)
Lee, Filipi, and Kramer awarded Donald Julius Groen Award (7/2011)
Paper by Reddy, Gavini and Dunietz's Groups Published in the Journal of American Chemical Society (7/2011)
Hu and Coleman join Obama's Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Launch (6/2011)
Kikuchi Receives Computational Structural Mechanics Award (6/2011)
Ethan Wampler awarded International Institute Fellowship (6/2011)
Towards practical Li-air batteries (6/2011)
Mazumder Featured in Laser Community (6/2011)
Welcome Assistant Professor Xiaogan Liang and Assistant Professor Allen Liu (6/2011)
Borenstein receives OVPR Research Faculty Recognition Award (6/2011)
Sastry receives ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award (6/2011)
Hyoungchul Kim Wins Best Poster Award at 2011 UM CSTEC Workshop (5/2011)
Peng Delivers Keynote at EVTeC 2011 (5/2011)
Steve Ceccio selected as Chair of NAME Department (5/2011)
Siegel Selected to Participate in Kavli Frontiers of Science Program (4/2011)
Solid-State Batteries (4/2011)
Brei Named ASME Fellow (4/2011)
Breaking ground for new Mechanical Engineering research complex (4/2011)
Arruda Featured in ONR SAAET Newsletter (4/2011)
Korybalski Lecture to Feature Dr. Marshall Jones (4/2011)
Perkins, Kota, and Peng to be Keynote Speakers in the upcoming ASME IDETC (4/2011)
ME Graduate Student Awarded NSF Fellowship (4/2011)
Michele Mahler Wins Excellence in Staff Service Award (4/2011)
Stein Presents at Briefing on Capitol Hill (3/2011)
Assanis to Receive ASEE Ralph Coats Roe Award (3/2011)
A New Breed of Robots That Drive Themselves (3/2011)
University Stem Cell Research Highlighted in Popular Science (2/2011)
Ni Receives Four Awards in Relation to Education and Engineering (2/2011)
Hart Selected as Recipient of 2010 AFOSR YIP Award (2/2011)
Perkins Receives ASME N.O. Myklestad Award (2/2011)
Vikram Gavini Receives NSF CAREER Award (2/2011)
Sienko Attends NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium (2/2011)
ME Faculty Receive CoE Awards (1/2011)
ME Faculty Lead U.S.-China Clean Vehicle Consortium (1/2011)
Kruger and Shih receive a best paper award at CCCT 2010 (1/2011)
Wang receives SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award (1/2011)
Plans take shape for new Mechanical Engineering research complex (1/2011)

2010 News Items

DOE Award Provided for Michigan Industrial Energy Center (12/2010)
Mini aircraft navigation sensors could give athletes new data (12/2010)
Airships of the sea (12/2010)
Spotlight! Results: Awtar's Team Takes First Place Second Year (12/2010)
PCAST Report Addressing Energy Technologies Released (12/2010)
2010 Grad Symposium Winners (11/2010)
Fusion Coolant Systems Cracks Big Problems in Manufacturing, Now Needs Customers (11/2010)
Spotlight on a Department Benefactor: Alexander Azarkhin (11/2010)
Bending and twisting nanotubes into 3D materials and microdevices (10/2010)
Awtar Selected for 2011 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (10/2010)
Macromolecular Science & Engineering 34th Annual Symposium (10/2010)
Koren Appointed to a Distinguished University Professorship (10/2010)
Peng and Ahn Win Best Paper (10/2010)
Schultz Appointed Faculty Director of Ginsberg Center (10/2010)
ME 450 Project Helps Ann Arbor Museum Win Award (10/2010)
NIST Awards Grant For Construction of NAMSE Building (9/2010)
Kota Receives ASME Educator Award (9/2010)
Hu Awarded Best Paper, Elected Chair of CIRP Committee (9/2010)
MRacing Wins FEV Award, Two Second Place Finishes (9/2010)
Fu Published in Nature Methods (8/2010)
Dowling Elected ASME Fellow (8/2010)
Ulsoy Elected IFAC Fellow (8/2010)
Ulsoy's Book Published (8/2010)
Hart Selected to Attend FOE Symposium (7/2010)
Kim's Article Featured (7/2010)
Stein Receives ASME Dedicated Service Award (6/2010)
Assanis' Work Cited in Presidential Memorandum (6/2010)
Oh Awarded Young Investigator Award (6/2010)
Pan and Lin Receive Colwell Award (6/2010)
Alumni Interviewed on CNN (6/2010)
Mazumder Wins Edison Patent Award (6/2010)
Journal Dedicated to Wineman (6/2010)
Male Circumcision Project Awarded Gates Grant and Conference Honor (6/2010)
Kaviany Receives ASME Gold Medal (6/2010)
Violi's Article Featured in Journal (5/2010)
Johnsen Receives ORAU Research Grant (5/2010)
Kannatey-Asibu Recognized for Dedication to Diversity (5/2010)
Graduate Student Awards Announced (5/2010)
ME Graduate Students Awarded NSF Fellowships (5/2010)
Smith Awarded SMART Scholarship (5/2010)
Filipi Recognized by OVPR (5/2010)
Barber Receives ASEE Award (4/2010)
Oldham Receives NSF CAREER Award (4/2010)
Korybalski Lecture to Feature Charles M. Vest (4/2010)
Carrying on Dr. King's Dream (4/2010)
Shih Receives Rackham Faculty Recognition Award (4/2010)
Ulsoy to Lecture on Intelligent Machines and Smart Products (3/2010)
Johnson Named Outstanding GSI (3/2010)
Haraldsdottir Receives SWE's Highest Award (3/2010)
Peng Elected Visiting Changjaing Scholar (3/2010)
Thouless and Hart Receive Department Achievement Awards (3/2010)
Ulsoy's Graduate Students Receive Awards (3/2010)
SCIP Funds Partnership between Saitou and POLY (3/2010)
Popular Science, Science Daily Feature Kuo's Prosthetics Research (2/2010)
Stein's Presentation, Research Draws Press (2/2010)
Ceccio Awarded APS Fellowship (2/2010)
Book Examines How to Shorten the Time to Doctorate (2/2010)
Dantar Oosterwal Publishes Book (2/2010)
Shih and Geiger's Surgical Clamp Licensed to STORZ (2/2010)
Daly Receives an Early Career Award (2/2010)
Ulsoy and Lim Develop an Intelligent Stamping System (2/2010)
Surgical Lift Developed for UM Neurosurgeon (2/2010)
Mechatronics Education in Mechanical Engineering (2/2010)
Kannatey-Asibu Authors New Textbook (2/2010)
Hart Named Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer (2/2010)
Arruda Elected Fellow of AAM (1/2010)
Students Help Enable Cleaner Cooking Fuel in Nicaragua (1/2010)
ME Faculty Receive CoE Awards (1/2010)
Wei Lu receives Bill Gates Grand Challenges Grants (1/2010)
Koren's Book to Be Published (1/2010)
Skerlos Featured in University Record (1/2010)
Third Edition of Barber's Book Published (1/2010)
Bohac Featured in Popular Mechanics (1/2010)
Recent Design Projects Featured in Videos (1/2010)
UM Receives $2.5M Grant for Green Vehicle Education (1/2010)
Abadi Receives Best Student Paper Award (1/2010)
Dowling to Co-Author Fluid Mechanics Textbook (11/2009)
Ben Amara Receives Koh Young Award (1/2010)
Ahmet Yigit Named ASME Fellow (1/2010)
Awtar's FlexDex Named One of Most Promising Inventions (1/2010)

2009 News Items

Filipi Receives SAE Award (12/2009)
Thouless Voted Professor of the Term (12/2009)
New Global Health Design Specialization in the CoE (12/2009)
Pipe Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award (12/2009)
Spotlight! 2009 Awards First Place to Awtar's Team (12/2009)
Grosh Elected ASA Fellow (11/2009)
Ashton-Miller Elected ASME Fellow (11/2009)
Perkins and King Develop World's Smallest Wireless IMU (11/2009)
Opila Cited in Ford Press Release (11/2009)
Thouless Receives ScD from University of Cambridge (11/2009)
Chronis Receives NIH Director's New Innovator's Award (11/2009)
Kota Serves in the White House OSTP (11/2009)
Schultz Completes Service as Program Director at NSF (11/2009)
Self-Nominations Accepted for MESLB Scholarships (11/2009)
Thouless Elected Chair of SACUA (10/2009)
Ni Receives Best Paper Award at MSEC (10/2009)
ME Alumni and Faculty Win R&D 100 Award (10/2009)
Three ME Faculty Receive CAREER Awards (9/2009)
Hu Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (9/2009)
Lindsay Allen Receives Best Conference Paper Award (9/2009)
Doctoral Student Erik Polsen Awarded NDSEG Fellowship (9/2009)
Ashton-Miller Receives Borelli Award (8/2009)
Welcome Assistant Professor Jianping Fu (8/2009)
Welcome Assistant Professor Don Siegel (8/2009)
David Hines Named as Drum Major (7/2009)
Assanis Named New Director of Energy Institute (6/2009)
ME Alumnus Runs 2009 Boston Marathon (7/2009)
ME 450 Students and Professors Publish Paper (6/2009)
Ulsoy Honored as Distinguished University Professor (6/2009)
Doctoral Student Awarded NSERC Fellowship (6/2009)
Stefanopoulou Receives ACSE Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (6/2009)
Jun Ni Receives 2009 ASME Ennor Award (6/2009)
MSAE Wins Student Exhibit Competition (6/2009)
Borgnakke Receives the ASME James Harry Potter Gold Medal (6/2009)
Daniel C. Drucker Medal Awarded to Barber (6/2009)
Dowling Receives Outstanding Professor Award (6/2009)
Garikipati, Skerlos Receive ME Department Achievement Awards (5/2009)
Jack Hu Named G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor (5/2009)
Zheng-Dong Ma Elected a Fellow of ASME (5/2009)
Wooldridge Receives GM TEP Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty Award (5/2009)
Wooldridge Honored With Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (5/2009)
Wineman to Receive SES William Prager Medal (5/2009)
Noel Perkins Named Donald T. Greenwood Collegiate Professor (5/2009)
ME Ph.D. Wins Jefferson Goblet Best Student Paper Award (5/2009)
Hart Receives PTS Gold Medal (5/2009)
MSAE Receives Honeywell Award (4/2009)
2nd Korybalski Lecture Features Roger McCarthy (4/2009)
Assanis Receives Rackham Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (4/2009)
Special Seminar: The G-Scheme: A Framework for Multi-Scale Adaptive Model Reduction (4/2009)
Gaurav Bansal Receives the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (3/2009)
Kiran D'Souza Receives U-M Outstanding Student Leader Award (3/2009)
ME Faculty Honored by College of Engineering (3/2009)
College of Engineering Honors Nine ME Students (3/2009)
Alexander Receives NSBE Scholarship (3/2009)
Pramod Sangi Reddy Receives NSF CAREER Award (2/2009)
John Hart Featured at MESLB Research Seminar (2/2009)
Scientific American Features Ceccio's work (2/2009)
Filipi Receives Forest R. McFarland Award (2/2009)
Sastry Co-Directs Advanced Battery Research Lab (2/2009)
Gavini's Work Featured on Cover of Physical Review Letters (2/2009)
Kneifel Named Outstanding Student Engineer of the Year by ESD (1/2009)
ME Students Selected for SAE Leadership Seminar (1/2009)

2008 News Items

Arruda, Grosh & Peng Elected ASME Fellows (12/2008)
Stefanopoulou, Tilbury Named IEEE Fellows (12/2008)
Sastry Wins Outstanding Paper Award (11/2008)
Berry Receives Laine Scholarship (11/2008)
Arruda Elected Fellow of Society of Engineering Science (10/2008)
Hart Receives 2008 Holcim Next Generation Award (10/2008)
Self Nominations Accepted for MESLB Scholarships (10/2008)
Kathleen Sienko: Engineering a Better Global Health Program (9/2008)
Im & Brei Elected AIAA Associate Fellows (9/2008)
Michigan Researchers Secure NSF Funding for Vehicle-to-Grid Integration Research (9/2008)
Awtar & Hart Receive R&D100 Award (9/2008)
Pan and Lin Receive Sam Y. Zamrik Literature Award (8/2008)
2007-07 ME Annual Report
Sick & Fajardo Receive Silver Combustion Medal (8/2008)
Assanis Receives ASME Internal Combustion Engine Award (6/2008)
Hart & Oldham Receive DARPA Awards (6/2008)
Ulsoy Receives Oldenburger Medal (6/2008)
Heat Transfer Between Materials is Focus of New Research Grant (6/2008)
Meet Kon-Well Wang, New ME department Chair (6/2008)
Stefanopoulou Receives Faculty Recognition Award (4/2008)
Sick Named Fellow of SAE International (4/2008)
ME Visiting Student Published in Tribology International (4/2008)
Professor Skerlos Wins SAE Teetor Award (4/2008)
Professors Mazumder and Shih Elected ASME Fellows (4/2008)
Michigan Engineering Students Win Cleantech Venture Challenge (4/2008)
Kikuchi to Direct New Toyota Research Facility (4/2008)
ME Professor Dennis Assanis Elected to National Academy of Engineering (3/2008)
U-M research: New plastic is strong as steel, transparent (2/2008)
MSAE Wins Outstanding Chapter Award (2/2008)
First-of-its-kind dual degree combines engineering and sustainability (2/2008)
Knee brace generates electricity from walking (2/2008)
Sastry Named to Thurnau Professorship (2/2008)
Wooldridge Elected ASME Fellow (2/2008)
Mazumder Receives Adams Memorial Membership Award (2/2008)
Professor Yoram Koren was selected to receive the 2008 Stephen S. Attwood Excellence in Engineering Award (1/2008)
David Dowling Receives the 2007 ASA Student Council Mentoring Award (1/2008)

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