| Faculty and Staff Honors
|
| Rayhaneh Akhavan | associate professor,
received the ASME 1995 Robert T. Knapp Award for best paper on analytical or
laboratory research. The paper was co-authored by N. Mangiavacchi and R.
Gundlapalli and was entitled "Dynamics of a Turbulent Jet Interacting with a
Free Surface." |
| Vedat Arpaci |
professor, has been awarded a CoE Teaching Excellence Award, one of three
given per year. The award recognizes long term excellence in teaching and
guidance at undergraduate and graduate levels. Fellow, American Society of
Mechanical Engineering (ASME). |
| Ellen
Arruda | assistant professor, has received the U-M Career Development
Fund Award which is supported by Presidential Initiatives Fund. This award was designed to recognize and address the disproportionate share of service commitments carried by women faculty. |
| Claus Borgnakke | associate professor, received the Pi Tau Sigma (½T…) Professor of the Term Award for the 1996Winter term. |
| Mehrdad Haghi | assistant professor, has been awarded the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Award in recognition for his contributions to education and research and his leadership in student activities. |
| Elijah Kannatey-Asibu | professor, received the 1995 American Foundrymen Society Best Paper Award. The paper was co-authored by A.L. Purvis and R. Pehlke and was entitled "Linear Discriminant Function Analysis of Acoustic Emission Signals Generated During Solidification." |
| Bruce Karnopp | associate professor, has been awarded a Thurnau Professorship in 1996, which was established to recognize outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. The program is designed to honor those tenured faculty whose commitment to, and investment in, undergraduate teaching has had a demonstrable impact on the intellectual development and lives of undergraduate students. The award will extend for three years. |
| Kenneth C. Ludema | professor, received the 1995 Mayo D. Hersey Award, ASME, which is given in recognition of the distinguished and continued contribution over a substantial period of time to the advancement of lubrication science and engineering. |
| Jwo Pan | associate professor, has been awarded the first Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award. This award acknowledges the outstanding research contributions in materials and/or manufacturing by a faculty member. |
| Panos Y. Papalambros | professor and chair, was awarded the Black and Decker Design Automation Best Technical Paper Award at the 1995 ASME Design Automation Conference (with N. Michelena). |
| Albert Schultz | Vennema Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, was named the 1995 Distinguished Lecturer in Biomechanical Engineering at Stanford University. |
| Gene Smith | professor, received a CoE Service Excellence Award, one of three given per year. The award recognizes significant service and leadership contributions. |
| Richard Sonntag | professor, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). |
| Dawn Tilbury | assistant professor, received one of nine Department of Energy (DoE) Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science Education Awards for writing a series of tutorials distributed over the World Wide Web for teaching control systems design to engineering students. |
| Michael Thouless | associate professor, was invited lecturer, Engineering Foundation Conference on "Mechanics and Physics of Layered & Graded Materials," Davos, Switzerland, August 1995. |
| A. Galip Ulsoy | professor, was awarded the William Clay Ford Professorship of Manufacturing, effective January 1, 1996, in recognition for research and educational initiatives in expanding the presence of manufacturing-related research and course work in business and engineering. |
