Faculty Honors

Dionissios (Dennis) N. Assanis
Professor, received the 1997 Internal Combustion Engineering Division Meritorious Service Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

James A. Ashton-Miller
Research Scientist, received the American Urogynecology Society (AUS) Best Paper Award for 1997 for his paper, "Patterns of Age-Related Striated Urogenital Sphincter Muscle Loss in the Adult Female Urethra," and the Wi ssenschaftpreis Award of the German Urogynecology Society, 1997 Annual Meeting, Munich, Germany, for his paper "Morphologic Changes in the Striated Urogenital Sphincter Muscle," co-authored with D. Perucchini, J.O.L. DeLancey, and M. Blaivas.

James R. Barber, C Eng
Professor, was co-recipient of the 1998 A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award (Structure Design) from the American Welding Society (AWS), with E. Kannatey-Asibu, Jr. He gave the plenary lecture "Thermoelastic Insta-bilities in Brakes and Clutches," at the 26th National Conference of Italian Association for Stress Analysis (AIAS), Catania, Sicily, Sept. 1997.

Johann Borenstein
Associate Research Scientist, was awarded the Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation (Robotics).

Claus Borgnakke
Associate Professor, was selected by the Michigan (Gamma) Chapter of Tau Beta Pi (TB½) to be their first Professor-of-the-Year.

Steven L. Ceccio
Associate Professor, shared the Best Paper Award from the Mechan-ical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for 1998 with G. Tryggvason and D.M. Tilbury.

Dariusz (Darek) J. Ceglarek
Assistant Research Scientist, was named a Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer for 1998 by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

David E. Cole
Research Scientist, UMTRI; and Joint Appointment as Associate Professor, MEAM, received the 1998 Rene Dubos Environmental Award.

Maria Comninou
Professor, was the recipient of the 1998 Sarah Goddard Power Award.

Debasish Dutta
Associate Professor, was a keynote speaker at the Eighth International Manufacturing Conference, Singapore, Singapore, May 1998.

William J. Endres
Assistant Professor, received a 1997­98 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, as well as the Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME-MED). He was also recog nized as an Outstanding Reviewer of the Year by the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.

Rida T. Farouki
Professor, was named Professor-of-the-Term by Pi Tau Sigma (½T…/PTS) for the Winter Term of 1998.

Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Jr.

Professor, was co-recipient of the 1998 A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award (Structure Design) from the American Welding Society (AWS), with J.R. Barber.

Bruce H. Karnopp
Associate Professor, continued as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1996­99).

Yoram Koren, PE
Professor, had his endowed professorship renewed as the Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering (1993­98; 1998­03).

Sridhar Kota
Associate Professor, won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Leonardo da Vinci Award for 1997.

Liwei Lin
Assistant Professor, received a 1997­98 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (ECS Divi-sion).

Jyotirmoy (Jyoti) Mazumder
Professor, continued his U-M CoE endowed professorship as the Robert H. Lurie Professor of Engineering (1996­01).

Jwo Pan
Associate Professor, was elected
a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),
Aug. 1997.

Huei Peng
Assistant Professor, received a 1997­98 National Science Founda-tion (NSF) CAREER Award.

Christophe Pierre
Professor, was selected as a Fellow, Committee on Institutional Coopera-tion, Academic Leadership Program (CIC/ALP), Sept. 1997.

Ann Marie Sastry
Assistant Professor, was presented the National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in Washington, D.C., Nov. 1997. She was the keynote speaker at the WISE Symposium of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Ann Arbor, Feb. 1998.

Albert B. Schultz
Professor, continued his endowed professorship as the Vennema Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (1983­open).

Richard A. Scott
Professor, received the Best Paper Award from the Noise Control and Acoustics Division at the 1997 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Dallas, TX, Nov. 1997.

Volker Sick
Associate Professor, was elected Fellow of the Institute for Environ-mental Sciences, Engineering, and Technology (IESET) at U-M, June 1998. He was awarded the title "Privatdozent" from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Michael Thouless
Associate Professor, was named Pi Tau Sigma (½T…/PTS) Professor-of-the-Term for Fall 1997.

Dawn M. Tilbury
Assistant Professor, was awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Educom Medal for 1997. She also shared the Best Paper Award from the Mechanical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for 1998 with S.L. Ceccio and G. Tryggvason.

Grétar Tryggvason
Professor, shared the Best Paper Award from the Mechanical Engineer-ing Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for 1998 with S.L. Ceccio and D.M. Tilbury. Tryggvason also was the invited plen ary lecturer at the 11th Japanese Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 1997.

A. Galip Ulsoy
Professor, had his endowed professorship renewed as the William Clay Ford Professor of Engineering (1996­98; 1998­01). He was awarded the Ser-vice Excellence Award by the College of Engineering for 1998.

Wen-Jei Yang, PE
Professor, was named an Honorary Member by the Combustion Institute of the Republic of China and elected a Fellow of the Visualization Society of Japan, 1998.

Staff Honor

Janet Grenier
Supervisor, Laboratory Services, was a recipient of a CoE 1998 Excellence in Staff Service Award, June 1998.