John R. (Chip) Keough Wins 2004 Alumni Society Award

Alumni Activities

ME Grad a TIME Magazine “Math Innovator”
In the Sep. 12, 2005 issue of TIME magazine, ME graduate Dr. Pingsha Dong was featured in a special section on math innovators. He received this honor for his groundbreaking work in determining metal fatigue. The system he developed, Verity™, is, as the TIME writer stated, “revolutionizing the field.”...(Full story)

Wei Li Earns PECASE Honor
Wei Li (PhD ME '99), assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, has been awarded a prestigious 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)...(full story)

Charles M. Vest Honored with Alumni Society Medal
Charles M. Vest earned the 2004 Alumni Society Medal for his distinguished four-decade career in teaching and higher education administration. Most recently Vest served as the 15th president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stepped down in December 2004 after a 14-year tenure. He is also a member of the mechanical engineering faculty at MIT with research interests in the areas of thermal sciences, lasers and coherent optics... (full story)

Alumni Society Merit Award Winner
Timothy M. Manganello, who earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in ME in 1972 and '75 respectively, has won the 2005 Alumni Society Merit Award from the department for outstanding professional achievement. Manganello has been the chairman and chief executive officer of BorgWarner Inc., since 2003. The company, founded in 1880, designs and produces advanced powertrain components and systems....(full story)

Alumni Receive Faculty Appointments
ME alumni have been appointed to faculty positions at prestigious institutions around the country, and the world. Recruited for their achievements in theoretical as well as experimental research and industry experience, they now have the opportunity to educate the next generation of engineers...(full story)

John R. (Chip) Keough Wins 2004 Alumni Society Merit Award
John R. (Chip) Keough (BSE ME and BSE MM ‘77) has earned an Alumni Society Merit Award from the department of Materials Science and Engineering for his exceptional professional accomplishments. Keough is the chief executive officer and owner of Applied Process, Inc., a heat treating facility specializing in the Austempering process...(full story)

Mahmoud Hussein Wins National Award, Accepts Position at Cambridge
Mahmoud I. Hussein (PhD, 2004) received the top prize in the 17th annual Robert J. Melosh Medal competition for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis at a ceremony at Rensselaer in April 2005. The competition is sponsored by Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University, the Scientific Computation Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Elsevier. It is endorsed by the International Association for Computational Mechanics...(full story)

Charles S. Hutchins Wins Distinguished Service Award
Whether it's traveling to Australia for a 3,000-km World Solar Challenge race or calling fellow alumni to inspire their support of the ME department, the college or the university in some way, Charles S. Hutchins doesn't think twice...(full story)

Jianmin Gu Shares Prestigious Award, Receives Promotion
Dr. Jianmin Gu will likely remember the first part of 2005 as an exciting time in his professional life. First, he was a member of a team at Ford Motor Company that received the 2004 SAE Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering...(full story)

EAB Welcomes Perspectives from Industry Professionals
The External Advisory Board for Mechanical Engineering is designed to provide insights from industry professionals to help guide the department’s efforts to prepare students for careers in the field. The most recent additions to the EAB, Paul Nuyen, Dr. Alan Woodliff and Ashok Nayak, are welcome contributors to the continual improvement process for ME...(full story)

ME Student’s Work a Smash Hit
Sometimes a baseball’s for studying. Velocity. Resistance to air pressure. The mechanics of throwing. The properties of a curve ball tossed from 60’6”. And sometimes it’s just for playing with. That was the approach of recent MSME graduate Chris Joseph...(Full story)