Spring 2007 Issue 1

• ALUMNI ACTIVITIES
• CoE, National Honors for ME Alumna
• Rashid Receives Benford Award
• ME Graduates Receive Faculty Appointments
• Farshid Asl: From ME to MRE
• FACULTY & STAFF NEWS
• A Reflection on the Past Year
• Galip Ulsoy Elected to NAE
• Epureanu, Ulsoy Earn Outstanding Achievement Awards
• Krishna Garikipati Completes Humboldt Fellowship
• Ellen Arruda Named Centennial Fellow
• Hong Im Receives Ralph R. Teetor Award
• Jwo Pan Named SAE Fellow
• ME Manufacturing Sets the Pace with Awards
• William W. Schultz Appointed to NSF Position
• Professor Volker Sick Named Faculty Advisor of the Year by Student Affairs
• One Advisor + Two Generations = Unique ME Experience
• Senior Engineering Technician Jerry Polashak Retires
• Professor Jun Ni, Shien-Ming (Sam) Wu Professor of Manufacturing Science
• Alan Wineman Receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
• Professor Jan Shi: A Focus on Quality
• Changes in the Guard
• Sue Gow Celebrates 40 Years of Service
• Marcy Brighton Chosen as Finalist for Distinguished Staff Service Award
• STUDENTS ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
• Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain
• Engineering a Unique Wedding
• Family Ties x 3 for PhD Student
• MRacing is Successful Worldwide
• Hamza, Smith Receive Distinguished Achievement Awards
• ME Students Recognized as Distinguished Leaders
• Lu, Salac Receive Faculty/Student Award
• Undergraduate Student Honors & Awards
• Graduate Student Honors & Awards
• Outstanding Mentor Appreciates Teaching/Learning Opportunities
• ME Students Going Around in Circles
• ACADEMIC INITIATIVES
• Course Prepares Students for International Teamwork
• Energy in the Curriculum: Powering the Mechanical Engineer's Vision for New Technologies
• Wee Wizards to Inspire Future Engineers
• First International Engineering Summer School a Success
• New MEng Program Off to a Quick Start

 

• CREDITS

Graduate Student Honors & Awards

Rackham

2005 Distinguished Dissertation Award
     Yi-Chung Tung

2005/06 International Student Fellowship
     Abhishek Yadav

2006/07 Predoctoral Fellowship
     Xiulin Ruan

2006/07 Predoctoral Fellowship
     Shih-Hsun Yin

2005/06 Non-Traditional Fellowship
     James Beyer

2005/06Non-Traditional Fellowship
     Robert Dodd

REA I Fellowship
     Paul Arias
     Ethan Daley
     Carlos Perez
     Evan Pineda
     Roberto Torres

REA II Fellowship
     Tanna Borrell
     Julianna Evans
     Stephanie Frangakis
     Ying Jin
     Sara Wilhoit
     Sara Young

Recruitment Fellowship
     Ram S. Athreya
     Matthew Chastagner
     Jinli Feng
     Mark Gordon
     Yang Lin
     Elliott Morrison-Reed

College
     Deans/Named Fellowship
     Gaurav Bansal
     Jishnu Bhattacharya
     Gabriel Lavella
     Mark Pankow
     Benjamin Reedlunn
     Steve Shrader

Regents Fellowship
     Yun Ju Lee
     Paul Teini

Distinguished Achievement Award
     Karim Hamza
     James Smith

Distinguished Leadership Award
     Kiran Dsouoza
     Danese Joiner
     Erin MacDonald

Harry Benford Award
     Ahmir Rashid

Center for the Education of Women (CEW) Ford Motor Co Fellow
     Edna Kollarits
     Diana Ma

External
     Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
     Roberto Torres

National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) PhD Fellowship
     Danese Joiner
     Scott Norby-Cedillo

Department of Energy (DoE) Naval Nuclear Propulsion Flwsp Program
     Alexander Mychkovsky

Homeland Security Fellowship
     Robert Littrell
     Gregory Sommer
     Steven Truxal

National Science Foundation (NSF)
     Kiram Dsouza
     Danese Joiner
     Troy Lionberger
     Erin MacDonald
     Sara Young

Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications (MESA)
     Troy Lionberger

Department
     Department Fellowship
     Michael Chin
     Naveen Gupta
     Yongqing Li
     Buzz McCain
     Chandresh Mehta
     Liang Zhou

Ivor K. McIvor Award
     Sachin Goyal
     Pai-Chen Lin

Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award
     David Salac

Engineering Graduate Student Symposium Awards
     Dynamics, Systems, and Controls
     Oral Session - 1st place
     Andreas Malikopoulos

Oral Session - 2nd place
     Kevin King

Poster Session - 1st place
     Tulga Ersal

Poster Session - 2nd place tie
     Kevin King

Poster Session - 2nd place tie
     Andreas Malikopoulos

Design and Manufacturing
     Oral Session - 1st place
     William Ross Morrow

Oral Session - 2nd place
     Erin MacDonald

Oral Session - 3rd place tie
     James Allison

Oral Session - 3rd place tie
     Shingo Takeuchi

Poster Session - 1st place
     Erin MacDonald

Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
     Oral Session - 1st place tie
     James Smith

Oral Session - 3rd place
     Rui Zhang

Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer - Poster Session - 1st place
     Baoling Huang

Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer - Poster Session - 2nd place
     Gi Suk Hwang

Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer - Poster Session - 3rd place
     James Smith

Solid Mechanics
     Oral Session - 1st place
     David Salac

Oral Session - 3rd place tie
     Xuan Tran

Oral Session - 3rd place tie
     Kyoo Sil Choi

Biomedical Engineering
     Poster Session - 1st place
     Szushen Ho

Poster Session - 2nd place
     Todd Lillian