Student Notes

Undergraduate student Amy Denault was selected as the 1999­2001 3M Scholar, for excellence in academic achievement. Graduate students Christopher Depcik and Jeffery Glodich received the 1999­ 2000 MEAM William Mirsky Memorial Awards, for their interest in combustion and heat transfer and their outstanding research at the master's level. Graduate student Chris Deyer received the Whirlpool Fellowship, which is awarded to students with high academic achievement. PhD candidate Jianmin Gu was recently approved for associate membership in Sigma Xi, an honor scientific research society with a U-M chapter. Gu was selected as a top finalist in the 11th Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition for his paper, "A New Load Dependent Ritz Vector Method for Structural Dynamics Analyses." He was invited to present his paper at the Melosh Medal Symposium at Duke University in March 1999. Graduate students Chengwei Hsu and Liangkuang Cheng each received a Best Presentation in Session award for their paper presentations at the American Control Conference in San Diego, CA, in June. Undergraduate student Margaret A. McArthur was the MEAM Marshal at the U-M Commencement Ceremony in May. Undergraduates Tiffany A. Miller and Alicia J. Vogel both received R&B Machine Tool Co. Scholarship Awards and are the 1999-2000 R&B Machine Tool Co. Scholars. Julie Stahmer was Initiate-of-the-Term at the Pi Tau Sigma Winter Banquet in April.

Jianmin Gu Jianmin Gu, right, with Professor Tod Laursen, coordinator of the 11th Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition at Duke University. U-M MEAM CPO / Shekinah Errington Stacey Durham, left, and Julie Sanchez assisted UMEC in organizing the first annual all-society tug of war in April. U-M MEAM CPO / Shekinah Errington PTS members won all their matches and were the triumphant champions and 1999 recipients of the UMEC trophy. U-M MEAM CPO / Shekinah Errington Above: The first ME 450 project sponsored by the Program for Community Engagement in Engineering Design (ProCEED) took second place in the Winter '99 Design Expo. The project, "Reconfigurable Wheelchair for Growing Children," was created by team members (r­l) Tej Shah, Matt Wenger, Matthew Hollenbeck, Wesley Lummis, and David Fedewa. ProCEED links community organizations that need technology to improve their services with undergraduate engineering students. If you're interested in becoming a ProCEED sponsor, contact Assistant Professor Diann Brei at (734) 763-6617, Pi Tau Sigma at (734) 764-3313, or e-mail to ProCEED@umich.edu.