Professor James R. Barber is on sabbatical at Oxford University in
England until June. While there, he is teaching tutorials and working with a
research group on contact mechanics, fracture, and fretting fatigue.
The GuideCane, developed by Associate Research Scientist Johann Borenstein,
has received extensive media coverage in recent months, including Popular Science,
Popular Mechanics, Discovery, Business Week, USA Today, CNN Headline News, Fox 2 News,
and several other magazines, local television stations, and regional newspapers. The
GuideCane is a high-tech alternative to the traditional white cane for the blind.
Assistant Professor David R. Dowling and graduate student Serdar Yonak
have received extensive media attention for their innovative work on a remote leak
detection system for auto parts that combines lasers and acoustics. Science Today,
an online version of Science; Acous-tical Society of America Journal; Inside R &
D; Laser Focus World; Photonics Spectra; Machine Design; WILX TV 10 in Lansing,
WUOM; and WWJ are some of the media featuring their work.
See photo of Professor William W. Schultz at MLK Day.
With assistance from Professor Jeffrey L. Stein, chair of the CoE Faculty
Committee on Discipline, the CoE Honor Council has created a web page for the CoE
Honor Code system. The web page gives MEAM students and faculty immediate access to
the Honor Code and its procedures. Four MEAM students are members of the Honor Council.
Automatic control tutorials for Matlab for use on the World Wide Web (WWW) developed
by Assistant Professor Dawn M. Tilbury and Professor William Messner of Carnegie
Mellon University will soon be available on CD-ROM. Addison-Wesley plans to publish the
CD-ROM tutorials as a textbook supplement.
Professor Grétar Tryggvason gave the opening lecture of the 11th Japanese
Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference in Tokyo in Decem-ber 1997.
Congratulations to:
Professor James R. Barber and Professor Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Jr., who
were co-recipients of the A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award in the Structure Design category
from the American Welding Society (AWS). They will be honored at the 1998 AWS
International
Welding and Fabricating Exposition and 78th Annual Convention in Detroit in April.
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Assistant Professor Ann Marie Sastry and her husband, Christian Lastoskie,
at the White House with daughter, Katherine Rose, in November 1997 when Sastry received
a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Lastoskie, an
assistant professor of chemical engineering at Michigan State University, was also recently
awarded an NSF CAREER Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Office of Science and Technology / staff
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MEAM Department Award winners, who include: Professor Arvind Atreya and
Professor Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Jr., Excellence in Research; Associate Professor
David E. Cole (Joint appointment with the U-M Transportation Research Institute
[UMTRI]) (BS '60, MS '61, PhD '66) and Lecturer Donald E. Geister
(BS AE '57, MSE '63), Excellence in Service; and Professor Dennis N.
Assanis and Assistant Professor Dawn M. Tilbury, Excellence in Teaching.
Special recognition to Professor Steven A. Goldstein (Joint appointments with
Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical School; and Institute of Gerontology) (MS '77,
PhD '81), Excellence in Research.
Assistant Research Scientist Darek J. Ceglarek (PhD '94) will receive the 1998
Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in recognition of his achievements and leadership in the
field of manufacturing engineering, to be presented at the 1998 North American Manufacturing
Research Institute Conference in Atlanta, GA, in May. He also presented a paper during the
1997 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in Dallas, TX,
in November 1997 entitled, Tolerance Analysis for Sheet Metal Assembly Using Beam-Based Model,
and co-authored by Professor Jan Shi, associate director of the I/UCRC.
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Professor Maria Comninou, who has received the Sarah Goddard Power Award from
the U-M Academic Women's Caucus.
Assistant Professor Liwei Lin, who has received funding from the U-M Rackham
Grant and Fellowship Program for his proposal, Experimental Characterization of
High-Cycle Fatigue Mechanisms.
Professor Richard A. Scott, who received
the Best Paper Award from the Noise Control and Acoustics Division at the 1997 ASME
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in Dallas, TX, for
Parameter Studies in the Optimal Design of Unconstrained Beam Damping Layer Treatments,
which he co-authored with Professor Arnold Lumsdaine of the University of Texas-Pan American.
Associate Professor Michael Thouless, who was named Professor-of-the-Term at
Pi Tau Sigma's ( T /PTS) Fall Term Banquet in December 1997.
William Clay Ford Professor of Engineering A. Galip Ulsoy, who is a 1998
recipient of a CoE Service Excellence Award. In addition, he presents seminars this
spring at the University of Connecticut and Georgia Institute of Technology on Control
Issues in Reconfigurable Machining Systems.
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