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Doctoral candidate Stephen W. Dyer (MSE'94), senior development engineer at
Balance Dynamics, recently directed the preparation of a
grant proposal that resulted in a $2 million, three-year technology development grant for Balance
Dynamics Corp. in Ann Arbor from the National Institute of Standards (NIST) as part of the U.S.
Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program. The S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center (WuMRC),
which is the prime subcontractor, will receive $800,000 of the grant. Professor Jun
Ni is co-investigator for the grant.
Pre-doctoral candidate Daphne Joachim presented a
paper, Microactuators Based on Thermal Expansion at the 1997 ASME International Mechanical
Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in Dallas, TX, in November 1997.
Doctoral candidate Elizabeth Smith represented MEAM at the National NSF Traineeships
Conference in Washington, DC, in October 1997. Smith is one of several students supported by a
five-year NSF Traineeship in Machine Tool Research grant that ends in 1998. The grant has supported
five graduate students each year for five years to work with Professors Elijah Kannatey-Asibu,
Jr., Yoram Koren, Jun Ni, Jeffrey L. Stein, and A. Galip Ulsoy.
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MEAM CPO / Shekinah Errington
A team project submitted for ME 350 (Fall Term 1997, Assistant Professors Diann Brei
and William J. Endres). Team members Maggie McArthur, Will Pudyk,
Michelle Sanborn, and
Robin Skinner met the challenge to use common office supplies and create a machine for
moving water at a specific volume flow and velocity.
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Doctoral candidate Serdar
Yonak received the "Best Student Presentation" award at the June 1997 meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America for his work with Assistant Professor David R. Dowling in developing a re-mote leak
detection system for auto parts using lasers and acoustics.
Congratulations to:
Graduate student Michael Anderson, who
received the 1997-98 William Mirsky Award, which recognizes outstanding research at the MA
level.
Michael Arciniaga, who received the 1997-98 McDonnell-Douglas Award, which
recognizes academic and research achievement and leadership skills.
Undergraduate Robert W. Brown and graduate student Yenkae Wang, who
received 1997-98 Robert Caddell Memorial Awards from MEAM for contributions to basic research
in materials/manufacturing.
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Right: Many thanks to Associate Professor William W. Schultz,
who again served as co-chair of the 1998 Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Community Forum sponsored by the CoE, and to Professor Richard A. Scott
and Professor Emeritus Walter R. Debler (BSE ME '50, PhD '59), who have
also played continuing roles, each serving as past chairs of the MLK Day Committee.
Below: From left, Roberto Franco, Jaime Roehrig, Hilary
Wilson,
Kathryn Laberteaux, and Rahul Tendulkar were recipients of the 1998
Martin Luther King, Jr., Spirit Award from the CoE at the Fourth Annual North
Campus Community Spirit of MLK Student Recognition Dinner on January 22,
1998.
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photos: Larime Photographic / Cheri Smith
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Bernard Bunner, Wei-Chong Chiu, and Laila Guessous have each
received Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships for 1998-99.
Undergrad-uates Giuseppe Cusamano and Timothy Jacobs, who received
1997-98 Dow Chemical Scholarships, which recognize academic excellence and
leadership.
Undergraduate Gustavo Freitag, and graduate students Jianmin Gu and
Michael Leamy, who received the CoE's Distinguished Achievement Awards for academic and
personal excellence.
Graduate students Todd McDevitt and Han Bum Cho, who received
1997-98 Ivor K. McIvor Awards from MEAM for oustanding scholastic and research performance by
graduate students in applied mechanics.
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MEAM CPO / Shekinah Errington
Cathy Hedding, ASME treasurer (Fall 1997) and MESLB member, hosted a very special
guest speaker at a November ASME meeting her father, N. Ray Hedding, general manager of
Advance Manufacturing Stamping, Chrysler Corporation.
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Nicolas Minbiole, who received the 1997-98
John Deere Award from the John Deere Foundation for academic excellence.
Michelle E. Sanborn, who received a General Motors Global Intern Scholarship
for 1997.
Jeffrey Sanko, who received the 1997-98 MEAM Distin-guished Student Award in
Mechanical Engineering for academic excellence.
Adam Szymczak, who was named Initiate-of-the-Term at
Pi Tau Sigma's (½T…/PTS) Fall Term Banquet in December 1997.
Rahul Tendulkar,
the recipient of the CoE's Mildred and Steele Bailey Prize, which recognizes an outstanding senior
who has demonstrated academic excellence, leadership, and community involvement.
Amy Van Loon,
who received the 1998 J.A. Bursley Award, which recognizes an outstanding senior with
excellent scholastic achievement and promising leadership skills.
Suzanne Volkman, who was the recipient of the CoE's Henry Ford Prize, which
recognizes an outstanding junior for academic excellence.
Jonathan Weinert, who received the A.D. Moore Award from the CoE for academic
excellence, leadership, and outstanding contributions to co-curricular activities. He
also received the Vulcan Award, which recognizes a freshman and/or sophomore in good standing
and actively involved in co-curricular activities in the CoE and U-M community.
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