Faculty Notes

Faculty Notes Assistant Research Scientist Dariusz (Darek) Ceglarek (PhD '94) presented "Multivariate Analysis and Evaluation of Adaptive Sheet Metal Assembly Systems" at the CIRP '98 General Assembly in Athens, Greece. He presented "Model-Based Quality Improvement Methodologies in Automotive Body Assembly" at INFORMS '98 in Seattle, WA, for which he organized a session on "Process and Product Design Concepts for Quality Improvement." He also presented two papers, co-organized a symposium on "Assembly Modeling and Assembly Systems," and moderated a panel at the 1998 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Anaheim, CA. Assistant Professor Liwei Lin recently spoke about MEAM's microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) research at mechanical engineering departmental seminars at U-M–Dearborn, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, and the University of NebraskaLincoln. He highlighted MEMS packaging, microscale bubble formation and applications, microneedles, and MEMS filters. Robert H. Lurie Professor of Engineering Jyotirmoy (Jyoti) Mazumder is the president-elect for the Laser Institute of America (LIA) for 1999 and will serve as president in 2000. He is also the general chairman of the LIA's international conference on laser application to be held in Dearborn, MI, in 2000. Associate Professor Noel C. Perkins was quoted in a recent article in the Chicago Tribune entitled, "In Engineering Schools, Toy Designing Makes the Grade." It featured his Engineering 100 class of Fall 1998 in which students were asked to design a mechanical frog. Assistant Professor Kazuhiro (Kazu) Saitou recently received a patent for his "Compliant Latching Fastener," which can be used for assembly and temporal clamping or positioning of microscale parts and electromechanical/optomechanical connectors. He will serve a three-year term as a member of the editorial board for a new journal, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, and as a member of the program committee for the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) in Orlando, FL. He also received a Rackham research grant for "Decomposition-Based Assembly Synthesis of Bistructural Products." William Clay Ford Professor of Engineering and MEAM Chair A. Galip Ulsoy presented a seminar on "Reconfigurable Controllers for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems" at Carnegie Mellon University in January. He presented papers at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition (IMECE) in November 1998, and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in December 1998. He recently began serving a five-year term as the technical editor for the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.	U-M Photo Services / Bob Kalmbach Professor Karl Grosh, who was selected as an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator by the U.S. Navy. The award recognizes young scientists and engineers who show exceptional promise for outstanding research and teaching careers. With this award, he will develop a new approach to SONAR transducer design by adapting the mammalian cochlear structure to effect enhanced capabilities of sound sensors and transmitters. U-M Photo Services / Bob Kalmbach Assistant Professor Ann Marie Sastry, who was one of three U-M faculty members to receive the highest honor conferred by the University, the Henry Russel Award, in March. The annual award is given to young faculty members for scholarly achievement and promise. She was recognized for her highly interdisciplinary and innovative research in fibrous materials, outstanding teaching and advising, and Departmental service. David Smith Photography Professor Jun Ni, who received the 1999 Outstanding Overseas Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, which includes a research grant for collaboration with a Chinese university. He also was named to a specially appointed endowed professorship by the Ministry of Education in the People's Republic of China.
Congratulations to: Professor Vedat S. Arpaci and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering Yoram Koren, who received MEAM's 1989—99 Outstanding Achievement Awards. Arpaci was recognized for his significant impact on the international heat transfer scientific community, especially in the area of thermal fluid sciences. Koren was honored for his leadership in establishing the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Machining Systems (ERC/RMS). Assistant Professor Diann E. Brei, and her husband, Jim, who have a new baby girl, Melissa Jane, born on March 12, 1999. She weighed 8 lb., 5 oz., and was 20-3/4" long. Associate Professor John W. Holmes, and his wife, Mary Jo, on the birth of their third son, Ian, on January 17, 1999. He weighed 7 lb., 10 oz.	Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Bruce H. Karnopp, who was elected to a three-year term on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA), to begin May 1, 1999. Assistant Professor Liwei Lin, and his wife, Pin-Jin Chen, on the birth of their daughter, Rachel, on February 23, 1999. She was 6 lb., 7 oz. Professor Alan S. Wineman (BSE EM '59), who was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and leadership in mechanics.