Faculty Notes

Edward M. Lady Animated conversation about past projects and future fun was on the agenda for emeritus professors and spouses at their fall gathering. The 11 retired faculty members who attended served MEAM a total of 368 years! Below, Professor Emeritus Samuel K. Clark views MEAM's display of our distinguished emeritus faculty--thanks to Professor Emeritus Edward R. Lady who took the display to the event to share with everyone.

Professor James R. Barber was a keynote speaker at the 26th Convegno Nazionale of Asociazione Italiana per l'Analisi della Sollecitazioni (AIAS) in Catania, Sicily, in September.

Associate Professor Claus Borgnakke continues his involvement in Tech Day as the MEAM representative to the coordinating team and as special events chair. Tech Day '97 was a resounding success. The program is designed to expose high school students to engineering as a career, as well as to the CoE.

Assistant Research Scientist Darek J. Ceglarek (PhD '94) presented a series of seminars on applications of statistical methods for control of manufacturing processes at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and attended the CAPE '97 Conference. He recently presented a paper at the 25th North American Manufacturing Research Institute Conference in Lincoln, NE, co-authored by Professor Jan Shi, associate director of the I/UCRC, and Boon-Wei Shiu, (PhD '96).

Professor Emeritus David K. Felbeck recently had a paper--which resulted from his doctoral thesis, first published in 1955 with Egon Orowan--included in an elite volume of classic research in linear elastic fracture mechanics. "Experiments on Brittle Fracture of Steel Plates" appears in Foundations of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics, R.J. Sanford, Editor (Bellingham, WA: SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 1997).

Assistant Professor S. Jack Hu (MSE '86, PhD '90) received the 1997-98 Robert Caddell Memorial Faculty Research Achievement Award. Hu and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering Yoram Koren attended the 47th Annual CIRP General Assembly at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in August. Koren chaired all the technical sessions and the Scientific and Technology Committee meetings in the areas of machines and controls. Hu presented a paper entitled, "Stream-of-Variation Theory for Automotive Body Assembly." They also visited Tsinghua University, Beijing, to discuss a potential collaboration between the RMS/ERC and Tsinghua University. And, Hu lectured at Tianjin University, his alma mater.

Assistant Professor Liwei Lin was an invited speaker at the Johns Hopkins University Mechanical Engineering Department Seminar. He spoke about his research in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). He was the co-organizer of the Symposium on Micro-Mechanical Systems in the 1997 International Mechanical Engi-neering Congress and Exposition in November in Dallas. He is also leading the effort to establish a new technical MEMS Division in the ASME. If you're interested in supporting this new division, please visit http://www- personal.engin.umich.edu/~lwlin.

Robert H. Lurie Professor of Engineering Jyotirmoy Mazumder, director of MEAM's Center for Laser Aided Intelligent Manufacturing (CLAIM), hosted a visit by Arthur L. Schawlow, professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University and co-recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics. Schawlow presented the seminar, "The Beginnings of Lasers."

MEAM Associate Professor Jun Ni and Professor Albert F. Yee, chair of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), were among a CoE delegation to China this summer led by Dean Stephen W. Director. While there, Director signed a collaborative agreement with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) to establish a Shanghai/U-M S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Far East Center.

Associate Professor Jwo Pan was recently named a fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International. Pan was a co-organizer of a NSF IMM Workshop on Identification of Basic Mechanics and Materials Research Issues in the Automotive Industry at the Lurie Engineering Center (LEC).

MEAM extends a sincere thank you to Associate Professor William W. Schultz for his years of service as undergraduate advisor and for his many important contributions to the undergraduate program.

Professor Jeffrey L. Stein continues as the chair of the CoE Faculty Committee on Disci-pline, which has been committed to a unique method of defining, monitoring, and resolving matters of student conduct.

Associate Professor Michael Thouless recently became MEAM's new undergraduate advisor, replacing Associate Professor William W. Schultz. Thouless and Jun Ni were invited to attend the Third Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering in Irvine, CA, organized by the National Academy of Engineering. Ni was selected to serve on the organizing committee for the 1998 symposium.

Congratulations to:

Research Scientist James Ashton-Miller, who has been awarded the title of senior research scientist, effective September, 1997. He earned the Best Paper Award at the September 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Urogynecological Society for co-authoring the paper, "Patterns of Age-Related Striated Urogenital Sphincter Muscle Loss in the Adult Female Urethra."

Assistant Professor William J. Endres, who received the 1997 Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award from the ASME International during its Mechanical Engineering Congress in November in Dallas. He was recognized for two papers, co-authored with Professors Richard E. DeVor and Shiv G. Kapoor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Assistant Professors Arthur D. Kuo and Ann Marie Sastry, who coordinated a very successful MEAM Seminar Series this fall. Kuo and Sastry greatly expanded the series, hosting distinguished speakers almost every week of the regular academic year. The speakers' expertise collectively represented all of the major research areas in MEAM.

Associate Professor Louis J. Soslowsky, who has accepted a new position as director of orthopaedic research and associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Assistant Professor Dawn M. Tilbury, whose paper "Restructuring the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum--The Michigan Program" received the Best Paper Award from the Mechanical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference earlier this year. Professor Grétar Tryggvason and Associate Professor Steven L. Ceccio (BSE ME '85) co-authored the paper.

MEAM CPO / Rodney Hill Assistant Professor Ann Marie Sastry was one of 60 research-ers selected to receive the second annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their careers. Sastry will receive $500,000 over five years to further her research, which centers on the behavior of fibrous networks. In November, Sastry was one of four awardees asked to speak at a National Science Foundation reception held in honor of its 20 recipients. Later she attended the formal ceremony at the White House, hosted by Dr. John Gibson, the President's science advisor.