Student Notes

Dan Apley, Pei-Kuang (Jesse) Chen, Shuxin Gu, Boon-Wei Shiu, and Fugee Tsung received the 1997 "Thinker" awards presented to recent PhD graduates of WuMRC at the NSF I/UCRC summer picnic. The 1997-98 Robert Caddell Memorial Awards were awarded to Robert W. Brown for the Undergraduate Scholarship and Yenkai Wang for the Graduate Student Research Achievement Award. Amy Van Loon, Jonathan Opdyke, and Jairam Manjunathaiah received honorable mentions. Richard Hofer, a senior in MEAM/Aero, was named Outstanding Aerospace Engineering Student for 1996-97. He received the merit-based AIAA Foundation/GE Aircraft Engines Undergraduate Scholarship and MSPE Undesignated Junior/Senior Grant. He attended the Undergraduate Summer Institute in Applied Science at Laurence Livermore National Laboratory sponsored by the Hertz Foundation. While there, he co-authored and presented the poster, "Visualization of Wave-Particle Resonances."

PhD student Hyung Min Kim presented the paper, "Geometric Form Evaluation of Cone Based on the Minimum Zone Criteria" at the ASPE annual meeting in Norfolk, VA, in October. The paper, also in the conference proceedings, was co-authored by B.C. Lee, Kim's thesis advisor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Nader Shwayhat, a sophomore in the ME/Aero dual major program, took part in General Motor's 1997 Design Center Internship Program last summer, which consisted of six teams of three students each. He was a member of the Chevrolet team which developed models, technical drawings, and sketches that were then presented to GM executives and design staff and displayed at the Warren Tech Center this past fall. The models will be displayed at the 1999 Detroit Auto Show.

Stephanie Michalik MEAM graduate student James D. Ervin, son of Research Scientist Robert D. Ervin, married Shelly L. Dettloff on May 30, 1997, in St. Clair Shores, MI.

U-M MEAM CPO / Shekinah Errington MEAM students, from left, Will Pudyk, Mike McGahey, and Marty Bogen show their progress on the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) MicroTruck project.