Faculty Notes

Assistant Professor David R. Dowling presented “Fractals and Multifractals in Turbulent Mixing” at Michigan State University in September and “Time Reversal and Photoacoustics” at Stanford University in October. In addition, three of his graduate students, Serdar Yonak, Michael Dungan, and Sunny Khosla, presented papers at the 136th Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in Norfolk, VA, in October. Yonak’s work on photoacoustic leak detection and localization was featured on the ASA’s conference press release Web page.

Textbooks by the late Professor Emeritus Robert C. Juvinall (Fundamentals of Machine Component Design) and the late Professor Emeritus Joseph E. Shigley (Mechanical Engineering Design) both made the top 10 list of engineering design books compiled by John Wesner, vice president, Lucent Technologies.

Several MEAM faculty members have been renewed or continue as endowed professors. They are: Associate Professor Bruce H. Karnopp as the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Professor Yoram Koren as the Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering; Professor Jyotirmoy (Jyoti) Mazumder as the Robert H. Lurie Professor of Engineering; Professor Albert B. Schultz as the Vennema Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics; and Professor A. Galip Ulsoy, MEAM Chair, as the William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing.

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U-M MEAM CPO / Rodney Hill

Congratulations to Professor Vedat S. Arpaci (above), who received Turkey’s National Medal of Science from Tubitak Bilim Odula 1998, the equivalent of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S. He was recognized for his impact in the area of heat transfer through his scholarly contributions, industry collaborations, the national/international leadership provided by his former students, and his widely used textbooks.

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Chet Riley

Associate Professor Claus Borgnakke receives the Pi Tau Sigma (PTS/PTS) Professor-of-the-Term Award from Doug Spearot, vice president, at the PTS Winter Banquet in December.

Professor Herman Merte, Jr. (BS NAM ’50, BSE ME ’51, MSE ’56, PhD ’60), recently presented several papers: “A Study of Nucleate Boiling with Forced Convection in Microgravity” at the Fourth NASA Microgravity Fluid Physics Conference in Cleveland, OH, in August; “Pool Boiling Phenomena in Microgravity” and “An Experimental and Analytical Approach to Modeling the Critical Heat Flux for Forced Convection Boiling in Microgravity” at the 11th International Heat Transfer Conference in Kyongju, Korea, in August; and “Boiling in Microgravity—Roles of Drop Tower Testing” at the Drop Tower Days 1998 in Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, in October. He will present the keynote address at the 17th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in May 1999.

Associate Professor Michael Thouless gave an invited presentation entitled, “Mechanics of Toughening Brittle Polymers,” at the Toughened Polymers Symposium in the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston in August.

[Timoshenko Stamp] The late Professor Emeritus Stephen P. Timoshenko was honored on a postage stamp issued by the Ukrainian Postal Service as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Kyiv (Ukraine) Polytechnic Institute in September 1998. He was part of a series of five stamps commemorating the Institute’s most distinguished faculty. He was a MEAM faculty member from 1927 to 1936. You may view the Timoshenko stamp and read about his contributions to solid mechanics and structural theory at: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~romanh/timoshenko/timosh.htm.

Congratulations to:

Professors James R. Barber and Christophe Pierre, who each received the CoE’s 1998–99 Research Excellence Award. Professor Panos Y. Papalambros received the Service Excellence Award, and Associate Research Scientist Johann Borenstein received the Outstanding Research Scientist Award.

Associate Professor Claus Borgnakke, who was named Professor-of-the-Term at the Pi Tau Sigma (PTS/PTS) Winter Banquet. Eric Bursch was named Initiate-of-the-Term. Featured speaker was EAB member, Michael Korybalski (BSE ME ’69, MSE ’73, MBA ’80), chairman and CEO, Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., of Ann Arbor.

Associate Professor Steven L. Ceccio (BSE ME ’85), and his wife, Martha, on the birth of their son, Nicholas Steven, on October 9, 1998. He weighed 6 lbs, 11 oz. and was 19-1/2 in. long.

Associate Professor Debasish Dutta, who was named the new director of the CoE’s Program in Manufacturing (PIM), September 1, 1998 to August 31, 2001.

Professor Panos Y. Papalambros, who received the 1998 Design Automation Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Professor Christophe Pierre, who was named MEAM’s associate chair and Associate Professor Steven L. Ceccio (BSE ME ’85), who will serve as MEAM’s director of graduate programs. Associate Professor Noel C. Perkins was named director of MEAM’s undergraduate program, effective July 1, 1999. Many thanks to Professors Grétar Tryggvason and Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Jr., who served as associate chairs.

Professor Wen-Jei Yang (MSE ’56, PhD ’60), who received the Flow Visualization Asanuma Award from the Visualization Society of Japan at the Eighth International Symposium on Flow Visualization in Sorrento, Italy, in September.