Student Notes

Tricia Allam received the 1998–99 Jay Wetzel Quality Scholarship for Excellence for outstanding scholastic achievement by an undergraduate interested in automotive engineering.

John Barrientos, Kristy Downing, and Ravi Smith received 1998–99 Amoco Awards, which recognizes undergraduate students for academic achievement.

Joseph Clement and James Driscoll IV received MEAM’s 1998–99 William Mirsky Memorial Awards for outstanding research and academic achievement at the master’s level.

Graduate student Jianmin Gu received the 1998–99 Computational Dynamics Fellowship Award for excellence in academic and research achievement. This is a new U-M award sponsored by Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., of Ann Arbor.

A Student Leadership Council was created at the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Machining Systems (ERC/RMS), reports PhD candidate Osman B. Ozdoganlar, council president. The council represents more than 40 graduate students and several undergraduates—about 75 percent are MEAM students.

Jaime Roehrig received the 1998–99 Robert Caddell Memorial Award for Undergraduate Scholarship for academic excellence by an undergraduate. Paris von Lockette and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) student, Trevor Harding, received Caddell Awards for Graduate Student Research Achievement. MSE Professor William F. Hosford, Jr., received the Caddell Faculty Research Achievement Award.

Qingda Yang received a Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science from the Adhesion Society. He will present his research at the society’s annual meeting in February.