Awards & Honors
ME Annual Report 2019-2020
The accolades ME faculty and students earn each year are nothing short of inspiring. From prestigious young investigator awards to National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, our community is represented in a variety of areas for their research and accomplishments.
Neil Dasgupta Miller Faculty Scholar, 2020 Read more
Pramod Sangi Reddy Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, 2020 Read more
Angela Violi U-M Women in Science Engineering Aspire, Advance, and Achieve Mentoring Award, 2020 Read more
Andre Boehman American Society of Mechanical Engineers Internal Combustion Engine Award, 2020 Read more
Daniel Cooper Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2020
Yue Fan National Science Foundation CAREER, 2020
Jianping Fu Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award, 2020 Read more
David Kwabi American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, 2020 Read more
Jyoti Mazumder Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2020 Read more
Jun Ni Society of Manufacturing Engineers - 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing, 2020 Read more
Bogdan Popa National Science Foundation CAREER, 2020
Albert Shih Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Award, 2020
Steve Skerlos United States Environmental Protection Agency Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 2020 Read more
Jeffery Stein Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award from the Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) of ASME, 2020 Read more
Dawn Tilbury SAE Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award, 2019 Read more
Galip Ulsoy 2020 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2020 Read more
Kon-Well Wang American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rayleigh Lecture Award Sponsored by the Noise Control and Acoustics Division, 2020 Read more
Pete Wurman (MS ME ’88)
Mechanical engineering alumnus Pete Wurman has been selected to receive the 2020 U-M ME Alumni Merit Award. Wurman, director at Sony AI America, is best known for his work as a technical co-founder of Kiva Systems, the Boston-based company that pioneered the use of mobile robotics in warehouses and distribution facilities. He joined Kiva in 2004 with Raff D’Andrea to help founder Mick Mountz bring his vision to life. As CTO, Wurman was responsible for the system architecture and decision making algorithms. In May of 2012, Kiva was acquired by Amazon.com, and has subsequently deployed more than 250,000 robots to Amazon warehouses. In 2020, Mick, Raff, and Pete were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for their work on Kiva.
Prior to joining Kiva, Wurman was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. His teaching focus was e-commerce systems, and his research focused on electronic auctions (especially combinatorial auctions), multi-agent systems, and resource allocation.
In addition to being elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Wurman received the 2008 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award, has been granted more than 60 patents, and published over 50 technical papers.
RISE Best Paper FA 19: Jeremy Babinet
RISE Best Paper WN 20: William White
Distinguished Leadership Award: Haley Clafton
Distinguished Leadership Award: Krithika Balakrishnan
Henry Ford II Prize: Adeline Wihardja
Distinguished Academic Achievement - ME: John Burke
Alexander Azarkhin Award: Sagardip Majumder
William Mirsky Memorial Fellowship: Lu Wen and Tianhan Gao
Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research: Daniel Bruder
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award: Yi Zheng, Xufeng Xue, Sajedeh Nasr Esfahani, Agnes Resto Irizarry
Ivor K. McIvor Award: Callan Luetkemeyer
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Mohsen Taheri Andani
Anna Olcott Smith Award: Lauren Mancia
Rackham International Student Fellowship: Ruddhi Gokhale, Nathaly Villacis Nunez
J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellowship: Shreyas Kousik, James Dallas
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Shannon Clancy, Peter Kuetzing, Hannah Larson, Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee, Larson Lovdal, Gabriel Antoniak, Andrew Kim, Derek Barnes, Erin Burrell