Awards & Honors
ME Annual Report 2020-2021
The list of awards our faculty and students receive every year is long and prestigious and 2021 was no different. From NSF CAREER Awards to National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, our community is represented in a wide range of areas for their research and accomplishments.
Jesse Austin-Breneman Vulcans Education Excellence Award, 2021
Miki Banu Willie Hobbs Moore Achievement Award, 2021 Read more
Andre Boehman Monroe-Brown Foundation Service Excellence Award, 2021
Shanna Daly Henry Russel Award, 2021
Eleni Gourgou Willie Hobbs Moore Achievement Award, 2021 Read more
Allen Liu U-M SACUA Chair, 2021 Read more
Wei Lu Public Engagement Faculty Fellowship Program, 2021 Read more
Edgar Meyhofer Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World Award, 2021
Pramod Reddy Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World Award, 2021
Alex Shorter John F. Ullrich Education Excellence Award, 2021
Michael Thouless The Michigan Society of Fellows, 2021 Read more
Dawn Tilbury Sarah Goddard Power Award, 2021 Read more
Ram Vasudevan 1938E Award, 2021
Angela Violi Monroe-Brown Foundation Research Excellence Award, 2021
Ellen Arruda SES A.C. Eringen Medal, 2021 Read more
Rohini Bala Chandra Doctoral New Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, 2021
Ashley Bucsek Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant by the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME, 2021
Steve Ceccio ASME Fluids Engineering Award, 2021 Read more
David Dowling ASME Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics, 2021 Read more
Bogdan Epureanu Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award, 2021
Jon Estrada Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant by the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME, 2021
Nima Fazeli Google Research Scholar Award, 2021
Katsuo Kurabayashi Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2021
Fellow of ASME, 2021
David Kwabi NSF CAREER Award, 2021
Talia Moore Carl Gans Young Investigator Award, 2021 Read more
Albert Shih ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award, 2021 Read more
ASME 20 Most Influential Academics Shaping Smart Manufacturing, 2021
Volker Sick Spiers Memorial Lecture - The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021 Read more
Michael Thouless Academic Council of the Technical University of Denmark the degree "doctor technices honoris causa", 2021
ASME 2021 Nadai Medal, 2021 Read more
Dawn Tilbury ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Nyquist Lecture, 2021 Read more
Kon-Well Wang ASME Robert E. Abbott Award, 2021 Read more
J.A. Bursley Mechanical Engineering Awards
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Scholarship
MEUS Best Paper
R&B Machine Tool Company Scholarship
ME Department Spirit Award
LLoyd H. Donnell Scholarship Fund
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Sajedeh Nasr Esfahani
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Amin Reihani
Distinguished Leadership Award - Graduate Students: Hang Yang
Distinguished Leadership Award - Graduate Students: Akshay Bhardwaj
Hugh G. Rumler Prize: Julia Stuart
Distinguished Academic Achievement - Mechanical Engineering: Peter Wacnik
Towner Prize-Mechanical Engineering: Minki Kim
Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize For Outstanding PhD Research: Mohsen Taheri Andani
Ivor K. McIvor Award: Shengjia Wu
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research: Jaekwang Shin (ME), Ankush Bansal (ME), Alan Taub (MSE,ME) and Miki Banu (ME)
A total of eight ME graduate students have received NSF (National Science Foundation) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) in 2021. With these awards, the University of Michigan (U-M) Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department continues to be a national leader in NSF awards to ME departments. The NSF GRF Program’s goal is to increase the nation’s human capacity in science and engineering by providing fellowships to early-career graduate students to support the development of a diverse and globally engaged U.S. science and engineering workforce.
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