In 2021-2022 U-M ME received $42,652,500 research dollars. The department hired 5 new faculty in 2021, bringing our total of tenured and tenure track faculty to 78.

Prominent Award Numbers

In the past 5 years there have been:

• 10 NSF CAREER Awards
  • Neil Dasgupta, NSF CAREER Award, 2018
  • Ram Vasudevan, NSF CAREER Award, 2018
  • Jesse Capecelatro, NSF CAREER Award, 2019
  • Shanna Daly, NSF CAREER Award, 2019
  • Elliott Rouse, NSF CAREER Award, 2019
  • Bogdan Popa, NSF CAREER Award, 2020
  • Yue Fan, NSF CAREER Award, 2020
  • David Kwabi, NSF CAREER Award, 2021
  • Rohini Bala Chandran, NSF CAREER Award, 2022
  • Ashley Bucsek, NSF CAREER Award, 2022
• 2 Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Awards
  • Jesse Capecelatro, ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award, 2019
  • David Kwabi, ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award, 2020
• 2 AFOSR Awards
  • Neil Dasgupta, AFOSR, 2016
  • Aaron Towne, AFOSR, 2019
• 2 ONR Awards
  • Ram Vasudevan, ONR, 2018
  • Jesse Capecelatro, ONR, 2019
• 2 DOE Awards
  • 2019-2021, Department of Energy, A Multi-Scale Computational Platform for Predictive Modeling of Corrosion in AI-Steel Joints, PI: M. Banu, Co-PIs J. Li (Penn State), C. Shao (Univ. Illinois Urbana Champaign), M. Pigazzini (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Ansys).
  • 2021-2024, Department of Energy, Robot-based Additive Manufacturing of LegoTM-type Modular Molds for Wind Blades, PI: M. Banu, Co-PIs: K. Saitou, J. Li (Penn State), T. el-Wardany (RTRC), S. Nolet (TPI composites).
• 2 DARPA Awards
  • Neil Dasgupta, DARPA, 2018
  • Serife Tol, DARPA, 2021