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Rohini Bala Chandran (PI) and Don Siegel's (Co-PI) proposal has been selected by the Graham Sustainability Institute's Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program.

Congratulations to the mechanical engineering students who received awards at the 2021 Engineering Research Symposium!

The American Chemical Society has awarded Yue Fan in their Doctoral New Investigator grant program.

The U-M ME External Advisory Board has selected the joint paper entitled, "Lithium mechanics: roles of strain rate and temperature and implications for lithium metal batteries," for the 2020 William N. Findley Award. 

Galip Ulsoy and his wife Susan Glowski have provided an endowment gift to establish the E. & M. Ulsoy Citation Leader Award Fund. For 2021 it is presented to Professor Don Siegel. 

The annual Mechanical Engineering Department Achievement Awards have been given to Professor Angela Violi and Professor Jesse Capecelatro. 

Professor of mechanical engineering, Arvind Atreya, is now a Fellow of the Combustion Institute.

The ME DEI Committee talks with ME Assistant Professor David Kwabi

U-M mechanical engineering professor, Dawn Tilbury, honored with the 2021 Sarah Goddard Power Award

The Society of Engineering Science has awarded Ellen Arruda for her sustained outstanding contributions in theoretical and experimental mechanics.

For outstanding contributions to hydrodynamics research, Professor Steve Ceccio has been recognized by ASME.

Equipment previously used in auto emissions testing highlights risks.

Lithium metal solid-state batteries can provide a safer, more powerful alternative to the current standard.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers honored Professor Kon-Well Wang with the Rayleigh Lecture Award.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Professor Huei Peng to the Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification.

Dawn Tilbury and co-authors' of an SAE paper selected as one of the best 2019 papers in the SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles and has been chosen to receive the Vincent Bendix Automotive Electronics Engineering Award.

The ASME Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award from the Dynamic Systems and Control Division for 2020 has been awarded to Jeff Stein. 

U-M ME professor Elliott Rouse and his team published a paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering entitled, "Design and clinical implementation of an open-source bionic leg."

Adeline Wihardja, ME Senior, received 2nd place at SMASIS for her paper, "Posable tensegrity-constrained inflatable kinematic graphical analysis."

In The Conversation, Capecelatro offers suggestions like keeping windows open, shorter trips and below half-capacity seating on public buses