
05/30/2023
The Borelli Award, the most prestigious honor given by the ASB, recognizes outstanding career accomplishment and is awarded annually to an investigator who has conducted exemplary research in any area of biomechanics.
The Borelli Award, the most prestigious honor given by the ASB, recognizes outstanding career accomplishment and is awarded annually to an investigator who has conducted exemplary research in any area of biomechanics.
Rohini Bala Chandran has been recognized for having “demonstrated the potential to make significant contributions to the field of heat transfer.”
Huei Peng, who passed away on November 17, 2022, has been posthumously awarded the ASME Soichiro Honda Medal. The award recognizes an individual for an outstanding achievement or a series of significant engineering contributions in developing improvements in the field of personal transportation.
James Holly, Jr., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a 2023 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize (TIP) for his project, “(Re)Politicizing Engineering Knowledge Through Racism-Conscious Engineering Instruction.”
A gathering of a few of the many efforts mechanical engineers are putting towards a greener future. Happy Earth Day!
Each year, the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering recognizes undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in research, in academics, in leadership, and/or in the embodiment of the character and leadership critical to a successful career in mechanical engineering.
Susan Cheng has won the award for using “her expertise as an ecosystem ecologist to examine the ‘ecosystem’ of STEM, building partnerships that inspire changes in equity and inclusion at the classroom, department, and disciplinary levels.”
Bachir Abeid, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, gives back to the United World Colleges, an organization that provided him with educational opportunities he would not have otherwise had.
Researchers and staff from the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Duke University, and 374Water recently won a grant to turn Matthaei Botanical Gardens’ trash into treasure.
Congratulations to Venkat Raman, Alex Gorodetsky and Aaron Towne for receiving the DURIP award.