ME Faculty Awards Announced
02/20/2023
02/20/2023
ME Associate Professor Ashley Bucsek has received the William N. Findley Award, and ME Associate Professor Neil Dasgupta has won the E. & M. Ulsoy Citation Leader Award.
News
New NAE members developed low-cost surgical device and transformational approach to design
02/16/2023
02/16/2023
A pair of University of Michigan professors, one a developer of surgical technology, the other a leader in design optimization, and a longtime member of the U-M Mechanical Engineering’s External Advisory Board were elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering—one of the highest distinctions in the profession.
U-M researchers helping to develop machine for N95 masks
02/13/2023
02/13/2023
$3M partnership seeks to enable on-demand local manufacturing of next-generation respirators
COE Faculty Awards 2022-23 Announced
02/10/2023
02/10/2023
Each year, the College of Engineering honors individual members of its faculty for outstanding contributions to the College, University, and the profession through a series of awards. Four ME faculty members are 2023 recipients.
Formations of frozen droplets deliver new insights on next-generation ice-repellent surfaces
01/23/2023
01/23/2023
Through careful analysis of lumpy ice dendrite formations, the Energy Transport Laboratory team gained new insights into the effects of oil viscosity, oil chemistry, and other contributing factors on new oil-impregnated materials.
North Campus’ Deans’ MLK Spirit Awards recipients
01/18/2023
01/18/2023
The North Campus’ Deans’ MLK Spirit Awards were held on January 16th, 2023. Solomon Adera, Susan Cheng, Alondra Ortiz-Ortiz, Yves Nazon, and Thanina Emily Makhlouf are 2023 recipients.
Aaron Towne receives NSF CAREER Award for work modeling turbulent flows
01/10/2023
01/10/2023
Aaron Towne, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has won an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, “Scale-dependent reduced-order models for turbulent flows,” which seeks to address society’s need for cheaper, more accessible turbulent flow modeling.
ME assistant professor elected as Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
01/10/2023
01/10/2023
Bogdan Popa, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected “for contributions to active acoustic metamaterials.”
New activity trackers for dolphin conservation
12/22/2022
12/22/2022
Experiments with custom-made biologging devices offer new insight into dolphin swimming and energy requirements.
ME assistant professor awarded Young Investigator Research Program award
12/19/2022
12/19/2022
Ashley Bucsek is one of just 58 engineers selected for this honor by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The award is in recognition of her research on “Supercritical Phase Transformations for Multiferroic Materials.”