Funded with $1 million from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Partnerships program, ME professor, Serife Tol, will be developing a quality assessment method for nuclear reactor parts using advanced ultrasonic imaging.
Elliott Rouse is a recipient of this year’s Henry Russel Awards, the university’s highest honor for early or mid-career faculty members.
This appointment “recognizes his extensive and outstanding scholarly achievements, his commitment to excellence in education for his students, and his extensive contributions to the University of Michigan and beyond.”
Jianping Fu has been elected to the IAMBE, class of 2023. Fellows of the IAMBE “are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the profession of medical and biological engineering.”
Volker Sick has received the Ralph Coats Roe Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. This award recognizes a mechanical engineering educator who is an outstanding teacher and who has made notable professional contributions in any of a variety of ways for at least a decade.
Neil Dasgupta has received a 2023 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, which honors Michigan faculty that have acted as outstanding mentors to their doctoral students.
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.”