awards – Page 2 – Mechanical Engineering

Regents Approve ME Faculty Promotions
05/24/2024

The Regents of the University of Michigan have approved the following promotions of ME faculty, effective September 1, 2024.

Chinedum Okwudire receives 2024 SME Education Award
06/10/2024

Okwudire has received the award “for sustained commitment and significant contributions to advancing manufacturing education at the University of Michigan and nationally.”

Endowed Professorship Recognitions
06/06/2024

This past semester, ME celebrated two endowed professorship recognitions. André Boehman was named the Vennema Professor of Engineering, and Bogdan Epureanu was named the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Alauddin Ahmed receives Research Faculty Recognition Award
06/03/2024

This award is presented by the Office of the Vice President for Research based on exceptional scholarly achievements, as evidenced by publications and other activities in an academic field of study.

Anan Ghrayeb receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
04/09/2024

This competetive award aims to encourage students early in their courses of study to pursue graduate studies in research areas of interest to the DoD.

Rackham Predoctoral Fellows Announced
03/20/2024

For the 2024-2025 academic year, four mechanical engineering (ME) students have been selected for this fellowship.

A framework to assess accessibility in industry standard equipment setups
02/13/2024

The ME Undergraduate Machine Shop team has received the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award for their work to improve accessibility in the shop, which also yielded a new framework for evaluating industry standard equipment setups.

Robotics leader Dawn Tilbury elected to National Academy of Engineering
02/12/2024

The organization underscored her work in manufacturing network control and human-robot interaction. Tilbury’s smart-manufacturing work includes digital twins, managing the health of manufacturing systems and reconfiguring such systems. The announcement also named human-robot teaming.

Minjeong Kim receives 2024 North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Award
02/06/2024

Kim, an undergraduate junior in Mechanical Engineering, has received this award for her efforts to promote DEI within the U-M Solar Car Team.

Aaron Towne awarded Young Investigator Program award
10/18/2023

His project, “A Probabilistic Transition Model for Hypersonic Boundary Layers,” seeks to give designers of hypersonic military equipment better information about real-world flight conditions.