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.
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, 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.
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.”
Jianping Fu is recognized for his research group’s achievements in integrating emerging mechanobiology research with human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs; including human embryonic stem cells) to study the fundamental roles of cell mechanics and mechanobiology in early human embryonic development.
Andrew Gayle, PhD candidate in U-M Mechanical Engineering, received the AVS Thin Film James Harper Award at the American Vacuum Society’s (AVS) 68th International Symposium for his talk, “Tunable ALD Infiltration into High-Aspect-Ratio Aerogels Enabled by Process Modeling for Solar Thermal Applications.”
The MBioFAR program aims to recognize and provide the most meritorious mid-career faculty with additional discretionary resources — $250,000 per year for two years for each awardee — to facilitate innovative and higher-risk research that might not otherwise be supported by conventional granting agencies.
The award is given biennially by the Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) of ASME to a DSCD member who has demonstrated sustained outstanding research contributions, either basic or applied, as a mechanical engineering professional to fields of interest to the DSCD.
The award recognizes alumni who have made a difference in their field and in the world and was presented to Jeanne at the Alumni Awards Dinner on Friday, September 23, 2022.
Dr. Holly, Jr.’s project will investigate how centering urban Black youth’s knowledge production can formulate new meanings and purposes for engineering study and practice.