This award recognizes “a person who exemplifies the best in furthering engineering design education through vision, interactions with students and industry, scholarship and impact on the next generation of engineers.”
A new article in Cell looks forward to the engineering of functional human organs through two emerging fields.
The Regents of the University of Michigan have approved the following promotions of ME faculty, effective September 1, 2024.
Okwudire has received the award “for sustained commitment and significant contributions to advancing manufacturing education at the University of Michigan and nationally.”
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.
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.
Flexible algorithm can reduce cycle time by 38% for a 3-axis desktop CNC machine tool.
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.
Cherian’s lecture, “Scalable Digital Fabrication of Assistive Devices in Resource Constrained Ecosystems,” explored today’s manufacturing challenges and how flexible processes can help to address the needs of low-income and rural communities across the world.
Fu is a leading researcher in mechanobiology, stem cell bioengineering, developmental bioengineering, microfluidics, and BioMEMS.