Lightening the weight of the machines that move people by land, sea and air is beneficial for many reasons, including improved fuel efficiency and the ability to carry higher payloads or added safety systems. A 10% reduction in the weight of a passenger car, for instance, leads to about a 6% improvement in fuel economy.
This award is presented annually to senior graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship in an area of applied mechanics.
ME Professors Edgar Meyhofer and Pramod Reddy have shown for the first time how a nanoscale thermal switch can be built by employing nanoscale effects that arise when heat is transferred between a hot and cold nanoscale-thick membrane via thermal radiation.
Fan’s proposal entitled, “Connecting Grain Boundary’s Metastability Evolution to Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Alloys During Non-Equilibrium Processing,” won the award.
ME Professor Vikram Gavini, U-M Chemistry Professor, Paul Zimmerman, and ME Post-doc fellow, Bikash Kanungo, have been working on this challenge and have had their paper titled, “Exact exchange-correlation potentials from ground-state electron densities” published in Nature Communications on October 3, 2019, explaining their findings on solving the problem.
ME Research Associate Professor awarded for work in lightweight materials.
Michigan Engineering is leading four other universities in Department of Defense-funded research.
Work with radiative thermal transport at nanoscale level lands Dakotah Thompson a ProQuest Dissertation Award.
Preparing for the future by doing the research now, ME researchers have matched a world record.
LED enables a new approach to light-based cooling.