Saima Jamal has spent the past eight months in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and in Washington, D.C., exploring the multidisciplinary work open to a mechanical engineer in the space industry.
Each year, the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering recognizes undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in research, in academics, in leadership, and/or in the embodiment of the character and leadership critical to a successful career in mechanical engineering.
Bachir Abeid, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, gives back to the United World Colleges, an organization that provided him with educational opportunities he would not have otherwise had.
Michigan Engineers make tremendous achievements both in and out of the classroom throughout their academic careers. Each year, the College of Engineering celebrates the accomplishments of students who have demonstrated excellence in their academic work, leadership experiences, and in service to others.
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing. The Fellowship seeks to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful.
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.
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.”
John Kim works on “the chemical kinetics of siloxane using a laser absorption system. Siloxane is known to have a big impact on the ignition properties of landfill gas in advanced combustion systems.”
The NSF GRF Program’s goal in offering these fellowships is to increase the nation’s human capacity in science and engineering by fostering early-career graduate students.
Each year, some 3,500 coin cell batteries are swallowed by children and toddlers, causing internal burns in the esophagus and fatalities. A team of ME undergraduates who participated in the RISE ME390 program has received external funding through the VentureWell e-team program to help commercialize their safe battery storage innovation.