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Donald Siegel

Donald Siegel
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Address

2380B

GGB

George G. Brown Laboratory

2350 Hayward 
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125

Email
djsiege@umich.edu
Phone
(734) 764-4808

Degrees

PhD, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Graduate Certificate, Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
BS, Mathematical Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 1995

Research Interests

Development of high-capacity materials and systems for energy storage applications; computational materials science; nanoscale chemistry and its impact on the mechanical properties of materials; thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations; multi-scale modeling; integrated computational materials engineering

Honors and Awards

TMS/JIM International Scholar, 2009
Publication J. Phys.: Condens. Mater 20 064228 (2008) named to "Top Papers 2008"
Special Recognition Award, U.S. Council for Automotive Research, 2008
Inventor of the Month, Ford Fuel Cell Patent Committee, 2008
U.S. National Academies/National Research Council Fellow, 2004-2005
Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, 2001
U.S. Department of Education National Science Scholar, 1991-1995

Faculty Type

Tenured and Tenure-Track

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Thermal Energy Storage proposal chosen for the first round of the Graham Sustainability Institute's CNAP

Rohini Bala Chandran (PI) and Don Siegel's (Co-PI) proposal has been selected by the Graham Sustainability Institute's Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program.

Don Siegel receives E. & M. Ulsoy Citation Leader Award

Galip Ulsoy and his wife Susan Glowski have provided an endowment gift to establish the E. & M. Ulsoy Citation Leader Award Fund. For 2021 it is presented to Professor Don Siegel. 

Nature Communications Publishes Paper: Low-temperature paddlewheel effect in glassy solid electrolytes

U-M ME PhD Student, Jeffrey Smith, and Professor Don Siegel have a paper titled, "Low-temperature paddlewheel effect in glassy solid electrolytes," published in Nature Communications. 

 

 

Four ME Faculty Members Present at the 2020 Gordon Research Conference

Neil Dasgupta, Don Siegel, Jeff Sakamoto, and Anna Stefanopoulou present at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference.  

Project on Advanced Storage for Gaseous Fuels Receives $1 Million from Department of Energy

Researches in ME, chemistry, and the Savanah National Lab for innovative research of technologies for trucks, off-road vehicles, and the fuels that power them.