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Kazu Saitou

Kazu Saitou
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Mechanical Engineering
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Address

2454

GGB

George G. Brown Laboratory

2350 Hayward 
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125

Email
kazu@umich.edu
Phone
(734) 763-0036

Degrees

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
B.Eng., SysInfo & Control, University of Tokyo, 1990

Research Interests

Computer modeling and optimal synthesis of mechanical (and non-mechanical) products and systems. Computational design for manufacture/assembly/environment. Simultaneous design of products/manufacturing systems/supply chains. Computer modeling and synthesis of MEMS/NEMS. Chemo/bio-informatics. Structure-based virtual screening for drug discovery and design.

Honors and Awards

Finalist for the Best Paper Award (first author: Emre Kazancioglu), Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, October 7-10, 2006
Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2006
Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2006-2008
IESET Interdisciplinary Environmental Program Award (for a research proposal with Profs. Skerlos, Kikuchi and Papalambros), College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001
CAREER Award (Division of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation), National Science Foundation, 1999

Faculty Type

Tenured and Tenure-Track

Related News

Saitou gives keynote talk at ASME IDETC/CIE

His talk was titled "Obsessed with assembly: a bystander’s view of computational assembly design"

Saitou elected IEEE Fellow

Saitou is recognized for contributions in computational assembly and disassembly design of mechanical products.

Saitou and Liu research published in Newswise

Professor Kazu Saitou and ME PhD student Lixi Liu's study recommends replacing all incandescent and halogen light bulbs in your home now with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) or LEDs.

Three ME students receive 2016-2017 MICDE Fellowships

Since 2014, MICDE has offered top-off fellowships to current and prospective students whose research project involves the use and advancement of scientific computing techniques and practices

Nine ME students receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States

ME Project-Based Design/Manufacturing Class Series Thrives

ME's undergrad curriculum has a unique team-based, Design-Build-Test spine of required classes. In Design and Manufacturing I, II and III (ME250, 350 and 450 respectively), sophomores, juniors and seniors turn concepts into real, working engineered system