Shorya Awtar

Shorya Awtar

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Precision Systems Design Laboratory

Address

1630 GGB (George G. Brown Laboratory)
2350 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125

awtar@umich.edu

Phone

(734) 615-0285

Degrees

Sc.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, 1998

Research Interests

Precision engineering; mechatronics; flexure mechanisms; high-precision high-bandwidth motion systems for applications in nanometrology and nanomanufacturing; MEMS sensors and actuators; minimally invasive surgery.

Honors and Awards

Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, SAE, 2012

Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2011

Achievement Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2011

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2009

One of the the six most promising invention disclosures filed in year 2008, U-M Technology Transfer Office, 2009

R&D100 Award, for the XY High Precision Extended Range Nanopositioner, 2008

Faculty Type

Tenured and Tenure-Track

02/28/2017

U-M ME startup FlexDex Surgical’s first product—a simple, ergonomic and intuitive "needle driver" for stitching inside the body—has been used for the first time in a series of operations.

ME Faculty Receive CoE Awards

01/16/2017

Five ME faculty members received College of Engineering Awards in 2017. These recipients include Shorya Awtar, Margaret Wooldridge, Wei Lu, Michael Thouless, and Miki Banu

Mechanical Engineering start-up FlexDex Surgical gets Media Coverage

07/21/2016

FlexDex Surgical, an innovative medical device company founded by Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Shorya Awtar and Medical School Professor James Geiger, has received coverage from several media outlets

PSDL Start-up FlexDex Surgical reaches key milestones

06/09/2015

FlexDex™ is a platform technology that provides enhanced dexterity, intuitive control, and natural force feedback in minimally invasive surgery.

PSDL Students Take Home Two Best Paper Awards from ASME Conferences

10/14/2013

Members of Prof. Shorya Awtar’s research group, the Precision Systems Design Lab (PSDL), won two Best Paper Awards at the ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC)

Awtar Selected to Receive the R&D 100 Award