Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Address
3324
GGB (George G. Brown Laboratory)
2350 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Email
Phone
(734) 615-5253
Degrees
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 2000
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 1994
Research Interests
Environmental and sustainable technology systems; life cycle product design optimization; pollution prevention technologies for manufacturing; metalworking fluid formulation and performance; membrane filtration; supercritical fluid delivery of lubricants; biological detection and control in aqueous systems; technology policy analysis.
Honors and Awards
Second Place, Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, 2012
Neil Van Eenam Memorial Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, 2011
Mechanical Engineering Department Achievement Award, 2009
Ralph Teetor Award, SAE, 2008
Kuo K. Wang Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2007
Education Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2006
Outstanding Student Group Advisor for Engineers Without Borders, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2004
Gilbert Whitaker Award for the Improvement of Teaching, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 2003-2004
New Faces of Engineering, National Engineers Week, 2003
Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2002
1938E Class Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2002-2003
Robert Caddell Memorial Materials & Manufacturing Award (with Fu Zhao), 2002
Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2000
Faculty Type
Tenured and Tenure-Track