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Mechanical Engineering Home > News: Archived News Archived News 2007 |
October 2007 Professor Frank Kulacki has been awarded the Life Fellow membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This grade of membership honors ASME members for sustained membership in the Society for 35 years or more. Dr. Kulacki’s involvement with ASME began when he was an undergraduate student at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he was an officer of the Student Section. He was awarded with the ASME Fellow in 1987 for his contributions to the field heat transfer based on his research on free convection, transport in porous media and basic heat transfer processes in rod bundles. His service to ASME includes many committees, boards of directors, and special assignments. He was active in the Columbus Ohio Section and served as Chairman for 1977-1978. From 1984 to1989 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Heat Transfer Division and was its chairperson for 1987-1988. He has served on the Board on Engineering Education (1996-1993), is currently the Chair of the Task Force on Graduate Education, and is a member of the Board of Directors of ASME’s Education Center. He received IT’s George W. Taylor Distinguished Service Award in 2001 and the ASME Dedicated Service Award in 2004. September 2007 ME Welcomes Zongxuan Sun, Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor who starts this semester. Professor Sun comes from China, received his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He worked in R&D at GM for seven years and will begin teaching Spring Semester. He will work closely with the NSF sponsored Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power. Professor Joachim Heberlein delivered the Morton Antler Lecture at the IEEE Holm Conference, September 17-19, in Pittsburgh, PA. The Morton Antler Lecture is an annual lecture given at the conference on a topic of special interest to the electrical contact community. This lecture series was established in honor of Dr. Morton Antler, a long time member of the Holm Steering Committee and participant in the Holm Conference. Dr. Antler was a distinguished scientist and lecturer in the fields of electrical contacts, tribology, corrosion, and electrodeposition. July 2007 Professor Art Erdman has been named to direct the new Medical Devices Center which is part of the new Institute for Engineering in Medicine, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Technology and the Medical School. June 2007 Professor Jane Davidson was selected as the winner of the 2007 Charles Greeley Abbot Award by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES). This is the nation's highest award for solar energy research. The award will be presented on July 9th at the ASES Grand Awards Banquet. Julie Elizabeth Whitcomb, a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany. Her project addresses an urgent problem in vision biology: the interplay between retinal blood flow and retinal blood vessel elasticity and how it might be used in the fight to prevent blindness. Whitcomb received a B.S. in Mathematics and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2006. May 2007 S. Girshick, J. Hafiz, R. Mukherjee, X. Wang, W. Mook, J. Heberlein, P. McMurry, W. Gerberich received the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology for their paper entitled: "Hypersonic Plasma Particle Deposition - A Hybrid Between Plasma Spraying and Vapor Deposition." Hafiz, Mukherjee and Wang are all recent Ph.D. graduates of the department. Professor Heberlein accepted the award at the International Thermal Spray Conference in Beijing (May 14-16). April 2007 Post Doc Gur Mittelman has won the Dan David Prize Scholarship, $15,000, for the Future Time Dimension in the field of Quest for Energy. He works with Professor Jane Davidson. The award will be presented at a ceremony May 15, 2007 at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Professor Peter H. McMurry has received a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in the 83rd annual US and Canadian competition sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Guggenheim Fellowship will support McMurry's research on new particle formation and growth in the atmosphere during his 2007-08 sabbatical leave, which he will spend at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, and the University of Helsinki. McMurry is one of two engineers in the U.S. to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. The six IT engineering faculty members who previously received Guggenheim Fellowships are Ben Liu (ME, 1968), L. E, Scriven (CEMS, 1969), Ted Davis (CEMS, 1969), Dan Joseph (AEM, 1969), Rutherford Aris (1971) and Jim Chelikowsky (CEMS, 1995). More info March 2007 Professor Max Donath has won this year's George Taylor Distinguished Service Award. Professor Donath has served our community in many ways, most recently as Chair of the ME DH Search Committee. His work as the Director of the ITS Institute is especially noteworthy. Through his leadership ITS has become one of the leading centers for research on intelligent transportation systems in the U.S. and the world. The research funds that Max has attracted supports the work of many faculty in colleges across the University. Professor Saif Benjaafar has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). This award is the highest classification of membership in IIE and is in recognition of outstanding leaders of the profession that have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial engineering. Since 1950, 250 members have been awarded this honor. The Council of Fellows represents many of the most prominent members of the industrial engineering profession. Professor Benjaafar will be formally recognized as a Fellow at the IIE National Meeting in Nashville, Tennesse on May 20, 2007. IIE is the world's largest professional membership society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Professor Uwe Kortshagen was named a Distinguished McKnight University Professor for 2007. The professorship recognizes and rewards outstanding mid-career faculty with $100,000 award over a five year period. Read more Professor Alptekin Aksan has been granted an NSF Career Award for his proposal entitled "Room Temperature Stabilization of Cellular Factories by Confinement: A Thermodynamic Approach". Professor Art Erdman has been awarded the Rutgers School of Engineering Medal of Excellence Award for Alumni Achievement in Academia. The award ceremonies will be held on May 16 and 17, on the Rutgers campus.
February 2007 The Department's NSF Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power is hosting an IT Public Lecture: Tuesday, February 6, 6:30 PM, 402 Walter Library by Prof. Kim Stelson. Professor Rajesh Rajamani has been selected as one of the 2007 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award recipients by the International Society of Automotive Engineers. This award recognizes contributions to automotive education and research. Dr. Rajamani will receive the award during the SAE World Congress in Detroit in April. Professor Saif Benjaafar has been named to the editorial board of the journal Naval Research Logistics (NRL). Founded in 1954, NRL has a distinguished history of publication in Operations Research, Statistics, and Quantitative Modeling. While retaining its interest in naval and other military applications, NRL is a broad based journal devoted to operations and analysis problems in business, industry and government. January 2007 Tuesday, Jan. 23 - "Renewable Energy Research at the U" broadcast on WCCO at 10 PM. WCCO's Don Shelby will be interviewing David Kittelson and Jane Davidson on the breadth of renewable energy research at the U. |
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