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U-M ME Gears Up to Celebrate 150 Years and We Want You to Be a Part of It!
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Dear University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering Friends and Family,
It is with great excitement and pride that I announce that next year, 2018, the University of Michigan (U-M) Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) will mark a major milestone - U-M ME will celebrate its 150th! The U-M ME program pioneered the field 150 years ago, and continues to be a world leader in research and education, both basic and translational, from bio- & health systems, emerging manufacturing, energy &
environment to future transportation and beyond.
Starting Winter 2018, we will begin a variety of sesquicentennial events including a series of
Distinguished Lectures as well as our annual Michael Korybalski Endowed Lecture in the spring, where more details will follow. At this time, we especially want to invite you to:
- SHARE YOUR STORY - We're looking to hear from you with the hope that you'll share your U-M ME story; how your ME experience helped to shape your lives and careers. Please click HERE to participate!
- MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND JOIN US ON CAMPUS - On September 21st and 22nd 2018, we invite you to celebrate our rich history, exciting present and ambitious future on campus. Please click HERE for a schedule of educational and fun events!
Thank you and Go Blue!
Kon-Well Wang
Tim Manganello/BorgWarner Department Chair and
Stephen P. Timoshenko Collegiate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
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Ellen Arruda and Noboru Kikuchi Elected to National Academy of Engineering
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Ellen Arruda and Noboru Kikuchi, University of Michigan (U-M) Mechanical Engineering (ME) professor and professor emeritus noted for leadership in their fields, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
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U-M ME's Dawn Tilbury Heads National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected U-M Mechanical Engineering professor to serve as head of its Directorate for Engineering. Dawn Tilbury is a professor of mechanical engineering and former associate dean for research at U-M's College of Engineering.
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Recognition & Achievements
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- Okwudire's research gaining media coverage
- Liang and Lu's research published in Nature's Microsystems & Nanoengineering
- Sung receives 2017 SAE Henry O. Fuchs Student Award MORE>>
- Arruda receives SES Rice Medal MORE>>
- Thota and Wang's publication in Journal of Applied Physics has attracted media attention MORE>>
- Technology Innovation for the Most Pressing Problems of Society MORE>>
- U-M Solar Car Team - US Champions win second-place finish in Australia World Solar Challenge MORE>>
- Beyond EPA's Clean Power decision: Climate action window could close as early as 2023 MORE>>
- Epureanu receives Faculty Recognition Award MORE>>
- Patterning and Morphology in Biological and Nonliving Systems MORE>>
- ME PhD student Johanna Heureaux receives 2017 STAR Award MORE>>
- Schwind receives 2017 DOE SCGSR Award MORE>>
- Fu's research featured in MIT Technology Review MORE>>
- The 2017 Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture MORE>>
- Cui, Okwudire and Awtar receive ASME Best Conference Paper on Mechatronics MORE>>
- Barton receives ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award MORE>>
- Tiny device offers insight into how Cancer spreads MORE>>
- Kinetic sculpture installed MORE>>
- From robot to rodent MORE>>
- Latest two-legged walking robot arrives at Michigan MORE>>
- ME welcome three new faculty members MORE>>
- Barton selected as a Miller Faculty Scholar MORE>>
- How stem cells grow into structures that could aid understanding of infertility MORE>>
- Liu's research featured in The Scientist magazine MORE>>
- Pipe's research featured on phys.org and Engadget MORE>>
- Awtar elected ASME Fellow MORE>>
- Violi receives 2017 Adel Sarofim award MORE>>
- Atreya receives SFPE 2017 Arthur B. Guise Medal MORE>>
- ME Alum Damon Boyd, BSE ME '95, and family endow scholarship fund MORE>>
- Arruda featured in Detroit News article MORE>>
- Yoram Koren's work makes U-M bicentennial list of most important research advances MORE>>
- Self-driving cars can be even safer with connected technology MORE>>
- Yue Fan's Research Published in Nature Communications MORE>>
- Liu's Paper Accepted to Chemical Communications 2017 Emerging Investigator Issue MORE>>
- Congresswoman Dingell Praises U-M ARC at 23rd Annual Program Review MORE>>
- Sienko Research group wins first place in the Unite for Sight Innovation Pitch Contest for SubQ assist device MORE>>
- Wang receives 2017 ASME J.P. Den Hartog Award MORE>>
- ME student athletes thrive in and out of the classroom MORE>>
- Allen Liu's high school research student, Katherine Shao, receives multiple accolades for research project MORE>>
- Barber receives 2017 ASME Mayo D Hersey Award MORE>>
- Arruda named Maria Comninou Collegiate Professor MORE>>
- Kenneth Ho receives 2017 Ivor K. Mclvor Award MORE>>
- Dawn Tilbury to head NSF Engineering Directorate MORE>>
- Nine ME students receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships MORE>>
- Rodriguez receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship MORE>>
- ME students receive 2017 Leaders & Honors Awards MORE>>
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ME's Jyoti Mazumder Receives ASME/SME Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal
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The M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal of ASME/SME is awarded to an individual who has had significant influence and responsibility for improving the productivity and efficiency (either by research or by implementation of research) of the manufacturing operation.
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U-M ME's Kon-Well Wang Honored with ASME J.P. Den Hartog Award
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The ASME J.P. Den Hartog Award is one of the most prestigious honors in the field of dynamics and vibration. This award recognizes lifetime contributions to the teaching and practice of vibration engineering.
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U-M ME's Angela Violi Receives 2017 Adel Sarofim Award
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The Adel Sarofim Award is presented every two years to a scientist for outstanding advancements in understanding combustion processes, formation of combustion by-products and mechanisms of their health effects.
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U-M ME's Jim Barber Recipient of ASME Mayo D. Hersey Award
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The Mayo D. Hersey Award is bestowed on an individual in recognition of distinguished and continued contributions over a substantial period of time to the advancement of the science and engineering of tribology.
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ME Welcomes Three New Faculty
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The U-M ME Department is pleased to welcome Rohini Bala Chandra, Elliott Rouse and Alex Shorter as Assistant Professors.
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U-M ME's Yudong Chen Honored with 2017 Alumni Merit Award
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U-M ME alumnus Yudong Chen was selected to receive the 2017 U-M ME Alumni Merit Award. Chen (MSE ME, PhD '91) is currently president of Bosch (China) Investment Ltd.
*Pictured (from left) U-M Vice President of Research Jack Hu, 2017 U-M ME Alumni Merit Award recipient Yudong Chen and U-M ME Department Chair Kon-Well Wang.
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Nine ME Students Receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
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Eight ME graduate students and one undergraduate student have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) this year. With this record, the U-M ME Department is among the ME programs nationwide with the highest number of 2017 recipients.
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Tiny Device Offers Insight into How Cancer Spreads
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As cancer grows, it evolves. Individual cells become more aggressive, break away to flow through the body and spread to distant areas. What if there were a way to find those early aggressors? How are they different from the rest of the cells? And more importantly: Is there a way to stop them before they spread?
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Origami Lattice for Adaptive Noise Mitigation
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U-M Ph.D. student Manoj Thota and Professor Kon-Well Wang's recent publication has attracted media attention. They explored adaptive origami structures that can change periodicity between different Bravais lattices with distinct symmetry properties to drastically change the noise propagation characteristics.
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Self-Driving Cars Can Be Even Safer with
Connected Technology
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A car barrels through a red light, but the Lincoln MKZ leading the cross traffic doesn't T-bone it. In fact, the Lincoln never enters the intersection. It gradually slows down and yields to the law-breaking vehicle with time to spare.
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mproving Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion
in Polymers
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Understanding how heat travels inside a material is critical to improving the performance, efficiency and reliability of the devices and systems in which it is incorporated.
In collaboration with U-M MSE Professor Jinsang Kim's group, U-M ME Professor Kevin Pipe's lab is using molecular design principles to improve thermal conductivity in polymers.
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Improving Quality in Laser-aided
Additive Manufacturing
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Additive manufacturing techniques have great potential to improve productivity and energy efficiency during part fabrication. The "bottom up" approach, creating parts layer by layer, "cuts out many steps of the traditional manufacturing process and makes it an appealing method," said Jyotirmoy Mazumder, Robert H. Lurie Professor of Mechanical Engineering. "But the technologies used today all fall short in the same area: inline quality control."
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Patterning and Morphology in Biological and Nonliving Systems
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Understanding the ways in which materials deform and develop stresses and how they respond to those stresses is relevant both to biological as well as nonliving systems, including lithium-ion batteries, other semiconducting devices and alloys used for structural applications, such as automobiles, aircraft and buildings. Chemistry, too, plays a role, impacting both living and nonliving systems in important - but not yet fully understood- ways.
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U-M Solar Car Team - US Champions Win Second - Place Finish in Australia World Solar Challenge
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In an innovative, bullet-shaped car, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team took an historic second place on October 12th in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, an 1,800-mile race across the Australian Outback.
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ME450 Currently Looking for Student Projects
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The capstone design course in Mechanical Engineering (ME450) is currently filling project spots for Winter semester 2018.
Projects begin January 3, 2018 and run through April 17, 2018. If you have an idea for an open-ended design project that affords our students an opportunity to design, build and test a mechanical system, we'd be happy to discuss including it next semester! To propose a project for Winter semester, please click HERE to send an email to Amy Hortop by December 1, 2017.
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Puzzling Out a Giant Rubik's Cube
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| U-M ME Students Unveil Working Device in Capstone Design Class |
A giant Rubik's Cube newly installed on the University of Michigan's North Campus is believed to be one of the world's largest hand-solvable stationary versions of the famous puzzle.
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S. Shankar Sastry Delivers 2017 Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture
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Dr. S. Shankar Sastry, Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley presented his lecture, "Technology Innovation for the Most Pressing Problems of Society," at the 2017 Michael Korybalski Distinguished Lecture on October 12th.
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Picture, from left, U-M ME Department Chair Kon-Well Wang, Dr. S. Shankar Sastry and U-M ME alumnus Michael Korybalski.
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U-M ME 2016-2017 Annual Report Released
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U-M ME released its 2016-2017 Annual Report featuring updates on the department and the latest research of our world-renowned faculty.
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