2007 Faculty Awards Reception
2007 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
FACULTY AWARDS RECEPTION
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
6:00 p.m.
Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center
Chaney Library & Claggett Executive Patio
University of Maryland
For more information, please contact:
Felicia Stephenson, 301.405.5297 or felicia@umd.edu
Program
6:00 Cocktails & Music
6:30 Welcome – Professor Bar-Cohen, Chair
6:35 Remarks – Dr. C.D. (Dan) Mote, Jr., President
6:45 Faculty Awards
7:00 Retirement of Professor Magrab – Professor Anand
Remarks from Colleagues & Former Students
(T.S. Chang, S. Shaikh, R. Hershey, C. Burroughs, T. Dissinger, I. Minis & M. Govil)
7:10 Performance – Erasable Inc.
Improvisational (IMPROV) Theater Group, University of Maryland
7:30 Professional Society Awards & Appointments
University & Department Appointments and Promotions
Publication Awards
Additional Accolades
2007 Award Recipients
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS - Peter Sandborn
Shapour Azarm, Current Chair of the Design Engineering Division, ASME
Ashwani Gupta, Director of Propulsion and Energy, AIAA
Bongtae Han, Associate Editor of the Year, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging
Reinhard Radermacher, ASHRAE Fellow
UNIVERSITY & DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS - Ashwani Gupta
Appointment of Associate Professor Jaydev Desai
Appointment of Assistant Professor Santiago Solares
Appointment of Assistant Professor Teng Li
Promotion of Assistant Professor Ilias Balaras to Associate Professor
Sami Ainane, Incoming Director of Student Affairs
David Bigio, Incoming Director of Undergraduate Studies
Linda Schmidt, Outgoing DReAM Division Leader
Mohammad Modarres, Incoming DReAM Division Leader
Jaydev Desai, Incoming ASME Student Section Advisor
Jeffrey Herrmann, Outgoing ASME Student Section Advisor
Jeffrey Herrmann, Incoming Quest Associate Director
PUBLICATION AWARDS - Shapour Azarm
Peter Sandborn, "Obsolescence Driven Design Refresh Planning for Sustainment-Dominated Systems," Eugene L. Grant Award, Best Paper Published during 2006 in the Engineering Economist
Ashwani Gupta, "Examination of Methane-Hydrogen Mixture Flame Using Isotope Shift/PLIF Spectroscopy," AIAA, IECEC Conference, San Diego, August 2006
Satyandra (S.K.) Gupta, "A Computational Framework for Point Cloud Construction Using Digital Projection Patterns," ASME’s Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Philadelphia, September 2006
Greg Jackson, "Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion and Stability Maps in Methane-Fueled Catalytic Microreactors," 31st International Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, July 2006
Teng Li, "Compliant Thin Film Patterns of Stiff Materials as Platforms for Flexible Electronics," Gordon Research Conference on Thin Film & Small Scale Behavior, Waterville, ME, August 2006 (Best Poster)
Mohammad Modarres & Ali Mosleh, "Modified Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT) for Uncertainty Analysis," Nuclear Engineering (NED) of the ASME, (ICONE) 14 Conference, Miami, July 2006
ADDITIONAL ACCOLADES - Avram Bar-Cohen
Jim Duncan, selected for Keystone, A. James Clark School of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Professors
David Holloway, Outstanding Commitment Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering
Gregory Jackson (with B. Eichhorn & S. Zhou), Invention of the Year-Physical Science, Office of Technology Commercialization, University of Maryland
Jeong Kim, 2007 Maryland Business Hall of Fame Inductee
Marvin Roush, Outstanding Commitment Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering
Katepalli Sreenivasan, elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Chandra Thamire, selected for Keystone Instructor, A. James Clark School of Engineering
Congratulations on Your Retirement
Dr. Edward Magrab
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Magrab joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1987 as a joint appointment with MTEC (then the Engineering Research Center), where he served as the Director of the Manufacturing Program. In this dual role Ed spearheaded the department's substantial involvement in the then nascent MIPS program, and was the principal author of a $2.3M grant from the ARPNNSF Technology Reinvestment Program for “Preparing Engineers for Manufacturing in the 21st Century.” Ed was also instrumental in creating and leading the ClMAD (Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Design) graduate program and was an early contributor to the QUEST collaboration with the Smith School. In addition, Professor Magrab developed ENME271 and ENME472, two of the enduring undergraduate courses in the department's curriculum. During the past 19 years, Ed's research and scholarly contributions have been in the fields of structural vibration and computer integrated design manufacturing.
~ The department thanks you for your many years of dedicated service. ~
