2008 Faculty Awards Reception
2008 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
FACULTY AWARDS RECEPTION
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
5:00 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
5:00 Cocktails & Music
5:30 Welcome – Professor Bar-Cohen, Chair
5:35 Remarks – John Miller, Director, Army Research Lab
5:50 Young Faculty Awards
University Appointments and Promotions
♪♪ Musical Interlude - Brad Linde & Trevor Olexy ♪♪
Professional Society Awards
Publication Awards
Professional Society Members & Fellows
Patents
Invention Awards
Additional Accolades
2008 Award Recipients
YOUNG FACULTY AWARDS - Ashwani Gupta
Sarah Bergbreiter, 2008 Young Faculty Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Teng Li, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
Miao Yu, Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS - Avram Bar-Cohen
Appointment of Associate Professor Michel Cukier
Ashwani Gupta, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
Jan Sengers, Distinguished International Service Award, University of Maryland
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY AWARDS - Avram Bar-Cohen
Shapour Azarm, Automation Award, ASME Design Automation Committee
Mohammad Modarres, 2008 International Research Leadership Award
Michael Pecht, Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE Reliability Society
Linda Schmidt, Merryfield Award, ASEE
PUBLICATION AWARDS
Michael Pecht (Sony Mathew, Diganta Das, Michael Osterman, Robin Ferebee-NASA, and Joseph Clayton-BD Systems), “Virtual Remaining Life Assessment of Electronic Hardware Subjected to Shock and Random Vibration Life Cycle Loads,” Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology 2008 Maurice Simpson Technical Editors Award
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERS AND FELLOWS - David Bigio
Satyandra (S.K.) Gupta, Elected Fellow, ASME
Bongtae Han, Elected Fellow, ASME
Ashwani Gupta, Elected Fellow, SAE
Avram Bar-Cohen, Honorary Member, ASME
PATENTS - Reinhard Radermacher
Bala Balachandran, Mao Yu, and Moustafa Al-Bassyiouni, “Fiber Tip Based Sensor Systems for Measurements of Pressure Gradient, Air Particle Velocity and Acoustic Intensity,” (U.S. Patent 7,224,465)
Avram Bar-Cohen and Bao Yang, “Novel Configuration of Thermoelectric Coolers to Cool High-Heat-Flux Hot Spots,” (U.S. Patent 7,290,596)
Bongtae Han (& Dr. C.W. Han), “Shadow Moire Using Non-Zero Talbot Distance,” (U.S. Patent 7,230,722)
Jungho Kim (Saeed Moghaddam, John Lawler), “Heat-flux Based Emissivity/Absorptivity Measurement,” (U.S. Patent 7,318,671)
Michael Ohadi and Serguei Dessiatoun, “Electrohydrodynamically (EHD) Enhanced Heat Transfer System and Method with an Encapsulated Electrode,” (U.S. Patent 7,159,646)
Michael Pecht (J. Swift, S. Wallace, Y. Deng), “Electromechanical Device Having a Plurality of Bundles of Fibers for Interconnecting Two Planar Surfaces,” (U.S. Patent 7,220,131)
INVENTION AWARDS - Linda Schmidt
Jaydev Desai and Satyandra (S.K.) Gupta (Marc Simard, Rao Gullapalli, Nicholas Pappafotis, Wojciech Bejgerowski), Winner-Invention of the Year-Physical Science, University of Maryland, “Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot”
Satyandra (S.K.) Gupta (Antonio Cardone, Maxim Schwartz), Invention of the Year-Information Science, University of Maryland, “Geometry Based Search Software” (runner-up)
ADDITIONAL ACCOLADES
Jaydev Desai, Senior Member, IEEE
Jan Sengers, “Professor Visitante”, Complutense University, Madrid
