2009 Faculty Awards Reception
2009 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
FACULTY AWARDS RECEPTION
Friday, May 15, 2009
3:30 p.m.
Mechanical Engineering
DeWALT Conference Suite
University of Maryland
For more information, please contact:
Felicia Stephenson, 301.405.5297 or felicia@umd.edu
2009 Award Recipients
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Amr Baz, ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award
Hugh Bruck, ASME Fellow
Don DeVoe, NSF Kavli Fellow
A.K. Gupta, ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal Award
Michael Pecht, Mike Osterman and CALCE, Schwarzkopf Award, National Science Foundation
Greg Schultz, SAE International Faculty Advisor Award
Santiago Solares, 2009 Faculty Early Career Development Award, National Science Foundation
UNIVERSITY AWARDS & PROMOTIONS
Jan Sengers, 2008 Distinguished International Service Award, University of Maryland
Appointment of Professor Peter Sandborn
Appointment of Associate Professor Bao Yang
Yunho Hwang, Promoted to Associate Director of CEEE
Alex Severinsky, 2008 Innovation Hall of Fame Inductee, A. James Clark School of Engineering
Ken Kiger, A. James Clark School of Engineering Poole and Kent Company Teaching Award for Senior Faculty
Peter Sandborn, A. James Clark School of Engineering Poole and Kent Company Teaching Award for Senior Faculty
FACULTY AWARDS
Amr Baz, Pi Tau Sigma Purple Camshaft Award
Santiago Solares, Pi Tau Sigma Fall 2008 Faculty Appreciation Award
Jeffrey Herrmann, Innovator of the Year, Maryland Daily Record, "Clinic Planning Model Generator (CPMG)"
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Outgoing Pi Tau Sigma Advisor Jungho Kim; Incoming Advisor Peter Sandborn
Outgoing ASME Advisor Jaydev Desai; Incoming Advisor Byeng Youn
PUBLICATION AWARDS
Byeng Youn (with P. Wang and A. Kloess), ASME Design Automation Conference Best Paper Award, "Bayesian Reliability Analysis with Evolving, Insufficient, and Subjective Data Sets"
Jeffrey Herrmann (and T. Hoy), 2009 Maurice Simpson Technical Editors Award, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST)
PATENT & INVENTION RECOGNITION
Bala Balachandran & Miao Yu, "Micro-Optical Sensor Systems for Pressure Acceleration and Pressure Gradient Measurements" (U.S. Patent 7,428,054)
Elisabeth Smela (with B. Shapiro), "Electrically Driven Microfluidic Pumping for Actuation" (U.S. Patent 7,523,608)
Shapour Azarm (with M. Li), 2008 Invention of the Year Finalist (Information Science), University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization, "Multi-Objective Collaborative Robust Optimization (MCRO)"
A.K. Gupta, 2008 Invention of the Year Finalist (Physical Sciences), University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization, “Ultra Low Emission Colorless Distributed Combustion”
Michael Zachariah (with P. DeShong, P. Demuth, A. Prakash, C. Luckett & D. English) 2008 Invention of the Year Finalist (Life Science), University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization, “Stimuli-Responsive Mesoporous Nanomaterials”
ADDITIONAL ACCOLADES
Teng Li, 2009 General Research Board Summer Award
