Faculty Updates
Stephen W. Director, the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, has been elected an American Society of Engineering Education Fellow and has received the organization’s 2004 Benjamin Garver Lamme Award.
Tony England, professor, EECS, AOSS, has accepted an appointment as associate dean for academic affairs. He has also received the 2004 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Judith A. Resnik Award.
Brent Gillespie, assistant professor, ME, participated in the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering program.
Steven Wright, professor, CEE, has received a University Undergraduate Teaching Award.
J. Wayne Jones, professor, MSE, has been awarded an Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship.

Dawn Tilbury, associate professor, ME, has received a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the University of California-Berkeley.
Jeffrey Liker, professor, IOE, has received the Research Award from the International Association for the Management of Technology.
Antoine Naaman, professor, CEE, has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American University in Beirut.
David Dowling, associate professor, ME, has been elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Elliot Soloway, professor, EECS, has received the Excellence in Innovation Award from the University of Michigan Tech Transfer Office.
Jyoti Mazumder, Robert H. Lurie Professor of Engineering, ME, MSE, received the 22nd Arthur L. Schawlow Award from the Laser Institute of America.
H.V. Jagadish, professor, EECS, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Scott Fogler, Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering, delivered the 2004 Krug Lecture at the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He was the first chemical engineer to receive this lectureship since its inception in 1974.
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Panos Papalambros, Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering, ME, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Johannes Schwank, professor, ChE, testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality to help the subcommittee address the administration’s hydrogen fuel-cell proposals.
Deba Dutta, professor, ME, has been selected by the National Science Foundation to serve as Program Director for the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program, which operates within the Division of Graduate Education. Dutta also received the Design Automation Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Sridhar Kota, professor, ME, has received the 2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Machine Design Award.
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Lorelle Meadows, assistant research scientist, NAME, has received the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Faculty Recognition Award.
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Stephen Bougher, research professor, AOSS, has received the U-M Research Faculty Achievement Award.
Peretz Friedmann, Fran'8dois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Aerospace Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Helicopter Society. Friedmann has also received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boeing Structures and Materials Award and Spirit of St. Louis Medal.
Tassos Perakis, associate professor, NAME, has been named a Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
Albert Yee, professor, MSE, ChE, has been named Highly Cited Researcher by ISIHighlyCited.com.
Victor Li, professor, CEE, MSE, has received this year’s Stephen S. Attwood Award and an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Denmark.
Jerry Keeler, professor, AOSS, CEE, was selected by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to be a member of the Michigan Environmental Science Board to advise the Governor’s office on matters dealing with Michigan’s environment.
Jan Shi, professor, IOE, ME, has received the 2003 Excellence in Service Award from IIE Transactions.
Theodore Norris, professor, EECS, has received a U-M Faculty Recognition Award.
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Mark Brehob, lecturer, EECS, has been selected to receive the 2004-2005 College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award for non-tenure-track faculty.
Ron Gibala, L. H. and F. E. Van Vlack Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering, has been named a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
Galip Ulsoy, William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing, ME, has received the 2004 Dynamic Systems and Control Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Guy Meadows, professor, NAME, AOSS, has been selected Distinguished Alumnus of 2005 for Purdue’s School of Science.
David Blaauw, associate professor, EECS, has received the U-M 2005 Henry Russel Award for junior faculty.
Susan Montgomery, lecturer, ChE, has received the American Society of Engineering Education’s Spread the Word/Campus Representative Zone Award.
Subhash Goel, professor, CEE, has received the 2004 Shortridge Hardesty Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Thomas Armstrong and Werner Dahm have each received this year’s CoE Research Excellence Award. Armstrong and Dahm are professors, IOE and AERO, respectively.
Mingyan Liu, assistant professor, EECS, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Igor Markov, assistant professor, EECS, has received the 2004 SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award.
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Jing Sun, Ed Durfee, Dan Koditschek, and Jessy Grizzle have been honored. Sun, associate professor, NAME, Durfee, professor, EECS, and Koditschek, adjunct professor, EECS, have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Sun and Grizzle, professor, EECS, have received the 2003 Control Systems Technology Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society. Grizzle has also received a College of Engineering Research Excellence Award for 2004-05.
Bill Schultz, professor, ME, NAME, has received the Ginsburg Outstanding Faculty
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Jun Ni, professor, ME, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Joerg Lahann, assistant professor, ChE, MSE, BME, received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and was named by Technology Review one of the top 100 innovators under the age of 35.
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