Faculty Updates
Galip Ulsoy, William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing, ME, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest honors an engineer can receive in this country. The NAE cited Ulsoy's "research on the dynamics and control of axially moving elastic materials and their implementation in automotive and manufacturing systems." Over the course of his nearly 30-year U-M career, Ulsoy has been the deputy director of the NSF ERC for Reconfigurable Manufacturing, founding director of the Program in Manufacturing, president of the American Automatic Control Council and director of the Civil and Mechanical Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. He joined the College of Engineering in 1980 and chaired Mechanical Engineering from 1998 to 2001. He has published more than 200 papers and has advised more than 35 doctoral students.
Chaffin Named a FellowDon Chaffin, Richard G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering, IOE, BME, has been named a Society of Automotive Engineers fellow.
Searches are in progress for candidates to fill vacant chairs in two departments. Meanwhile, outstanding interim replacements are serving the College well.
Douglas Noll, professor, BME, is interim chair in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Noll, also co-director of the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility, and professor of radiology at the U-M Medical School, joined 
the CoE faculty in 1998 and is a recognized expert in magnetic resonance imaging, image reconstruction and processing, and their applications to many facets of medicine.
Brian Gilchrist, professor, EECS, AOSS, is interim chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. Gilchrist joined the College in 1991. His expertise includes plasma electrodynamics and diagnostics, and radiowave propagation in the ionosphere.
Anthony Waas, professor and associate chair, Aero, has received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sustained Service Award.
Igor Markov, associate professor, EECS, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Dennis Bernstein, professor, AERO, was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Glasgow, U.K.
Kenneth Hansen, assistant research scientist, Space Physics Research Laboratory, AOSS, was selected for NASA's first class of Early Career Fellows in Planetary Science.
Kamal Sarabandi, professor, EECS, has received the 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's Distinguished Achievement Award.
Joseph L. Bull, assistant professor, BME, has been included in the recently published history of the Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program. Bull was a PBF fellow from July 2001 to June 2004.
Hong Im, associate professor, ME, has received the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International's Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.
Ronald Gilgenbach, professor, NERS, has received the Outstanding Professional Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Michael Combi, research professor, AOSS, distinguished research scientist, Space Physics Research Lab, research professor, AOSS, became a wandering rock in the universe in July 2005, 
when asteroid 17060 was renamed in his honor: minor planet Mikecombi.
Greg Wakefield, associate professor, EECS, has many interests, including otorhinolaryngology and music, both of which are related to his status as an accomplished tenor with an impressive list of operatic performances to his credit.
Christopher Ruf, professor, AOSS, EECS, has been appointed the new director of the Space Physics Research Laboratory (SPRL).
Kang Shin, Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science, EECS, has received the 2006 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering.
Richard Laine, professor, MSE, has been appointed director of Macromolecular Science and Engineering.
Stephen R. Forrest, William Gould Dow Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and U-M vice president for research, has been named a co-recipient of the 2007 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Daniel E. Noble Award.
New Faculty Faces
New faculty with diverse backgrounds, experience and expertise continue to enrich Michigan Engineering.
Anouck Girard, assistant professor, Aerospace Engineering
Xianglei Huang, assistant professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Christiane Jablonowski, assistant professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Michael Liemohn, associate professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Aaron Ridley, associate professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Allison Steiner, assistant professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
Xiaoxia Linn, assistant professor, Chemical Engineering
Omolola Adefeso, assistant professor, Chemical Engineering
Mohamed El-Sayed, assistant professor*, Biomedical Engineering
Anthony Grbic assistant professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Domitilla Del Vecchio, assistant professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Pei-Cheng Ku, assistant professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Andrew Ladd, assistant professor (CSE), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seth Pettie, assistant professor (CSE), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Clayton Scott, assistant professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nikolas Chronis, assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering
Angela Violi, assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ryan Eustice, assistant professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
John Foster, associate professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Mark Hammig, assistant research scientist, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Louis F. Kazda, Professor, 1916 - 2006
Louis F. Kazda, an EECS faculty member from 1947 - 1984, passed away peacefully at his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on January 15, 2006. During his CoE career he received numerous awards for excellence and teaching, and served as director of the Power Systems and Energy Conversion Laboratory. He was a fellow of the IEEE and very active in the society.
William W. Willmarth (1924- 2005)
Bill Willmarth, professor emeritus, AERO, retired from the College of Engineering in May 1990. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society, and received the Society's 1989 Fluid Dynamics Prize. He helped redesign the hull of the Trident submarine for the U.S. Navy and applied aerodynamic principles to a golf ball design for Spaulding. He served as a single-engine flight instructor and a B-29 flight engineer in WWII and received the American Theater Ribbon and the Victory Medal.
