Faculty Updates
Peter Green, chair and professor, MSE, was named the 2006 president of the Materials Research Society (MRS). Tresa Pollock, L. H. and F. E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was named the 2006 president of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). This is only the second time that both societies' presidents were from the same university. The first time was in 1999 when Ronald Gibala, L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor Emeritus, MSE, was MRS president, and Wayne Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, MSE, was TMS President.
Of the 26 proposals submitted to participate in the Mars Exploration Program, slated to head toward Mars in 2011, two proposals involving AOSS faculty and staff made a soft landing on NASA's short list. If selected, the proposal "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution" (MAVEN) would put associate professors Thomas Zurbuchen, AOSS and AERO, and Michael Liemohn, AOSS, to work, the former building the Pickup Ion Composition Spectrometer, and the latter providing science support. MAVEN would measure components of the Martian atmosphere. If NASA selects the competing proposal, "The Great Escape (TGE)," AOSS Research Professor Stephen Bougher would be the mission's chief scientist, AOSS and EECS Professor Andrew Nagy would provide science support, and EECS interim chair and EECS and AOSS Professor Brian Gilchrist, would build an instrument to find out how the atmosphere of Mars might have escaped, turning the red planet into a frozen wasteland.
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Ricky Rood, professor, AOSS, spends his time days immersed in atmospheric science, and his free time conquering the blank page that drives so many creative writers crazy. Rood is an author of non-scientific work, much of which is available online. Give it a whirl - you'll see that Rood is proof of the fact that engineers are multi-dimensional folks. Their interests range far and wide. Their accomplishments prove it. Here's a sampling of his work.
- My Father's Tomatoes Bay Weekly 2006
- John McLean Current Magazine 2006
- Christmas at the 7-Eleven Bay Weekly 2005
- The Keeper Foreign Service Journal 2004
- Seamless Night Music 2006
Jack Hu, professor, ME, director, Michigan Interdisciplinary and Professional Engineering, has been named associate dean for research.
The College of Engineering has more than 300 faculty, all of them of a quality that reflects - and is integral to - the superior standing of Michigan Engineering as one of the top engineering institutions in the world. They work in 11 academic departments. Many of them serve as consultants to private industry and government. They're frequently sought by media for their subject-matter expertise. But with increasing numbers of interdisciplinary projects, it was becoming more difficult to locate individuals and information about them. So the College undertook the massive task of compiling a faculty directory that web visitors could search by name, research interest or affiliation to departments and research centers. The result was the Michigan Engineering Faculty Directory.
http://www.engin.umich.edu/faculty Take a look. It's the result of hundreds of hours of labor and, we think, an invaluable resource, on and off campus.
Yoram Koren, Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering, director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, ME, has received the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Levi Thompson, Richard E. Balzhiser Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, director,
Hydrogen Energy Technology Laboratory, has received the 36th Annual Engineers Week Gold Award from the Engineering Society of Detroit.
Jerry Lynch, assistant professor, CEE, EECS, has received a 2007 Henry Russel Award. Lynch and students Yang Wang and Andrew Swartz received the 2006 Nondestructive Evaluation Best Student Paper Award at the International Society for Optical Engineering Smart Structures and Materials Conference held in San Diego. The title of the paper was "Wireless Feedback Structural Control with Embedded Computing."
Kensall Wise, J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology, William Gould Dow Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the 2007 Henry Russel Lecturer, the highest honor that the University bestows on a senior member of its faculty.
Phil Savage, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, ChE, has been named associate editor for the AIChE Journal and has received a Green Chemistry Grant by Pfizer, Inc.
John Laird, professor, EECS, was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for "contributions to the development and application of cognitive architectures."
Judy Jin, associate
professor, IOE, has received a 2006 Best
Paper Award for "Online Automatic Process Control Using Observable Noise Factors for Discrete-part Manufacturing," published in IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability.
Jessy Grizzle, professor, EECS, has been named to the Scientific
American 50, for his work in robotics.
Fawwaz Ulaby, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering, EECS, has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his outstanding contributions to microwave
remote sensing, electromagnetic scattering and for his leadership in engineering education.
Vineet Kamat, assistant professor, CEE, has received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Margaret Wooldridge, associate professor, ME, AERO, has received the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers J. Cordell Breed Award for Women Leaders.
Jwo Pan, professor, ME, has been named a
fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Sherif El-Tawil, associate professor, CEE, has received the 2006 American Society of Civil
Engineers Arthur M. Wellington Prize for his paper "Vehicle Collision with Bridge Piers," in the Journal of Bridge Engineering, May/June 2005.
Suljo Linic, assistant professor, ChE, has
received an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, "Hybrid theoretical/experimental studies of metal/metal oxide interface chemistry: the effect of oxide support on Au/oxide catalytic activity."
Peter Chen, professor, EECS, and James Holloway, professor, NERS, have been named Arthur F. Thurnau Professors for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education.
Jonathan Bulkley, Peter M. Wege Endowed Professor of Sustainable Systems, professor of Resources Policy, SNRE, professor, CEE, has received the 2006 Service-to-the-Profession Award from the Planning and Management Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Nguyen Xuan Vinh, professor emeritus, Aero, has received the 2006 Dirk Brouwer Award from the American Astronautical Society.
New Faculty Faces
New faculty with diverse backgrounds, experience and expertise continue to enrich Michigan Engineering.
Ella Atkins, associate professor, Aerospace Engineering
Andrew Ladd, assistant professor (CSE) , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kathy Sienko, assistant professor, Mechanical Engineering
Mohamed El-Sayed,
assistant professor, Biomedical Engineering
Karl Krushelnick, professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
