Newsletter Archives; Winter 2001
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Associate Professor Martin C. Berg received a grant from The Boeing Company to study Robot End-Effector Control Strategies for Manufacturing.Professor Emeritus Richard C. Corlett was named Academic Engineer of the Year by the Puget Sound Engineering Council.
The Office of Naval Research has appointed Research Associate Prof. Peter H. Dahl Chief Scientist for the Asian Seas Intl. Acoustics Experiment to be conducted in the East China Sea in May 2001. He has also been appointed Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
Research Assistant Professor William M. Dougherty received an award from the Office of Naval Research and the State University of New York for a study of Theory-based Development of High Performance Magnetostrictive Particulate Actuated Polymer Composite Transducer Materials with Strongly Improved Cyclic Strain /endurance
Professor Ashley F. Emery received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress last November in Orlando, Florida. The award consists of a plaque, a certificate and an honorarium. Professor Emery was cited “for more than four decades of pioneering contributions to heat transfer, particularly for demonstrating how important heat transfer fundamentals are to a diverse spectrum of research and engineering ranging from architecture, aerospace, and thermal stresses to biomedical procedures.
Associate Professor Brian C. Fabien received a grant from The Boeing Company to study Optimizing Processing Parameters for One Step Core Forming.
Associate Professor Fred Forster received a grant from Motorola to continue work in microfluidics. In November he also presented a plenary talk entitled "Microfluidics - What Is Left To Do?" at the ASME meeting in Orlando, FL. The talk was sponsored by the Fluids Engr. Division.
Mark A. Ganter was promoted to full Professor on September 16, 2000.
On November 8, Professor Barry I. Hyman was awarded the prestigious Ralph Coats Roe Medal by the ASME at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Orlando, FL. This medal is awarded for significant contributions to better understanding and appreciation of the engineer's worth to contemporary society. Professor Hyman was cited "for creating effective communication between the engineering profession, the public and government, and establishing Washington Internships for Students in Engineering program, allowing students to understand and participate in the public policy process." The award consists of a gold medal, certificate and an honorarium.
The Department of Energy and UT-Battelle awarded Associate Professor Michael G. Jenkins a grant to study Thermo Mechanical Test Methods for Continuous Fiber Ceramic Composites. Along with co-authors J. Salem and J. Manderscheid, he was awarded Technical Presentation First Prize at the 24th Annual Conference on Composites, Advanced Mechanics, Materials and Structures for the paper "Multiaxial Testing of Brittle Single Crystal." He has also assumed the chair of ASTM Committee C23 on Advanced Ceramics and was appointed U.S. representative to ISO TC206 on fine ceramics as chair of the technical advisory group.
Professor John C. Kramlich was named Mechanical Engineering Teacher of the Year by members of graduating class of 2000.
Professor Philip C. Malte received the following: a grant from the Department of Energy to study Control of Emissions from Wood Dust Burners and Wood Dryers; a grant from Advanced Gas Turbines Systems Research branch of the US Department of Energy to study Staged Prevaporizing-Premixing Injectors at High Pressure; from the US Department of the Interior to explore Fuel Cell Propulsion for the Crater Lake Tour Boats; and a Washington Technology Center grant to study Atomization and Mixing of Diesel Fuel into a Steam Reforming Reactor for Fuel Cells. Professor Malte was appointed Associate Technical Editor for the ASME Transactions Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power.
Assistant Professor Ann M. Mescher received grants from the Washington Technology Center and Aculight to investigate a Micro-Fabricated Heat Exchanger for a High Power Diode Laser.
Professor Mamidala Ramulu was named Director of the Boeing Manufacturing Engineering Program, a UW distance learning program through which Boeing engineers can earn a Masters degree concurrently with full time work.
MathSoft, Inc. awarded a grant to Associate Professor Per G. Reinhall to study Wavelet Based Methods and Software for Analysis of Multi-Scale Fractal Processes.
Professors James J. Riley, George Kosaly, and John C. Kramlich have been given a grant by the NASA Microgravity Program to numerically simulate combustion experiments planned to be conducted on the International Space Station. The idea is to determine how combustion might evolve differently in an almost gravity-free environment. Professor Riley also has a grant from the Office of Naval Research to study the characteristics of turbulence in the oceans and atmosphere. This work can help predict how pollutants spread in these environments.
Associate Professor Steve Shen received a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate Passive Isolation and Angular Excitations of rotating disk/Spindle Systems and a gift from Western Digital Corporation to study vibration of high-track-density disk drives.
Professor Minoru Taya has received eight grants including: Office of Naval Research for the Development of Compact Hybrid Actuators Based on Ferromagnetic Polyerystal Fe-Pd Material; from RIMCOF/Japan for the Development of New Actuator Materials and Elements; from Boeing for designing antenna switch boards based on electro-active polymers; and from Honda on design of a robust collision actuator. He has also been appointed Assoc. Editor of Journal of Mechanics and of Materials, Editorial Board member of JSME Intl., Japan Society for Composite Materials and Journal of Composite Materials.
