Newsletter Archives; Fall 1997

Dale Calkins received $250,000 from Ford Motor Co.'s "Ford Fund" to enhance the development of an educational/research program in Knowledge-Based Engineering in his CADTECH Research Lab; $30,000 from Ford China Ltd for a Distance Collaboration in KBE with Jilin University of Tehnology, Changchun, PRC; and has been named to receive the 1998 SAE Faculty Advisor Award.

Peter Dahl received from the Office of Naval Research $200,000 to model acoustic bistatic scattering from sea surface and near-surface bubbles and $160,000 to study bound-capillary waves using simultaneous acoustic and microwave scattering methods.

Brian Fabien received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research at the University of the West Indies for academic year 1997-98, and a UW Royalty Research Fund award to develop high energy density flywheels.

Fred Forster and Paul Yager (BioEng) received $1.3 million from the DARPA MicroFlumes program to develop miniature devices capable of detecting chemical and biological warfare agents.

Mark Ganter was elected to the Executive Committee of the ASME Design Automation Committee and will serve as Papers Chair for the 1998 Design Automation Conference in Atlanta.

Joseph Garbini and John Sidles (Orthopaedics) received $700,000 from NSF for research on magnetic force resonance microscopy.

Barry Hyman's textbook, Fundamentals of Engineering Design, an outgrowth of his teaching experiences, has been published by Prentice-Hall.

Michael Jenkins was promoted to Associate Professor. He received the ASTM Award of Merit and was named a Fellow of ASTM; received $100,000 for an ongoing Department of Energy project on test methods for continuous fibre ceramic composites; and $45,138 from DOE for a multi-laboratory round-robin test program to measure precision and bias in national standards.

Jens Jorgensen received $25,000 from Boeing for the Integrated Learning Factory, and with William Murray (ME) and Joseph Heim (IE), $72,825 from Hewlett-Packard for computing equipment for the ILF. This follows a $76,500 H-P grant in May 1996. Professor Jorgensen will be Co-PI with Joseph Heim (PI) on a $150,000 NSF grant on an electronic forum for design and manufacturing education.

George Kosály and James Riley were awarded $270,000 to evaluate and improve closure models for turbulent diffusion flames.

John Kramlich was promoted to Professor. He received $100,000 from the Office of Naval Research to perform numerical analysis for development of a shipboard waste afterburner system.

Vipin Kumar was elected Chair of the Polymer Committee of the ASME Materials Division.

Philip Malte and James Riley (ME), Scott Eberhardt and Uri Shumlak (A&A), Bruce Balick (Astronomy) and Dennis Lettenmaier (CE), received $270,000 from Intel Corp. These funds, part of a $1.5 million grant to the UW, will support the purchase of Intel computers for computationally demanding tasks in computational fluid dynamics.

Norman McCormick received $128,000 from the Office of Naval Research to perform inverse radiative transfer analysis for ocean optics.

Ann Mescher received $33,000 from the Royalty Research Fund to study a continuous manufacturing process for graded-index (high-bandwidth) polymer optical fiber; and $90,000 from the NSF Small Grants for Exploratory Research program to study fabrication of polymeric materials with specialized optical characteristics.

William Murray, Joseph Garbini and Jens Jorgensen received $128,233 from Rebound Sports Technology and Washington Technology Center to enhance SwingAway, a trainer for baseball hitting.

Mamidala Ramulu received, with Michael Jenkins, $101,368 from Washington Technology Center/Flow International to study water jet peening for fatigue enhancement. He delivered an honors lecture on net-shape machining at the University of Rhode Island in April.

Per Reinhall was appointed Finance Chair for the 50th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

James Riley served as 1996-97 Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, the principal organization in the US for teachers and researchers interested in fluid dynamics.

Steve Shen received $10,000 from the Alcoa Foundation for research on nontraditional vibration analysis of a rotating disk/spindle system.

Duane Storti and Mark Ganter received, with Co-PIs Tony Woo (IE) and George Turkiyyah (CE), $725,000 from NSF to perform research on design for solid freeform fabrication.

Minoru Taya has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics. He received, with Mani Soma and Yasuo Kuga (EE), and Thomas Stoebe (MSE), $523,000 from NSF for research and curriculum development on Electronic Packaging and Materials; $102,000 from AFOSR to study the characterization of functionally graded materials; and, with Kanryu Inoue (MSE), $507,000 from Boeing/ARPA to study the design of high performance shape memory alloys.

Mark Tuttle received, with Ann Mescher, $114,620 from the Office of Naval Research to study the residual stiffness and strength of polymeric structures following exposure to a fire; $40,573 from Boeing to study compressive failure mechanisms in polymeric composites; and with Zelda Zabinsky (IE), $291,264 from NSF to develop optimal design strategies applicable to composite structures.