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Headlines
Professor
Reifsnider
and his
research
group (Professors
Chen and Xue)
were funded
for a DOE
EFRC (http://www.er.doe.gov/bes/EFRC.html).
This award
of $12.5M
is the
largest
competitive
research
grant in the
history of
the
University.
Professor
Frank Chen
and his
group
were awarded
$ 497,500
DoE funding
for a
proposal
entitled “Tritium
Sequestration
in Gen IV
NGNP Gas
Stream via
Proton
Conducting
Ceramic
Pumps”.
Congratulations
to
Jennifer
Snipes
(advisor:
Dr. Baxter),
Jason Ouzts(advisor:
Dr. Sutton)
and
Clinton
Canaday (advisor:
Dr.
Reynolds) for
receiving
NASA SC
Space grant
graduate
fellowships.
Prof.
Michael A.
Sutton
and
co-authors
had a book
published
“Image
Correlation,
for Shape,
Motion and
Deformation
Measurements”,
Springer
2009.
Congratulations
to Latoya Dixon
and Rebecca
Bandy,
as both ME
Students have
been offered
fellowships from
a joint program
at Virginia Tech
and the
Technical
University at
Darmstadt
(Germany) for
the summer. Both
projects are in
automotive
technology
Chris Xiaodong
Li
has
been elected to
the Editorial
Board of the
newly launched
journal:
“International
Journal of
Applied
Mechanics (IJAM)."
Jason Burnside,
a senior ME
student who is
working under
Dr. Arash Kheradvar’s
supervision has
received the
highly
prestigious
LWW
Young Innovator
Fellowship from
American Society
of Artificial
Internal Organs
for his
abstract:
“Progress on
Design and
Development of a
Bi-leaflet
Mitral
Bioprosthetic
Valve”. The
participants of
this competition
are from all
over the world.
Jason is
supposed to give
a talk on the
topic on May 30
in Dallas, TX.
Jason’s
involvement in
this project is
supported by the
Office of
Undergraduate
Research through
the Magellan
scholarship.
Professors
Chris Li
and
Mike Sutton,
with
co-authors, have
been awarded the
2008
Professional
Engineering
Publisher’s PE
Prize for the
most significant
research article,
titled
"Drift
and spatial
distortion
elimination in
atomic force
microscopy
images by the
digital image
correlation
technique."
Congratulations
to
Dr. Abdel
Bayoumi
on being awarded
$500,000 by the
SC National
Guard/DOD for
his project
entitled, "U.S.
Army Conditioned
Based
Maintenance
Program:
AIrcraft
Components
Testing."
Congrats to
Dr. Abdel
Bayoumi
on being awarded
$868,404 by the
SC National
Guard / DOD for
his project
entitled,
"Comprehensive
Rotary-Wing
Aircraft
Research Plan in
Support of the
U.S. Army
Conditioned
Based
Maintenance
Program"
Awards and Recognition
Congratulations
to
Tyler Ray
(advisor: Dr;
Baxter)
for
receiving an
Honorable
Mention in
the NSF
Graduate
Fellowship
program.
Prof. Chris Li
was promoted to
the Rank of Full
Professor.
Prof.
Anthony
Reynolds
was awarded
2009 CEC
Research
Achievement
Award,
college’s
highest
recognition
for research
performance.
Professor
Jed Lyons
has been chosen
to be a Fellow
Member of The
American Society
for Engineering
Education (ASEE)
in recognition
of his
outstanding
contributions to
the Society.
The 2009
induction of
ASEE Fellows
will take place
at the Annual
Awards Banquet
on Wednesday
evening, June
17, 2009 in
Austin, Texas.
Dr. Michael
Sutton
received the
2008 C.E. Taylor
Award fror
Outstanding
Leadership in
Research and
Service from the
Society of
Experimental
Mechanics.
Dr. Jamil
Khan
has been elected
to the ASME
grade of Fellow.
He now has the
distinction of
being one of
about 2,834
Fellows out of
more than
100,000 ASME
members. With
the admiration
and respect of
all ASME
Fellows, his
election
recognizes his
lifetime
engineering
achievments.
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Calendar
Seminar
Dr. Jack S.
Brenizer, Jr.
Neutron Imaging at
Penn State: Water
and Ice
Quantification
1:30 pm
Faculty Lounge 1A03
Swearingen
Thesis Defense
-
June 30, 2009
Leo Alvis
Carrilho:
Heat Transfer
Enhancement in
Nuclear Fuel Rod
Bundles
2:30 pm
ME Conference Room
- A228
300 Main Street
Past Seminars
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