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Mihir Pathak (Ph.D. ME '13, MSME '10, BSME '08), has been selected as a Fellow for the extremely competitive and prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF).

Ten university projects, including one lead by Dr. Rick Neu from the Georgia Institute of Technology, to conduct advanced turbine technology research under the Office of Fossil Energy’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for additional development.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburg, Sandia National Laboratories, and Zhejiang University (China) have discovered a new type of atomic-scale defect, called stacking fault tetrahedra, that can critically affect the deformation and fracture of pressure vessels in nuclear reactors and interconnects in smart phones.

Joseph L. Smith, Jr. (BME '52 and MSME '53) passed away peacefully on May 7, 2013 in Wayland.

The IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (IEEE-UFFC) announced Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb as the winner of the 2013 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award.

Wayne Whiteman will teach two Coursera MOOC courses this Fall - Intro to Engeineering Mechanics and Applications in Engineering Mechanics.

Thomas Hagler, Jr. (BME '52) entered into eternal rest June 25, 2013 in Augusta, GA.

John B. Boy (BME '38) passed away peacefully July 16, 2013 in Lehigh Acres.

Executive Director David McDowell answers questions about the newly launched Georgia Tech Institute for Materials (IMat).

Susan N. Thomas, PhD, has been named the 2013 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). This award is in recognition of high level of originality and ingenuity in a scientific work in biomedical engineering to a faculty member within the first five years of their career.

Dr. Pui-Kuen Yeung has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Dr. Jun Ueda received an National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from the Dynamical Systems (DS) program in the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) for his research on nonuniformly quanitcized actuation in biological motion generation.

The Energy Department awarded nearly $5 million to undergraduate and graduate students across the country pursuing nuclear engineering and science degrees, four of these students are at Georgia Tech.

Drs. Satish Kumar and Abhijit Chatterjee were awarded $450,000 from NSF for energy efficient self-healing design of carbon nanotube thin film transistors.

A paper whose authors include by Bhaskar Pant, Sukwon Choi, Eva Baumert, Brian Allen, Samuel Graham, Ken Gall, and Olivier Pierron, entitled, “MEMS-Based Nanomechanics: Influence of MEMS Design on Test Temperature,” published in Experimental Mechanics, 52(6), 607-618, 2012, has been selected to receive the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)2014 Hetenyi award as the best research paper published in Experimental Mechanics in 2012.

Samuel C. Barnett, PhDME '62 and Professor Emeritus, died on June 19, 2013.

Dr. Al Ferri and others study the engagement of students participating in MOOCs.

Wayne Book, Professor Emeritus of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2013 Robert E. Koski Medal.

Participating in the Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows program will provide Dr. Thomas with the foundation for a lifetime of professional growth in teaching.

Dr. Ting Zhu has been selected to receive the 2013 Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Dr. Wayne Whiteman recently offered an online course entitled “Introduction to Engineering Mechanics.” Plans are also being made for a follow-on course entitled “Applications in Engineering Mechanics.”

Dr. Wayne Whiteman tackles a difficult job with vigor and engages each student with the care and concern of a loyal friend.

Team South, a group undergraduate students from the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering comprised of Daniel Domanico, Clay Williams, and Patrick Wallin, is a U.S. finalist in a global competition run by BP.

FloMera won second place in the 2013 Ideas to SERVE (I2S) Competition at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business for an in-home breast cancer test that requires only a single drop of blood.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) will sponsor Nathan Sacks to be among the WISE interns this summer.

Bob Guldberg and Craig Forest were invited by the White House to hear President Obama’s announcement of a commitment to fund research to map the activity of the human brain.

George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Professor and IBB Executive Director, Bob Guldberg, answers questions about the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.

Georgia Tech adds robotics research component to Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering program.

Dr. Calvin Mackie (BME ’90, MSME ’92, PhDME ’96) recently received three highly-acclaimed awards from three top education, leadership, and community service organizations.

The Georgia Institute of Technology will host the Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center March 19-22, 2013.

ARES Security Corporation, an enterprise security risk management solutions company, has named Ben Eazzetta (BSNE '96, MSME '97) as its President.

The NRC has selected Charles Peabody, BSNRE '04, as the senior resident inspector at the Wolf Creek nuclear plant in Burlington, Kansas.

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering graduate program has earned its highest mark in ten years from U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings.

The Woodruff School is sad to report the passing of Leland Cantelbary on March 1.

The Faculty Honors Committee of the Faculty Senate has selected Craig Forest as the winner of two Faculty Honors awards this year.

Recently, the 2013 Sigma Xi Spring Awards Banquet was held, honoring the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Research Award winners.

Georgia Tech and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering have been awarded $2.3 million from the Department of Defense.

Mark Horstemeyer, PhD ME '95, will be recognized as a Fellow of AAAS and SAE International.

Congratulations to Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, PhD ME '13, for being named in Forbes.com 30 Under 30 list - the Rising Stars Transforming Science and Health.

The Woodruff School's Andrés Garcia has been named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.

Suman Das has been named to the Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering with GE and Ford Motor Co. to study ways to add greater efficiencies to electric driving and charging performance.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) has selected Nico Declercq, Associate Professor of Acoustics and Dynamics in Georgia Tech’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, as one of twenty-five ambassadors of the PromoDoc initiative.

Congratulations to Dr. William Wepfer, chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, for being selected to receive the prestigious 2012 Fellow of ABET Award.

2012 Georgia Manufacturing Survey shows more firms benefiting from in-sourcing than losing from outsourcing

The National Science Foundation (NSF), in support of the multi-agency, federal Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), has granted the first awards for the Desinging Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. The NSF invested over $12M in 22 grants in support of 14 distinct DMREF projects intended to yield a range of new developments, including Dr.

García honored in two ways by the biomaterials community.

Georgia Tech formulates a plan for the complete college initiative.

The College of Engineering spotlights the longest-serving staff member, Norma Frank.

SAE International presented Caroline Genzale with the John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines.

Dr. Bill Harrison III, founding Director of Nuclear Engineering, died peacefully on Wednesday, July 25, 2012.

The Office of the Provost has named Georgia Tech-Lorraine President Yves Berthelot as vice provost for International Initiatives and Steven A. Denning Chair in Global Engagement.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program in Stem Cell Biomanufacturing announced its third class of Ph.D. student trainees.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has named Dr. Cynthia G. Jones to a term as the agency’s new Nuclear Safety Attaché at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria.

Sabrina Singh, BSME, trains astronauts on how to wear and maintain their spacesuits during spacewalks.

Kevin King, ME senior and tennis player, has been named Scholar Athlete of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 2011-12 academic year.

The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (Petit Institute) awarded $50,000 to three interdisciplinary teams under its Petit Bioengineering and Bioscience Collaborative Seed Grant program, which was created to support early-stage innovative biotechnology research.

Starting fall 2012, Georgia Tech Professional Education courses will be offered at the Savannah campus in the areas of Lean Healthcare, Lean & Process Improvement, Occupational Safety & Health, Project Management, and Supply Chain & Logistics Management.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that the Georgia Institute of Technology will be a founding network node for its Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which aims to develop scientific and engineering discoveries into useful technologies, products and processes.

If mechanical engineer David Hu ruled the world, it would be crawling with robots based on mosquitoes, snakes, and Mexican jumping beans.

The Atlanta Business Chronicle profiles Douglas Hooker as one of Atlanta's 100 most influential people.

Meet Robert Parrish (BSME '10), 23, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

The Georgia Institute of Technology announces a unique Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development (BioID) Degree.

Stan Connally, alumnus and Woodruff School Executive Advisory Board member, will be Gulf Power's 16th president, succeeding Mark Crosswhite who has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southern Company, Gulf Power’s parent firm.

A project to develop a hydraulic hybrid retrofit of a school bus, led by Dr. Michael Leamy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his team of undergraduate and graduate engineering students, is yielding impressive results.

The DOE has announced the winners of the SunShot Concentrator Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development Awards for 2012.

Congratulations to Dr. David Rosen for receiving the Excellence in Research Award.

Andrés García, PhD, was awarded the Clemson Award for Basic Research at the 2012 World Biomaterials Congress this week in Chengdu, China.

Trotter Hunt (BSME '99) was recently named to the Emerging Leaders Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Richard W. Neu, Ph.D., has received the ASTM International Award of Merit from Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture.

Following 37 years of service to Georgia Tech as a professor, researcher, administrator and advocate, Ray Vito has announced his intention to retire at the end of May.

School Chairs Ronald Rousseau and William Wepfer received 2012 Georgia Tech College of Engineering ADVANCE Leadership Awards in recognition of their commitment to the values of equity, diversity, excellence, and advancement of faculty.

Congratulations to the 2011-2012 GT Motorsports team on taking 22nd at Formula SAE Michigan this year!

Georgia Tech has been awarded $3.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for research and scholarships focused on nuclear energy. The Obama Administration handed out a total of $47 million to 46 schools across the country on May 8.

Jonathan Colton, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project focused on designing a net-zero energy warehousing and distribution system for vaccines and drugs in developing countries.

Tech students are undoubtedly considered some of the brightest minds in the world, proving to be true at the semester capstone expo this spring. Spectators witnessed a variety of projects, including silverware wrapping machines, automated beverage mixers, and socially responsible projects such as rice transporters and hydroponic systems for developing nations.

Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) Top 25 Newsmaker is a well-known and sought after title within the engineering and construction industry. Georgia Tech Alumnus, Brent Darnell, was named among the Top 25 Newsmakers of 2011 for his Emotional Intelligence training approach to business success through client consulting, university teachings and his growing list of publications, including the best-selling People-Profit Connection.

Lei Zhu, assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and Bo Huang, assistant professor in UCSF’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have developed an advanced approach using super-resolution microscopy to resolve cellular features an order of magnitude smaller than what could be seen before.

The winning major of the inaugural competition during National Engineers Week, organized by the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, was the nuclear and radiological engineering program from the George W. Woodruff School.

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Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named Dean’s Professor of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech in recognition of his unique research and teaching contributions in advancing thermal science principles to reality through micro- and Megawatt- scale sustainable thermal energy systems for carbon-neutral residential, commercial and industrial energy utilization.

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Alumnus Constantinos Balaras, MSME '85 and Ph.D. '88, Elevated to ASHRAE Fellow

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Dr. Srinivas Garimella, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named Dean’s Professor of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech in recognition of his unique research and teaching contributions in advancing thermal science principles to reality through micro- and Megawatt- scale sustainable thermal energy systems for carbon-neutral residential, commercial and industrial energy utilization.

At its November 2011 meeting, the IEEE Board of Directors elevated Professor Yogendra Joshi to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2012, with the following citation: for contributions to microfabricated cooling devices.