Woodruff School 2015-2016 Annual Report

2015–2016 ANNUAL REPORT

Capstone Design is a culminating course offered to undergraduate students in many disciplines at Georgia Tech. Students work in teams to design, build, and test prototypes with real world applications. At the end of each semester, students showcase their efforts at the “Capstone Design Expo.”

Last year...

• Over 75% of Capstone Design projects were externally funded or sponsored.

• Sponsors attended both the pitch session and the expo to engage with students.

• DoE-sponsored Capstone Design projects received excellent performance ratings from DoE. • Eleven schools participated in the Capstone Design Expo (including several non-engineering schools such as Industrial Design, Architecture, and Public Policy).

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FROM THE SCHOOL CHAIR I am delighted to present this annual report summarizing the accomplishments of Woodruff School faculty, students, and staff during the 2015-16 academic year. The Woodruff School community continues to push, if not dissolve, the boundaries between disciplines. I am not sure what the right word is: multi-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, or post-disciplinary. What I do know is that we are blessed with adaptive and creative problem framers and solvers, who are truly dedicated to making the world a better place for each individual. This report highlights our accomplishments in areas such as energy, bioengineering, robotics, materials, manufacturing, and design.

Our undergraduate curriculum accentuates the fundamental engineering sciences as well as incorporating an intense “create-design-innovate-build” emphasis. In addition, with our curriculum’s fifteen hours of free electives, over 250 of our students are electing minors in fields such as industrial design, computer science, business, aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science, several modern languages, and public policy. The words of my predecessor, Ward Winer, ring ever more true: “Mechanical engineering is the modern day version of the traditional liberal arts degree.” Our graduates are truly poised with an overwhelming advantage as they enter the workforce.

None of this would be possible without your help, whether it be through volunteer activity, advocacy, or financial support. As the founding discipline at Georgia Tech, we take great pride in “Creating The Next.”

Best Regards, Bill Wepfer Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair of the Woodruff School and Professor

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ABOUT THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL

ABOUT THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL

The first degree offered at the Georgia School of Technology, as the Institute was called at its inception in 1888, was the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Today, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering offers: 2 bachelor of science programs • 4 master of science programs • 4 doctor of philosophy programs

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National ranking of ME undergraduate program, released Fall 2015

National ranking of ME graduate program, released Spring 2016

undergraduate students

446 women 304 international

National ranking of NRE graduate program, released Spring 2016

graduate students

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400 Ph.D.

142 distance learning 137 women 266 international

Degrees Awarded, 2015–2016

533 B.S. Degrees 3

235 M.S. Degrees

57 research faculty 8

academic professionals

21 senior faculty with endowed or distinguished chairs

3 faculty with new NSF Early CAREER Awards this year

69 Ph.D. Degrees

3 National Academy of Engineering members who hold emeritus or adjunct appointments

68 staff members

Finances FY16 EXPENDITURES

$39,458,992

Sponsored Research – $37,374,855 State – $29,564,481 GT Foundation – $5,207,937 GTRC – $742,515 Other – $76,293

FY16 NEW SPONSORED RESEARCH AWARDS

831

431 MS

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36 adjunct appointments

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Enrollment, Fall 2015

2,279

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full-time, tenure-track faculty

Rankings, U.S. News & World Report

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Faculty

$72,966,081 FY16 TOTAL EXPENDITURES

Research Areas

Acoustics/Dynamics • Automation/Mechatronics • Bioengineering • CAE and Design • Fluid Mechanics Heat Transfer, Combustion & Energy Systems • Manufacturing • Mechanics of Materials • Medical Physics Micro & Nano Engineering • Nuclear & Radiological Engineering • Tribology 4

The Montgomery Machining Mall When people enter the second floor entrance of the Manufacturing Related Disciplines Complex, they see the heart of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and its latest pride and joy — the newly opened Montgomery Machining Mall.

Considered the largest machining facility on campus, the Montgomery Machining Mall has been in full operation, cranking out parts for Capstone senior design projects, faculty research, and everything in between, since its official opening on March 30, 2016.

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he creation of the Montgomery Machining Mall is the largest renovation project the MRDC building has undergone since its opening in 1995.

The Montgomery Machining Mall is a first big step that the Woodruff School has taken to tackle its biggest current issue — the absence of much needed space.

It seems only fitting that the largest mechanical engineering program in the U.S. would have one of the best machine shops around. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case until Larry Montgomery III visited the Woodruff School last fall.

Mr. Montgomery graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1978. He continued on to Emory University earning an MBA in 1981 and began a long and highly impressive career at Kimberly-Clark Corporation that same year.

Looking back, Mr. Montgomery recalled wanting to go to Georgia Tech to acquire a hands-on engineering education. He earned his ME degree with much hard work and dedication, but admits that he was surprised and disappointed as an incoming freshman when he saw the campus machine shop for the first time.

“I searched for a machine shop and finally found one on the first floor of the Coon Building. The machines appeared to be government surplus. I was sure they were state of the art when they were surplused after the war — that would be the First World War. In the five years it took me to earn my four-year degree, I never saw anyone use that shop,” said Mr. Montgomery.

In the fall of 2015, nearly 40 years after he graduated from Tech, Mr. Montgomery found himself touring the Woodruff School facilities with school chair Dr. Bill Wepfer. He was delighted to discover that the Woodruff School

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Left: Larry Montgomery III and his wife, Mary.

had re-designed its undergraduate curriculum, which now allows for a more hands-on education. Today, both ME graduate and undergraduate students are able to use machine tools for projects. During any given semester, the Woodruff School’s machine shop is busy with students manufacturing parts — often for senior Capstone Design projects.

Although the Woodruff School’s machine shop was bustling with students and a highly talented staff, improvements were still needed. The tools no longer were out of date this time (the surplus WWI equipment has long been gone); instead, more space was needed. The shop was bursting at its seams. Some of the equipment had to be placed in labs further down the hall. Naturally, this was a safety concern because the shop staff could not monitor the entire facility at one time. In addition, the shop needed to be a more inviting, up-to-date facility to which students would be more easily drawn.

After his visit, Mr. Montgomery offered that his Montgomery Family Foundation could financially assist the Woodruff School in its need for an improved machining facility. The Woodruff School administration teamed with Georgia Tech’s architect Bill Oswell and developed a plan to repurpose an existing hallway and adjoining rooms to create one large, open machining facility.

corridor space was integrated into the overall design, and a 6,717 square foot workspace began to take form. A heavy-duty non-skid floor was poured and new LED lighting was installed. With a great Georgia Tech-themed paint scheme, the renovated facility now has the look and feel of a NASCAR shop. The equipment such as lathes, drill presses, CNC milling machines, etc. were then moved back in, however, this time the blessing of space allowed for the tools to be strategically placed in a manner for most efficient workflow.

The Woodruff School has named this state-of-the-art facility the Montgomery Machining Mall in honor of the Montgomery family who made this project possible. Students now have a greater opportunity than ever before to get hands-on experience with these machines and build their designs.

This supports the Woodruff School’s mission to develop wellbalanced engineers who have technical know-how but who can build things too.

Whether for a course project, to support their involvement in competition teams, or even just to have fun, students use these machine tools to stretch their creativity and to better appreciate the manufacturing processes. These skills are critical for modern product design and innovation. Mr. Montgomery’s generosity and vision have simply allowed the Woodruff School to take the experience it gives to its students to the next level.

Construction began before the conclusion of the 2015 fall semester. Many interior walls were knocked out, the large

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RESEARCH NEWS

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Targeting the Bullseye

Transformative States

Susan Thomas is at the forefront of research into the targeted delivery of drugs to battle cancer. Thomas and her lab team have designed lymphatic-seeking nanoparticles to promote anti-tumor immunity and hinder tumor growth, a strategy supported by a three-year grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Thomas describes the research as a basic analysis of how tumor lymphatic drainage affects the lymph nodes. A better understanding of the biophysical changes associated with tumor lymphatic drainage will inform future studies and, ultimately, lead to better ways to diagnose and treat cancer patients.

Jerry Qi, alongside researchers from Georgia Tech and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has demonstrated a four-dimensional printing technology, using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, that allows the creation of complex self-folding structures. Funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Singapore National Research Foundation through the SUTD DManD Centre, the technology could be used to create 3-D structures that sequentially fold themselves from flat or rolled components responding to stimuli such as temperature, moisture or light in a way that is precisely timed to create space structures, deployable medical devices, robots, toys and range of other structures.

YongTae Kim is working to give kids a powerful new vehicle for the successful drug treatment of Medullobastoma, a fast-growing, malignant brain tumor that attacks the cerebellum, and whose typical treatment can lead to neurocognitive deficits that diminish quality of life. With the support of an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health, Kim is developing nanocarriers, using microfluidic technology, that are capable of getting past the brain’s stubborn natural defense system to deliver potent therapeutic payloads to specific targets without the side effects.

“If we are successful with this idea,” says Kim, “it could have a huge impact in the field.”

All-silicon anodes could be commercially viable if battery charge levels are kept high enough to maintain the material in its ductile state. Shuman Xia and Ting Zhu are among researchers from Georgia Tech and three other research organizations studying the challenges of using silicon in next-generation batteries. By determining a range of operating conditions under which the silicon remains ductile, Xia hopes the research will cause battery engineers to take a new look at all-silicon electrodes. A new generation of high-capacity batteries could facilitate expanded transportation applications and large-scale storage of electricity produced by renewable sources. “The research framework we have developed here is of general applicability to a very wide range of electrode materials,” Xia noted. “We believe this work will stimulate a lot of new directions in battery research.”

Ting Zhu (left) and Shuman Xia (right) work with a thin film electrode made of amorphous silicon.

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Anna Erickson (right) and grad student Paul Rose (left) with an imaging device that can scan and detect the contents of shipping containers.

RESEARCH NEWS

Secrets Unveiled

Small Scale Measuring

Anna Erickson and researchers from Georgia Tech have demonstrated a low-energy nuclear reaction imaging technique designed to detect the presence of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium in cargo containers arriving at U.S. ports. Relying on a combination of neutrons and high-energy photons to detect shielded radioactive materials inside containers, the method measures the suspected material’s density and atomic number, while simultaneously confirming the presence of special nuclear materials observed by a unique delayed neutron emission signature. This technique potentially increases detection performance while avoiding harm to electronics and other radiation sensitive cargo.

Beyond potential homeland security uses, the technology could also find application in materials science, medical imaging, low-energy nuclear physics and industrial imaging.

Understanding where and how phase transitions occur is critical to developing new generations of materials used in high-performance batteries, sensors, energyharvesting devices, medical diagnostic equipment and other applications. But until now, there was no good way to study and simultaneously map these phenomena at the relevant length scales. Now Nazanin BassiriGharb and other researchers at Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new nondestructive technique for investigating these material changes by examining the acoustic response at the nanoscale. Information obtained from this technique — which uses electrically-conductive atomic force microscope (AFM) probes — could guide efforts to design materials with enhanced properties at small scales.

Sewing Robots Robots can do a lot of things — from moving boxes in warehouses to building cars in factories — but one task that has remained problematic is sewing clothes. Stephen L. Dickerson’s company SoftWear is working on creating a robot that can master the art of the needle and learn to sew, a project that could have a huge effect on the global economy, and could prompt the return of clothing manufacturing to the U.S.

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Asegun Henry’s research involves creating electrical power from solar thermal sources, through thermophotovoltaics and liquid metal thermal storage.

RESEARCH NEWS

Powering the Future A rising populace that could exceed 11 billion by 2100, coupled with environmental challenges, puts enormous pressure on already strained energy resources. Researchers are developing a broad range of technologies to make power more abundant, efficient, and eco-friendly.

Srinivas Garimella’s research team has developed a textbook sized, self-contained cooling system that operates on waste heat instead of electricity. The minimization of plumbing inlets and outlets translates into greater compactness and lower price tags. By eliminating the need for synthetic refrigerants and a compressor, fuel costs and noise levels are lowered and safety and reliability are increased.

Devesh Ranjan is among ME researchers working on major makeovers for power plants, introducing innovations that range from revamped power cycles to new infrastructure materials, such as steam being replaced with supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2) as the working fluid to operate turbines and produce electricity. In energy applications, the high density and compressibility of

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SCCO2 would enable generators to extract more power from turbines, and provide dry cooling in an arid environment such as a desert.

Research conducted by Asegun Henry is paving the way for the development of real-world systems at costs competitive with fossil fuels. Solid-state thermophotovoltaics (TPV) could provide a high-efficiency alternative for directly converting high-temperature heat from concentrated solar thermal to utility-scale electricity. TPV could offer a pathway for efficiently storing and producing electrical power from solar thermal sources, and TPV conversion could also be used to produce grid-scale batteries able to rapidly supplement other power sources by storing heat for quick conversion to electricity.

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Shannon Yee’s lab in the Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions (CNES) Laboratory. Opposite page: optical rectenna being developed in Baratunde Cola’s lab.

RESEARCH NEWS

Powering the Future Shannon Yee is developing a unique conversion engine with no moving parts that leverages the isothermal expansion of sodium and solar heat to directly generate electricity. Combined with other heat sources, this technology could be used to directly produce electricity without boiling water and spinning turbines.

Alper Erturk’s research has been pioneering nonlinear dynamic designs to develop wideband piezoelectric energy harvesters, which convert mechanical strain from ambient vibrations into electricity, that operate over a broad range of frequencies.

Piezoelectric harvesting could eliminate the need for battery replacement in many low-power devices providing cleaner power, convenience and savings over time.

Researchers led by Peter Loutzenhiser are leveraging solar energy to reverse the combustion process and produce synthesis gas (mixtures of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and small amounts of carbon dioxide), which can be converted into fuels such as

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kerosene and gasoline. If commercialized, the technology could transform desert areas into fuel farms.

Baratunde Cola’s research team has developed the first known optical rectenna. Rectennas, part antenna and part rectifier, convert electromagnetic energy into direct electrical current.

Instead of converting particles of light, like solar cells do, the optical rectenna converts waves of light — a technology potentially more efficient than today’s solar cells and less expensive.

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STUDENT NEWS

STUDENT NEWS

CETL/BP Outstanding Teaching Award ME graduate student Phil Varney was selected to receive the 2016 CETL/BP Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at Georgia Tech’s Celebrate Teaching Day. This award is the only Institute-wide recognition for teaching assistants and symbolizes Georgia Tech’s commitment to promoting exemplary teaching.

The award is only given to one graduate TA each year.

NSF Graduate Fellowships

20,000th Study Abroad Student ME undergraduate Kyle Lucas was surprised with a free airline ticket after being named Georgia Tech’s 20,000th Study Abroad student, a milestone Georgia Tech’s Office of International Education (OIE) determined they would reach in 2016. Lucas was accepted to an exchange program at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea and also earned an OIE scholarship for the Fall 2016 study abroad program.

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Woodruff School graduate researchers Kenechi Agbim (Mechanical Engineering, advised by Sam Graham), Erik Anderson (Mechanical Engineering, advised by Bara Cola), Nicholas Bolus (BIOE, GWW Home School student, advised

by Bob Guldberg), Brett Klosterhoff (Engineering – Biomedical, GWW-BIOE, advised by Bob Guldberg), Shekaib Musa (Mechanical Engineering, advised by Minami Yoda), Benjamin Musci (Mechanical Engineering, advised by Devesh Ranjan), and Svetoslav Nikolov (Engineering – Polymer, GWW ME, advised by Alexander Alexeev) were awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) 2016 Graduate Research Fellowships. The

NSF received close to 17,000 applications and made 2,000 award offers to outstanding students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is the country’s oldest fellowship program that directly supports graduate students in various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields, and has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers.

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ALUMNI NEWS

ALUMNI NEWS

Forbes 30 Under 30 List

ME Alumni Furthering Development of Integrated Energy Systems

Emily Woods, ME ’10, and Alec Manfre, ME ’11, made the Forbes magazine 30 Under 30 list. The magazine annually selects “America’s most important young entrepreneurs, creative leaders and brightest stars” and highlights their accomplishments.

The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has named Dr. Johney Green Jr., MSME ’93, Ph.D. ME ’00, as Associate Laboratory Director for Mechanical and Thermal Systems Engineering. NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy’s primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development.

Dr. Green, who comes to NREL from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he has held a number of leadership roles, will oversee the laboratory’s transportation, buildings, wind, water and geothermal research programs. “Johney’s scientific accomplishments and leadership experience are a perfect fit for the laboratory’s mechanical and thermal systems engineering research activities,” NREL Director Martin Keller said. “He will have a significant role in strengthening our capabilities in buildings, wind, vehicles, and other key research areas.”

Woods founded Sanivation, a company geared toward helping improve sanitation in third-world countries by turning human waste into sustainable fuel.

Manfre co-founded Bractlet, an energy analytics platform that increases efficiency by monitoring the energy usage of individual pieces of equipment in buildings, thereby allowing companies to monitor building performance, identify energy savings, and improve energyusage forecasting.

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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled an Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) demonstration combining clean energy technologies into a 3-D printed building and vehicle to showcase a new approach to energy use, storage and consumption. The demonstration, led by ORNL researcher Dr. Roderick Jackson, BSME ’00, MSME ’04, Ph.D. ME ’05, serves as a model for energy-efficient systems that link buildings, vehicles and the grid. Dr. Jackson’s team worked with industrial partners to manufacture and connect a natural-gas-powered hybrid electric vehicle with a solar-powered building to create an integrated energy system. ORNL researchers hope their integrated approach to energy generation, storage and consumption will introduce solutions for the challenges faced by the modern electric grid.

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NEW FACULTY & STAFF

2015-2016 AWARDS & PROMOTIONS Faculty

Konstantinos Arvanitis Assistant Professor

Dan Kotlyar Assistant Professor

Shana Bevan, Admin Professional III Aleksandr Blekh, Research Scientist II Thomas Bougher, Research Engineer II Thomas Cahoon, Research Engineer I Shinae Cho, HR Coordinator Laura Dawson, Academic Advisor I Kendra Denmark, Academic Advisor I Scott Elliott, Machine Shop Supv II Stephen Fuller, Dir-Info Technology I Kenneth Garrick, Courier II Nicholas Gawdun, IT Support Prof II Andrey Gunawan, Research Engineer II Eve Irving, Admin Professional III

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David MacNair Academic Professional

Aaron Young Assistant Professor

Cynthia Iten, Academic Assistant II Destiny Kee, Admin Professional III Sumit Khetarpal, Research Engineer I Ann Lamb, Admin Supv Clayton Nguyen, Research Engineer I Mikko Ponkala, Research Engineer I Essie Reynolds, Financial Admin I Autumm Robertson, Admin Professional III Seid Sadat, Research Engineer II Monifa Skelton, Program Support Coord Scarlett Taylor, Event Coordinator II Susan Volkert, Communications Mgr Darryl Williams, Facilities Assistant

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb

Anna Erickson

Aldo A. Ferri

Asegun Henry

Thomas Kurfess

Jonathan Rogers

Shuman Xia

New President-elect of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society

Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award

Outstanding Teacher Award, Georgia Tech

NSF Career Award

Zeigler Award and Lecture

NSF Career Award; Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award

NSF Career Award

Alexander Alexeev – Anderer Faculty Award Antonia Antoniou – Promoted to Associate Professor Bert Bras – Promoted to Associate Chair – Academic Baratunde A. Cola – DOD Research Equipment Award F. Levent Degertekin – HIH Biomedical Imaging Technologies Study Section Nomination Chaitanya S. Deo – NEUP Award

Alper Erturk – Gary Anderson Award for Early Achievement in Adaptive Structures; Inaugural ASME Energy Harvesting Best Paper Award; Promoted to Associate Professor

Samuel Graham – Promoted to Associate Chair - Research

Aldo A. Ferri – Promoted to Full Professor

Marta Hatzell – Inaugural Serve-LearnSustain Food, Energy, Water Systems Fellowship

Andrés J. García – Coulter Translational Research Partnership Award Caroline L. Genzale – ASME Best Paper Award – 2015 ASME International Combustion Engine Fall Tech Conference

Itzhak Green – NEUP Award Robert Guldberg – ASME Fellow

Nolan E. Hertel – Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award – Health Physics Society David Hu – Ig Nobel Prize

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2015-2016 AWARDS & PROMOTIONS Yogendra Joshi – IEEE/ACM ISLPED Best Paper Award

2015-2016 AWARDS & PROMOTIONS Devesh Ranjan – 2015 SSAA Award; DOE Early Career Award; Love Faculty Fellowship Award; NEUP Award

Daniel Lorenzini – ASME Best Paper Award 2015 ASME Internal Combustion Engine Fall Tech Conference

Staff

Students

Lenna Applebee – Promoted to Academic Advisor II

Kenechi Agbim – NSF Graduate Fellowship Award

Scott L. Elliot – Promoted to Machine Shop Supervisor II

Suresh K. Sitaraman – Morris Bryan Professor

Erik Anderson – NSF Graduate Fellowship Award

Miffy Grayson – Promoted to Financial Admin I

Todd Suchek – Coulter Translational Research Partnership Award

Nicholas Bolus – NSF Graduate Fellowship Award

Camellia Henry – Promoted to Academic Assistant II

Seung Woo Lee – 2016 KSEA Young Investors Grant

Wenting Sun – AFOSR Grant, Young Investigator Award

Candler Hobbs – Promoted to Communications Officer II

Thomas Bowling – 2016 National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Steven Y. Liang – 2016 Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal

Cassandra Telenko – Inaugural ServeLearn-Sustain Food, Energy, Water Systems Fellowship

Glenda Johnson – Promoted to Academic Advisor II

Dorrin Jarrahbashi – Poster Award Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium

James Martino – Promoted to Information Technology Support Professional Lead

Benjamin Musci – Poster Award Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium; NSF Graduate Fellowship Award

Taigyu Kang – Poster Award Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium

Regina Neequaye – Promoted to Administration Professional Sr

Svetoslav Nikolov – NSF Graduate Fellowship Award

Brett Klosterhoff – NSF Graduate Fellowship Award

Millie Wan – Promoted to Sponsor Res Consultant/Financial Manager II

Taiee Liang – 2016-2017 Burton J. Moyer Fellowship for Health Physics Society

Sandeep Pidaparti – Poster Award Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium

YongTae (Tony) Kim – 2016-2017 Georgia Partners in Regenerative Medicine Seed Grant Award Satish Kumar – Promoted to Associate Professor Michael Leamy – 2016 Lloyd Hamilton Donnel Applied Mechanics Review Paper Award

Julie Linsey – Promoted to Associate Professor G. Paul Neitzel – NASA LEAG Specific Action Team Appointment Raghuram V. Pucha – Inaugural ServeLearn-Sustain Food, Energy, Water Systems Fellowship; Title Change – Senior Lecturer H. Jerry Qi – Promoted to Professor

Massimo Ruzzene – 2016 Lloyd Hamilton Donnel Applied Mechanics Review Paper Award

Susan Napier Thomas – DOD Career Development Award; NIH Grant Yan Wang – Promoted to Associate Professor Shuman Xia – 2017 J. W. Dally Young Investigator Award Lei Zhu – Promoted to Associate Professor

Allison Mahvi – ASME Graduate Teaching Fellow Shekaib Musa – NSF Graduate Fellowship Award Michael Mikhaeil – CONACYT Fellowship Award Daniel Moreno – 2016-2017 Scholar Award from ARCS Program

Paul Rose – Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists Scholar Award Thomas Spenser – 3rd Place ORNL Student Poster Competition Award at Oak Ridge Lab 2016 Conference Phil Varney – CETL/BP Outstanding Teaching Award Joshua Wade – DOE-NNSA Fellowship Award Wan Zhimin – IEEE/ACM ISLPED Best Paper Award

Alumni Liping Wang – 2016 Viskanta Young Scientists Award

Segried Winfrey – Promoted to Administrative Professional Sr

DON’T SEE YOUR NAME? Email communications@me.gatech.edu to keep us informed of your accomplishments!

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WOODRUFF SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARD Mr. David P. Adams III, BME ‘86 President, Adams Capital, Inc.

Mr. Barry Holden, BME ‘70 President, Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc.

Mr. Thomas G. Arlotto, BME ‘82 Vice President, Maestro Strategies, LLC

Mr. Dennis W. Kelly, BME, ‘76 Director, Smithsonian National Zoological Park

Dr. Farshad Ali Karimi-Azad, BME ‘82 President & CEO, Toshiba America Energy Systems Corporation

Mr. Nelson McRay, BME ‘85, MSME ‘87 Global Program Manager, Global Nonwovens Division

Dr. Rebeccah Brown, MSME ‘00, Ph.D. ME ‘03 Vice President, Product Development, Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs, MiMedx Group, Inc.

Dr. Matthew P. Miller, MSME ‘90, Ph.D. ME ‘93 Professor, Cornell University

Mr. R. Keith Chambless, BME ‘80 President, GeoFields, Inc. Mr. Ralph Cleveland, BME ‘86 Global Head of Customer Operations, American International Group

Mr. Blake Moret, BME ‘85 President & CEO, Rockwell Automation

Mr. Stanley W. Connally, Jr., BME ‘93 President & Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Power

Ms. Emily Muhlberger, BME ‘04, MBA ‘09 Vice President, Program Manager – Global Wealth & Investment Management, Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Mr. James Dullum, BME ‘74 Senior Partner, Fieldstone Equity

Mr. Floyd R. Nation, BME ‘68 Law Office of Floyd R. Nation

Mr. Dolan Falconer President & CEO, ScanTech Holdings, LLC

Mr. Brian C. Palmer, BME ‘81 President & CEO, Measurement & Control, GE Energy

Dr. Johney Green, Jr., MSME ‘93, Ph.D. ME ‘00 Associate Laboratory Director Mechanical & Thermal Systems Engineering National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Mr. Lawrence J. Montgomery, BSME ‘78 President, Montgomery Family Foundation

Mr. Steven Pinsky Chief Financial Officer, Topix Pharmaceuticals, Ind./Topiderm, Inc.

Mr. Barry Powell Vice President, Low Voltage Distribution Business Unit, Siemens Mr. Carl Ring, BME ‘78 Chairman, Ring Container Technologies Ms. Stella M. Sudderth, BME ‘80 Owner, MRU, Inc. Dr. Karen A. Thole Department Head, Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Lindsey Thornhill ME ‘84, MSME ‘86, Ph.D ME ‘96 Vice President, Integrated Solutions for Systems Dr. Kyle H. Turner BSEE ‘69, MSNE ‘69, Ph.D. NE ‘71 Principal, McCallum-Turner, Inc. Ms. Sophia Velastegui, BME ‘98 Head of Silicon & Architecture Roadmap, Nest/Google Mr. Manuel Walters, BME ‘92 Lead Recruiter, Phillips 66 Mr. Nils Young, BME ‘68 Founder & Director, DBS Manufacturing, Atlanta Dr. John F. Zino, Ph.D. ‘99 Manager, Stability & Radiological Nuclear Analysis COE, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC

ME 2110: Creative Decisions and Design ME 2110 integrates mechatronics and technical communication into a sophomore level mechanical design class.

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