A newsletter for

alumni and friends of

the Department of

Mechanical Engineering

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2 Message fromthe Chair

3 Faculty News

6 Center Notes

8 Research Update

9 Newsmakers

11 Extracurricular

12 Student Notes

13 Alumni Notes

14 Student Projects

16 Calendar

WINTER 2003 | Vol. 3, No.1

M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G

A . J A M E S C L A R K S C H O O L O F E N G I N E E R I N G

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A Solar DecathlonPhoto AlbumFrom planning tobuilding to the competition on theMallpage 14

NewsmakersAdvanced Thermalis Incubator of theYear page 13

2001-2002Annual ReportA special insert tothis issue ofMETRICSfollowing page 8

In October 2002, Robert E. Fischell was

named Professor of Practice in the Depart-

ment of Mechanical Engineering. The noted

engineer, physicist, innovator, philanthropist,

and most recent inductee into the A. James

Clark School of Engineering’s Innovation Hall

of Fame has built his career by developing

lifesaving medical devices and systems.

A P RO L I F I C I N V E N TO R W I T H N E A R LY

200 U.S. and international patents in his name,Fischell’s work has resulted in a large variety ofmedical device improvements and new tech-nologies including the first implantable insulinpump, the rechargeable pacemaker, and highlyflexible stents for placement in coronary arter-ies.

Currently, he is developing an implantablemedical device that can detect within 60 sec-onds the occurrence of a heart attack caused bya blood clot. The device will then immediatelyrelease medication to dissolve the clot. Calledthe Angel Med Guardian, this device is still in theexperimental stage, Fischell says, but he hopesfor a commercial release within two years. Thisnewest business venture features Fischell work-ing with his three sons under the company

Robert E. Fischell NamedProfessor of Practice

name of Angel MedicalSystems Inc. Fischellalso is working withone of his sons on newtechnology that createsalternating electriccurrents in the brain tohelp ease migraineheadaches. The thirdnew startup venture for Fischell involves adevice that can help eliminate scar tissue andadhesions after abdominal surgery.

While Robert Fischell continues toimprove healthcare with new technologies andmedical devices, he also will have an impact ondeveloping the next generation of bioengineer-ing and biomedical professionals. Last fall, Fis-chell donated $1.25 million to the Clark Schoolof Engineering to establish a fellowship pro-gram that gives graduate students the opportu-nity to create and design new medical devicesor systems.

In addition, the University of Marylandrecently honored Fischell with its 2001 Major F.Riddick, Jr. Entrepreneurship Award and the2000 Outstanding Alumnus Award. He wasawarded an honorary doctor of science degreefrom the University during the 1996 com-mencement proceedings.

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Message From the ChairA S T H I S I S S U E O F M E T R I C S willillustrate, the Department of MechanicalEngineering has fully embraced the Uni-versity’s Zoom campaign, designed to illus-trate the speed at which Maryland hasgrown into a world-class university. With46 professional society fellows and sixnational academy members on our faculty,freshmen who enter our program with anaverage GPA of 3.96, and graduate stu-dents who come to us from around theglobe as well as from around the Beltway,Mechanical Engineering is helping to leadthe way. U.S. News and World Report nowranks Maryland 18th among national pub-lic universities, and ranks our graduateengineering program 19th among all doc-torate granting engineering schools. BlackIssues in Higher Education ranked Maryland3rd in granting engineering doctoraldegrees, 3rd in granting engineering mas-ters degrees, and 11th in granting engi-neering baccalaureate degrees to AfricanAmericans. While the numbers only tellpart of the story, the accomplishments ofour faculty, students, and alumni, high-lighted in this issue of Metrics, tell the restof it.

Along with the many accomplish-ments of our faculty and alumni, it werestudent achievements that took mainstagethis year. We welcomed our first RISEclass this summer, with great acclaim.

Prof. Linda Schmidt and her colleaguesare to be commended for helping tospearhead such an innovative program forwomen on our campus. (You can findout more about RISE at www.enme.umd.edu/news/September01/rise.html.)While academics are always our first pri-ority, it was competition that stole someof our attention over the last severalmonths. The Solar Decathlon, sponsoredby the Department of Energy, had usMetro-ing downtown to the NationalMall to cheer on our team and surfingover to our team’s website (www.enme.umd.edu/solartech) to check on the latestscores and rankings among the 14 teams.To help commemorate this huge under-taking we’ve put together a photo albumat the end of this newsletter. However,not to be “outshined” by our solar decath-letes, our 2003 FutureTruck team is “gear-ing up” for their June competition—thisyear’s vehicle is a Ford Explorer—as wellas the human-powered submarine team,who are also “diving in” to their project.And, just for fun, we polled our under-graduates to see what they did in theirspare time—their responses, listed on page11, surprised and amazed us with theirpassionate involvement in their activities.I think you’ll agree we have quite uniqueand diverse mechanical engineering stu-dents at Maryland.

In MemoriamDr. Lung-Wen Tsai, Former ProfessorThe Department of Mechanical Engineeringextends its condolences to the family of for-mer faculty member Dr. Lung-Wen Tsai,who passed away suddenly November 29,2002. He is survived by his wife, Betty; son,David; and daughter, Jule.

Dr.Tsai joined the University of Mary-land’s Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1986 and was pro-moted to full professor in 1990. He conducted research intomechanisms and machine theory, design methodology, andmicro electro-mechanical systems, establishing a nationally

recognized research and education program in mechanismsand machine design, automotive engineering, robot manipu-lators, and walking machines at the University. In 2000 hemoved from the University of Maryland to the University ofCalifornia, Riverside, where he was a professor in theirmechanical engineering department. Dr.Tsai was the chiefeditor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, chaired theASME Mechanisms Committee, held three patents, and wasan ASME Fellow. Dr.Tsai had also been elected a fellow ofthe American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) shortly before his death.

Also included in this issue of Metrics isour newly designed departmental AnnualReport. We hope that you will find thatthis more compact format highlights thefacts and figures of the Department in amore succinct manner than in the past. Ifyou are interested in greater detail, how-ever, please visit our website, www.enme.umd.edu, or email me at abc@umd.edu.

It is with great pleasure that weannounce the arrival of Dr. Robert Fis-chell as Professor of Practice, and Dr.Jaime Cardenas-Garcia as AssociateResearch Professor. Dr. Fischell, who isprofiled in this issue, will bring a wealth ofskills and talents to our Department in thearea of biomechanics and entrepreneur-ship. Dr. Cardenas-Garcia, a three-timeMaryland alumnus (BSME ’71, MSME’75, PhD ’83) who comes back to us fromTexas Tech University, brings us hisexpertise in optical methods in experi-mental solid mechanics and wave propaga-tion.

Sadly, we were all shocked to learn ofthe sudden death of our colleague Lung-Wen Tsai. I was fortunate to have had theopportunity to meet Dr.Tsai earlier thisyear, and was impressed by his enormousachievements in the profession, and hiswarm nature and congeniality. He will besorely missed by all who knew him.

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S.K. Gupta Selected to AttendNAE’S Frontiers of EngineeringSymposium

Associate Professor Satyan-dra K. Gupta was selectedamong 84 of the nation’stop young engineers toparticipate in the NationalAcademy of Engineering’s(NAE) eighth annual Fron-tiers of Engineering sym-

posium. The three-day event broughttogether engineers ages 30 to 45 who areperforming leading-edge engineeringresearch and technical work. The partici-pants—from industry, academia, and gov-ernment—were nominated by fellowengineers or organizations and were cho-sen from a field of nearly 150 applicants.

“Frontiers of Engineering is a uniqueopportunity for outstanding young engi-neers from a variety of disciplines to meetone another and discuss cutting-edge top-ics in the field,” said NAE President Wm.A.Wulf. “This symposium brings togethertalented individuals who represent thefuture leaders in engineering.”

To read more about Frontiers ofEngineering, visit the NAE Web site atwww.nae.edu/frontiers.

New Fellows

Professor Donald B. Barkerhas been elected to thegrade of Fellow in ASMEInternational, a worldwideengineering society focusedon technical, educationaland research issues inmechanical engineering.

In a letter from ASME International’sPresident, Susan H. Skemp, describing thishonor, she writes:

“ASME International’s Constitutiondescribes this esteemed recognition as; ‘aFellow, a membership grade of distinc-tion...’ I can assure you that the selectioncriteria are rigorous. Nominations mustdocument the individual’s significant engi-neering achievements, as well as contribu-tions to the Society and the profession,authoring or contributing to technicalpublications or reports, and developingpatents and inventions. Dr. Barker’srecognition truly places him in a distin-guished and a very small segment ofASME’s membership.”

Dr. Barker is also head of the PWBand Modules Laboratory, a member lab ofthe CALCE Electronic Products & Sys-tems Center. He has published extensive-ly in the general area of experimental

facultyNEWS

Gupta

Barker

Distinguished University Professor and Glenn L.Martin Professor of Engineering Katepalli R.Sreenivasan has been appointed as the new direc-tor of the Abdus Salam International Centre forTheoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. TheICTP was founded in 1964 by Abdus Salam withthe aim of fostering the growth of science andresearch in developing countries.

Sreenivasan is an experimentalist and is a professor ofmechanical engineering and professor of physics at the Universityof Maryland, where he also Director of the Institute for PhysicalScience and Technology. He received his doctorate in aerospaceengineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and

Sreenivasan

mechanics, fracture, fatigue, dynamicmaterial response, and electronic packag-ing.

Professor Ugo Piomelli hasbeen named a Fellow in theAmerican Physical Society(APS).

In a letter to Dr.Piomelli,Associate Execu-tive Officer Alan Chodoswrote:

“As you may know, election to Fel-lowship in the American Physical Societyis limited to no more than one half of onepercent of the membership. Election toAPS Fellowship is recognition by yourpeers of your outstanding contributions tophysics.

“The citation, which will appear onyour Fellowship Certificate, will read asfollows:

“‘For important and insightful contri-butions to the development of large eddysimulation techniques and to the under-standing of wall-bounded turbulentflows.’”

Dr. Piomelli also serves the Depart-ment as Director of Graduate Studies andAssociate Chair.

Piomelli

spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in Australia andas a research associate and lecturer at The Johns Hopkins Univer-sity in Baltimore. He then moved to Yale University, where hewas a tenured professor for 22 years and where he served in sev-eral different roles, including chair of the department of mechani-cal engineering and acting chair of the Council of Engineering.He came to Maryland last January.

Sreenivasan has published over 150 papers in the fields ofcomplex fluids, turbulence, combustion, cryogenic helium andnonlinear dynamics, and is a member of the National Academy ofEngineering. He will begin his tenure at the ICTP in March2003.

Sreenivasan Named New Director at ICTP

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In Brief

Professor Amr Baz and the Virtual Reality Lab aredescribed in a Science News article entitled,“DeepVision: When Walls Become Doors into VirtualWorlds.” In the article, the author describes ademonstration of the Lab’s 3D simulation of a tor-pedo’s casing’s vibrations as the weapon travelsthrough water. The goal of this Navy-fundedwork is to find ways to dampen the vibrations and

thereby make the weapons stealthier. To read the entire article,go to www.sciencenews.org/20020601/bob8.asp.

Assistant Professor Steven Buckley has beennamed Chair of the Environmental EngineeringDivision of ASME. The division, which hasapproximately 1400 primary members and over8000 associate members, has technical divisionsworking in environmental technology, risk man-agement, and policy. Working with other areas ofASME and other technical societies, the division

sponsors or co-sponsors conferences related to radioactive andnon-radioactive waste management, environmental technologies,risk assessment, and emerging issues in air pollution, water pollu-tion, and the environment. His term is for one year.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Abhijit Das-gupta was recently honored by his graduate almamater,Villanova University. He is the recipient ofthe Carl Humphrey Memorial Award, which wasnamed after the first engineering Dean at Villano-va. This annual award is given by the College ofEngineering to an alumnus of their graduate pro-gram whom they consider has brought Villanova

good visibility through their own career successes. Dr. Dasguptareceived his M.S. at Villanova, and then went on to the Universityof Illinois to receive his Ph.D.

Professor James Duncan has been named Directorof the Science,Technology and Society (STS) Pro-gram of College Park Scholars, taking the reinsfrom Professor James Wallace, who was the pro-gram’s previous director.

The STS Certificate Program offers studentsan opportunity to expand their understanding ofthe relationships between science, technology, and

society and to augment their general scientific and technologicalliteracy. Similar to a college “minor,” the certificate programenables students to focus some of their CORE course require-ments and upper-level electives in areas of particular interest out-side their chosen major(s).

For more information on the STS Program, visithttp://scholars.umd.edu/sts/cps.html.

A brief interview with Associate Professor Satyan-dra K. Gupta was featured in the on-line maga-zine Spatial Dimensions, discussing Dr. Gupta’sexperience with ACIS over the years, as well as histhoughts on the future trends of CAD/CAM. Dr.Gupta has been using the 3D ACIS Modeler forhis research, which deals with developing newalgorithms and representations for creating next-

generation computer-aided design and manufacturing systemsthat can reduce time-to-market, enable cost effective small batchmanufacturing, and facilitate manufacturing of geometricallycomplex heterogeneous objects.

To read the article, visit www.spatial.com/news_events/ spatial_dimensions/index_html#Gupta.

Associate Professor Jeffrey Herrmann has beenselected to receive the Society of ManufacturingEngineers’ Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manu-facturing Engineer Award. This award is beingconferred in recognition of his significant achieve-ments and leadership in the field of manufacturingengineering as a young engineer. He is one oftwelve recipients selected to receive this award in

2003. Dr. Herrmann will receive this award at one of the Soci-ety’s major events in May. The award was recently named for Dr.Jiri Tlusty, an SME Fellow and founding member of the NorthAmerican Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI) of SME,who died earlier this year.

University President and Professor of MechanicalEngineering C.D. “Dan” Mote, Jr. was selected asone of the 40 most influential people in thegreater Washington, DC area, according to Wash-ington Business Forward magazine. For the first timein the four years of running this survey, the “For-ward Forty” have been ranked. Dr. Mote wasranked 20th. To see the rankings and read the full

article, go to www.bizforward.com/wdc/issues/2002-07/forward40/

Affiliate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDana Nau received the Best Research PaperAward at the 6th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, for “On the Complexity of PlanAdaptation by Derivational Analogy in a UniversalClassical Planning Framework.” The Conferencewas held in September 2002 in Aberdeen, Scot-land.

Baz

Buckley

Dasgupta

Duncan

Gupta

Mote

Nau

Herrmann

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Professor James Wallacehas been appointed Mem-ber-at-Large of the U.S.National Committee forTheoretical and AppliedMechanics (USNC/TAM)of the National Academyof Sciences.

The USNC/TAM was established in1949 by the National Academy of Sci-ences (NAS) to represent the UnitedStates in international scientific activitiesrelating to the field of mechanics. It isthe focal point for the U.S. engineering,scientific, and mathematical communitiesthat have common interests in mechanics.The committee serves as the nationalforum for defining major issues inmechanics research, technology, and edu-

cation, suggesting strategies in areas ofmutual concern, and stimulating appropri-ate actions. This committee operatesunder the auspices of the Board on Inter-national Scientific Organizations of thePolicy and Global Affairs Division of theNRC.

The USNC/TAM also represents theNAS as the U.S. adhering organization tothe International Union of Theoreticaland Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), amember union of the International Coun-cil for Science (ICSU). The IUTAM wasformed in 1946 with the objective of cre-ating a link between persons and nationalor international organizations engaged inscientific work (theoretical or experimen-tal) in mechanics or in related sciences.The United States is one of 49 countries

Wallace

Fischell’s professional career began atthe Naval Ordinance Laboratory andEmerson Research Laboratory, workingseveral years there before he began a 38-year career at the Johns Hopkins Universi-ty Applied Physics Laboratory (APL),becoming the chief engineer of the SpaceDepartment. He retired from the APL in1997 and is currently chairman of FischellBiomedical, LLC, and Angel Medical Sys-tems, Inc.

Fischell serves as a director of theUniversity of Maryland Foundation, andon the University of Maryland Founda-tion Trustees Board, as well as on theClark School of Engineering Board ofVisitors, and the Board of Visitors for theCollege of Mathematics & Physical Sci-ences. He is also a member of theNational Academy of Engineering.

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Wallace Appointed to U.S. National Committee

that presently adheres to IUTAM, one of26 member unions of the ICSU.

As part of several U.S. national com-mittees within the Board on InternationalScientific Organizations, the USNC/TAMis encouraged to consider issues not onlyspecifically relevant to mechanics, but alsorelevant across several disciplines. Newactivities and initiatives include, for exam-ple, using modern communication net-works to improve information flowbetween researchers in different parts ofthe world; improving the public’s under-standing of science and engineeringthrough visiting lecture programs, interac-tive web sites, town meetings, and otherevents; and fostering opportunities foryounger scientists to become engaged incollaborative research.

On Monday, October 7, 2002, theDepartment of Mechanical Engineeringhosted Janet Twomey and Ron Rardin ofthe National Science Foundation Direc-torate for Engineering, Division ofDesign, Manufacture and Industrial Inno-vation.

Dr.Twomey is Program Director ofthe NSF’s Manufacturing Enterprise Sys-tems (MES) program. The MES programaddresses focused research on design, plan-ning and control of operations in manu-facturing enterprises, from shop floors tothe associated procurement and distribu-tion supply chains.

Dr. Rardin is Program Director of theService Enterprise Engineering (SEE)program. This program addresses focusedresearch on design, planning and controlof operations and processes in commercialservice enterprises.

They each gave a talk on theirrespective programs (Operations Research,Service Enterprise Engineering, and Man-ufacturing Enterprise Systems), the resultsfrom past DMII initiatives, and new focusareas for DMII (health care, green manu-facturing, sensing systems). They also metwith faculty and researchers from variousdepartments on campus.

ME Department Hosts NSF Program Directors

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CALCE to be Modeled in Korea

by Kyoungyee MoonKorean Business Journal

The Secretary of the Ministry of Com-merce, Industry, and Energy (KukwhanShin) is planning to build a professionalresearch center like that of CALCE EPSCat the University of Maryland in order toimprove the reliability of Korean micro-electronics components and to developvalue added products. The research centerwill be in universities to include master

and doctorate develop-ment. CALCE is a desir-able model for universityresearch center and indus-try and university collabo-rated research.

This year, about US$3million will be invested

and totally US$20 million until 2005.About 2000 reliability experts are expect-ed to be created through this project.

More experts and research will helpto release the pressure from high technol-ogy development in microelectronics.

To learn more about CALCE andDirector Michael Pecht, go towww.calce.umd.edu.

Peter Sandborn and CALCE Featured in EDN Access

by Graham ProphetEditor, EDNExcerpted from the on-line article:

“The problem of component obsoles-cence has been around for as long as theelectronics industry... Design refreshes orcomplete redesigns are progressively morecostly options, and those with a need toquantify exactly how costly should look atthe models that University of Maryland,

College Park AssociateProfessor Peter Sandbornhas developed. This workexplores the field inminute detail, includingsuch aspects as life-cyclemodeling and part-obsoles-cence forecasting. It also

attempts to quantify a matter that hasmore often been treated as a matter ofintuition or necessity: how to optimizethe interval between design revisions andredesigns over the life of a long program.In the space available here, it is impossibleto do any more than mention the name ofthis program—the CALCE Center’sMOCA (Computer Aided Life CycleEngineering Center’s Mitigation of Obso-lescence Cost Analysis) program at theUniversity of Maryland.”

To read the full article, go to www.e-insite.net/ednmag/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA257048&pubdate=11/14/2002.

Smart and Small Thermal SystemsLab Presents Workshop

On Monday, October 7, 2002, theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering’sSmart and Small Thermal Systems Labora-tory hosted a workshop on Thermal Pack-aging of High Flux Military and Com-mercial Electronics.

This highly successful workshop’smain charge was to identify the nextround of emerging technologies in ther-mal management of high flux electronics.Attendance was by invitation only, was

capped at 55 participants,and included authoritiesand technical experts fromvarious electronics andcomputer manufacturersand aerospace industry.Government organizationssuch as NASA, the NavalResearch Lab, and theOffice of Naval Researchwere also present.

The various topicspresented were brokendown into three categories:Navy Systems: Needs, andTechnology;Advanced

Thermal Management for Aerospace Sys-tems; and Recent Developments andAdvances in Thermal Technology. Anoverview of the day was the culminatingevent.

The workshop included 12 invitedspeakers from academics, industry, andgovernment, including Laboratory Direc-tor Michael Ohadi and Department ofMechanical Engineering Chair AvramBar-Cohen. The proceedings are beingedited and will be available at a nominalfee to the public.

For more information on the Smartand Small Thermal Systems Lab, visitwww.enme.umd.edu/s2ts/.

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Bar-Cohen

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ME Department Co-SponsorsBiosensor Symposium

On October 7, 2002, the Department ofMechanical Engineering co-sponsored aSymposium on Biosensor Technologiesand Microbial Diagnostics, along with theU.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) and The Joint Institute for FoodSafety and Nutrition (JIFSAN). TheSymposium, held at the FDA in CollegePark brought together local biosensorresearchers for exchange of informationand ideas.

The speakers, many ofwhom are active in biosen-sor development, includedscientists from FDA, NavalResearch Laboratory, Uni-versity of Washington, Uni-versity of Maryland, Uni-versity of Kansas, Ben-

Gurion University, Israel, and IntrinsicBioprobes, Inc.

Overviews on microbial food bornepathogens and the CDC/NIOSH’s viewof microbial detection were offered, aswell as a presentation by Avram Bar-Cohen, Professor and Chair of MechanicalEngineering, on the engineering of bio-MEMS systems. Topics of discussionincluded fluorescence labeled biosensors,multi-analyte array sensors, electrochemi-cal sensors, surface plasmon resonance(SPR), SPR-mass spectrometry, PCR, andDNA microarray analysis.

More than 120 scientists from FDA,UMD, USDA, Naval Research Laboratoryand other organizations attended themeeting, which was organized by Associ-ate Professor Keith Herold.

I N J U N E N A S A A N N O U N C E D T H AT A G RO U P of facultyfrom the Clark School of Engineering will be the recipient of amajor award from NASA for the establishment of one of the sevenNASA University Research, Engineering and Technology Institutes(URETI). The URETIs are a major step taken byNASA toward forging a stronger and expanded rela-tionship with academia.These institutes are beingestablished in areas of long-term strategic interest toNASA and the nation. Each URETI will have aninitial life of five years and a maximum possible dura-tion of 10 years. The budget for each URETI isapproximately $3M per year.

The University of Maryland URETI, which isin the area of 3rd Generation Reusable Launch Vehi-cles, is led by Professor Mark Lewis from the Depart-ment of Aerospace Engineering. Other participatingfaculty are: Profs.Wereley, Pines,Yu, Cadou, andAkin from Aerospace Engineering; Ashwani Guptaand Steven Buckley from Mechanical Engineering;Smidts from Materials and Nuclear Engineering; andMarshall from Fire Protection Engineering. TheUniversity of Maryland is the lead institution on thisURETI; other participating academic institutions are the Universityof Michigan, University of Washington, North Carolina A&T andJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. The other six winning propos-als are from UCLA, Georgia Tech, Princeton,Texas A&M, Universi-ty of Florida, and Purdue.

College Faculty Win Prestigious

NASA Award

Buckley

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Associate Professors Jeffrey Herrmann,

Peter Sandborn, and Linda Schmidt are

the principal investigators for a new

NSF Product Realization and Environ-

mental Manufacturing Innovative Sys-

tems (PREMISE) grant, “Applying Deci-

sion Production Systems to Improve

Environmentally Responsible Product

Development.” The project begins

January 1, 2003, and runs until June

30, 2004.

E N V I RO N M E N TA L LY R E S P O N S I B L E

product development (ERPD), alsoknown as environmentally benign manu-facturing, considers both environmentalimpacts and economic objectives duringthe numerous and diverse activities thataccompany product development.

There are many ways to minimize theenvironmental impacts that products gen-erate throughout their life cycle. Thegreatest opportunity for ERPD occursduring the product design phases, whendesigners and others make the decisionsthat determine most of the product’s envi-ronmental impact.

Numerous tools have been developedto help designers create environmentallybenign products.The two major classes oftools are life cycle assessment (LCA) anddesign for environment (DFE).

The most significant obstacles tousing LCA and DFE tools effectively arethe difficulties acquiring the needed dataand the challenges developing realistic,appropriate metrics of environmentalimpact. That is, there exists a real conflictbetween the information flow and deci-sion making that exists in a product devel-opment organization and the informationflow and decision making that LCA andDFE tools require to be effective. Conse-quently, these tools are, generally, not inte-grated with the other activities of theproduct development process, and the

tools’ ability to improve ERPD is limited.A product development organization

includes the engineers, managers, andother personnel who make process andproduct engineering decisions while try-ing to satisfy a variety of constraints andmanaging tradeoffs between multiplecompeting objectives, including environ-mental concerns. This research viewsproduct development as an informationflow governed by decision-makers who

make decisions under timeand budget constraints.From this perspective, aproduct developmentorganization is a decisionproduction system.

This research seeks tounderstand how productdevelopment organizationsuse environmental infor-mation in their decision-making. It will consist oftwo tasks:

1. Constructing along-term collaborativeresearch agenda that guidesa research program usingthe decision productionsystem perspective toimprove ERPD, particular-ly by integrating LCA andDFE tools into other prod-uct development activities.

2. Conducting anexploratory study to

describe the flow of information relatedto LCA and DFE in the product develop-ment activities of an electronics manufac-turing company.

The research will explore a novel, sys-tems-level paradigm to develop newinsights into the behavior of productdevelopment organizations. The decisionproduction system perspective results fromthe principal investigators’ experience cre-ating design decision support tools andthe careful study of product development.Unlike many existing approaches, this per-

spective examines the entire organization,not just individual product developmentprojects.

Applying the decision production sys-tem perspective to ERPD will yield novelmethods that guide the development ofpowerful LCA and DFE tools (for specificdecision-makers) and the rational and sys-tematic deployment of these tools acrossthe entire product development organiza-tion. Ultimately, this will reduce the timeand cost of ERPD by using effective LCAand DFE tools in a coordinated manner.Successfully completing the research willcontribute fresh insights into ERPD andwill begin an innovative research programthat has academic and commercial impor-tance and will make significant theoreticaland practical contributions to ERPDacross a range of industrial sectors.

The research will integrate researchand education by using the research resultsto enhance and create courses. In addi-tion to graduate research assistants, under-graduate students will participate on theresearch team. Research projects areexciting, effective learning experiences forundergraduates, and participation in suchprojects increases the number and diversi-ty of American students who conductresearch and earn advanced degrees in sci-ence and engineering.

The research will enhance theresearch and education infrastructure byestablishing collaborations between organ-izations working to improve ERPD anddeveloping a long-term research plan forthe participants. The research results willbe disseminated broadly through scholarlypublications and conferences, as onlinedocument collections, in undergraduateand graduate engineering courses, in proj-ects with collaborating manufacturers, andin short courses offered to engineersworking in industry. In addition, theresearch will benefit society by helpingmanufacturing companies develop energy-efficient and environmentally benignproducts.

researchUPDATE

Herrmann, Sandborn, and Schmidt Awarded NSF PREMISE Grant

Schmidt

Sandborn

Herrmann

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Department of Mechanical EngineeringAnnual Report

2001-2002

Department at a Glance — 2001-2002

43 Faculty46 Professional Society Fellows6 National Academy of Engineering Members6 Professional Journal & Book Series Editors

23 Professional Journal Associate & Other Editors5 Published Books—2001

19 Published Chapters in Books—200185 Published Refereed Journal Articles—2001

192 Conference and Seminar Presentations—200117 Invited Conference Lectures—2001

555 Undergraduate Students—Fall 20021260/1390 SAT 25/75 Percentiles of Entering Freshmen

3.96/4.0 Average GPA of Entering Freshmen27 Percentage of Women/Minority Entering Freshmen31 Percentage of Undergraduates in Honors Programs

225 Graduate Students—Fall 20022061 Average GRE of Entering Graduate Students

3.55/4.0 Average GPA of Entering Graduate Students

93 B.S. Degrees Awarded40 M.S. Degrees Awarded14 Ph.D. Degrees Awarded

$15M External Research Support$19.5M Total Expenditures

Dear Friends, Alumni, Faculty,

and Students,

The 2001-2002 academic year has been an extraordinary

one in the life of the Department of Mechanical Engineer-

ing—filled with successes, accomplishments, and new begin-

nings. I could not have hoped for a better start as Depart-

ment Chair, and it is my distinct honor and pleasure to high-

light for you the events of this past year.

A S B E F I T S A D E PA RT M E N T P O I S E D F O R ascension to theupper echelons of academia, and despite the economic slow-down, research expenditures again reached nearly $15 million,bringing our overall department expenditures in 2001-2002 tomore than $19 million.These funds have come from federalagencies and laboratories (36%), corporate sponsors (33%), theState of Maryland and the University (29%), and the endowment(2%). These grants have helped to launch a cutting-edge NASAUniversity Research, Engineering and Technology Institute(URETI) on 3rd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicles (Profs.A.K. Gupta and Steven Buckley), underpinned NSF’s support ofthe innovative, team-based educational program RISE, whichprovides women undergraduates with summer research intern-ships (Prof. Linda Schmidt), facilitated the acquisition ofadvanced instrumentation and laboratory equipment (Profs. Elisa-beth Smela and Jaime Cardenas), and initiated a major fuel celldevelopment program (Prof. Gregory Jackson).

Our faculty continues to shine, winning recognition fromtheir peers in academia and industry, as well as from their col-leagues and students here at Maryland. Profs. Donald Barker andUgo Piomelli were promoted to the rank of Fellow in ASMEInternational and the American Physical Society, respectively,increasing the number of Fellows in the Department to 46. Prof.Reinhard Radermacher was the recipient of ASHRAE’s Distin-guished Service Award, while Prof. Arthur Bergles was the recip-ient of ASHRAE’s Louise and Bill Holladay Distinguished FellowAward. Prof. Abhijit Dasgupta was honored by his graduatealma mater,Villanova, with the Carl Humphrey Memorial Award,

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The Year in ReviewAvram Bar-Cohen

Professor and Chair

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named for Villanova’s first engineeringdean. Prof. Michael Ohadi’s company,Advanced Thermal and EnvironmentalConcepts, won the Incubator of the YearAward from Maryland’s TechnologyAdvancement Program. And, to under-score Maryland’s “Zoom,” WashingtonBusiness Forward magazine named Univer-sity President and Professor of MechanicalEngineering C.D. Mote, Jr. number 20 ofthe 40 most influential people in greaterWashington, DC. Finally, in the “tootingmy own horn” category, I received theOutstanding Sustained Technical Contri-bution Award from the Components,Packaging, and Manufacturing Society ofthe IEEE.

At the May 2002 Commencementceremony Prof. David Bigio was given thePoole & Kent Outstanding TeachingAward and Prof. David Holloway receivedthe A. James Clark School of EngineeringFaculty Service Award. Earlier in May ithad been announced that Prof. DonaldRobbins, Jr. was named Outstanding Pro-fessor of a Graduate Course by the Grad-uate Student Government Association.Prof. Linda Schmidt, Pi Tau Sigma’s advi-sor, was the winner of the 2002 Outstand-ing Advisor for a Student OrganizationAward by the Office of Campus Pro-grams.

Promotions, directorates, and addi-tions were also key changes to our faculty.Drs. Don DeVoe, Satyandra K. Gupta,and F. Patrick McCluskey were promotedto Associate Professor with tenure; Profes-sor Amr Baz was named Director of thenewly formed Center for Small SmartSystems; Professor James Wallace wasnamed Director of the University’s Gem-stone Program, and Professor James Dun-can was named Director of the Science,Technology, and Society Program underthe University’s College Park ScholarsProgram. In addition, we were delighted

to welcome Katepalli Sreenivasan, thenewly appointed Director of the Institutefor Physical Science and Technology, as aprofessor of mechanical engineering. Dr.Sreenivasan was also named DistinguishedUniversity Professor and Glenn L. MartinProfessor of Engineering. Dr. Sreenivasancame to Maryland from Yale University,where he was the Harold W. Cheel Profes-sor of Mechanical Engineering, a professorof physics and professor of applied physics.He also served as Yale’s mechanical engi-neering department chairman from 1987-1992. Dr. Jaime Cardenas-Garcia, athree-time Maryland alumnus (BSME ’71,MSME ’75, PhD ’83), and formerly anassociate professor of mechanical engi-neering at Texas Tech University, returnedto his alma mater as Associate ResearchProfessor in our Department.

Inspired and guided by the faculty,ME students are following their own pathto excellence. Gaurav Shah was awardedone of 50 inaugural Jack Kent CookeFoundation Graduate Scholarships, valuedat up to $300,000 (he also delivered thestudent commencement speech at theDecember 2002 Clark School Com-mencement). Ph.D. student RajathMudalamane was the recipient of theLew Erwin Memorial Scholarship Awardand was honored by the Society of PlasticsEngineers at a ceremony at the SPEAnnual Technical Conference (ANTEC)in San Francisco. As many of you areaware, the Maryland team, competing inthe Department of Energy’s SolarDecathlon, dominated the media’s atten-tion in the summer and fall months.Advised by Prof. Jungho Kim and led bystudent project managers Alex Yasbek,Catherine Buxton, and Andrew Hunt, ateam of some 30 ME undergraduatesworked diligently for over two years toplan, design, and build a solar house onthe National Mall in Washington, DC.

Fourteen teams from around the U.S. andPuerto Rico competed in ten contests,from livability to public relations to ener-gy consumption.The Maryland teamplaced first in Energy Balance and HotWater Competitions, fourth overall, andfirst in the hearts of all Terrapins every-where.

Our alumni continue to proven that aMaryland mechanical engineering degreeis just a starting point to a wonderfulcareer in engineering.Alumna MaryLacey (BSME ’78) was recently namedtechnical director for the Naval SurfaceWarfare Center, Indian Head, the highestcivilian job within the center. Dr.Richard Stamper (PhD ’97), assistant pro-fessor of mechanical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, receivedthe ASEE’s Ferdinand Beer and E. RussellJohnston Outstanding New MechanicsEducator Award. Dr. Richard Link (BSME’87) was named a Fellow of ASTM andreceived the 2002 ASTM Award of Merit.And, beginning in July 2003, alumnaNilüfer Egrican (PhD ’77), professor andformer dean of the School of Mechanicaland Textile Engineering at Istanbul Tech-nical University,Turkey, will assume theASME Region XIII (international region)vice presidency.

Clearly this Department—yourDepartment—of Mechanical Engineeringis a department on the move. We areproud of the many accomplishments ofthe faculty, students, and alumni, and areworking to have an even greater impact inthe year ahead.Thank you for your sup-port and for the joy of leading the depart-ment along its journey.

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Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

Dr. Sami AinaneDirector of the Undergraduate Program

Dr. Ugo PiomelliDirector of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair

EnrollmentIn the 2001-2002 academic year the Department of MechanicalEngineering had 280 graduate students enrolled. Of these 130were Master of Science students and 150 were Doctoral students.

DegreesThe Department granted 40 M.S. degrees and 14 Doctorates in2001-2002. Dissertation titles and the names of Doctoral stu-dent’s advisors are listed later in the report.

RecruitmentAs of November 1, 2002, 734 students applied to the graduateprogram for entrance in 2002-2003. This represented a 17%increase over the number applying in the previous year. Thisincrease is no doubt due to the growing reputation of theDepartment and our efforts in publicizing our departmentalaccomplishments. Of these applicants, 76 were accepted and 50enrolled, most with financial assistance in the form of a graduateteaching assistantship, graduate research assistantship, or graduatefellowship.

Research and FellowshipsDuring the 2002-2003 academic year the Department is support-ing 39 students through teaching assistantships and 171 studentsthrough research assistantships. The Department can boast ofproviding its assistants with the third highest base stipend of anyuniversity in the country, the highest of any public university. Inaddition, 25 of our students have been awarded fellowships forthe 2002-2003 academic year.

Student CredentialsThe students who enrolled in our program in 2002-2003 had anaverage GRE total of 2051 and an average GPA of 3.40.

EnrollmentEnrollment in the undergraduate program has increased by over40% in the past three years. Currently, 570 students havedeclared Mechanical Engineering as their major. 126 of these stu-dents are in the University Honors Program. The freshmen classof 2002 had an average SAT score of 1333 and an average highschool GPA of 3.96. Last year, we awarded nearly 100 Bachelor’sdegrees. Our program features design throughout the undergrad-uate curriculum and unique teaching methods, including teamingstudio experience and the use of Undergraduate Teaching Fel-lows.

Career PathsA wide choice of Career Paths is available to the student in thesenior year. These optional Career Paths, which include Com-puter and Information Technology, Computer Aided Design andManufacturing, Controls, Sensors and Electronic Packaging,Energy and the Environment, Engineering Management, andGeneral Mechanical Engineering, enable students to study indepth their areas of interest and to better prepare themselves forcareers of their choice.

Honors ProgramThe departmental Honors Program, now in its fourth year, offershigh-quality education to a group of especially talented ME stu-dents. The ME Honors program currently has about 90 partici-pants and has been highly successful in attracting talented stu-dents to the Department.

B.S./M.S. ProgramOur department offers a combined B.S./M.S. Program, which isavailable to the top students in the department. This programprovides these students with the opportunity to earn both aB.S.M.E. and an M.S.M.E. following five years of study.

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Undergraduate Awards & Honors

American Society of Mechanical Engineers SeniorAwardPresented to the senior member who has contributed most tothe student chapterHeather Elaine Kroshl

Society of Automotive Engineers Senior AwardPresented to the senior member who has contributed most tothe student chapterSarabpreet Singh Bumra

Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Service AwardPresented to a student for outstanding service and contribu-tions to the chapterRebecca Mae Lynch

Pi Tau Sigma Memorial AwardPresented to the senior in mechanical engineering who hasmade the most outstanding contributions to the UniversityRobert Michael Baden

Student Organizations and ProjectsThe number of student chapters of national professional societiescontinues to grow. This growth is an indication of the increasingvariety of interests among our students and our faculty. Current-ly, there are student chapters of the American Society ofMechanical Engineers, Society of Automotive Engineers, theAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Condition-ing Engineers, Society of Experimental Mechanics, and the Soci-ety of Manufacturing Engineers.

Over the past decade, the department has established anenviable record in intercollegiate student competitions. Region-al, national, and international competitions in Mini-Baja vehicles,solar cars, methanol cars, liquefied natural gas powered vehicles,hybrid-electric cars, future cars, walking robots, super-mileagevehicles, human powered vehicles, human powered submarines,the Solar Decathlon, and others have resulted in numerous prizesand honors for our students and faculty. This success has provid-ed many of our graduates with opportunities to receive employ-ment offers in a wide variety of industries.

Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Sophomore AwardPresented to the most outstanding sophomore in mechanicalengineering on the basis of scholastic averageDan Feng

Department of Mechanical Engineering AcademicAchievement AwardPresented to the junior in mechanical engineering who hasattained the highest overall academic averageGaurav Jaydeep Shah

Department of Mechanical Engineering Chair’s AwardPresented for excellence in academics, outstanding service tothe Department, or leadership in the DepartmentAnita Maria Currano

The Kim A. Borsavage and Pamela J. Stone Student Award for Outstanding ServicePresented for outstanding service and dedication to the A.James Clark School of EngineeringRebecca Mae Lynch

Probably the largest student project undertaken in the histo-ry of the University,The Solar Decathlon, saw 14 universityteams compete for 10 days on the National Mall in Washington,DC. A group of 30 ME undergraduates, advised by ME Prof.Jungho Kim, took part in this two-year planning and buildingcontest, sponsored by the Department of Energy. Our Marylandteam placed first in the Hot Water and Energy Balance competi-tions, and fourth overall.

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Ph.D. Graduates & Dissertation Titles

Fall 2001

Mustafa ArafaAdvisor: Amr BazVibration and Noise Control Using Active Piezoelectric Damping Composites

Caleb BelaiAdvisor: Bruce BergerCutting State Identification

Jun HuangAdvisor: Satyandra K. GuptaAccessibility-Driven Spatial Partitioning: A Step Towards Automated Design of Multi-Piece Molds

Sameer AnandAdvisors: Yogendra Joshi and Satyandra K. Gupta A Comparative Study of Two Classes of 3-DOF Parallel Manipulators

Chunhui PanAdvisor: Kenneth KigerDevelopment of Two-Phase PIV and its Applications to Sedimentation within a Particle-Laden Turbulent Channel Flow

Weijie ZhaoAdvisor: Yu WangModeling and Analysis of Gear Rattle in Automotive Transmissions

Spring 2002

Keita BroadwaterAdvisor: Donald BarkerCharacterization and Health Monitoring of Epoxy-Cured FiberOptic Connectors Via Fiber Optic Sensing

Richard CiocciAdvisor: Michael PechtAssessing the Migration to Lead-Free Electronic Products

Peter L. HaswellAdvisor: Abhijit DasguptaDurability Assessment and Microstructural Observations ofSelected Solder Alloys

Weifeng LiuAdvisor: Michael PechtReliability Assessment of Metal Particle-in-Elastomer Sockets

Ion PelinescuAdvisor: Balakumar BalachandranActive Control of Wave Transmission Through Cylindrical Struts

Yuan ZhaoAdvisor: Michael OhadiFlow Boiling Characteristics of Carbon Dioxide in Microchannels

Huayang ZhuAdvisor: Gregory JacksonNumerical Modeling of Combustion on Palladium Catalysts forGas Turbine Applications

Summer 2002

Zhiyang YaoAdvisors: Satyandra K. Gupta and Dana NauGeometric Algorithms for Operation Planning of GeometricallyComplex Milling Features

Graduate School FellowsVytenis BenetisAntonio CardoneLorenzo CremaschiAmr GadoMohammad Reza KeimasiKyle KratzschMartin LinckGregg LithgowCheng ShaoZhen ShiPameet SinghBretton SwopeTravis TempleXuezheng WangShenglan Xuan

Jianming YangXiabo YaoZhihua YueKrista ZaniewskiLei ZhangYuxun ZhouBin ZhuLikun Zhu

Litton Industry FellowAli Farhang-Mehr

SRC FellowDeborah Pollack

Graduate Awards & Honors

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PI Agency TitleAnand ........................................Advanced Thermal & Environmental Concepts, Inc. .....EHD-Enhanced Air-to Liquid Heat ExchangerAnand ........................................Advanced Thermal & Environmental Concepts, Inc. .....Chip Integrated EHD Cryogenic Cooling System Phase IIAnand ........................................DOD-Navy.NSWC..............................................................Center for Energetic Concepts DevelopmentAnand ........................................DOD-Navy.NSWC..............................................................International Shock Wave/ Dynam…Anand/Allen ..............................NIST...................................................................................Research on Web-Enabled Collab…Azarm ........................................NSF....................................................................................Robust Product Design Selection Under UncertaintyAzarm .......................................State/Black and Decker ...................................................MIPS Optimization of Power Tool DesignAzarm .......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Concurrent Design OptimizationAzarm .......................................NSF....................................................................................Entropy Based Multiobjective Genetic AlgorithmAzarm/McCluskey/Pecht............DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Decision Support of Design of Hig…Azarm-CoPI................................DOD-Navy.NSWC..............................................................Center for Energetic Concepts DevelopmentBalachandran ............................NSF....................................................................................Novel Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensor SystemBalachandran ............................NSF....................................................................................High-Speed Milling DynamicsBalachandran/Baz .....................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Virtual Platform for Des and Control of Struct. ACBaz .............................................Business Performance Group ..........................................Integrated Simulation-Based Design EnvironmentBaz .............................................Catholic University...........................................................Active & Passive Control of Smart…Baz .............................................DOD-Army.ARO ...............................................................Active & Reactive ShellsBaz .............................................DOD-Army.ARO ...............................................................Multi Input/Multi-output Active Control & ...Baz .............................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Active & Passive Vibration & Noise ...Baz .............................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Virtual Design of Quiet Underwater ...Baz .............................................Qortek, Inc. ......................................................................Semi-Passive Shock and Vibration MountsBaz .............................................Qortek, Inc. ......................................................................Qortek Isolator Proof of Concept Vibration TestsBaz and Davis ............................Qortek, Inc. ......................................................................Multifunctional Integrated Piezo-Fiber Modulation SystemBernard......................................VorCat, Inc........................................................................Gridfree Compressible Turbulent Flow ModelingBigio...........................................Intelligent Automation ...................................................Polypropylene-based AVI Guard ProductsBigio...........................................MULTI COMP....................................................................Polymer Mixing Program (PMP#2)Bigio...........................................NSF....................................................................................Modeling & Control of Extruders &…Bigio...........................................State/Intelligent Corporation .........................................Polypropylene-based AVI Guard ProductsBruck .........................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Fabrication & Design of a Functionally…Bruck..........................................DOD-Navy.NSWC..............................................................Center for Energetic Concepts DevelopmentBuckley.......................................Carnegie Mellon ..............................................................LIBs for Real-Time Ambient Particle AnalysisBuckley.......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Particle Diagnostics for Navy Vehicles and OperationsBuckley.......................................NSF....................................................................................RET Supplement for NSF AwardBuckley.......................................Systems Planning & Analysis ...........................................Ship Structural Health Monitoring Using Fiber Optic SensingBuckley.......................................DOD-Navy.NSWC..............................................................Center for Energetic Concepts DevelopmentBuckley/Balachandran...............Systems Planning & Analysis ..........................................Structural Health Monitoring Using…Buckley/Balachandran...............Systems Planning & Analysis ..........................................Towed Array Shape Mgmt.Buckley.......................................NIST...................................................................................Assessment of Accuracy in Singly…Buckley.......................................NSF....................................................................................Investigation of Laser-Induced Bre…Dasgupta ...................................Hitachi ..............................................................................Development of Nested Finite Ele…Dasgupta/DeVoe .......................NSF....................................................................................A MEMS-based Stiffness/Energy Sensor for Structural…DeVoe ........................................DOD-ARPA........................................................................Parallel Fabrication of 3D Micros…DeVoe ........................................DOD-MD. Procurement of ..............................................III-V MEMS for Optical MicrosystemsDeVoe ........................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................A Deep Reactive Ion EtcherDeVoe ........................................NIST...................................................................................MEMS Test Structures for Materials CharacterizationDeVoe ........................................NIST...................................................................................Integrated Silicon/Plastic Microfluidic Gas SensorsDeVoe ........................................NSF....................................................................................PECASE: Mechanically Robust MacromeDeVoe .......................................NIST...................................................................................MEMS Test Structures for MaterialDeVoe ........................................DOD- Navy.NSWC.............................................................Center for Energetic Concepts DevDeVoe/Balachandran ................DOD-ARPA........................................................................High-Q Piezoelectric Nanomechanical Filter Arraysdi Marzo ....................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Fire Protective Clothing Modeldi Marzo ....................................NIST...................................................................................Fire Safety EngineeringDuncan.......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................The Effects of Salinity and Wind on the Surface Profile…Duncan.......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................The 3D Structure of Spilling BreakersDuncan.......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................An Experimental 2D+T Investigation of Breaking Bow WavesDuncan.......................................NSF....................................................................................The Dynamics of Short WavelengthDuncan .....................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Equip. for the Study of Breaking…Duncan/Kiger.............................NSF....................................................................................Air Entrainment by Translating Plu…Gupta, A.K.................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Control Flame Structure in SprayGupta, A.K.................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Phase Doppler Interferometer/Refr…Gupta, A.K.................................Japan Science & Tech. Corp ............................................Thermogravimettry Analysis Coal & Wastes

Contracts, Grants, and Awards

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PI Agency TitleGupta, A.K.................................NASA - Glenn (Lewis) ......................................................Studies on the Behavior of Highly…Gupta, A.K.................................NASA - Glenn (Lewis) ......................................................Data-Base on Fuel Air Mixing & C…Gupta, A.K.................................NSF....................................................................................Experimental & Theoretical StudiesGupta, A.K.................................NSF....................................................................................Experimental & Theoretical StudiesGupta, A.K.................................Teledyne Energy Systems ................................................Burner Development for TP SystemsGupta, S.K..................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Automated Mold Design and Fabrication for Rapid…Gupta, S.K..................................NSF....................................................................................Generating Shared-Setups for Ena…Gupta, S.K..................................NSF....................................................................................REU Supplement for NSF Grant #…Gupta, S.K..................................Carnegie Mellon ..............................................................Automated Extraction for Structured MEMS DesignGupta, S.K..................................NSF....................................................................................PECASE: Automated Design of Multi-Piece Molds (Career)Gupta, S.K..................................NSF....................................................................................REU Career SupplementHan.............................................Intel ..................................................................................Development of High Resolution R…Han.............................................Intel Technology ..............................................................Practical Approach of Microscopi…Han.............................................Semiconductor Research .................................................SRC National Semiconductor ScholarshipHan.............................................Semiconductor Research .................................................Development of Displacement Me…Hillman ......................................Boeing ..............................................................................Reliability Assessment of Super-FET ComponentHolloway....................................DOE - CHICAGO ...............................................................Gate Fellowship ApplicationHolloway....................................General Dynamics............................................................Hybrid Electric Design for a Unmanned Grad Combat VehiclesHolloway....................................General Dynamics............................................................Hybrid Electric DrivetrainHolloway....................................MD Grain Prod. Utl Board...............................................Development of and Ethanol Fueled…Jackson.......................................California Energy Comm. ................................................Integral Catalytic Combustion/FuelJackson.......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Development of Design Models for Hydrogen Catalytic…Jackson.......................................NSF....................................................................................Development & Validation of Surface…Jackson/Kiger.............................NSF....................................................................................Impact of H2 and CO on Lean Premi…Joshi ...........................................DOD-Navy.NSWC..............................................................Microfabrication Alliance for Innovat…Joshi/Sandborn..........................Georgia Tech....................................................................Internet Based Modules for Natio…Kiger ..........................................NSF....................................................................................Acquisition of a Phase Doppler An…Kiger/Modarres .........................NRC ...................................................................................High-Resolution Experimental Measurement of Turbulent…Kiger/Kim...................................DOD-MD. Procurement of ..............................................Heat Transfer Measurements on…Kim J. .........................................NASA - Glenn (Lewis) ......................................................Investigation of Pod Boiling Heat T…Kim J. .........................................NASA - Other ...................................................................Pool Heat Transfer Mechanisms in…Kim J. .........................................National Renewable Energy Lab ....................................U of Maryland Solar Decathlon ProposalKim J. .........................................NIST...................................................................................Fabrication of Data Acquisition & …Kim J. .........................................NSF....................................................................................Transition Pool Boiling Heat Trans…Kim J. .........................................NSF....................................................................................Transition Pool Boiling Heat Trans…Kim J. .........................................University of Denver........................................................Time & Space resolved Heat Tra…Kim/Jackson...............................NIST...................................................................................Development of a High Temperature Absorption CoefficientMcCluskey..................................Applied Data Systems......................................................Uprating a RISC-based Single Board Computer SystemMcCluskey..................................Georgia Tech....................................................................Web-based Graduate Course on Mechanical DesignMcCluskey..................................Silcon Power ....................................................................Reliability Testing of the Size 6 thi…McCluskey..................................Virginia Polytechnic Institute..........................................Characterization of Large Area Solder Die Attach FatigueNatishan.....................................EPRI (Electrical Pwr. Res.) ................................................Establishing a Physical Basis for t…Ohadi .........................................Air Conditioning & Ref. Tech Inst...................................MicroChannel Heat ExchangerOhadi/Kiger ...............................TEDCO ..............................................................................Development of a Micro-condenser for Source-Integrated…Pecht ..........................................DOD-MD. Procurement of ..............................................Manufacturability and Durability Analysis of Single…Pecht/Das ...................................MD Robotics-Canada.......................................................End Effector Electronics Unit Life InvestigationPiomelli ......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Large-eddy Simulation of Complex…Piomelli ......................................DOD-Navy.ONR ................................................................Comparison of Wall-Layering Modeling Techniques for…Piomelli ......................................NIST...................................................................................Evaluation of MEMs Ultrosonic Transducer ArraysPiomelli .....................................NASA-Langley ..................................................................Interaction of Boundary Layer With…Radermacher .............................ARTI ..................................................................................CO2 Expander-Compressor AnalysisRadermacher .............................Battelle .............................................................................Operation of CHP Systems, Measurement and Data EvaluationRadermacher .............................DOD-Army.ARO ...............................................................Modeling & Testing of Commercial Prototype Carbon dios…Radermacher .............................EPA ...................................................................................Systematic Analysis of the Performance Potential of …Radermacher .............................EPRI Solutions ..................................................................Installation of Capstone Micro-turbine Radermacher .............................Excel Water Technologies ...............................................Testing an Analysis of Atmospheric Water GeneratorRadermacher .............................Lockheed Martin, (now Battelle) ...................................Natural Gas Buildings: DemonstrationRadermacher .............................United Nations.................................................................Intensive Refrigeration Design TrainingSandborn ...................................Frontier Technology Inc ..................................................EPOI Life Cycle Cost Development for AFRL and ASCSandborn ...................................Lockheed Martin .............................................................Part Obsolescence ForecastingSandborn ...................................Northrup-Grumman ........................................................Electronic Parts Obsolescence Initiative

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3COM ACSS AEDS, FranceAmerican Society for

Engineering Education (ASEE)

Applied Data SystemsARTI ASCO ATEC Avici AWA BAE Black & Decker Boeing Brazeway Bryant-Berry, Inc.Business PerformanceGroup Capstone Carnegie Mellon

UniversityCarrier CASCADE Cessna CIENA Corporation Clark Construction Copelan Copeland Copper Development

Research SponsorsCORVIS Corporation CPI DakinDARPADatumDelphi Delco

Electronics SystemsDENSO CorpDERA Aquila, QintetiQDOD - Maryland

Procurement OfficeDOE - ChicagoDuPontEatonEducation AllianceEmbracoEmersonEnergy Concepts Co.Environmental

Protection AgencyEPRIsolutionsEricsson and Phillips Ericsson Radio

Systems AB ERS Ethel Sorrentino ExxonMobil Ford Motor Company Frostburg State

University

GEC-Marconi (BAE Systems Electronics)

General Dynamics General Dynamics

Robotics General Motors Corp. Georgia Tech Governors’ Ethanol

Coalition Grundfos Manage-

ment, GermanyHalla Climate Hamilton Sunstrands Harris Heatcrat Hitachi Honeywell Idirect Iltam Ind Tech Infinite BiomedicalTechnologies, LLCJackson & Tull

Chartered Engineers Japan Science &

Technology Corp. LeCroy LG Electronics Liebert Litton

Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin

Vought Systems Lucent MacDermid Maryland Grain

Producers Utility Board

Matrics Tech Matsushita MD Robotics Merix Michelin MTI NASA National

Semiconductor Corp. NIST Nokia Research Center Northrop Grumman Northstar Photonics NSF NSWC Nuclear Regulatory

CommissionONR Pepsi PerkinElmer Phenix Software

Technologies

Philips Praxair Propane Education QorTek QSS Raytheon Systems

Company Rockey Research Rockwell Collins, Inc.Samsung Electronics Sanden Sandia Schlumberger Schlumberger Oil

Drilling Services Schlumberger Well

Services Seagate Selas Fluid Processing

Corporation Semiconductor

Research Corp Siemens Silicon Power Smiths Industries St. Jude Medical Systems Planning and

Analysis Tatung, ChinaTechnobit

Tecumseh Products Company

Teledyne Energy Systems

Teradyne ThermaSys Thermo King TRW, EnglandU.K. Ministry of

Defense U.S. Air Force U.S. AMSAA - AMXSY U.S. Army U.S. Army Research

Office Unistar Group University of Alabama University of Denver UT Batelle Virginia Tech VorCat, Inc.VPAA Washington Gas Wieland - Werke York International Co.

PI Agency TitleSandborn ...................................Nu Therna Systems, Inc. ..................................................Advanced Embedded PassivesSandborn ...................................University of Texas...........................................................IEEE/CMPT Internet Based EducationSandborn - CoPI ........................DOD- Navy.NSWC.............................................................Center for Energetic Concepts DevelopmentSandborn/Ramahi......................Applied Data Systems......................................................Design of Embedded Computer Systems for Automotive…Sandborn/McCluskey/Pecht ......AF-AFMC-Wright Patterson ............................................Life Cycle Cons Reduction ThrongSchmidt ......................................NIST...................................................................................Research on Uncertainty Measurement for CMM SoftwareSchmidt ......................................NSF....................................................................................A Carrer in Generative Designer A…Schmidt ......................................NSF....................................................................................REU Sup to Carrer: Generative D…Schmidt ......................................NSF....................................................................................Research Internships in Science and EngineeringSchmidt ......................................NSF....................................................................................E-volving the Open Workshop on Decision Based DesignSchmidt ......................................Research Foundation of SUNY .......................................A Subcontract to Expansion of De…Schmidt/Bigio ............................NSF....................................................................................BESTEAMS Model of Team DevelopmentSmela .........................................Advanced Thermal & Environmental Concepts.............MIPS Source - Integrated Micro Co..Smela .........................................Infinite Biomedical Technologies Corp. .........................Intraurethal Continent Prosthesis (ICNCOPRO)Wallace ......................................DOE - Dept. of Energy.....................................................Fundamental Thermal Fluid Phys…Wallace ......................................NSF....................................................................................Experimental & Numerical StudiesWallace ......................................NSF....................................................................................Concentration Flux MeasurementsWalsh G .....................................NSF....................................................................................Design & Simulation tools for Net…Zhang G .....................................U. MED. & DENT/NIH .......................................................Machining Ceramic Materials with…Zhang G .....................................U. MED. & DENT/NIH .......................................................Minority Graduate Assistant Supplement

For more information please contact:Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of MarylandCollege Park, MD 20742

301.405.2410 Telephone301.314.9477 Faxwww.enme.umd.edu

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Advanced Thermal and Environmental Concepts Inc. was

born when its chief executive officer, Michael Ohadi, decided

to go beyond his research into cooling and refrigeration and

apply it to a business model. This Best New Incubator Com-

pany joined the University of Maryland College Park’s Tech-

nology Advancement Program, TAP, in 2001.

L O CAT E D O N T H E U N I V E R S I T Y CA M P U S, ATEC devel-ops cooling and heat exchange and transfer products for use inelectronics, refrigeration and automotive applications.

“Essentially, all of our projects we subcontract back to theUniversity to help develop or obtain fundamental data we use inour projects or concepts,” said John Lawler, the company’s presi-

dent and technical director. “It’s nice to be righthere in terms of meeting with the researchers andgraduate students.”

Two of ATEC’s recent hires came from theUniversity’s graduate student body, and Lawlersaid the firm also makes use of the testing facilitiesavailable on campus. In addition, Ohadi, a Uni-versity of Maryland professor of mechanical engi-neering, is never more than a few hundred yards

from the office.“The faculty can’t give their full time to run a company …

but he’s still a technical leader in the company and maintains ahigh level of interest,” explained Ed Sybert, director of the TAPincubator program. “He can look in on the company on hislunch break or before and after class.”

Sybert said Lawler, who has had significant experience inchemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo-gy, devotes his full attention to being president of the company.

“The partnership is a good one,” Sybert said.When looking at applicants for the TAP incubator,“we look

for innovative technologies that can capture either a niche market

Incubator of the Year: Heat is on at Advanced ThermalBy Will WingfieldOriginally published in the Potomac Tech Journal, June 25, 2002

or significant marketshare of an overall market. This is a verynovel technology that has brought applicability in a couple ofniche markets,” he said.

Company officials believe their technology has many differ-ent applications. As high-powered computer workstations andservers become increasingly miniaturized, for instance, they gen-erate extra heat, which the company hopes to combat. The com-pany’s products can also control frost accumulation in grocerystore freezers.

“The basic technology that most of our concepts start fromis the application of electric fields to a fluid, and therefore gettingit to move in some way,” Lawler said. “The basic concept is aminiature pump, getting fluid to mix better than otherwise orgetting two fluids to separate better than they would otherwise.”

“The elements of heat transfer haven’t changed in manyyears,” he said. “With very little additional power input, we canimprove the heat transfer rate, allowing things to be smaller andmore efficient in terms of their size.”

While ATEC has been successful in getting governmentresearch and development contracts, Lawler said the company isalso looking to bring product into the marketplace, and recentlybegan seeking outside venture capital to make that happen.

“They have developed a diverse staff in order to cover thebreadth of their technology. They have equipped the laboratoryto conduct the small-scale experiments necessary to support theirproduct design,” Sybert said. “[They need to] continue to solidifyrelationship with university resource people as well as commercialtechnological partners.”

TAP receives a 1-percent equity stake in the company inexchange for every year ATEC remains in the incubator.

“Since we’ve only physically been here eight or ninemonths, at some point they like for you to graduate and moveout. I assume in two years we’ll consider that,” Lawler said. “Ifwe’re successful with fund raising, we could grow out of thisspace.”

Ohadi

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by Tom Ventsias, University Media Relations

New software developed by Associate Professor of Mechanical

Engineering Peter Sandborn can help electronics manufacturers

redesign printed circuit boards to improve performance, save

space, and decrease overall weight.

T H E S O F T WA R E TO O L O F F E R S A detailed cost-analysis of embed-ded passives, an emerging technology that integrates passive components

like resistors and capacitors into the interior layers of aprinted circuit board, as opposed to the traditionalmethod of soldering them to the board’s exterior.

“Embedded passives are on the threshold of becom-ing mainstream in the electronics industry,” says Sand-born, and that most handheld telecommunications appli-cations and other devices that have size and weight con-siderations “will undoubtedly go to embedded passives in

the next few years.”The cost-analysis tool allows R&D specialists to digitally describe a

traditional electronics system using discrete passives—the term used forresistors and capacitors soldered onto a circuit board—and then redesignthe system by converting some or all of the discreet passives to embed-ded passives. The software provides detailed cost estimations that includeboth current and projected costs of electronic components, Sandbornsays, and also gives size and weight projections to help design engineersmaximize space considerations.

The software was developed in partnership with the National Cen-ter for Manufacturing Sciences’Advanced Embedded Passives Consor-tium, a collaborative R&D effort co-funded by industry and theNational Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST. The consor-tium includes major telecommunications and electronics manufacturerssuch as DuPont, Nortel, and Merix, with industry and the NISTAdvanced Technology Program providing funding for developing thesoftware.

Part of making the software functional and user-friendly, Sandbornsays, was working with the embedded passives consortium. “The biggestchallenge was in getting realistic [cost] numbers,” he says. “By partner-ing with research and development experts from companies such asDuPont and Nortel, I was able to get very accurate input on what isbeing used in industry right now, and what the needs for the future are.”

This story first appeared in Maryland Research Magazine.

Sandborn

On the Drawing Board:

Cutting Costs, and Circuit Boards,

Down to Size

ME Baby

Boom!

Congratulations to the following MEfaculty and staff who have wel-comed new additions to their fami-lies in 2002:

Megan Augusta McCluskey, bornMarch 7, to Associate ProfessorPatrick McCluskey and his wife,Monica

Liam Orion DeVoe, born May 4, toAssociate Professor Don DeVoe andhis wife, Cassandra Michaud

Annika Grace Jackson, born June11, to Assistant Professor Greg Jack-son and his wife, Karin

Ian Alexander Picard, born October23, to Assistant to the Director,CALCE, Ania Picard and her hus-band, Charles

Pi Tau Sigma Award Presented toDeVoe The University of Maryland’s Tau Mu Chap-ter of Pi Tau Sigma, the National HonoraryMechanical Engineering Society, has present-ed Associate Professor Don DeVoe with itsannual Appreciation Award.

Dr. DeVoe was chosen to be the recipi-ent of this award in recognition of his dedi-cation toward the passion for his students tolearn. In a letter to Dr. DeVoe, Pi Tau SigmaPresident Robyn Hladish stated that he was“one of the few teachers that really showedan enthusiasm for every student to grasp theunderstanding of Vibrations, Controls, andOptimization II (ENME 462). We appreciateyour work and your dedication towards yourstudents’ education. We want you to knowthat your actions were recognized as bothoutstanding and exemplary.”

Pi Tau Sigma began this award in 2001to recognize professors that they feel haveperformed above and beyond the alreadyhigh expectations placed up them.

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ExtraCURRICULAR

What do you do with your free time?I play baseball for the varsity team.— Chris Davis

I play clarinet in the Marching Band,where I am a squad leader, and also playclarinet in the Basketball Pep Band.— Anthony J. Downs

I am a third year mechanical engineeringstudent. I am in Delta Gamma sorority.In addition I take night classes in potteryat the art and learning center.— Michelle Flanagan

I am a junior/senior status ME. I am alsoan amateur artist. I take painting classeshere at UMCP and I also spend sometime outside of school in arts. I am partof Society of Hispanic Professional Engi-neers and serve as their publicist. I alsoam part of ACLA and ASME.— Carlos E. Garcia

I am a senior here and am currently presi-dent of the Engineering Student Counciland webmaster for ASME. I have beenpart of Gymkana, although not for long,and am a member of the Hillel on cam-pus, and SAE. I also work part-time atthe gym.— Elisabeth Goldwasser

ROTC; fraternity; I work; and play intra-mural football.— Marques Jackson

In addition to my second-year undergradME course load, I am an active memberin the Hinman CEO’s program, doingresearch with Dr. Gil Blankenship as partof the ASPIRE program, am a novicemember of the University Men’s CrewTeam, and play viola in a student-runextracurricular chamber orchestra calledPhilharmonia, in addition to private les-sons.— Eric Jones

I devote a good portion of my time to myfraternity Alpha Tau Omega.— Ben Kahane

I’m currently on the Advisory board formy College Park Scholars Group: Sci-ence,Technology, and Society (STS). Ialso TA a class for freshmen in STS.When I have free time, I work at theInstitute for Research in Electronics andApplied Physics doing mechanical draw-ings with AutoCAD.— David Ian Katz

I am a fourth year mechanical engineeringmajor. For the last 2 years, I have beeninvolved on campus as a Resident Assis-tant in Cumberland Hall with the CollegePark Scholars Program. I am also a mem-ber of the Asian American Navigators, aChristian fellowship on campus.— Christina Kim

I am the treasurer of the Beta Omicronchapter of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, I playintramural soccer with the team Demoli-tion, I play the piano (jazz and classical),and in my free time I have traveled to 4Spanish speaking countries (South Ameri-ca and Europe) to take classes and amnow nearly fluent in Spanish.— Eric Christopher Love

About a month into the Fall 2002

semester we sent an email to our

undergraduate majors, asking them

what they like to do with their free

time. Knowing that free time is a pre-

cious commodity for our students, we

were eager to know what their inter-

ests were outside of mechanical engi-

neering.

The two dozen responses received to

date amazed and delighted us with the

many activities, organizations, and

hobbies our students take part in.

Below are excerpts from some of the

responses that we got. Clearly, our

mechanical engineering majors are a

busy group!

My school-related activities include beingan active member of both the UM LinuxUser Group (UM-LUG) and the UMElectronic Dance Music Club (UM-EDMC). Non school-related activitiesinclude running a weekly drum ‘n’ bassnetcast (it’s a type of Electronic Music forthose who aren’t familiar), and DJ’ing hereand there. I also take part in a coupleAudi/Volkswagen groups around the area.— William Jackson Allen

I am a sophomore, and I have bought sev-eral electric/gas vehicles to test. The cam-pus is large so I really enjoy runningaround at high speed with an electric bikeor scooter. I personally spend free playingcomputer games, console games, eatingfood, hanging out, talking to random peo-ple, going to seminars, watching movies,going to performances at the ClarisseSmith Performing Arts Center, andMOST importantly, working out at thegym.— Michael Armani continued on page 12

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Semiconductor Research Corp.Makes 3 Student Awards Semiconductor Research Corporation hasawarded three undergraduate students$6,000 each as part of their Undergradu-ate Research Assistant Program. Thesethree students, who are students of Associ-ate Professor Bongtae Han, are PulakDatt, Elisabeth Goldwasser, and AnitaCurrano.

In a letter to Dr. Han, SRC’s StudentRelations Manger Ginny Wiggins con-gratulated them on this award, stating that“We are very pleased that Anita, Pulak,and Elisabeth will continue in this pro-gram and look forward to exciting resultsduring the upcoming academic year.”

Ph.D. Student Mudalamane Honored Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. studentRajath Mudalamane was recently hon-ored by the Society of Plastics Engineers.At a ceremony at the May 2002 SPEAnnual Technical Conference (ANTEC)in San Francisco, he was the recipient ofthe Lew Erwin Memorial ScholarshipAward from the Extrusion Division of theSPE.

The Lew Erwin Scholarship wasestablished by the Extrusion Division ofthe SPE in honor of the memory of LewErwin to support undergraduate andgraduate research in the field of polymerextrusion. The 2002 award is for $2500.In order to be considered for the award,students must be a member of SPE andsubmit an application that includes a CV,official academic transcripts, a brief essayon what enticed the candidate to enterthe polymer field, and what are his/hercurrent thoughts about a career in plastics;a succinct description in no more than500 words of the Senior project, M.S. orPh.D. project which this Scholarship willhelp support; and a recommendation andbrief summary of capabilities with respectto polymer engineering by the candidate’sresearch advisor.

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I’m currently the Ellicott CommunityLegislator for the SGA; I serve on my hallcouncil and on the board for religiousJews on campus. I’m also involved inJewish outreach on campus. I’m inQuest, Gemstone and Honors.— Isaac Pollack

I am a member of “The Punkin ChunkinTerps” and I am a bike mechanic at theOutdoor Rec Center, and a member ofPhi Sigma Theta National Honor Society.— Peter Protopappas

I am a senior ME. Besides spending a lotof time on the program’s Future Truck, Iam involved in the following:1. Playing music in a progressive rockband.2.Advocating peace and mobilizingagainst war in the campus’ Peace Forumorganization.3. Studying, selling newspapers, and dis-cussing internationalism, globalization, andoppression with the International SocialistOrganization, which has a campus branch.— Michael J. Scott

My main activity is volunteering at HELPCenter. It is a peer counseling service onthis campus.

HELP Center is an on campus peercounseling and crisis intervention hotline(301-314-HELP). We also accept walk-insand provide free and confidential pregnan-cy tests. Basically it is trained studentshelping other students in any situation.These issues arise from being stressedabout a final, to a relationship, to sexualassault and suicide. We are there to listento the student, discuss options and giveresources. Also, HELP Center provides avast amount of resources including infor-mation and contacts. It is a studentorganization recognized by SGA, but isdirected by the counseling center.

I met a lot of people my freshmanyear, but never felt part of an organization.I joined HELP Center thinking I would

be able to volunteer my time and helpothers, because I have been fortunateenough to have the help of others intimes of distress and crisis. I had no cluewhat I really got into. I soon realized thatI would be in a position to prevent sui-cides, aide students with decisions thatwould affect the rest of their lives, and bethere for someone when they had no oneto turn to. I was also part of an 80-mem-ber club that seems almost closer than afraternity.

Seven semesters later I am now thePresident of HELP Center. I spend about30 hours a week spending my time withadministrative duties, taking phone callsand walk-ins, and visiting different shifts.

Don’t get me wrong, its not all work.We have dinners, parties, and a heck of alot of fun. I have made some of my clos-est friends there, and I will miss themdearly when I graduate.

Being a mechanical engineeringmajor, I am certainly glad that a grouplike this exists especially during stressfultimes. Being part of this organization hasallowed me to develop my people skillsand leadership skills.— Michael Sihvola

I’m the assistant captain of the club hock-ey team.— Paul Sylvester

Club lacrosse; club waterpolo last yearalso.— Brett Taylor

The only extracurricular that I dothrough school is intramural sports, mostrecently basketball in spring ‘02. I alsowork 30 hours a week as a waiter duringthe school year. This semester I’m onexchange at the University of Hawaii.— Jonathan Urban

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The ASTM (formerly known as theAmerican Society for Testing and Materi-als) has awarded Dr. Richard E. Link their2002 ASTM Award of Merit and namedhim a Fellow, which is the highest Societyrecognition for individual contributions tostandards activities. Link, an associate pro-fessor of mechanical engineering at theUnited States Naval Academy and a resi-dent of Arnold, Md., will receive theaward for his “distinguished and sustainedtechnical contributions to Committee E08on Fatigue and Fracture, in particular hisleadership of standards development andhis role in establishing the experimentalprocedures most appropriate for elastic-plastic fracture mechanics test methods.”

An ASTM member since 1985, Linkcurrently serves on the ASTM Committeeon Publications and as an associate editorof the Journal of Testing and Evaluation,which is published by ASTM Internation-al. A contributor to numerous fracturemechanics papers published in ASTM spe-cial technical publications, Link has alsomade presentations about his work at E08meetings.

On the standards development front,

Link has made significant contributions toE08 work through efforts to improveexperimental procedures and approachesfor interpreting measured quantities forstandards measuring elastic-plastic fracturetoughness. He has provided technicalleadership resulting in the adoption of acommon fracture toughness standard, andis an important contributor to standardsrelated to elastic-plastic fracture mechanicstheories.

In his current position, Link teachescourses in strength of materials, and com-puter-aided design and manufacturing.Before joining the faculty at the NavalAcademy, Link worked as a research engi-neer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center,where he conducted basic and appliedresearch programs in material characteri-zation and the fatigue and fracture per-formance of metallic materials for navaland nuclear materials.

Link holds a B.S., an M.S., and aPh.D. in mechanical engineering from theUniversity of Maryland, College Park. Heis, in addition to ASTM, a member of theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engi-neers.

Craig Barker, B.S. ’91, joined Wooden &Benson in June of 1997. As a Supervisor,his areas of expertise include audits oflocal governments, non-profit organiza-tions, financial institutions and construc-tion entities. Prior to joining Wooden &Benson, Barker was employed by the U.S.Department of Defense as a mechanicalengineer for five years. Upon successfulcompletion of the CPA exam in May of1996, Barker was employed with a localpublic accounting firm where he special-ized in audits of low-income housingprojects. In January of 2000, Barkerobtained the Certified Fraud Examiner(CFE) designation and has been approvedby the Association of Certified FraudExaminers Board of Regents for fullmembership and use of the designation.He is a member of the Maryland Associa-

alumniNOTES

tion of Certified Public Accountants,American Institute of Certified PublicAccountants, and the Association of Certi-fied Fraud Examiners.

Nilüfer Egrican Ph.D.’77, of Istanbul,Turkey,was elected as the nextASME Region XIII vicepresident at the SummerAnnual Meeting in Min-neapolis. Her term will

begin in July 2003. ASME Region XIIIencompasses those sections and membersoutside of North America.

Dr. Egrican is Professor and formerDean of the School of Mechanical andTextile Engineering at Istanbul TechnicalUniversity,Turkey. The first female recipi-ent of a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering

from the University of Maryland, she hasbeen active with ASME, serving as ViceChair (1997-1999) and Chair (1999-2001)of the Turkey Section. She has also servedas General Secretary of the University-Industry Council, and currently serves asGeneral Secretary of the InternationalCenter for Applied Thermodynamics,which publishes the quarterly Internation-al Journal of Applied Thermodynamics.She has been a member of Pi Tau Sigma,the mechanical engineering honor society,since 1977, and of the honor society PhiKappa Phi since 1974. She has been theorganizer and chair of several conferences,and in July 2002 served as ConferenceChair of the ASME International’s 6thBiennial Conference on Engineering Sys-tems Design and Analysis in Istanbul,Turkey.

Stephen M. Graham, Ph.D. ’78, joinedthe faculty at the United States NavalAcademy as an Assistant Professor inAugust 2002. A student of ProfessorEmeritus R.J. Sanford, his areas of studywere fracture mechanics and opticalmechanics.

Mary E. Lacey, B.S. ’78, former execu-tive director of the Indian Head Divisionof the Naval Surface Warfare Center, wasappointed to the highest civilian job with-in the center. Lacey is the center’s techni-cal director in charge of network installa-tions in Indian Head, Carderock andDahlgren,Virginia as well as in Indianaand California.

In November, Lacey gave a talk inconjunction with the Clark School’sWomen in Engineering Program oncareer paths in engineering for women.

Donald L. Muschlitz, B.S. ’73, wasnamed the Gilbane Building Company’s2001 Builder of the Year in the CentralRegion for his work as project manager,coordinating $11.4 million in renovationsto the 95-year-old Memorial Hall Build-ing in Columbus, Ohio.

Link Receives ASTM Award

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A Solar Decathlon Photo AlbumFrom the initial planning stages and calcu-

lating maximum heating and power effi-

ciencies, to pouring the foundation and

raising the walls and roof, a group of Mary-

land undergraduates undertook what was

probably the largest student project in the

history of the University: The Solar

Decathlon. This two-year undertaking,

sponsored by the Department of Energy,

culminated with 10 days of competition

between 14 university teams on the Nation-

al Mall in Washington, DC.

The team of 30 students, consisting prima-

rily of Mechanical Engineering majors and

advised by ME Associate Professor Jungho

Kim, was thrilled to place fourth overall in

the competition held from September 26 –

October 6. In addition, the Maryland team

placed first in the Hot Water and Energy

Balance competitions.

For more information about the Solar

Decathlon, go to the DOE’s website,

www.solardecathlon.org, or to the Mary-

land website at www.enme.umd.edu/

solartech/.

Left: The building process begins: pour-

ing concrete footers on a rainy day in

April

Below: The team pulled more than a

few “all-nighters” in readying the house

for the competition. Here, students

work on the roof panels late one May

night.

Above: The shell as it looked in June. The

walls were pre-fabricated modular sections

that fit together like a giant jigsaw puzzle.

While the insulating properties of this type

of building are much higher than regular

stick-built homes, modular building also

made building and transporting the house

easier.

Left: The beginning: architectural draw-

ings of the house

Right: Putting it together just to take it

apart — a crane lifts a roof section off the

house and onto a flatbed truck to be taken

to the National Mall, while teammember

Robyn Hladish looks on.

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Above: Construction begins again, only this time it’s on the

National Mall

Right: Solar

Decathlon offi-

cials evaluate

Maryland’s

house from the

comfort of its

living room

Above: Fame! Project Manager Alex Yasbek and

Assistant Project Manager Catherine Buxton are

featured on the cover of the September 27, 2002

Washington Post Weekend section

Above: Maryland Pride — Past Project Manager and

2002 alumnus Andrew Hunt and Project Manager Alex

Yasbek show off the Maryland colors

Above: Even the transportation had to be solar-

powered. Here, Alex Yasbeck and Holly Campbell

get ready to take their FreedomCAR for a spin

Above: Several members of the Maryland SolarDecathlon Team in front of

their house on the National Mall. Visitors were allowed to tour their houses

throughout the 10-day competition.

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Mark Your CalendarThe following lectures and conferences are taking place this Spring —

be sure to mark your calendars! For additional events and activities, go

to www.enme.umd.edu/news/calendar.html.

Leaders in Mechanical Engineering Lecture Series, Spring 2003

February 14 Arthur Bergles, University of Maryland/RPIFebruary 28 Earl Dowell, Duke UniversityMarch 7 Lex Smits, Princeton UniversityMarch 14 Hratch Semerjian, NISTApril 4 Gregory S. Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins UniversityApril 11 Roger Howe, University of California, BerkeleyApril 18 Fred Gouldin, Cornell UniversityApril 25 Ron Adrian, University of Illinois

Please check our website, www.enme.umd.edu/dsl, for exact times,locations, and lecture titles.

February 21-23, 2003Pi Tau Sigma National Convention

College Park, MarylandFor more information go to www.engr.umd.edu/organizations/pts