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Campus & Community

Nicole PanyardNovember 30, 2022

Senior hires stand out in an impressive year for faculty hiring

The cohort of 36 new tenured and tenure-track faculty includes 11 faculty hired at the rank of professor or associate professor.

Nicole PanyardNovember 3, 2022

Professor Mahesh receives named professorship

Krishan Mahesh has been named the Richard B. Couch Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering effective October 1, 2022, through September 20, 2027. The appointment was approved by the Regents at their September meeting. Mahesh joined the NAME department in August from the University of Minnesota, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. His research […]

Nicole PanyardOctober 13, 2022

GSRA Jia Mi joins NAME with accolades

Mi recently joined the NAME department with new faculty member Lei Zuo and is already receiving recognition for his work.

Nicole PanyardSeptember 20, 2022

Students test a Michigan marine oddity

Thought to be the first all-steel metal pleasure-craft, the Aha was built in 1891 by lumber baron and inventor Ephraim Shay and operated on Little Traverse Bay until the 1930s.

Nicole PanyardSeptember 13, 2022

Professor McCoy establishes first of its kind Marine Engineering Lab

Professor Tim McCoy has established the first-of-its-kind multi-physics hardware lab dedicated to marine engineering systems in the United States for his project, Data Model Fusion: Design, Experiments, and Frameworks for Surface Platforms.

Nicole PanyardAugust 29, 2022

Lecturer Lesa Begley joins NAME

Lesa Begley has joined the NAME Department as a new lecturer, joining lecturer Laura Alford as co-instructor in ENG 101 teaching duties.  Begley came to the University of Michigan as an undergraduate in 1996 to study microbiology and immediately connected with the culture of both the University and Ann Arbor. After completing her Bachelor’s degree […]

Nicole PanyardJune 15, 2022

NAME department hires 3 new faculty

The department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering has added three new faculty to its ranks. The search focused on candidates with research interests in any aspect(s) of naval architecture and marine engineering, including disciplines relevant to the blue economy such as ocean energy and marine-environmental engineering.

Nicole PanyardApril 7, 2022

2022 Leaders and Honors Award Recipients

Students Ashleigh Simonis and Alexander Hrabski are the 2022 NAME Leaders and Honors Award recipients by Michigan Engineering for their distinguished academic achievement.

Nicole PanyardApril 7, 2022

Professor Dong appointed Collegiate Professor of Engineering

Pingsha Dong has been appointed as the Robert F. Beck Collegiate Professor of Engineering effective March 1st, 2022 through February 28th, 2027.

Nicole PanyardOctober 14, 2021

Wenqing Zhou wins SAE Henry O. Fuchs Student Award

Ph.D. student Wenqing Zhou has been awarded the 2021 SAE Henry O. Fuchs Student Award by the SAE Fatigue Design Evaluation Committee for his Ph.D. thesis “Modeling of Welding-Induced Distortion Effects of Lightweight Shipboard Structures.”

Nicole PanyardJuly 6, 2021

New NAME chair aims to spark growth, convey the breadth of the discipline to new students

“NAME grads are responsible for building offshore structures, doing undersea pipelines, cabling, harbors. There’s just a huge breadth of influence.”

Nicole PanyardJune 10, 2021

Professor Steven Ceccio honored by ASME

Steven Ceccio, the Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Professor of Engineering and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Nicole PanyardMay 20, 2021

David Dowling receives ASME Per Bruel Gold Medal

EXPERTS: David Dowling received the ASME Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics “for the pioneering development of novel and robust techniques for remote focusing of acoustic waves, and remote localization and characterization of sound sources in complicated, noisy and imperfectly known environments.” The medal recognizes eminent achievement and extraordinary merit in the […]

Nicole PanyardMay 6, 2021

Delivery robots help Ann Arbor restaurants weather COVID

U-M startup says robotic food deliveries have quadrupled.

Nicole PanyardApril 15, 2021

Jing Sun named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Department Chair Jing Sun has been named to the 2018 class of Fellows for the National Academy of Inventors.

Nicole PanyardMarch 12, 2021

David Dowling named interim chair of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department

Professor David Dowling assumes the role of interim chair of the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering department

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