Tag: Honors and Awards
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Beers/Wood honored with 2024 Rosenblatt-Michigan award
Beers/Wood Honored with 2024 Rosenblatt-Michigan Award Gregory Beers, P.E. (MSE 95, BSE 94) and Cory Wood (BSE 93), esteemed alumni of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, have been awarded the 2024 Rosenblatt-Michigan Award. Cory Wood received his BS in NAME in 1993 and Greg. Beers was right behind a BS in 1994 and…
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Wilkinson named 2024 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department Merit Awardee
The Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering is proud to announce Kari Wilkinson as the 2024 recipient of the Alumni Merit Award. The award, presented at the Alumni Awards Dinner during Michigan Engineering Homecoming Weekend, honors alumni who exemplify the College’s tradition of excellence and have achieved remarkable professional accomplishments. Wilkinson, executive vice president…
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PhD candidate wins NSF Fellowship Award for Ocean Engineering paper
PhD candidate Kyle Marlantes for his National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Award for the presentation of his work on hybrid force-correcting machine learning methods at the IACM 2023 Mechanic Machine Learning and Digital Engineering for Computational Science Engineering and Technology Conference. The work demonstrated how a force-correcting approach can be used to learn nonlinear damping,…
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Trilateral Partnership to Train U.S. Shipbuilding Experts
Macomb Community College, Michigan – July 23, 2024 In an exciting initiative to bolster America’s maritime workforce, the University of Michigan (UM), Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), and Seoul National University (SNU) have forged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This collaborative effort aims to cultivate U.S. shipbuilding expertise through specialized training programs. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer…
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Student wins award for Innovative Design Paper at International Marine Design Conference
Connor Arrigan, a Ph.D. student under the mentorship of Professor Singer at the University of Michigan, recently won the inaugural Best Student Paper Award at the 15th International Marine Design Conference. His paper, titled “The Importance of Ontological Commitment and Linguistics in Relation to the Elucidation of Design Requirements,” explores how the role of linguistics…
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Professor Singer NAME faculty award recipient
Associate Professor David J. Singer is honored as the department’s 2024 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Faculty Award recipient. Singer is the director of the Advanced Naval Concepts Research (ANCR) Laboratory, director of the NAVSEA Ship Production Science Program, and was co-director of the Naval Engineering Education Center (NEEC). He conducts research in the areas…
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Professor Zuo named Herbert Sadler Collegiate Professor
Lei Zuo has been named the Herbert C. Sadler Collegiate Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in a ceremony on November 15th where he presented a lecture; Growth and Opportunities of Marine Enginery and the Blue Economy. Zuo joined the department in August 2022 from Virginia Tech where he was the Robert E. Hord…
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Cryo Genesis ship design wins the Dr. James A. Lisnyk Student Ship Design Competition
Zero emissions liquid hydrogen tanker wins SNAME ship design award.
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Richard McCreary named 2023 Rosenblatt-Michigan Awardee
Richard McCreary graduated from the University of Michigan College of Engineering with a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in 1977, and completed his Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago while working his first professional job at Lamont Shipbuilding and Repair. He is now president of Hendry Marine Industries Gulf Marine…
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Professor Lei Zuo appointed Collegiate Professor of Engineering
Lei Zuo has been appointed as the Herbert C. Sadler Collegiate Professor of Engineering for a 5-year term effective March 1st, 2023. The Herbert C. Sadler Collegiate Professorship in Engineering was established in February 2023 to honor Herbert C. Sadler, the University’s first Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, who supervised the design and…
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Regents approve appointment of Professor David R. Dowling as ABS faculty chair
The Regents have approved the appointment of David R. Dowling as the ABS Professor of Marine and Offshore Design Performance, for a five-year renewable term, effective February 1, 2023, through January 31, 2028.
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NAME students present research at Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference
Four NAME undergraduate students were invited by the Dean of the College of Engineering to represent the University of Michigan at the 11th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC), held 6-8 November 2022 in Annapolis, Maryland. This year’s conference, titled Powering the Modern World, is organized around the themes of Energy and Sustainability. Delegates…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.”