Grants and Funding Awards
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scott Dawson received a National Science Foundation award: “CAREER: Automated Physics-Based Distillation of Coherent Structures and Mechanisms in Unsteady and Turbulent Flows”
John G. and Jane E. Olin Endowed Department Chair in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Louis N. Cattafesta III received a National Aeronautics and Space Administration University Leadership Initiative award: “IZEA—Integrated Zero-Emission Aviation using a Robust Hybrid Architecture”
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ankit Srivastava received a National Science Foundation award: “Collaborative Research: Consistent Treatment of Boundaries and Interfaces in Metamaterials”
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering David R. Williams received an Office of Naval Research award: “Finless UCAS Flight Control with Active Flow Control Effectors and Advanced Maneuver Development”
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scott Dawson received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research award: “CIT—A Wavelet-Based Resolvent Analysis for Highly Unsteady Transient Flows”
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Matthew Spenko is co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation award: “LEAP: Learning, Accelerating, and Empowering Embodied Robot Technology Use Within the Construction Industry”
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Matthew Spenko received an Argonne National Laboratory award: “Testing and Evaluation of Cooperative Driving Automation Vehicle Systems”
Professional Achievement Awards
December 11, 2023: Congratulations to MMAE Laboratory Manager, Russ Janota, for receiving an Illinois Institute of Technology 2023 Staff Excellence Award. His award was in the category, "Developing innovative contributions to support excellence in teaching and research." We are grateful to Russ for all the great work he has done for MMAE!
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Sumanta Acharya was selected as one of Illinois Science and Technology Coalition’s 2022 Researchers to Know
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris Pervan received the 2022 Johannes Kepler Award from the Institute of Navigation
John G. and Jane E. Olin Endowed Department Chair in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Louis N. Cattafesta III became a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
John G. and Jane E. Olin Endowed Department Chair in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Louis N. Cattafesta III became a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Student Accomplishments
October 19, 2023: Congratulations to King Ankobea-Ansah (M.S. MAE '22, Ph.D. MAE Candidate) for receiving the 2023/24 Yanmar/SAE Scholarship, which is given to one student annually. In addition to the $1,000 scholarship award, Ankobea-Ansah will receive a free one-year Society of Automotive Engineers student membership.
April 19, 2023: Illinois Tech’s Material Advantage chapter and the Chicago chapter of the American Society for Materials co-organized a student poster competition. Students from Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Northwestern University participated in the competition. Congratulations to the following winners:
First place: Changlong Chen (Ph.D. MSE Candidate, Illinois Tech)
Second place: Lindsay Chaney (Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University)
Third place: Broderick Lewis (Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University)
May 197 2023: Congratulations to MMAE Graduate Student Advisory Council Member Mohammad Jamalkhani for his recent publication in the Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, "Fatigue Behavior of Vacuum-Sintered Binder Jetted Fine 316L Stainless Steel Powder".