Ten Engineering Educators Receive SAE Award
WARRENDALE, Pa., July 7, 2008 -
Ten mechanical engineering professors are recipients of SAE International's Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. They were honored during the SAE 2008 World Congress in Detroit.
The Teetor Award, established in 1953, recognizes outstanding engineering educators and offers them the opportunity to meet and exchange views with practicing engineers in their fields. The award honors the late Ralph R. Teetor, 1936 SAE President, who believed that engineering educators are the most effective link between engineering students and their future careers.
This award is funded through the SAE Foundation. In addition to supporting the awards, recognition and scholarship programs of SAE International, the SAE Foundation develops and funds programs and incentives that foster student interest in engineering, scientific and technical education.
Avinash Kumar Agarwal Previously, he worked at the Engine Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while pursuing his post-doctoral fellowship. He also was a visiting professor at the University of Loughborough and the Technical University of Vienna.
Agarwal has published more than 40 international journal papers and 50 international conference papers, in addition to editing four special publications for SAE. He serves on editorial boards for the Journal of Automobile Engineering: Part D of the Proceedings by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, U.K.; and Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering by Bentham Science Publishers. He also edited a special issue of the Journal of Automobile Engineering (August 2007) on alternative fuels.
Agarwal is the recipient of several awards, including the INSA Young Scientist Award (2007) from the Indian National Science Academy; the UICT-Alkyl Amine Young Scientist Award (2007) from the University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai; the INAE Young Engineer Award (2005) from the Indian National Academy of Engineering; the Career Award for Young Teachers (2004) from the All India Council for Technical Education; and the Young Scientist Award (2001) and BOYSCAST Fellowship (2002) from the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology.
A member of SAE International, Agarwal organizes sessions on alternative fuels and advanced engine technologies for the SAE World Congress. He is also a member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineers. He is a lifetime member of the Solar Energy Society of India, the Combustion Institute and the Tribology Society of India.
Agarwal holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Malviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur, and a doctorate in energy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He resides in Kanpur, India.
For more information on Agarwal, please contact professor N. S. Vyas at the Indian Institute of Technology at head_me@iitk.ac.in.
Sean Brennan Brennan leads the engineering faculty in the area of vehicle chassis dynamics and control. His research group of graduate and doctoral students is funded by the National Academy of Science, the Federal Transit Agency, the U.S. Navy NavEOD, the U.S. Army Tank and Automotive Command, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Brennan has published more than a dozen peer-reviewed papers. He is the associate editor of Control Systems Technology, a special issue of Automotive Controls published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also secretary of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology and vice chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Dynamic Systems and Control Technical Committee on Automotive and Transportation Systems.
Brennan is a past recipient of the PSU Quality Improvement Award for his outreach efforts in training high school students in vehicle dynamics and automation, and a recipient of the PSU Outstanding Teaching Award, the top honor for tenure-track faculty in the College of Engineering. He is a Graduate Fellow of the National Science Foundation.
Brennan holds his master’s and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He resides in Port Matilda, Pa.
For more information on Brennan, please contact Michael Casper of PSU at mcasper@engr.psu.edu.
Babak Fahimi Fahimi has authored or co-authored more than 150 articles on various aspects of electric drives and power electronic converters, 10 technical reports and 10 book chapters. He holds five patents. Fahimi is a past recipient of the Richard M. Bass Young Power Electronics Investigator Award from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. He is a member of SAE International and IEEE.
Fahimi holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.
For more information on Fahimi, please contact Roger Tuttle of the University of Texas at Arlington at tuttle@uta.edu.
Mark Horstemeyer Outside of the university, Horstemeyer is the founder and CEO of Predictive Design Technologies and the founder and initial director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Southern Regional Center for Lightweight Designs.
Horstemeyer has published more than 250 journal articles, conference papers and technical reports. He has been invited to give lectures at universities, government laboratories and industry conferences worldwide. He advises 10 doctoral students, five post-doctoral students and 4 master students. He also works on research collaborations with Ecole des Mines in France and Sangkyunkwan University in Korea.
Horstemeyer is a recipient of the Institute of Physics’ Select Paper Award and the American Foundry Society’s Best Paper Award. He is a member of 17 technical and honorary societies, including SAE International.
Horstemeyer holds a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University, a master's in engineering mechanics from Ohio State University and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Richard Kent Kent has authored more than 10 books and book chapters, and more than 75 peer-reviewed papers on topics related to injury biomechanics and passive safety. He is the recipient of several awards, including the John Paul Stapp Award; the Member Service Award and Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award from SAE International; the Excellent Technical Presentation Award from the Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers; the Best Young Researcher Award from the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impact; and the A.J. Merkin Service Award, Best Scientific Paper Award and Elaine Wodzin Young Achiever Award from the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
Kent is member of SAE International, The Scientific Research Society, the American Society of Biomechanics, the International Society of Biomechanics, the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine and Sigma Xi.
Kent received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah. He also holds a doctorate from the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia. He resides in Charlottesville, Va.
For more information on Kent, please contact Charlotte Crystal of UVA at charlottec@virginia.edu.
Song-Charng Kong Kong has organized and chaired numerous technical conferences, and has served on review panels for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. He has nearly 30 journal publications and more than 20 conference papers to his credit.
Kong holds a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He resides in Ames, Iowa.
For more information on Kong, please contact Annette Hacker of Iowa State University at annette@iastate.edu.
Jeffrey Naber Naber directs the Advanced Power Systems Research Center at Michigan Tech and, in collaboration with other faculty, graduate students and research staff, conducts education and research programs that include the application of alternative fuels and diesel exhaust aftertreatment. He also leads the university’s vehicle and engines initiative in the Wood-to-Wheels graduate enterprise within the Sustainable Futures Institute.
Before joining Michigan Tech, Naber worked for Motorola Automotive, managing a research and development engineering group for the company's automotive sector. He is the author or co-author of 16 SAE technical papers and holds 13 patents.
A member of SAE International, Naber is active in the SAE Powertrain, Fuels and Lubricants Activity and is a past chair of the Lubricants and Powertrain Systems Committee. Naber also co-chairs the New SI Engine and Components session for the SAE World Congress and co-chairs the New Engine and Driveline Design session for the SAE Powertrain and Fluid Systems conference. He is a past recipient of the SAE Horning Award.
Naber received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed post-doctoral work at Sandia National Laboratories in the Engine Combustion Research Group. He resides in Houghton, Mich.
For more information on Naber, please contact Jennifer Donovan of Michigan Tech at jbdonova@mtu.edu.
Taehyun Shim Shim has authored 39 publications, including 18 peer-reviewed journal articles and 21 conference papers. He is a member of SAE International, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.
Shim earned his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Hankuk Aviation University, and his master's and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Davis. He resides in Ann Arbor, Mich.
For more information on Shim, please contact Terry Gallagher of the University of Michigan at tgallagh@umd.umich.edu.
Zahed Siddique Previously, Siddique worked with the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center on the reverse and re-engineering of aging aircraft components. He has published more than 70 refereed conference and journal articles. He also co-edited a book titled, Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications.
Siddique is a member of SAE International and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He resides in Norman, Okla.
For more information on Siddique, please contact Megan Denney of the University of Oklahoma at mdenney@ou.edu.
Steven J. Skerlos In addition to his role as an educator, Skerlos is the co-founder a start-up company. He is a past recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the College of Engineering Education Excellence Award and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. He is the co-author of more than 50 technical publications.
Skerlos is a member of SAE International, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the International Society for Industrial Ecology and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Skerlos holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a doctorate in industrial engineering, also from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
For more information about Skerlos, please contact Nicole Casal Moore of the University of Michigan at ncmoore@umich.edu.
For more information about SAE International’s Ralph R. Educational Teetor Award, please contact pr@sae.org.
Agarwal is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he has established a state-of-the-art engine research laboratory.
Brennan is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at Penn State University (PSU). He also shares a joint faculty appointment with the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute.
Fahimi is an associate professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he conducts research in the area of vehicular technology and renewable energy systems. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Horstemeyer is a chaired professor in the mechanical engineering department at Mississippi State University, where he oversees research related to the modeling of vehicular components and systems. He also leads the Computational Manufacturing and Design area at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, where he has formed a group of faculty members from various departments to develop new courses and recruit students.
Kent is a professor at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he works in the departments of mechanical and aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering and emergency medicine. He also leads the automobile safety research program at the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics.
Kong is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at Iowa State University, where he supervises an engine research laboratory that consists of various engine test cells. He also developed a laboratory curriculum that provides undergraduate students with hands-on experience on internal combustion engines.
Naber is an associate professor in the mechanical engineering/engineering mechanics department at Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech). He teaches courses on energy-thermo-fluid sciences and internal combustion engines.
Shim is an associate professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where he conducts research in the area of vehicle dynamics and control. He also is the faculty advisor for the university's SAE Student Chapter and Formula SAE Team.
Siddique is an associate professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, where he works in the field of product family and platform design. He also is the faculty advisor for the University of Oklahoma's SAE Student Chapter and Sooner Racing Team, which competes in Formula SAE.
Skerlos is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. He researches and teaches in the fields of sustainable design, sustainable manufacturing and environmental technology policy. He also directs the Environmental and Sustainable Technologies Laboratory.
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