2024 Southeastern Universities Research Association Early Career Scientist Award
Avik Dutt's research in quantum engineering, photonics, and nonlinear optics is leading the way to the discovery of new fundamental phenomena or exotic phases of light and matter that can form the backbone of future quantum computing technologies. Ultra-fast computing and ultraprecise sensing are among the potential applications of Dutt's work. The SURA Early Career Scientist Award recognizes an early-career scientist who has generated a sufficient volume of scholarship of high quality and is emerging in their field as a leader and acknowledged as such by their peers.
2024 C.E. Taylor Award
Hugh Bruck's selection by the Society for Experimental Mechanics for the C.E. Taylor Award is in recognition of his pioneering technical contributions in image correlation development; material characterization for biosystems, metals and advanced composites; and dedicated service to the Society. Bruck's 1989 paper "Digital image correlation using Newton-Raphson method of partial differential correction" in the journal Experimental Mechanics has recorded close to 2,000 citations on Google Scholar.
2024 Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
Katrina Groth performs cutting-edge research in development of methods to provide insights into dominant failure causes in novel hydrogen technologies, investigation of prognostics and health management techniques to support reliability monitoring and diagnosis of complex systems, and the creation of reliability data collection frameworks and algorithms. In addition to her research accomplishment, she has also been a leader in the IEA Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Program (TCP) Task on Hydrogen Safety, and she has advised or helped advise approximately 40 PhD students through her role as Director of the Reliability Engineering program. The Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award recognizes exceptionally strong and influential research accomplishments by early-career faculty.
2024 Dean’s Outstanding Performance Award for Professional Track Faculty
Vikrant Aute’s research contributions are considered pivotal in the development and enhancement of next-generation heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigerant (HVAC&R) systems and components. Highlights include leading the development of novel shape-optimized air-to-refrigerant heat exchangers that are 20–40% better performing than the current state of the art. Aute has gained industry-wide recognition for spearheading the development of modeling and optimization platforms that transform the way HVAC&R components and systems are designed. The Outstanding Performance Award for Professional Track Faculty recognizes exceptionally influential accomplishments in research and/or teaching.
2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Henry Hess Early Career Publication Award
Eleonora Tubaldi's research aims to discover ways to program synthetic soft materials to exhibit embodied intelligence, the ability of a material or structure to sense and respond to its environment using electronics-free haptic feedback. Using principles of bioinspired design, Tubaldi is learning from the way nature has found solutions to unique design challenges. The Henry Hess Early Career Publication Award recognizes the best original technical paper presented to or published by the Society during the two calendar years prior to the year of award by an early-career ASME Member.
Provost's 2024 Do Good Innovator Awards
Teng Li's work is rooted in a social impact-oriented approach, focused on developing technology that can be used by the communities that need it most. Motivated by the impact of water scarcity on communities worldwide, he is leading a team to address global water scarcity through the development of atmospheric water harvesting technologies that require no external power source. The Provost’s Do Good Innovator Awards recognize excellence in creating, nurturing, expanding, and amplifying social impact through education, programs, and research, both inside and outside the classroom.
2023-2025 Wilson H. Elkins Professorship
Miao Yu's research is advancing new scientific paradigms to uncover the rules governing marine ecosystem dynamics and facilitate sustainable aquaculture development through transformative human-ecosystem interactions, ultimately addressing the grand challenge of global ecosystem sustainability. She is the lead investigator on a $10M USDA NIFA Sustainable Agricultural Systems grant aiming to transform shellfish farming with smart technology and management practices for sustainable production. Her selection for the University of Maryland System Wilson H. Elkins Professorship recognizes her desire and ability to lead and inspire undergraduate and graduate students and to show significant achievement beyond mechanical engineering.
2023 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award
For his outstanding scholarly accomplishment and demonstrated excellence in teaching, Don DeVoe was selected for the UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award. Devoe's research concerns microfluidic systems for generating, controlling, and analyzing large numbers of discrete fluid volumes for applications in biology and biomedicine, for example using microfluidic vortex focusing to allow fine control of the assembly of liposomes as nanoscale drug carriers. In his project-based course Mechatronics and the Internet of Things, DeVoe prepares students to combine sensors, actuators, computation, and communication to create integrated objects capable of robust internet-based interfacing.
2023 Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Michel Cukier directs the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students Living and Learning Program, which he started in 2013. The two-year honors academic experience revolves around cybersecurity and gives students the opportunity to learn hands-on technical and non-technical aspects of the field within a close-knit community. The Board of Regents Excellence in Mentoring Award recognizes his extraordinary achievement in having created such a unique, multidisciplinary, successful program for educating the nation’s future cybersecurity leader.
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