Congratulations to Hesaneh Kazemi for winning the award in the Best Presenter category at the NSF-sponsored poster competition that took place at the 2019 ASME IMECE in Salt Lake City, Utah in November 2019.

Prof. Norato received the ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award this past summer at the 45th Design Automation Conference in Anaheim.  For more details, see here.

 

 

PhD candidate Shanglong Zhang has won the 2018 Intern Award at the University of Illinois Research Park in the category of Best Technological Innovation.  Shanglong won this award while doing a Summer Internship with Caterpillar at the Research Park.  Congratulations Shanglong!

For more information, read here.

Prof. Julián Norato has obtained the prestigious 2018 CAREER AWARD from the National Science Foundation:

http://me.engr.uconn.edu/blog/2018/05/01/profs-chen-and-norato-win-nsf-career-awards/

PhD. student Hesaneh Kazemi was awarded a General Electric Fellowship for Innovation.  This fellowship is granted to UConn School of Engineering students who have demonstrated excellence in ongoing scholarly work aligned with GE’s interests, as well as good communication skills and engagement in activities that enrich the UConn Engineering community.  Congratulations Hesaneh!

Check out our recent article on Computational Design of Curvilinear Bone Scaffolds Fabricated Via Direct Ink Writing in the Journal of Computer Aided Design:

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1VsDX2O2yAOJh

This link provides free access to the article for  over a month.

Shanglong’s article on “Optimal Design of Panel Reinforcements with Ribs Made of Plates” has been featured in the ASME’s Journal of Mechanical Design Companion website!  Check it out here.

Check out our manuscripts on stress-based topology optimization with discrete geometric components and on optimal design of panel reinforcements with ribs made of plates published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and in the Journal of Mechanical Design respectively.

PhD student Shanglong Zhang won first place in the 2017 Mechanical Engineering Graduate Research Competition.  Shanglong created a poster and made a presentation on his research on “A geometry projection method for the topology optimization of plate structures.”   The award is granted by the Department’s Graduate Awards Committee, and is judged “based on the research technical content, as judged from both presentation and poster, quality and clarity of the presentation and poster, the student’s ability to answer questions, and supplemental material provided with the application.”

MSc. student Manal Tahann has been awarded a Sikorsky graduate fellowship to support her ongoing research on topology optimization of frame structures.