Accomplishments: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tyler Stalbaum (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the 2017 Graduate Regents' Scholar Award for 51ԹϺ at the 51ԹϺ Academic Achievement Award Ceremony April 19.
The award is based on distinguished academic accomplishments, leadership ability, and service contributions as a registered NSHE student, as well as on the recipient’s potential for…
Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) just returned from a visit to King Abdulaziz University - Rabigh, located near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he served as a member of the ABET engineering accreditation team for evaluating their engineering programs. The main campus in Jeddah has more than 82,000 students.
Lily Sender (Mechanical Engineering) became the first Rebel women's soccer player in program history to earn NSCAA All-America honors after her breakout senior season. 51ԹϺ women's soccer's record-setting season continues to be rewarded as Sender was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team, announced by the National Soccer Coaches…
Szu-Ping Lee (Physical Therapy) received a $13,505 grant from the Mountain West CTR-IN and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health for his “Prosthetic Assessments of Gait and Mobility in Individuals with Lower Limb Loss” research study, which will explore functional mobility and limb loading…
Paul Oh (Mechanical Engineering) and his team of 51ԹϺ researchers and students are being featured in the Nova special, "Rise of the Robots," which will air at 9 p.m. Feb. 24 on Vegas PBS.
In spring 2015, 51ԹϺ's team, DRC-HUBO@51ԹϺ, competed in the international Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) robotics challenge,…
Gary Cerefice and Ralf Sudowe (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a nearly $400,000 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish the 51ԹϺ nuclear science and engineering fellowship program.
Beginning fall 2016, the new four-year program will award at least four…
Sue Wainscott (Libraries), John Novak (Libraries), and Mohamed Trabia (Engineering) are participating in the 2015 cohort of the Digital Library Federation E-Research Network. The goal of the network is to create a mutually supportive community engaged in continuous learning about e-research and data management support. The 51ԹϺ team will produce a…
Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) just published a paper in Scientific Reports. The title of the paper is "Nanothorn Electrodes for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Artificial Muscles."
Darrell Pepper (Mechanical Engineering) has been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES) for "seminal contributions to computational environmental fluid dynamics." The award will be presented at the opening ceremony of ICCES 15, which…
Charlotta Sanders (Engineering) and Kevin Wilcoxon (Online Education) are the authors of a paper, "Developing and Implementing Online Nuclear Criticality Safety Training and Education" that Sanders presented at the Nuclear Criticality Safety Division of the American Nuclear Society annual conference in Wilmington, N.C., in October.
Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering), along with Choonghee Jo, David Pugal, Il-Kwon Oh, and Kinji Asaka published a review paper titled "Recent Advances in Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators and their Modeling and Applications" in Progress in Polymer Science.
Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) was a presenter at the third international conference on Electromechanically Active Polymer transducers and artificial muscles (EuroEAP) in Zurich in June. His presentation centered on recent progress in ionic polymer-metal composites. He was one of only a handful of speakers from the United States invited to…