FacultyNews continued Higgs, Ozdoganlar Named
Career Faculty Fellows Professors Recognized for Their Innovative Research
Associate Professors C. Fred Higgs III and O. Burak Ozdoganlar were recently named Career Faculty Fellows in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering.The Adamson and Trader Career Faculty Fellowships, which are awarded for a two-year term, recognize the outstanding accomplishments and promise of junior faculty members within the Department. Higgs and Ozdoganlar were honored at a joint reception on
January 20 in the Singleton Room in Roberts Engineering Hall. Faculty, staff, and students from MechE, as well as other College of Engineering departments, gathered to celebrate these professors’ impressive achievements. “I’m delighted that these young faculty members are being recognized as Career Faculty Fellows in MechE,” says Department Head Nadine Aubry.“Their innovative research reinforces our Department’s leadership position in new and emerging areas of mechanical engineering.”
Higgs:A Thought Leader in Thermal Fluids C. Fred Higgs III, who joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2004, was named the Clarence H. Adamson Career Faculty Fellow, from an endowment by Clarence H. “Cee” Adamson.A 1915 graduate and successful entrepreneur, Adamson and his wife Pauline believed that his Carnegie Mellon experience was one of the most important of his life. Higgs is a recognized leader in thermal fluids research, conducting particulate flow modeling and experimental research that utilizes the basic principles of tribology, fluid, and rheological mechanics. His Particulate Flow and Tribology Laboratory studies three different flows found in sliding con- tact interfaces: slurry flows, powder flows, and granular flows. These three dynamic flows involve nanometer, micrometer, and millimeter sized particles flowing in a fluid medium. Higgs received his B.S.
degree from Tennessee State University, and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute. He also did post-graduate work at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a 2007 recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, which funds leading-edge research over a five-year period.
Ozdoganlar: An Expert in Micro/Nano Manufacturing O. Burak Ozdoganlar is the Department’s new Russell
V.Trader Career Faculty Fellow. Though Russell Trader attended just one year at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1920, his wife Rachael bequeathed funds to establish the Russell
V.Trader Faculty Fund in Mechanical Engineering as a lasting memorial to him. Ozdoganlar’s groundbreaking research focuses on modeling and
experimentation of manufacturing and machining processes and systems; stability and dynamics of machine tool systems; modal analysis and testing; and structural dynamics. His primary research interests include micro/nano-manufacturing processes and equipment, as well as the analysis, experimentation, and model- ing of microsystems dynamics, including coupled-physics modeling. Ozdoganlar completed his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Istanbul
Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey. He then attended Ohio State University, receiving M.S. degrees in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Ozdoganlar did post- doctoral work at the University of Illinois and also served as a technical staff member at Sandia National Laboratories. He joined the MechE faculty in 2004.
Ozdoganlar received the NSF CAREER Award in 2006.•
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