MechE Names Two Faculty Fellows
Associate Professors Shelley Anna and Maarten de Boer were named Career Faculty Fellows in Mechanical Engineer- ing on November 1, 2011, with a term of two years. These Fellowships recognize the outstanding accomplishments and promise of junior faculty members within the Department. The appointments carry an annual award of $10,000 to support professional activities. Both professors were honored at an April 9 reception in the Department.
Shelley Anna was awarded the Rus- Jonathan Cagan (center) is joined by students in his new “Grand Challenge” course.
Cagan Launches New Course to Solve “Grand Challenges”
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rofessor Jonathan Cagan has launched a new course aimed at researching future technologies to help solve the list of 14 “Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century” published by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). This list—which spans topics in energy, medicine, and the environment—is designed to spark innovation and solve a myriad of problems, from restoring aging infrastructures to developing better tools for scientific discovery. In Cagan’s new course, “Grand Challenge: Technology Identification and
Product Design,” MechE students are charged with identifying future technol- ogies and resulting products that could help solve some of the world’s most daunting problems. One student team is researching better ways to package water filtration systems for drought-stricken Sub-Saharan Africa, while another is studying how to make solar power more economical for average home- owners.
“This new course helps students understand what it takes to develop truly cutting-edge products that deliver emerging technologies in a new way. It also gives them a taste of creating a product before consumers knew they needed it,” says Bob Wooldridge, Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation. “It would be hard to imagine where we would be today or how different our lives would be without the many recent innovations we often take for granted,” adds Cagan. He is the co-author of three landmark books focusing on product design methods, theory, and practice.•
sell V. Trader Fellowship, supported in memoriam of Russell V. Trader by his wife Rachael. Though Russell Trader attended just one year at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1920, his wife Rachael bequeathed funds to establish this Fellowship in Mechanical Engineer- ing as a lasting memorial to him. Anna is considered a rising leader in the area of interfacial fluid mechanics and surfac- tant transport.
De Boer was appointed the Clarence H. Adamson Career Faculty Fellow. A 1915 graduate and successful entrepre- neur, Clarence “Cee” Adamson and his wife Pauline believed that his Carnegie Mellon experience was one of the most important of his life. De Boer’s expertise is in the area of adhesion and friction of MEMS devices. He has also developed a novel device for measuring frictional characteristics of micro-fabricated surfaces.•
Shelley Anna and Maarten de Boer
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