Professor Tarunraj Singh recieved the Yasundo Takahashi Education Award from the Dynamic Systems & Control Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
John Crassidis, Samuel P. Capen Chair Professor and SUNY Distinguished Professor, has received the 2021 American Astronautical Society (AAS) Dirk Brouwer Award, recognizing contributions to spacecraft attitude dynamics, sensor modeling, and optimal estimation.
Associate Professor James Chen has been named an Associate Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Co-authors Souma Chowdhury (associate professor - MAE), Ehsan Esfahani (associate professor - MAE), Kartik Dantu (associate professor - CSE), and Payam Ghassemi (PhD student - MAE) received the 2021 IEEE MRS Conference Best Paper Award for "Learning Robot Swarm Tactics over Complex Adversarial Environments, International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems."
Professor Tarun Singh has been named the recipient of the ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Division (DSCD) 2021 Yasundo Takahashi Education Award.
PhD student Yong Hu received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, the highest award given by the Chinese government to students studying outside of China. Hu is advised by Professor Shenqiang Ren.
PhD student Yong Hu, who is advised by Professor Shenqiang Ren, received Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver award for academic excellence and distinction.
Assistant Professor Jun Liu received a Young Scientist Award from the journal Mircosystems and Nanoengineering.
A paper authored by Associate Professor Mostafa Nouh and PhD students M. Ali Attarzaheh and Jesse Callanan on nonreciprocal acoustic waves received the 2021 Best Paper Award in Mechanics and Materials Systems by the Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems (ASME) branch of ASME.
Alumnus Dexter Johnson, NASA Technical Fellow for Loads and Dynamics, received the UB President’s Medal in recognition of extraordinary service to the university.
Anoop Kiran, an aerospace engineering student, has been named a recipient of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious and competitive research scholarship offered for undergraduate STEM students.
Students Mirka Arevalo, Sreeya Guha, Ojonugwa Marv Ibrahim, Gabrielle Reed, Myanah Pierre-Louis and Sauravpunit Sidhu, all from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, earned the People's Choice award in the Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition.
Dexter Johnson (PhD ’95, MS ’89 mechanical, BS ’87 aerospace) was recognized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as the winner of their 2021 Diversity and Inclusion Award.
Mostafa Nouh, associate professor, has been named the recipient of the 2020 Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME) Aerospace Division.
Aerospace engineering student Rachael Gold won first place in the undergraduate category at the WELocal Des Moines Collegiate Competition for her research on eliminating debris in space.
Robert Harrison (BS '83 mechanical engineering) received the Dean's Achievement Award, the highest honor presented by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Cameron Grace, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, received the Harold O. Wolf Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Yong Hu and Payam Ghassemi, both mechanical engineering students, received the SEAS Dean’s Graduate Achievement Award for their significant contributions to the advancement of their fields through the performance of outstanding research.
Charles Barnes, mechanical and aerospace engineering student, received the SEAS Dean’s Undergraduate Achievement Award, which recognizes students who have distinguished themselves through excellence in research and related technical presentations or publications.
UB Robotics took first place at the RIT VEX U tournament, winning the Tournament Champions, the Excellence Award and Robot Skills Champions. The Excellence Award qualified them for the 2020 VEX U World Championship.
Alisa Delaj, a mechanical engineering student, has been selected to receive the Boren Scholarship and will study at Korea University in a year-long program.
Undergraduate aerospace engineering student Charles Barnes won the best student paper award at the Second International Academy of Astronautics Conference on Space Situational Awareness.
Aaron Estes, assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received the 2019 Vanderhoef Faculty Award.
Shenqiang Ren, professor, received a new award from the U.S. Department of Energy, “Scalable and Cost-Effective Roll-To-Roll Additive Manufacturing Of Highly Durable And Thermal Insulating Silica-Carbon Aerogel.”
Amin Karami, assistant professor, received a new award from the National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: Controlling Flow Separation via Traveling Wave Actuators.”
PhD student Philip Odonkor was selected to address his fellow SEAS graduate students at the Spring 2019 commencement ceremony.
Mechanical engineering alumnus Benjamin Pawlik was selected as this year’s Engineer of the Year by the UB Engineering and Applied Sciences Alumni Association.
MAE Alum Allison O'Connor received the Volunteer Recognition Award from SEAS Alumni Engagement office.
MAE Alum Bradley Cheetham's company Advanced Space has been selected to support future spaceflight missions for NASA with continued development of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS).
Graduate student, Nikhil Paliwal, receives The Mark Diamond Research Fund (MDRF) grant
Senior Daniel Henry receives the WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Scholarship, a firm of the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York)
Seniors Levi Li, Henry Kwan and Samuel Tedesco are among the finalists for a NASA-sponsored contest to design a heat shield for future missions to Mars
Students Erika Salem, Jimmy Lam, Sandra Czarnecki, and Nathan Guttery are selected to participate in the Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program at NASA’s Microgravity University
Seniors Sourobh Ghosh and Matthew Leibowitz receive SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence
