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ON THE COVER: The University of Min-nesota Formula SAE car racing around the Honeywell International, Inc. parking lot.

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Women in Engineering

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From the Department Head

The Society of Women Engineers provides support for women in STEM.

Remembering Heberlein

We remember the legacy of the late Emeritus Professor Joachim Heberlein.

Dear Alumni and Friends:

Spring is finally here and nature looks fresh and vibrant. As you will notice, nature is not the only thing with a fresh look. The ME newsletter got a makeover too, thanks to our new editor Mandee Nguyen. Mandee re-placed Nancy Johnson, who retired in March after many years of service to our department. Thank you Nancy; welcome Mandee! If you like the new look, send Mandee a note ([email protected]) and maybe share a story.

Another thing expecting a makeover is the old ME building. With the bonding bill allocating $42.5 mil-lion in HEAPR renovation funds to the University of Minnesota, it is now very likely that the old ME renovation will progress. While in the short term this will mean dust and interruptions for two years, in the long run, it will guarantee that the ME department can offer students modern learning facilities and re-searchers the best research infrastructure. If you were among the many alumni who contacted their state senators and representatives at my request, you can tell yourself: “It really worked!” Please know, the ME department is very grateful for your support!

Our faculty continues to grow and get younger! This year, Assistant Professors Cari Dutcher and Xiaojia Wang joined our department. If we succeed in hiring candidates from our recent searches in the field of robotics, sensors, and manufacturing, about a third of our faculty will have arrived within the past six years.

This academic year brought many reasons for celebration! The Engineering Research Center on Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, led by Professor Kim Stelson, was prominently featured in the book “Organized Innovation: A Blueprint for Renewing America’s Prosperity” by Steven C. Currall et al. Pro-fessor Max Donath succeeded in establishing a new transportation center with a budget of over $10 mil-lion. The opening of the new Thomas E. Murphy

Engine Research Lab was a major improvement of our facilities. Furthermore, Professor David Pui will lead a UMN delegation to a bilateral seminar on air pollution control with the Chinese Academy of Sci-ences; President Eric Kaler and Dean Steven Crouch will join the delegation.

Our junior faculty also excel: Assistant Professor James Van de Ven was elected McKnight Land Grant Professor in a university-wide competition; Assistant Professor William Northrop won the highly compet-itive National Science Foundation Career grant; and Assistant Professor Rusen Yang received a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award.

While the department had many victories, we also had some painful losses. Our dear colleague and friend Professor Joachim Heberlein passed away in March. His enthusiasm for the department, his al-ways-positive attitude, and dedication to his students will be missed.

Overall, the department had a great year in which we took many steps forward. We enter the summer and the new academic year with a lot of positive mo-mentum. We want to thank you for all your support.

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Professor Jane Davidson and the Solar Energy Laboratory were featured in the 2013-2014 Driven to Discover campaign for the University. The commercial airs on local network sta-tions and select cable programming. Watch it here: z.umn.edu/sel

Doctoral student Garrett Nelson received the Inter-disciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for the 2014-2015 aca-demic year. Only 15% of applicants in the University were selected for this honor. Garrett’s research focuses on noise cancellation systems for stethoscopes to en-able auscultation in highly noisy environments.

Two articles by Associate Professor Peter Brugge-man and his co-workers were selected as highlights of 2013 in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and Plasma Sources Science and Technology. The papers were written in cooperation with a group of collabora-tors working with Professor Annemie Bogaerts of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Assistant Professor Will Northrop was awarded a National Science Foundation Career Award.

Assistant Professor James Van de Ven has been named a McKnight Land Grant Professor for 2014-16.

Two undergraduate student entrepreneurs, Stefan Lundell and Reed Saunders, were members of win-ning teams for the 2014 Acara Challenge. Read it here: z.umn.edu/meacara

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Student News For decades, it was a mystery what was inside a safe owned by the late Professor Ernst Eckert. The mystery was cracked open on March 27, 2014. The FBI and Department of Defense were on hand in case confidential materials were found. Watch it here: z.umn.edu/eckertsafe

Senior undergraduate student Samantha Ehrenberg was featured in an article and video by Giving to the U of M. She discusses how scholarships have helped her. Watch it here: z.umn.edu/ehrenbergvideo

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Interdisciplinary fellow and doctoral student Zhen-peng Qin was awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for 2012-2013 with the Center for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Translation Research. He was featured in a University story. Read it here: z.umn.edu/qin

Doctoral student Shawn Wilhelm was featured on the Business @ U of M blog. He designed a highly efficient hydraulic pump and took a STARTUP course to learn how to develop a marketable product. Read it here: z.umn.edu/wilhelm

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Three students were awarded a National Science Foun-dation Graduate Fellowship: undergraduate Daniel Boman (advised by Jane Davidson), graduate stu-dent Ruben D’Sa (advised by Nikolaos Papanikolo-poulos), and doctoral student Hallie Boyer (advised by Cari Dutcher). Ryan Madson and Alexander Yudell received honorable mentions.

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Aerosol and Particle MeasurementAugust 18-21, 2014

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Doctoral student Mostafa Toloui received an Interdis-ciplinary Fellowship for 2013-2014 and a MnDRIVE Fel-lowship for 2014-2015.

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Doctoral student Andrew Kotz received the Mat-thew J. Huber Award for Excellence in Transportation Research and Education. This is given to University of Minnesota graduate students demonstrating outstand-ing academic achievement in engineering, science, and technology fields.

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Undergraduate seniors Michael Barros and Charles Nolt won first place in Minnesota Wire's iSTRETCH Col-lege Challenge. The contest called for local engineering students to propose an innovative application of their product iSTRETCH, a stretchable electrical cable. Their idea proposed using the wires to deflate tires.

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The following doctoral students are receiving 2014-2015 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships: Rohini Bala Chan-dran, Michael DiVito, Coty Jen, Nicolaas Kramer, Pe-ter Krenzke, Hui Ouyang, Shawn Wilhelm, and Ren Zhu.

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Senior Design ShowDecember 9, 2014

University of Minnesota’s Formula SAE Team, Gopher Motorsports, was featured on KSTP-TV evening news on May 11, 2014. They competed at the Michigan International Speedway in May 2014 and placed 21 out of over a 100.Watch it here: z.umn.edu/kstpsae

§ The Board of Regents approved the promotion of Pro-fessor Sean Garrick from the rank of Associate Profes-sor to Professor.

Doctoral students Daniel Janssen and Garrett Nel-son were awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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Finding your place in a male-dominated field can sometimes be difficult. The Society of Women Engi-neers (SWE) goal is to give women in science and engi-neering a voice in their field.

SWE is a national organization founded in 1950 with societies across U.S. universities. The University of Minnesota SWE is one of the larger sections in the country, with over 200 members led by 35 women.

These 35 women who lead SWE UMN are assigned directorship or officer positions responsible for various aspects of the organization, such as outreach, mentor-ship, recruitment, and corporate relations.

Jane Danstrom is the 2013-2014 SWE president and a senior in Biomedical Engineering. She has been a member of SWE since she was a freshman.

“SWE gives women an opportunity to join a com-munity and develop professionally and personally,” she said.

Engineering CommunitySWE hosts a number of events throughout the year

covering various topics like professional development, resume building, and community outreach. SWE also hosts general meetings every month sponsored by com-

panies in the metro area representing various industries. One of the major events that SWE plans is the fall

College of Science and Engineering Career Fair. Aman-da Eidem, 2013-2014 director of the career fair, helped plan the event.

Since 2009, SWE has planned the Career Fair. Ei-dem says that the fall 2013 Career Fair was one of their most successful fairs ever, with over 180 companies and many students attending.

“It’s been gaining every year in attendance since we first started it in 2009,” Eidem said.

Community outreach and mentorship is also very important to SWE. Every semester about 160 high school girls and their parents come to campus for a full day of activities and discussion about what it’s like to be a woman in engineering. This event is offered to girls who have expressed an interest in engineering.

“Every event we do is pretty successful, but this is one of our biggest.” Eidem said. “I’ve gotten feedback from parents about how their child really enjoyed the day and has a strong interest in engineering and science after attending.”

Engineering LeadersLeadership skills are a benefit that all officers and di-

rectors of SWE obtain. “Being in SWE has given me a valuable leadership

opportunity,” Danstrom said. “I’ve developed some of the softer skills you often don’t get in classes.”

SWE also provides members with a deeper under-standing of the many areas of engineering and science, while also allowing for networking with individuals from all areas.

“When I was a sophomore, I met a junior Mechani-cal Engineering student. I was lucky to have her, and I kind of looked to her as a mentor,” Eidem said. “I always asked her for advice. I don’t think I would have gotten that if I hadn’t been in SWE.”

As seniors, Eidem and Danstrom are now able to pass along advice to younger members looking for advice about what major to choose.

“A lot of freshmen will come to me and ask if their interests align with a particular major,” Danstrom said.

“Even if I can’t answer, I know who they can talk to. That kind of networking is really valuable.”

Engineering SuccessDanstrom and Eidem attribute their passion and suc-

cess in engineering to SWE. “I want to become an engineer to better society,” Ei-

dem said. “I chose Mechanical Engineering because it’s one of the broadest forms of engineering. I can help in many ways, and then use my knowledge to make the world a better place.”

Both Danstrom and Eidem have found professional success and attribute it to SWE.

Eidem accepted a job at Boston Scientific in Min-nesota as a manufacturing engineer. “I would say that I wouldn’t be at the same level professionally without SWE,” Eidem said.

Taking a slightly different route, Danstrom accepted a technology position at Delloitte in Minnesota. “I’m interested in technology because I like the high-level organization type of work. Being involved in technol-ogy is a great utilization of my skills,” Danstrom said.

Overall, Danstrom and Eidem say that their Univer-sity experience would not be the same without SWE. “Engineering was everything I wanted it to be at the University, and at SWE,” Eidem said.

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SWE UMN members accepting the Outstanding Collegiate Section award at the 2013 Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference.

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RememberingProfessor Heberlein

1939-2014The Mechanical Engineering Department mourned

the passing of Emeritus Professor Joachim (Jockel) V. R. Heberlein on February 17, 2014 after a long battle with ALS.

Professor Heberlein was born in Berlin in 1939. He received his diploma in physics in 1966 from the Uni-versity of Stuttgart. In 1967 he came to the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D. in mechani-cal engineering in 1975, advised by Professor (now Emeritus) Emil Pfender.

Then, after working for fourteen years at Westing-

He was an internationally recognized authority on the subject of thermal plasmas.

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house R&D Center in Pittsburgh where he served as Manager of Applied Plasma Research, Lamp Research and Nuclear and Radiation Technology, he rejoined the Minnesota ME Department in 1989 as an associ-ate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1994, and was appointed Ernst Eckert Professor of Mechani-

His students were famously devoted to him, and he was beloved among the faculty and staff of the M.E. department...He will be deeply missed.

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cal Engineering in 2000. He retired at the end of 2012.Professor Heberlein published over 140 journal pa-

pers, received 13 patents, and coauthored with Pierre Fauchais and Maher Boulos the recently published text-book Thermal Spray Fundamentals (Springer, 2013).

He advised or co-advised almost 30 Ph.D. students, an equal number of M.S. students, and advised seven students through completion of their diploma theses at several European universities. He was an international-ly recognized authority on the subject of thermal plas-mas of the type used for industrial applications such as thermal spray coatings, plasma cutting, electrical cir-cuit breakers, and materials synthesis. He was particu-larly known for his pioneering studies of arc-electrode interactions. He had many interactions with industry, including research collaborations with Hypertherm on plasma cutting, Eaton Corporation on electrical circuit breakers, and Nitto Denko Technical Corporation on nanomaterials synthesis.

Professor Heberlein played a leading role in the in-ternational plasma community, notably through his involvement for many years on the Subcommittee on Plasma Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), leading to the founding in 1999-2000 of the International Plasma Chemistry Society (IPCS).

Professor Heberlein was the lead writer of the stat-utes of foundation and bylaws of the Society, which oversees the organization of the biennial International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC). Professor Heberlein was conference chair of the 8th ISPC, held in Minneapolis in 1995.

As one measure of his tireless devotion to the Society, he served from 1995-2008 as treasurer of the IUPAC Subcommittee and then the IPCS. He was awarded the 2009 Plasma Chemistry Award, the highest award of the Society, given to one individual at the biennial ISPC for lifetime achievement. The award was present-ed at ISPC-19, held in Bochum, Germany. Professor Heberlein was also active in the Thermal Spray Society of ASM International and he was elected to the Ther-mal Spray Hall of Fame in 2004.

Professor Heberlein was an enthusiastic supporter of international collaboration. He made numerous visits and had fruitful collaborations with colleagues and plasma laboratories in Germany, Italy, Japan, and other countries. He actively arranged exchange programs that allowed students at foreign universities (most no-

tably, the Politecnico di Milano) to complete much of their graduate studies at the University of Minne-sota, and he hosted numerous international visitors for stays of a year or more in his laboratory. A remarkable number of these visitors have gone on to positions of prominence at their home institutions and in the wider plasma community.

Professor Heberlein was a key member of the High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory (HTPL) in the ME Department. The HTPL is known worldwide as one of the major academic centers of plasma research. Professor Heberlein played an enormous role in pro-moting the lab and in maintaining its cohesive spirit.

On March 8 and 9, 2013, a celebration of Profes-sor Heberlein’s retirement was held at the University of Minnesota, hosted by the ME Department, the HTPL, and the Heberlein family. Approximately 50 plasma scientists attended, from all over the world, including several European countries, Canada, Japan, and Aus-tralia. The event was a fitting affirmation of the deep esteem and affection the international plasma commu-nity held for Professor Heberlein.

Everyone who knew Jockel knew that he had an amazing work ethic. Many of us were also privileged to know him as a dear friend and colleague. His students were famously devoted to him, and he was beloved among the faculty and staff of the ME department. He and his wife Yuko often hosted dinner parties at their house, where they were unfailingly gracious hosts. Jockel loved music, he loved telling stories about ad-ventures past, and he loved sharing good wine. He will be deeply missed.

The ME community sends its sincere wishes of con-dolence to Jockel’s wife Yuko, to their daughter An-drea, who lives in Boston with her husband Joshua and their two children, and to their son Markus, who lives in Tokyo with his wife Rei and their two children.

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Professor Peter McMurry’s research bridges the gaps between mechanical engineering, chemistry, and envi-ronmental science.

He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineer-ing in 1977, and was Department Head from 1997-2007. He is an expert in the field of atmospheric aero-sol science and engineering.

The goal of his research is to determine what is with-in the particles in the atmosphere and see how they impact the environment.

McMurry and his coworkers aim to understand at-mospheric processes that influence particle size, con-centration, and composition. Basically, they are trying to determine how chemical transformations lead to the formation and growth of particles, and how that affects cloud cover, light scattering, and visibility.

But McMurry didn’t always focus on environmental research. He started off majoring in physics as an un-dergraduate student.

“I decided that, although I liked physics, I wanted to do environmental research,” he said.

As a result, he focused his graduate studies at Caltech on environmental engineering and science. “Environ-mental research has been my primary focus ever since,” he said. “I’m especially focused on the chemical and physical behavior of small particles in the atmosphere.”

Though it may not seem like a logical combination, McMurry’s interest in environmental science melds well with mechanical engineering. Over the years, he has developed a number of aerosol instruments based on mechanical engineering principles. Several of these are now commercially available and used by aerosol sci-entists worldwide.

Through the Aerodynamic LensAbout 20 years ago, McMurry and coworkers Peng

Liu (graduate student), Paul Ziemann (postdoc), and Professor David Kittelson invented aerodynamic lens-es, which were key to the development of aerosol mass spectrometers that provide real-time measurements of size-resolved particle chemical composition.

“Previously, filter samples were analyzed to deter-mine particle composition. Filters are expensive to ana-lyze, provide no information on size, and provide crude time resolution (hours to days),” McMurry said. “This lens enables measurements to come out continuously in real time.”

Before the aerodynamic lens was created, it was im-possible to measure particles by mass spectrometry be-cause sampled particles would fly all over the instru-ment and would never make it to the detector.

“Our instrument allows you to create a tightly colli-mated beam, which shoots the particles straight to the detector,” he said. “It increases particle sampling effi-ciencies by about a factor of a million.”

Condensation ResearchMcMurry and his research team have also created an

instrument involving heat and mass transfer called a Condensation Particle Counter. These instruments al-

low researchers to detect very small particles by con-densing vapors on them. This enables particles to be counted individually by growing them to a size where they can easily be detected by light scattering.

Condensation particle detectors were first developed in 1890. McMurry and his team have focused on ex-tending the lower detection limit to smaller particles. Their most recent instrument can detect 1 nanometer particles, consisting of molecular clusters that contain as few as four sulfuric acid molecules. But why would you need to measure such tiny particles?

Being able to measure these very small particles push-es forward McMurry’s atmospheric research that has an impact on studies related to global warming.

“You want to detect particles to find out how many there are, what size they are, and what they made up of chemically. We are focused especially on understanding the chemical processes that lead to the formation of tiny molecular clusters.” McMurry said. “It illustrates how we’ve used the talents of mechanical engineers to enable measurements that are important to the study of the atmosphere. The new instruments my colleagues and I have developed allow us, for the first time, to measure the complete spectrum of atmospheric par-ticles down to one molecule.”

Engineering to the CloudsResearch Spotlight

A field sampling laboratory in Atlanta where McMurry and his team have carried out atmospheric measurements. Pictured is Dr. James Smith of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

continued on page 12Groundbreaking research in atmospheric aerosol science and engineering

McMurry’s instrumentation used for mea-surements at the South Pole in Dec. 2000.

Mark Stolzenburg and Jun Zhao prepare a proto-type instrument system for measurements to be done this summer in Korea and Vietnam.

Undergraduate student Baradan Panta (left), Augsburg College chemistry Professor David Hanson (back), and McMurry’s doctoral advisee Coty Jen (right) carry out laboratory experiments on the formation of sulfuric acid-containing molecular clusters by nucleation.

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In spring 2014, Xiaojia “XJ” Wang joined the De-partment of Mechanical Engineering as a Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor. Her research focus is in energy transport and conversion at small spatial and temporal scales.

Wang grew up in China in the city of Shiyan from the Hubei province. Shiyan also has the Wudang Mountains and the Yangtze River running through it, and is known as the “Detroit of China” because of its focus on automobile manufacturing.

She attended elementary, middle, and high school in her hometown, and then went to Xi’an Jiaotong Uni-versity in Xi’an, China for both her bachelors and mas-ter’s degrees.

Her master’s advisor was Wenquan Tao, who was a scholar at the University of Minnesota from 1980-1982 and worked with Professor Ephraim Sparrow.

Tao encouraged Wang to go to U.S. to pursue her doctorate saying it would be the best place for her to excel in her field. “His suggestion inspired me so I decided to study abroad and sent out several applica-tions,” Wang said. “I got an offer from Georgia Insti-tute of Technology.”

Her Ph.D. advisor at Georgia Tech was Zhuomin Zhang, whose research is focused on thermal radiation. Her advisor’s focus on thermal radiation was a bit of a struggle for her at first.

“I had a traditional background in heat exchange and then I suddenly jumped into thermal radiation,” she said. “But I found the two disciplines very interesting.”

Finally, for her post-doctoral work, Wang went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Pro-fessor David Cahill as her advisor.

Because her background is varied, even in the field of heat transfer, she considers her work interdisciplinary.

“I was lucky to be involved in all areas of heat trans-fer: convection for my master’s, radiation for my Ph.D., and conduction for my post doc work,” she said.

In February 2014, Wang joined Mechanical Engi-neering at the University of Minnesota.

“My master’s advisor talked about his experience here at Minnesota,” she said. “I heard that the people are really nice and supportive. I like the environment and I’ve already received a lot of help from the faculty here.”

Because of the interdisciplinary nature of her work, Wang anticipates that she will be collaborating with many ME and other University faculty.

“I think my research can provide a fundamental un-derstanding about the problems and phenomena that they observe in their field,” she said.

She is very excited to begin her research on the ther-mal properties of materials and interfaces and to ex-plore the optical response of micro/nano-engineered structures when they interact with light, an area where she has developed a strong interest.

“When my Ph.D. advisor showed me internal re-flections traveling with the fiber, I loved the beautiful colors that resulted from it,” she said. “They looked like fireworks. It’s magical to experience.”

She is also looking forward to teaching undergradu-ate and graduate level courses. “I love academia and students,” she said. “They give me a lot of content and ideas just by talking to them.”

When she’s not working, Wang loves to draw and go to the gym, especially running, yoga, and badminton. She’s very excited to experience a Minnesota summer, but can appreciate the cold weather because it “helps to refresh the mind.”

Global Climate ModelsA goal of McMurry’s research is to contribute his find-

ings to help scientists solve the issue of global warming. When he studies aerosol systems, such as the earth’s at-mosphere, he learns about the millions of particles that are born each day and how they impact cloud cover.

“The temperature of the earth depends on a very deli-cate balance between radiation coming in and radiation going out,” McMurry said. “The more clouds you have, the more they block incoming radiation from the sun.”

This radiation balance, he says, is important for glob-al climate scientists to get right in order to accurately predict future climates. The microphysical models he and coworkers have developed are now incorporated in global climate models.

Atmospheric MeasurementsMcMurry and his team of researchers have traveled

around the world, from the North Pole to the South Pole, obtaining atmospheric measurements. Their goal is to understand regional differences in the atmosphere and how nucleation may have an impact.

McMurry also collaborates with many specialists

around the world who measure other chemical proper-ties in relation to new particle formation. This data has been combined with his to determine what is happen-ing in the atmosphere.

“This is a bootstrap operation. With each atmospher-ic study we learn a little bit more about what happens in nature. The atmosphere, however, is very complex. Atmospheric observations inform us about types of controlled laboratory experiments that are needed for detailed understanding of processes,” he said. “We’re very excited because we finally feel, after 40 years of steady progress, our discoveries are coming together to answer the question as to how new particles are born in the atmosphere.”

This research also provides McMurry with insider in-formation on what new instruments need to be devel-oped to enhance the industry.

McMurry was one of two engineers nationwide to win a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. That Fellow-ship provided support for his work on atmospheric nucleation. With funding from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, he will continue working on this problem.

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New Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant ProfessorFaculty Spotlight

13th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference The 13th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference, held at the

Commons Hotel from April 7-10, 2014, reached over 1,100 attendees and raised $139,000 from 41 sponsors. The money raised will support medical devices education at the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Medical Devices Center, and the Design of Medical De-vices Conference expenses.

Highlights from this year’s conference included a lung biopsy proce-dure performed at the University of Minnesota Medical School-Fairview Hospital by surgeon Dr. Rafael Andrade, Chief, Section of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota.

Just Herder, PhD, Delft University of Technology, was awarded the 2014 DMD Conference Award.

Dates for next year’s conference are April 13-16, 2015. For more information, visit: www.dmd.umn.edu


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Homayoon F AbtahiKenneth J AlbrechtJay T AxnessJohn E BrockmannAndrew D ChelsaRichard D ChrystMichael R ComstockDavid A DepuydtThomas R EngelsMarlin P FilipekLeroy M FingersonPeter W FreundThomas K GiffordSteven L GirshickKristine M GrahamDonald C GrantJeffery E HabererJulius A Hanna JrRichard L HeineckeJerry D HindermanGregg A HohensteinPaul A JohnsonTodd S JohnsonRamdev KanapadyBrett W KarnowskiJames W KleinDaniel J KlimaGary R KnowlesJohn M KoepckeSteven W KraftMark C KrausPhilip D KuzniaJohn R LloydGerald O LundDouglas N MalmRobert S McClocklinAndrew R McFarlandPadraic S McGuirePeter H McMurryEric H NelsonArthur ObergLester B OdegaardScott D OlsenRoger A PaulsonJames C PersoEmil PfenderJames V RadomskiDean R RaskRodney B RaskAndrew J ReuterMatthew L Roesle Lauren D RoesnerThomas K RoseNorman E Rud JrRoberto RuizMark A SchmidtRyan D SchuldtSteven J SemeThomas Greene ShepardMolly V SilasMark R SimmondsEric M SimsDonald D SporreJohn F StewartCarl W StieweTrupti N StorlieLeon D StrandNingze Sun James M TurnerCarl G TuttleJohn L UtermoehlDavid L VidmarEdward B WaldoRoss K WilcoxonNeil G WobschallDonald F WrightBo Yan

Gregory J AndersonGlenn R BergumJames L BrudvigRichard A BuddeJames E CabakMerle E ClewettMichael R ConnlyJames H DierkeQuy Q DinhStephen T DonnelleyJoshua L DudneyRandall M EllisRobert G ErtelPaul E FelixGeorge F GardnerEdmund GelfandFloyd C GilmanFrederick M GreenKen W HallbergScott D HauganWarren E IbeleGerald W JohnsonRosemary T JungkunzAlan D KamrathWayne S Kivela

Charles A AmannBradley A AndersonDwight D AndersonTruman A AndersonNaseem A AnsariArthur J ArmstrongJane H ArrettFred B AtwoodNicholas J BarsicRobert N BatesonRussell L BeebeJohn L BensonRichard C BielkeCynthia M BirkholzRoger O BjerkJoanne L BlattLawrence J BlattnerRaymond J BloomJack O BlyPeter R BoriinRobert Brannon JrTimothy D BridgmanPhilip G BrochmanGregory R BromenshenkelBruce C BrooksPeter F BrownKurt M. BrungardtPaul L BuelowChristopher P CarlsonYung-Shan ChangThomas G ChapinDonald R CheckChiu-Ying W ChienDipankar ChoudhuryRichard W ClarkeDonald J ConlinWilliam D CopenhagenRichard G CorneliusRichard T CoxGerald D CranPeter K CrawfordNihat CurJohn A DahlsengBarton E DahnekeEugene R DannemanMichael R De Namur

Wanda F DentEdward H DewesDuane F DippreyRichard B Diver JrWilliam K DurfeeRoy R EarlMichael B EckhardtRoger EichhornPeggy A EnghJohn M EngstromLeonard T EricksonRoger E EricksonDavid J FetznerDavid P FlemingKenneth E FlorenBernard W GaffronSatya P GargRandy C GeeGershon L GendlerRichard D GerberdingRichard I GiertsenRaymond C GieseRobert M GoldDavid R GrandallDavid J GravelJohn A GravelleKenneth O GriepBeth B GroffDan A GrohnkeGary B GustafsonLarry D HalsnePaul L HammelGregory T HandzelHenry A HansonThomas E HaskettBruce P HedlundJohn W HeerAdam J HeinzenJohn R HellandJoseph L HendricksDennis A HervonenMary C HessburgJames C HoganEugene M HogansonRoy F Holm JrJennifer E HolteKun-Chen HsuPanyin A HughesJohn L Ibele

Christine A IceSteven R JapsCarl E JennrichSharon A JohnsonKent D JohnsonBruce V JohnsonBradley A JohnsonDavid A JohnsonRyan J KariVarsha K KelkarMark S KelleyEarl O KnutsonSteven E KokotovichNicholas S KoopUwe R KortshagenDaniel J KrausDennis K KreidRobert L KuhnJoel D KuyperChristopher R LarsonKei Yun LauYung-Cheng LeePeter J LeeJeffrey M LehnDaniel P LerickJohn W LesterGordon C LewisPaul F LilienthalChuen-Sen LinRichard A LippertChristine M LitchyCharles S LoPaul E LoftnessDana R LonnJeffrey W LundbeckKeith LyksettClarence A LysdaleJerome A MalmquistSusan C MantellGlenn T MasonGeorge B MattsonRonald F MattsonStuart T McComasMichael J McDonaldThomas J McEvoyStuart G McKneightJohn G McMillanJerry D McNallyThomas G Meier

Dennis E MeisnerRobert R MelcherJohn R MlinarWillard L MolineVictor C Moose JrDonald B Moritz JrJoseph MosesPatrick J MoynihanCraig R MuellerRichard K NelsonTimothy A NelsonTyler L NelsonJudith A Nelson LewisDarrick L NiccumStanley B NickellsLori J NigonRoger L NorquistR Stanford NyquistJohn C OkadaJaymes C OlsonCharles D Olson John H OlsonJ Howell Owens JrJames W PearsonMary Jo PenningtonKurt L PetersDonn N PetersonCraig F PetersonMark D PfeiferTimothy B PhillipsJames P PilgerTimothy J ProchnauJohn E RaetzBrian D RaivoGregory J RajalaJames W RamseyRobert M ReinstromRichard J RemiarzJed M RetherfordMichelle L RobbinMary Jo C RobertsJames P RohlGregory A RolfsonHenry F RomerJames W RonkainenWilliam F RottschaeferRichard A Ruh JrJohn R SaylorMaris Schefers

ME alumni attended a formal lunch hosted by the Department on April 14, 2014. The purpose was to bring together alumni of all ages to network and socialize.

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In MemoriamDonald A. Anderson BS 1952 November 12, 2013Robert D. Atkins BS 1950 November 28, 2013Dale L. Bartley BS 1962 October 5, 2013Henry A. Brandtjen BS 1952 January 4, 2014James H. Brodie BS 1938 2014Wesley Caple BS 1949 February 16, 2014Arthur F. Christensen BS 1950 January 31, 2014Jerome R. Cichosz BS 1968 December 21, 2013Francis J. Dawson BS 1948 2013C R Ekern BS 1944 April 19, 2014Eugene S. Ekman BS 1956 November 17, 2013William A. Griswold BS 1962 February 1, 2014Lowell E. Johnson BS 1958 March 5, 2014Veikko J. Jokela BS 1943 November 17, 2013Michael J. Kaluza BS 1971 April 12, 2014Harry M. Kiley BS 1947 March 5, 2014Robert L. Kulp BS 1945 October 26, 2013Donald B. Lind BS 1959 November 20, 2013Kenneth E. Oja BS 1971 October 3, 2013Michael S. Orth BS 1988 October 4, 2013James L. Parsons BS 1939 November 27, 2013Kevin P. Rodby BS 1992 March 18, 2014E R Shelley BS 1951 April 2, 2014Ralph L. Sisler BS 1955 October 21, 2013Edward L. Smith BS 1959 October 22, 2013Richard J. Springer BS 1958 February 26, 2014Richard W. Strindmo BS 1949 2014George Terpstra BS 1948 October 16, 2013Olgerts A. Vijums BS 1958 March 6, 2014Howard E. Wellumson BS 1958 2013

Carl A KuhrmeyerZhi-Kui LingThomas E MarrinanDaniel E MartinPatricia B McDonaldVernon F Minnis JrMeghan M MooneyMeribeth Nordloef-PedersenRobert A RustinJames L RutzickRobin E SchallerRoger N SchmidtTerrence W SimonKevin J Swanson

Christina M SchoberKent L SchollDolores E SeidelGilmore J SemDonald R SjostromJohn G SmithGino SovranNicholas J StanleyRichard L SteblayEivind StenersenBradley G StewartPeter C StrykerMandar G SukhatankarWei-Ching SunRobert E SundellRoy E SwansonPeter A SwensonSho S TakagakiLester O TangenBryce TenbroekKe-Kung TienJames R. TraegerRichard J UhlemannHoward S VeithWilliam C ViebahnRalph J VolinoDayton J WalkerKent D WallNicholas G WanderEric A WareRichard T WeisbeckerDavid A WesleyCarolyn H WestringWarren M WieseMark A WinslowMarvin J YeagerRobert M YoungHong Zhu

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The Mechanical Engineering spring Senior Design Show was held on May 8, 2014. The Design Show is a public, walk-through event where ME 4054W students show off what they have been working on all semester. Student teams are judged by a jury of professionals. Attendees are given brief demonstrations of the various projects students have been working on all semester. Check out all the pictures here: z.umn.edu/designshowpics

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