PROVO, Utah — A BYU engineering professor recently received a top award for young scholars from the National Science Foundation. Christopher A. Mattson, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was named one of this year’s CAREER award recipients, bringing BYU’s total to seven since the program’s inception in 1995. (Read Full Article)
Several graduate students in the Mechanical Engineering Department were awarded Research Presentation Awards by the Graduate Student Society at BYU. Sadegh Ahmadi, Jay Basinger, Brian Olsen, Stuart Rogers, and Ribeka Takahashi were given the awards to help fund travel to important conferences where they were presenting their scholarly work. (Read Full Article)
W. Jerry Bowman, Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, was awarded the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2010 Faculty Advisor Award. Dr. Bowman received the award on January 5, 2010, at the 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Orlando, Florida. (Read Full Article)
Gregory S. Christensen, a 1995 graduate of BYU’s Mechanical Engineering Department, was awarded the 2009 Young Leadership & Excellence Award from the Automotive Hall of Fame. The awards ceremony was held at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan on October 6, 2009. (Read Full Article)
BYU Mechanical Engineering professor Scott Thomson was recently awarded a five year, $1.8 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Thomson’s project will investigate the influence of subglottic anatomy on voice production. The grant has subcontracts through BYU to the University of Utah, the National Center for Voice and Speech, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Read Full Article)
