Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 3 Fall 2018 | Page 5

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In memoriam: R. Gordon Kirk, professor emeritus
R. Gordon Kirk, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering died
Sept. 6. Kirk was conferred the emeritus status in 2013 by the Virginia
Tech Board of Visitors. He came to Blacksburg in 1985 and was a
member of the department for 28 years. Over the course of his career
he authored or co-authored more than 175 peer-revie wed journal
and conference articles, he held four patents and was a Fellow of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Tribolo-
gists and Lubrication Engineers. His obituary can be found here.
Alan Kornhauser named Associate Professor, Emeritus
Alan A. Kornhauser, associate professor of mechanical engi-
neering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been
conferred the title of associate professor emeritus by the Virgin-
ia Tech Board of Visitors.
See the whole story at VTNews
Cutting down on food waste aim of new packaging
Mechanical engineering graduate student Mohammad
Habibi is a study co-author on a paper that suggests slippery
packaging may help reduce food waste from incremental
deposits left in condiment and other food packaging con-
tainers. Read the whole story at VTNews.
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