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Department news
Batra patents and medal
Romesh Batra,
Clifton C. Garvin
Professor in the
Department
of Biomedical
Engineering and
Mechanics, and an
affiliate faculty of
mechanical engineering, was named on two
patents awarded this spring. They are:
Michael Cybulsky, Raymond J. Sinatra, Roy
Peter McIntyre, Taylor K. Blair, Gary Pickrell,
Romesh Batra, Mark Hudson, Diagnosis of
thermal spray gun ignition, Patent number:
10241091, Granted on 3/26/2019.
Taylor Blair, Gary Pickrell, Michael Cy-
bulsky, Raymond John Sinatra, Romesh Batra,
Analysis of component having engineered
internal space for fluid flow, Patent number:
10274364, Granted on 4/30/2019.
ation for Computational Mechanics’ Belytsc-
hko Medal for ‘outstanding computational
work for analyzing Adiabatic Shear Bands,
proposing modified- and smooth-symmetric
particle hydrodynamics basis functions, and
the method of manufactured solutions for
code verification. The award will be presented
at the 15th US National Congress on Compu-
tational Mechanics July 28-Aug 1 in Austin,
Texas.
Kochersberger at UN
Associate Profes-
sor Kevin Koch-
ersberger gave the
keynote speech at
a global meeting
drones sponsored
by UNICEF April
22-24 at the UN
headquarters in
New York City. The meeting was intended
to share ideas on drone applications that
UNICEF is spearheading around the world.
Batra was also received the 2019 US Associ-
The College of Engineering Dean's Awards were presented May 9 and eight mechanical engineering faculty were recognized.
Excellence in Teaching - Pinhas Ben-Tzvi; Excellence in Research - Christopher Williams; Excellence in Service - John Ferris
and Mary Kasarda; Outstanding New Assistant Professors - Ling Li and Xiaoyu 'Rayne' Zheng; Faculty Fellow - Jiangtao
Cheng; Certificate of Teaching Excellence - Scott Huxtable.