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Alumni and Awards

Awards Students Received

  1. Brad L. Kinsey, ASME Student Design Manufacturing Competition, 3rd Place, 1998
  2. Xi Wang, Terminal Year Cabell Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2000.
  3. Xiongqi Peng, Terminal Year Cabell Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2003.
  4. Numpon Mahayotsanun, NADDRG Student Presentation Award, 2007
  5. Tiffany Davis, NU Research Implementation Award, 2007
  6. Tiffany Davis, NSF Fellowship, 2007
  7. Michael Beltran, NSF Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2008
  8. Ibrahim Khalid Sahouh, Undergraduate Research and Innovation Award, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2008
  9. Huang, Y., Cao, J., Smith, S., Woody, B., Ziegert, J., and Li, M., Finalist, Best Paper Award, “Studies of Size Effect on the Formability of a Domed Part in Incremental Forming”, MSEC-72545, Proceedings of the 2008 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC2008, October 7-10, 2008, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
  10. Rui Zhou and Ibrahim K. Sahouh, 3rd place, 2008 ASME Student Manufacturing Design Competition, MSEC 2008, October 7-10, 2008, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
  11. Tiffany Davis, Presidential Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2010.
  12. Krystian Zimowski, Undergraduate Research and Innovation Award, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2010
  13. Rui Zhou, ISEN (The Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern) Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2010.
  14. Rui Zhou, Terminal Year Cabell Fellowship, 2010
  15. James Magargee and Morgan McHugh, 3rd place, 2010 ASME Student Manufacturing Design Competition, MSEC 2010, October, 2010, Erie, PA, USA.
  16. Rajiv Malhotra, 2012 Best Poster Award, North America Deep Drawing Research Group, May, 2012, Oakland, MI.
  17. Luke Francis Hemenetz and Tim Rockers, 2rd place, 2012 ASME Student Manufacturing Design Competition, MSEC 2012, June 2012, Notre Dame, USA.
  18. Trista (Man Kwan) Ng, Honorable Mention, Martin Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2013.
  19. Jacob L. Smith, National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, US Department of Defense, 2013 – 2016.
  20. James Magargee, ME Department Graduate Leadership and Service Award, 2013.
  21. Nicolas Martinez Prieto, Ryan Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2014.
  22. Newell Moser, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2014 – 2017.
  23. Jacob L. Smith, Martin Fellowship, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern, 2014.
  24. Zixuan Zhang, DOE ORISE Fellowship, 2016 – 2018.
  25. Ebot Etchu Ndip-Agbor, DOE ORISE Fellowship, 2016 – 2018.
  26. Huaqin Ren, DOE ORISE Fellowship, 2016 – 2018.
  27. Xiaoli Wang, Cabell Fellowship, McCormick, Northwestern University, 2015.
  28. Ebot Etchu Ndip-Agbor, Martin Fellowship, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2015.
  29. Marco Giovannini, Ryan Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2015
  30. Sarah Wolff, SME North America Manufacturing Research Conference Student Best Presentation Award, 2nd round-up, 2016
  31. Newell Moser, Martin Fellowship, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2016.
  32. Daniel Garcia, Presidential Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2017.
  33. Newell Moser, Royal E. Cabell Terminal Year Fellowship, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2017.
  34. Ebot Etchu Ndip-Agbor, Honorary Terminal Year Fellow, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2017.
  35. Sarah Wolff, Enrico Fermi Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, a highly competitive fellowship awarded to postdoctoral scientists and engineers “who are at early points in promising careers, display superb ability in scientific or engineering research, and show definite promise of becoming outstanding leaders in their fields”.
  36. Jennifer Bennett, Honorary Terminal Year Fellow, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2018.
  37. Marco Giovannini, Royal E. Cabell Terminal Year Fellowship, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2018.
  38. Nicolas Martinez Prieto, Royal E. Cabell Terminal Year Fellowship, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2018.
  39. Jennifer Bennett, ARL ORAU Fellowship, 2018 – 2019.
  40. Samantha Ann Webster, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2019.
  41. Sanjana Subramaniam, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2019.
  42. Yi Shi, Royal E. Cabell Terminal Year Fellowship, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2019.
  43. Mojtaba Mozaffar, Royal E. Cabell Terminal Year Fellowship, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2019.
  44. Derick Suarez, GEM Fellowship, 2020.
  45. Marisa Bisram, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2020.
  46. Marisa Bisram, Leadership and Service Award, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2020.
  47. Sanjana Subramaniam, Leadership and Service Award, Mechanical Engineering, 2021.
  48. Samantha Ann Webster, Terminal Year Fellowship, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2021.
  49. Daniel Quispe, Cabell Fellowship, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2021.
  50. Itzel Salgado, GEM Fellowship, 2021.
  51. Samantha Ann Webster, SME 30 under 30, SME, 2022.
  52. Jennifer Bennett, SME 30 under 30, SME, 2022.
  53. Samantha Ann Webster, Khoshnevis Student Awardees, 2022.
  54. Rujing Zha, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023.
  55. Shuheng Liao, Belytschko Outstanding Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2023.
  56. Dean Huang, Undergraduate Research & Innovation Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2023.

Students Graduated

Ph.D. Students:

  1. Hong Yao, Mechanical Engineering, June 2000, Process Design and Failure Analysis of Three Dimensional Sheet Metal Forming Using Simplified Numerical and Analytical Models, currently Sr. Research Engineer, Mittal Steel USA.
  2. Xi Wang, Mechanical Engineering, December 2000, Stress-based Wrinkling Criteria and Experimental Verification in Sheet Metal Forming, currently Senior Software Engineer, Nicksun, Inc.
  3. Brad L. Kinsey, Mechanical Engineering, June 2001, A Combined Approach to Improve and Assess the Formability of Tailor Welded Blanks, currently Professor and Chair, University of New Hampshire, Durham. NSF CAREER award recipient.
  4. Xiongqi Peng, Mechanical Engineering, December 2003, Material Characterization and Stamping Simulation for Woven Composites, currently Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China.
  5. Thaweepat Buranathiti (now Purit Thanakijkasem), Mechanical Engineering, June 2005, Design and Optimization under Uncertainty in Sheet Metal Forming Processes Constrained with Failure Analysis, currently Associate Professor and Chair, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi.
  6. Neil Krishnan, Mechanical Engineering, June 2006, Microforming: Experimental Investigation of Size Effects in the Extrusion of Micropins, currently Manager, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Sandvik Hyperion.
  7. Shawn H. Cheng, Mechanical Engineering, December 2009, Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Material Deformation Behavior in Sheet Metals and Its Forming Process, currently CEO, HUPU.com, named one of the Nine Promising Young Entrepreneurs in China by Forbes.
  8. Numpon Mahayotsanun, Mechanical Engineering, December 2010, Study of Size and Strain Rate Effects in the Micro-Extrusion Process, currently Lecturer at Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
  9. Tiffany Davis Ling, Mechanical Engineering, December 2011, Mechanics and Control of Laser Surface Texturing and its Applications in Energy Efficiency and Production, was a Lead Senior Process Engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, currently as Lead Design Faculty in Instruction, at University of St. Thomas.
  10. Rui Zhou, Mechanical Engineering, December 2011, Process Mechanics and Design of Deformation-based Surface Texturing System, currently Senior Engineer at Apple Inc.
  11. Rajiv Malhotra, Mechanical Engineering, June 2012, Formability and Toolpath Planning in Incremental Forming, currently at Rutgers as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, received 2017 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers Award.
  12. James Magargee, Mechanical Engineering, June 2014, Mechanics of Electrically-Assisted Deformation in Metals, currently at Apple.
  13. Ishan Saxena, Mechanical Engineering, December 2015, Laser Induced Plasma Micro-Patterning, currently at Intel.
  14. Jacob Smith, Mechanical Engineering, February 2016, Computational Approaches for Analyzing Flexible Manufacturing Processes and Advanced Materials: Towards Understanding the Inherent Multiscale Multiphysical Phenomena, currently at Apple.
  15. Xiaoli Wang, Mechanical Engineering, February 2016, Mechanics of Magnetostrictive Thin Film Deformation and Its Application in Active X-Ray Optics, currently as a faculty Zhejiang Institute of Technology.
  16. Trista (Man Kwan) Ng, Mechanical Engineering, December 2017, Fundamentals and Applications of Electrically-assisted Microrolling, currently as a post-doctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, and will be an Engineering Physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from August 2021.
  17. Ebot Etchu Ndip-Agbor, Mechanical Engineering, June 2018, Rapid Analysis and Planning Tools for Flexible Manufacturing Processes in a Cyber-Physical Setting, currently at Autodesk.
  18. Zixuan Zhang, Mechanical Engineering, June 2018, Hybrid Incremental Sheet Forming Methods for Enhanced Process Performance and Material Properties, at McKinsey & Company.
  19. Huaqing Ren, Mechanical Engineering, August 2018, Modeling and Control of the Double-Sided Incremental Forming Process, at Apple Inc.
  20. Sarah Wolff, Mechanical Engineering, December 2018, Laser-matter interactions in directed energy deposition, was at Argonne National Lab as an Enrico-Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow, and now at Texas A&M as an assistant professor.
  21. Daniel J. Garcia, Chemical Engineering, June 2019, Life Cycle Optimization of Sustainable Water-Energy-Food Nexus Systems and Networks, at Exxon.
  22. Weizhao Zhang, Mechanical Engineering, August 2019, Fundamentals of Thermoforming Processes of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) Parts, at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor.
  23. Newell Moser, Mechanical Engineering, December 2019, Deformation Mechanisms and Process Planning in Double-Sided Incremental Forming, at NIST as post-doc.
  24. Yi Shi, Mechanical Engineering, December 2019, Curved Water Jet Guided Laser Micro-Manufacturing, at Intel.
  25. Marco Giovannini, Mechanical Engineering, January 2020, Soft Tissue Cutting in Core Biopsy, to be at Intel.
  26. Puikei Cheng, Mechanical Engineering, June 2020, Additive Manufacturing Toolpath Design using Graph Theory, at Exponent (formerly Failure Analysis Associates) consulting firm.
  27. David Pritchet, Mechanical Engineering, June 2020, Electrophoretically Guided Micro Additive Manufacturing Process, at Intel.
  28. Nicolas Martinez Prieto, Mechanical Engineering, June 2020, Electrohydrodynamically-Driven Micro-Additive Manufacturing Processes: Characterization and Control, at Intel.
  29. Jennifer Bennett, Mechanical Engineering, June 2021, Tailored Mechanical and Geometric Properties in Directed Energy Deposition via Global Thermal Control, at United States Military Academy West Point as an Assistant Professor.
  30. Mojtaba Mozaffar, Mechanical Engineering, June 2021, Physics-Informed Data-Driven Prediction and Design in Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Northwestern University as Research Professor, now at Amazon.
  31. Zilin Jiang, Mechanical Engineering, June 2022, Process Understanding of Hybrid Multi-step Incremental Sheet Forming, at Apple.
  32. Jiaxi Xie, Mechanical Engineering, June 2022, A Generic Finite Element Solver by Meta-expressions, at MathWorks.
  33. Samantha Ann Webster, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 2022, Establishing Process-Structure Relationships in Laser Powder Blown Directed Energy Deposition Through In-situ Investigation, at NIST.
  34. Dohyun Leem, Mechanical Engineering, July 2022, Forming Strategy Design and Mechanics Analysis in Flexible Sheet Metal Forming Systems, at General Motors.
  35. Shuheng Liao, Mechanical Engineering, May 2023, Toward a Digital Twin of Metal Additive Manufacturing: Process Optimization and Control Enabled by Physics-based and Data-driven Models, at M.I.T. as a post-doctoral fellow.
  36. Suman Bhandari, Mechanical Engineering, July 2023

 

M.S. Students:

  1. Brad L. Kinsey, Mechanical Engineering, June 1998, Process Control in Sheet Metal Forming, currently Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham.
  2. Nan Song, Mechanical Engineering, December 2000, Springback Prediction of Straight Flanging Operation, currently R&D Software Developer, Bloomberg, L.P.
  3. Vikram Viswanathan, Mechanical Engineering, December 2000, Experimental Investigation of Forming Limit Curve for Tailor Welded Blanks and Physical Implementation of Neural Network for Springback Control, currently at Adobe.
  4. Neil Krishnan, Mechanical Engineering, December 2003, Estimation of optimal blank holder force trajectories in segmented binders using an ARMA model, currently Manager, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Sandvik Hyperion.
  5. Shawn Cheng, Mechanical Engineering, June 2004, Experimental study on wrinkling characterization and an accelerated method for springback compensation, continued as a Ph.D. student at Northwestern.
  6. Numpon Mahayotsanun, Mechanical Engineering, June 2005, Draw-in sensor for sheet metal forming, continued as a Ph.D. student at Northwestern.
  7. Anthony Swanson, Mechanical Engineering, June 2006, Experimental analysis of die wear in deep drawing with nanometer precision, a consultant in Chicago.
  8. Michael Beltran, Mechanical Engineering, December 2010, Investigation of the Incremental Forming Process at a Micro-Scale, a lab manager/lecture at Northwestern University, co-founder of Scimplicity LLC.
  9. Tim Rockers, Mechanical Engineering, August 2012, Tension and compression test of a sheet metal.
  10. Tim Velasquez, Mechanical Engineering, January 2013, Feasibility of Laser Surface Texturing for Friction Reduction in Surgical Blades.
  11. Sifang Zhou, Mechanical Engineering, June 2013, Bulk Metallic Glasses for Micro-Rolling, at Mori Seiki.
  12. Rui Xu, Mechanical Engineering, June 2014, Process Accuracy Improvement and Performance Study of Incremental Forming, continuing his Ph.D. study at Stanford.
  13. Jiachen (Jackson) Xu, Mechanical Engineering, June 2014, currently at Apple, A Novel Method of Evaluating the Tensile and Compressive Behavior of Thin Metal Sheet Using a Transparent Device.
  14. Yuanqiao Wu, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2015.
  15. Jintao Liu, Mechanical Engineering, June 2015, Laser Surface Processing: Laser Shock Peening and Biprism interference micromachining.
  16. Satyabrata Mohanty, Mechanical Engineering, June 2015, Electrical Micro Manipulation of Jet Trajectory for Water Jet Based Micro-manufacturing.
  17. Lingxuan Su, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2015.
  18. Tanvy Limaye, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2015.
  19. Gabriela Fratta, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2016.
  20. Ebot Etchu Ndip-Agbor, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2016.
  21. Sixuan Chen, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2018.
  22. Haiguang Liao, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2018.
  23. Wenjia Wang, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2018
  24. Qiyan Chen, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2020
  25. Indrajeet Gupta, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2021
  26. Sangram Rout, Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2021
  27. Arpan Patel, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022
  28. Songlin Duan, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2023

Research Personnel Supervised

Post-doctoral Fellows:

Dr. Fan Chen (2023 – 2023)

Dr. Tianju Xue (2022 – 2023)

Dr. Dominik Kozjek (2021 – 2023)

Dr. Jihoon Jeong (2021 – 2023)

Dr. Ashkan Golgoon (2020 – 2021)

Dr. Qiang Zeng (2013 – 2018)

Dr. Biao Liang (2016 – 2018)

Dr. Xiaoli Wang (2016 – 2017)

Dr. Taekyung (Terry) Lee (2015 – 2015)

Dr. Rajiv Malhotra (2012 – 2013)

Dr. Ying Huang (2006 – 2009)

Dr. Wonoh Lee (2006 – 2008)

Dr. Shunping Li (2000 – 2005)

Dr. Kum Cheol Shin (2003 – 2004)

Dr. Hongsheng Lu (2002 – 2004)

Dr. Xue (Patricia) Pu (2000 – 2002)

Dr. Zhihong Liu (1998 – 1999)

Dr. Choong Ho Lee (1998 – 1999)

Visiting Scholars:

Dr. Xifeng Li 2011 – 2012

Prof. Yun Wang (2008)

Prof. Xudong Kang (2008)

Prof. Zhong Wang (2003 – 2004)

Dr. Riccardo Ruffini (1997)

Mr. Steffen Hägebarth (2004)

Mr. Anupam Agrawal (2006)

Prof. Venkat Reddy (2006 – 2007)

Prof. Yongjun Wang (2007 – 2008)

Mr. Ning Ma 2009 – 2010

Prof. Chun Xu 2010 – 2011

Mr. Weichao Wu 2009 – 2011

Mr. Deniz Akturk 2012 – 2012

Mr. Dongkai Xu 2010 – 2012

Ms. Fan Rong 2010 – 2013

Prof. Xie Le 2014

Ms. Lanyun Li 2014-2015

Mr. Youqiang Xing 2015-2016

Mr. Wei Wang 2014-2015

Mr. Xinwei Wang 2014-2015

Ms. Beatrice Valoppi 2015

Mr. Antonio Jose Sanchez Egea 2015-2016

Miss Huan Zhang 2014-2016

Mr. Wule Zhu 2015-2016

Mr. Adrian Lindenmeyer 2019

Mr. Eiichi Ota (2019 – 2020)

Undergraduate Students:

Miss Mikenzie Steffens (graduated 1999)

Mr. Joseph Goode (graduated 2000)

Mr. Francis Joe Mills (graduated 2001)

Mr. Alexander J. Ellis (graduated 2002)

Mr. Peter J. Leonard (graduated 2002)

Mr. Sasawat Mahabunphachai (graduated 2002)

Mr. Ibrahim Khalid Sahouh (graduated 2008)

Miss Kristi Bond (graduated 2008)

Miss Julia Padvoiskis (graduated 2008)

Mr. Phillip Ahn (graduated 2008)

Mr. Ben Schriesheim (graduated 2008)

Mr. Drew Price (graduated 2009)

Miss Rachel Cohen (graduated 2010)

Mr. KrystianZimowski (graduated 2010)

Miss Regan Radcliffe (graduated 2011)

Mr. Kevin Yngve (graduated 2011)

Mr. Stephen Guerin (graduated 2011)

Mr. Jeffrey Shih (graduated 2011)

Miss Morgan McHugh (graduated 2011)

Mr. Andrew Nelson (graduated 2011)

Miss Brooke Stanislawski (graduated 2012)

Miss Eliza Bifano (graduated 2012)

Mr. Justin Panhans (graduated 2012)

Miss Sarah Wolff (graduated 2013)

Mr. Max Abecassis (graduated 2014)

Mr. Olatunde Olufisayo Okeowo (graduated 2015)

Mr. Carter Robinson (graduated 2018)

Mr. Daniel Tian (graduated 2018)

Mr. Brandon Bay (graduated 2018)

Miss Zoe Granato (graduated 2019)

Mr. Phillip Kwon (graduated 2019)

Mr. Logan Johnson (graduated 2021)

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