Meet Our 2017 Recipient

Norman Wereley
Chair, Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Wereley's research interests include active, semi-active, and passive vibration control, as well as adaptive crashworthiness systems, for helicopters and automobiles; magnetorheological energy absorbers and fluids; and smart pneumatic systems.  He has contributed seminal research in modelling magnetorhelogical fluids as part of energy absorption devices and has produced a significant body of work in passive and active vibration suppression.  

Past Recipients

• 2016: Howard Milchberg, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, IREAP
• 2015: Gary Rubloff, Materials Science and Engineering
• 2014: Christopher Davis, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2013: Manfred Wuttig, Materials Science and Engineering
• 2012: Peter Kofinas, Bioengineering
• 2011: Michael Zachariah, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry
• 2010: Allen Davis,  Civil and Environmental Engineering
• 2009: Michael Pecht, Mechanical Engineering and Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering
• 2008: K. J. Ray Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2007: Rama Chellappa, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2006: Ashwani Gupta, Mechanical Engineering
• 2005: Edward Ott, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2004: Thomas Antonsen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2003: William Bentley, Bioengineering
• 2002: Inderjit Chopra, Aerospace Engineering
• 2001: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Materials Science and Engineering