The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has named University of Texas at Arlington mechanical engineering associate professors Alan Bowling and Ankur Jain as fellows.
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has named University of Texas at Arlington mechanical engineering associate professors Alan Bowling and Ankur Jain as fellows.
Bowling was recognized for his contributions to high-speed simulations and modeling of micro- and nano-sized objects in liquid and impact and contact dynamics. His research interests include multibody dynamics, cellular dynamics, mechanobiology, contact and impact dynamics and robotics.
“I am honored to receive this recognition and join the group of distinguished researchers designated as ASME fellows,” he said. “I would sincerely like to thank Dr. Erian Armanios and especially Dr. Dereje Agonafer for their support in obtaining this honor. I am also incredibly grateful for my graduate students, collaborators, and undergraduate students, too many to name here, who participated in bringing our work to a level worthy of recognition by ASME. It does take a village.”
Jain was recognized for his contributions in research and education related to heat transfer in engineering devices and systems. His research interests include thermal transport, energy conservation and multiphysics modeling of engineering systems and processes such as Li-ion batteries, semiconductors and additive manufacturing.
“I am humbled with this recognition of our research and education activities,” Jain said. “We hope to continue to contribute toward the fundamental science and engineering of heat transfer and energy conversion. Much of our work has very practical impacts, such as in Li-ion batteries and 3D printing.”
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Chair Erian Armanios noted the significance of his faculty members’ achievement.
“The ‘fellow’ grade of membership recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. Dr. Bowling and Dr. Jain have the privilege of being two of only 3,473 fellows out of 75,372 ASME members,” Armanios said. “We are proud to share in this exceptional acknowledgment of achievements.”
Seven other UTA faculty members are fellows of ASME. They are Ashfaq Adnan, Agonafer, Armanios, Abdolhossein Haji-Sheikh, Kent Lawrence and Frank Lu, all from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and Jun Liao from the Bioengineering Department.
ASME serves a wide-ranging engineering community through quality learning, the development of codes and standards, certifications, research, conferences and publications, government relations and other forms of outreach. Established in 1880, it has more than 85,000 members worldwide. More than 3,000 members have been named fellows of the society, or about 3.5% of the total.
- Written by Jeremy Agor, College of Engineering
