WPI had its senior project (MQP) presentation on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. More than 400 students presented their projects on campus, including more than 40 projects presented by about 120 students in Mechanical Engineering Department. Many people from local companies visited WPI on that day. Some of them served as judges for student awards. Six teams from CAM Lab displayed their posters and showed their work to the visitors. Three projects were awarded by external judges.

Kevin Harrington and William Kurzmack received Mechanical Engineering Honorable Mention Award, on their p roject, Two Gait Walking Mobile Robot with Teleoperation over a Wireless Network

Richard Grossman Jr. and Natalie Senenfelder received Manufacturing Engineering MQP Award and Mechanical Engineering Honorable Mention Award, on their project, Lean Manufacturing of the Midframe Process, Sponsored by General Electric Aviation

Michael Demers, Ryan Lehrmitt, and Robert Pantalone received Manufacturing Engineering MQP Award, Mechanical Engineering Honorable Mention Award, and Best Senior Project Award from Society of Manufacturing Engineers Worcester Chapter, on their proj ect, High Efficiency Coolant Nozzle Design for Abrasive Wire Wafer Slicing, Sponsored by Saint-Gobain

Congratulations to the teams as well as their sponsors and thanks to judges.

Bowang (Bose) Xiao received the Norton Professorship in 2008-2009 academic year, for his excellence research work he has done and will be doing at WPI. Congratulations to Bose.

Eugeny Sosnovsky received the 2008 Salisbury Prize from WPI. This prize honors the senior student with the great faithfulness and excellence. Congratulations to Gene.

Wayne Tian has been awarded the Norton Fellowship for next academic year for his MS study on Signature Analysis of Grinding Processes. Congratulations to Wayne.

Derek Pepicelli got an award !

Industrial Heating magazine, in coorperation with the Metal Treating Institute (MTI), has awarded the eleventh annual Master Craftman Award to a CHTE member company, American Heat Treating. Associated with this award is an education scholarship in Materials Science or Heat Treatment, which is given to Derek Pepicelli, a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student who is doing his work study at our Lab. Derek is working on the establishment of a materials database of Temperature Time Transformation (TTT)graphs for the development of CHT-q/t. Congratulations to Derek.

Professor Zhijian Pei gave a seminar to Manufacturing Engineering graduate students and professors, on Grinding Technology in Semi-conductor Industry.

Professor Rong has been elected to the ASME grade of Fellow on Tuesday, August 24, 2004. The Fellow is a distinction grade of the professional society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Rong was recognized by his life long engineering achievements, especially in the area of academic research. Congratulations.

Dr. Yiming Rong was awarded the John Woodman Higgins Professorship in Engineering. This special professorship was established in 1962 by a bequest from John Woodman Higgins. It was Mr. Higgins desire that this bequest will provide for a distinguished professorship to give continuing leadership to the educational program at WPI. Professor Rong was granted tenure at the beginning of the 2002-2003 academic year.

The three-year professorship was established in 1962 by a bequest from John Woodman Higgins, son of Milton Prince Higgins, first superintendent of the Washburn Shops. The younger Higgins graduated from WPI with a degree in electrical engineering in 1896. He developed the Worcester Pressed Steel Co. into one of the city's leading companies and was chairman of the firm at the time of his death in 1961.

Yihong (David) Yang has been awarded Carl and Inez Weidenmiller fellowship for one year from August 15, 2002. Congratulations to him.

On the Project Day, April 16, 2002, three MQPs sponsored by GE Aircraft Engines and CAM-Lab. WPI were presented by the student teams. One project was awarded the Honorable Mention for Manufacturing and Materials category. The project is "GE Aircraft Engines Measurement Fixture Redesign", by Benjamin Lippitt and Robert Paonessa. Congratulations to them.