The Ohio State University

Stephen Hart, who recently completed a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering, has won the ASME Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition for the second time at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Hart won the first-place award in the (regional) competition in 2005, while conducting research in the Mechanical Engineering Department's honors program with Professor Marcelo Dapino in the Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory. Hart's research focused on accelerating bone growth using smart materials, such as the magnetostrictive compound Terfenol-D. His first-place, award-winning presentation this year was titled, "Accelerated Bone Growth Remotely Induced by Magnetic Fields and Smart Materials."

Lorenzo Serrao, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, has won the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Best Student Paper Award. Advised by Professor Giorgio Rizzoni, Serrao co-authored the award-winning paper in collaboration with Dr. Pierluigi Pisu, a former research associate at the Center for Automotive Research.

Serrao's first-place paper is titled, "Analysis and Evaluation of a Two-Engine Configuration in a Series Hybrid Electric Vehicle." The result of a project funded by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in collaboration with the Oshkosh Truck Corporation, the paper describes the development of a novel hybrid configuration for a hybrid-electric refuse collection truck.

Sivom Manchiraju, a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department, recently received an award in the Student Presentation Competition at the 7th World Congress for Computational Mechanics. The award, which was won in the material modeling specialty area, was presented by the Material Modeling Specialty Committee of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) and the Executive Committee of USACM.

Advised by mechanical engineering Professor Somnath Ghosh, Manchiraju's award-winning paper was titled, "Multi-Time Scale Analysis of Cyclic Deformation in Polycrystalline Metals." Based on his graduate research, Manchiraju's paper addresses computational simulations of the deformation process in metals subjected to cyclic loading.

Stephen Hart, who recently completed a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering, has won the ASME Old Guard Oral Presentation Competition for the second time at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Hart won the first-place award in the (regional) competition in 2005, while conducting research in the Mechanical Engineering Department's honors program with Professor Marcelo Dapino in the Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory. Hart's research focused on accelerating bone growth using smart materials, such as the magnetostrictive compound Terfenol-D. His first-place, award-winning presentation this year was titled, "Accelerated Bone Growth Remotely Induced by Magnetic Fields and Smart Materials."

Mechanical engineering graduate students Michael Groeber and Himanshu Bhatnagar won first and third-place prizes in this year's Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.