Voglewede wins international award

Dr. Philip Voglewede, Assistant Professor in Mechancial Engineering, recently was awarded the Freudenstein/General Motors Young Investigators Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International. Voglewede was presented this prestigious award at the Annual ASME Design Engineering Technical / Computers and Information in Engineering Conference held September 4-7 in Las Vegas, NV.

The Freudenstein/General Motors Young Investigators Award was established in 1996 by ASME International to encourage young investigators in accomplishing high quality research. The award is aimed at a paper with significant original contribution to the theory of mechanisms and the potential to enhance the public good. One award is given biennially with an ASME Certificate and a cash value of one-thousand US Dollars.

Voglewede's paper entitled, "Novel Design of a Robotic Gripper Allowing for In-hand Manipulation," was chosen from the 1,223 papers at presented at the conference.

Said Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor, David Rocheleau, "Please join me in congratulating Phil for receiving this award. This best paper award for Dr. Voglewede is quite an accomplishment."

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9/10/07