Former Faculty Fellow earns ASME honor

released May 11, 2004

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has awarded Yonggang Young Huang, the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the ASME Melville Medal, the highest ASME honor for the best original paper published in the ASME Transactions during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award.

Huang is being honored for his work on carbon nanotubes. The other Melville Medal honorees include Huang's former student Peng Zhang (now an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut), Huajian Gao (Max Planck Institute) and Keh-Chih Hwang (Tsinghua University).

Huang was an NCSA Faculty Fellow in 2002-2003; during his fellowship, he worked on the development of a computational infrastructure for continuum analysis of carbon nanotubes.

 

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