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Awards
ASME 2018 ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES & Description of the award
MATERIALS SYSTEMS AWARD
The ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials System Prize is presented to
Diann Brei a member of the technical community who has made significant
Program Director, contributions to the advancement of the sciences and technologies
Design Science Chair & Professor, associated with adaptive structures and/or material systems. The $1,000
Integrative Systems + Design Department cash award and certificate are meant to recognize scientific contributions
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI as measured by leadership, technical publications, and advances made.
Biography ASME ASMS TC GARY ANDERSON AWARD
Dr. Diann Brei joined the Mechanical Engineering at the University of Andres Arrieta 25
Michigan in 1994 after graduating from Arizona State University with her Assistant Professor
Ph.D (1993) in Mechanical Engineering and her BSE (1988) in Computer Purdue University
Systems Engineering. She served as the Mechanical Engineering West Lafayette, IN
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education and as the Director of the
Design Science Program. She was the co-director of the General Motors/ Biography
University of Michigan Smart Materials and Structures Collaborative
Research Laboratory (SMS CRL) with a range of projects focused on smart Dr. Andres F. Arrieta leads the Programmable Structures Laboratory. He
material maturity, product innovation utilizing smart materials, and joined Purdue University in August 2015 as an Assistant Professor of the
mechamatronic design tools. She is currently Professor of Mechanical Mechanical Engineering School and in May 2017 as an Assistant Professor
Engineering and recently became chair of the Integrative Systems + (by courtesy) in the Aeronautics and Astronautics School. Prior to joining
Design Division at the University of Michigan. She currently serves as the Purdue, he held the Compliant Systems Group Team Leader position of
co-director of the General Motors/University of Michigan Multifunctional the Composite Materials and Adaptive Structures Laboratory (CMASLab)
Vehicle Systems Collaborative Research Laboratory (MVS CRL) with thrust at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for 3 ½ years. Before this, he was a Marie Curie
in Multi-functional Interactive Knits, NeuroTech, Multi-functional Active Early Training Fellow and Research Associate at the Dynamics and
System Technologies and The Technology Incubator. Dr. Brei’s expertise Oscillations Group of the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany
is in multi-domain design with technical interests in smart materials and between 2010 and 2012. He received his Mechanical Engineering degree
structures, sensors and actuators, medical devices. Her research has in 2006 from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia; Ph.D. in 2010
focused on the underling design science for device innovatio using smart from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Bristol,
materials. Fundamental to her work is the synthesis and analysis of smart United Kingdom.
material actuation and device architectures from conventional ratcheting
and spooling to cutting edge architectures such as active knits and active Prof. Arrieta’s research focuses on investigating the interrelation between
Velcro. Her smart material architectural models along with her multi- shape-property-function of material systems and structures with a focus
domain, multi-stage design methods have set the foundation for a on exploiting nonlinearity to generating multifunctional systems. His work
successful translational research and development paradigm adopted by lies at the interface between structures and vibrations uncovering and
industries in the automotive, medical and aerospace sectors. She has applying nonlinear phenomena, such as buckling and multi-stability, to
written over 125 referred journal and conference publications. Apart from engineering applications. He enhances the properties of engineering
her publications, she has sixteen patents and 22 pending, with exclusive structures by utilizing smart materials to realize multifunctionality and
licenses with General Motors and Lynx. Dr. Brei who is an ASME Fellow augmented performance. His work is being currently applied to
and AIAA Associate Fellow, has been an active leader in the smart programmable structures, light-weight morphing structures, time-varying
materials and structures community, co-founding the SMASIS conference, metamaterials and energy harvesting systems.
originating the ASME/AIAA Adaptive Structures E-newsletter, and
establishing the Adaptive Structures national database. For her research Dr. Arrieta has co-author 36 journal papers and 47 international
she has been awarded the ASME Best Paper Award in Structures and conference papers, receiving the ASME Best Paper Award in Dynamics &
Structural Dynamics, Hartwell Award, Ted Kennedy Team Excellence Control in Adaptive Structures for the paper entitled “Novel chiral structure
Award, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Da Vinci Award; for her with tailored mechanical response exploiting elastic instabilities” and the
teaching she has received the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Best student paper ASME Conference on Smart Structures, Adaptive
Award, ASEE Best Paper Award, University of Michigan College of Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2014), for the paper entitled
Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award for Mechanical Engineering; for “Static design of a selective compliance morphing wing profile based on
her dedicated service she has been awarded the ASME Distinguished integrated variable stiffness bi-stable components”. He has been awarded
Service Award, Monroe-Brown Foundation Service Excellence Award and the prestigious ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012) enabling him to
was a Willie Hobbs Moore Aspire, Advance, Achieve Mentoring conduct independent research while at ETH Zurich; and the ORS Doctoral
Award Finalist. Scholarship Award (2007) funding his doctoral studies. He has also
received a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship (2010) and held
