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Awards

IDETC/CIE/AM3D

Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference in Robotics and
ASME RUTH AND JOEL SPIRA
OUTSTANDING DESIGN EDUCATOR AWARD Automation in 2012, and a Best Paper (Honorable Mention) at the 39th
ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference in 2015. He has held
Design Engineering Division
positions of a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hanyang University in
Kathryn W. Jablokow Korea, a Professor of Robotics at the University of Ulster in Northern
Ireland, and a Visiting Professor at the Biorobotics Institute of SSSA in Pisa.
The Pennsylvania State University – Great Valley He actively serves on editorial boards of conferences and journals
published by the ASME, IEEE, and other professional societies.

Biography: Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Engineering Design at the Penn State Great Valley DED ROBERT E. ABBOTT AWARD
School of Graduate Professional Studies. She earned her BS, MS and PhD LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD
degrees in electrical engineering; all from The Ohio State University. She Design Engineering Division
joined Penn State University in 1990 after spending a year as an NSF-NA-
TO Postdoctoral Fellow at RWTH Aachen, Germany. In 1995–96, she Shapour Azarm
helped develop Penn State’s Product Realization and Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Leadership Development Minors, and also served as Associate Director of
the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education. Dr.
Jablokow is the creator of four graduate-level engineering courses
focused on problem solving, creativity, and innovation, which have been Biography: Dr. Shapour Azarm received his PhD from the University of
integrated into both resident and online Penn State degree programs in Michigan, Ann Arbor, and in1984. He then joined the University of
Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. She is one of three Maryland, College Park, where he is currently serving as Professor of
Penn State engineering faculty who designed, developed, and teach a Mechanical Engineering, and also Professor of Applied Mathematics &
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on creativity, innovation, and Statistics, and Scientific Computation. Dr. Azarm’s research interests are
change, which has attracted over 250,000 learners since 2013. Dr. focused on models and methods with uncertainty considerations including
Jablokow played a key role in developing the Multidisciplinary Engineer- (i) Design for Market Systems, (ii) Design Optimization, and (iii) Decision
ing Design option of Penn State’s undergraduate General Engineering Support Systems. Dr. Azarm’s research with his group has resulted in over
degree, which she now directs. Dr. Jablokow serves as a Director of the 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Azarm has
Educational Research & Methods Division of ASEE and as a Member of Dr. supervised or c0-supervised 23 PhD students. Several of his former
Jablokow the Steering Committee of the North American Chapter of the students are faculty members in the U.S. and overseas. He has been
Design Society. Her groundbreaking research on cognition-based design, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mechanical Design (ASME Transactions),
ideation flexibility, and engineering innovativeness is supported by Review Editor of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Associate
multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Jablokow has Editor of Mechanics-Based Design of Structures and Machines, and
earned numerous teaching and research awards including the W. M. Keck Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Reliability and Safety.
Foundation Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the Penn State Great He served as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Computing and
Valley Teaching Excellence Award, and Penn State Great Valley Arthur L. Information Science in Engineering (ASME Transactions). He was an
Glenn Award for Faculty Innovation. Dr. Jablokow is also a Fellow of ASME. Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD), and a
(co-) Guest Editor of two special issues of JMD: one on Robust and
Reliability Based Design and another on Designing Complex Engineered
Systems. He was an Operating Board member of the ASME Systems and
ASME MACHINE DESIGN AWARD
Design Group, one of the largest groups in ASME, member-at-large of the
Design Engineering Division
ASME Committee on Division Operations and Training, and a member of
Sunil K. Agrawal the ASME Design Engineering Division (DED) Advisory Committee. He is a
past Chair of the ASME DED Advisory Committee and past Chair of the
Columbia University ASME DED, one of the largest divisions in ASME. He is also past Chair of
the ASME Design Automation Committee, past Conference Chair and
Paper Review Chair of the ASME Design Automation Conference. Among
his numerous awards, he received the ASME Design Automation Award for
Biography: Sunil K. Agrawal received a PhD in mechanical engineering
his “sustained and meritorious contributions to research in Design
from Stanford University in 1990. He is currently a Professor and Director
Automation, specifically in computational design optimization and
of Robotics and Rehabilitation (ROAR) Laboratory at Columbia University.
engineering design decision making.” Dr. Azarm is a Fellow of the ASME
He is an author/coauthor of 400 journal and conference papers, three
and a Registered Professional Engineer in Maryland.
books, and 13 US Patents. Dr. Agrawal is a Fellow of the ASME and AIMBE.
His honors include a NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship from the White
House in 1994, a Bessel Prize from Germany in 2003, and a Humboldt US
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Senior Scientist Award in 2007. He is a recipient of the Best Paper award
at the 35th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference in 2011, a Best