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Awards
ASME 2017 ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES & ASME ASMS TC GARY ANDERSON AWARD
MATERIALS SYSTEMS AWARD
Marcelo Dapino Andy Sarles
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical
The Ohio State University Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Columbus, OH
Biography Biography
Marcelo Dapino is the Honda R&D Americas Designated Chair in Andy Sarles is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the
Engineering at the Ohio State University, where he is a Professor in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). Sarles received his BS in
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prof. Dapino mechanical engineering from UTK and completed his MS and PhD in
serves as Director of the Smart Vehicle Concepts Center, a National mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. Sarles joined the Department of
Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at UTK in August
Professor Dapino joined Ohio State University as a faculty member in 2001 2011, where he directs the Bioinspired Materials and Transduction
where he has served as a mechanical engineering educator and primary Laboratory. Sarles’ group utilizes self-assembly and microfabrication to
advisor for close to 60 MS and Ph.D. students, 15 undergraduate theses, assemble biomimetic membranes for use in studying biophysical
and 10 post-doctoral associates. Along with his advisees and properties of cellular membranes and developing stimuli-responsive
collaborators, he has published over 102 archival journal articles, 8 book materials for sensing and controlled transport. Other interests include
chapters, 106 conference papers, and has generated 11 patents and neuromorphic systems, biomembrane-nanomaterial interactions,
intellectual property disclosures. Professor Dapino has an extensive interfacial physics, and cochlea-inspired sensing and mechanics. Sarles
record of service to the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems received a 2015 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant, and he is a member of
community and the ASME Aerospace Division. Among several ASME, MRS, and ASEE.
recognitions, he is a recipient of the ASME Gary Anderson Early
Achievement Award, the Honda Initiation Grant Award, and The Ohio State Description of the award
University Harrison Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.
Professor Dapino is a Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of SPIE. The Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award is given for notable
contribution(s) to the field of Adaptive Structures and Material Systems.
Description of the award The prize is awarded to a young researcher in his or her ascendancy
whose work has already had an impact in his/her field within Adaptive
The ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials System Prize is presented to Structures and Material Systems. The winner of the award must be within
a member of the technical community who has made significant seven years of terminal degree at the time of nomination.
contributions to the advancement of the sciences and technologies
associated with adaptive structures and/or material systems. The $1,000
cash award and certificate are meant to recognize scientific contributions
as measured by leadership, technical publications, and advances made.
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