Dec 1, 2014 | No Comments | By Sarah Preis
Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor and HEMI faculty member Vicky Nguyen has been selected for the 2015 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award by the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)! This is the highest and most selective honor of the AMD for young researchers, in recognition Vicky’s outstanding contributions in applied mechanics.
With this award Vicky’s follows in the footsteps of Mary Boyce, the inaugural recipient of this award in 1988, and who is one of the most prolific senior researchers in applied mechanics, formerly the Ford Professor of Engineering and Department head of ME at MIT, and presently Dean of Engineering and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
