Dr. Ilies Captures NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Horea Ilies, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, was named a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award winner in 2007. The five-year $400,000 award will support his investigation into ways to improve the design and manufacture of mechanical systems whose function depends on inherent contact between moving geometries. Such systems are typically encountered in the design and manufacture of mechanisms such as gears and cams, but the same underlying principles are witnessed in other application domains such as computer aided manufacturing, geometric modeling and computer graphics, engineering design, tool path planning in manufacturing, and computer assisted surgery.
