Tawfick is SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer

 

Assistant Professor Sameh Tawfick was recently named a 2016 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer by SME. This award recognizes engineers age 35 or younger for their exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry. 

 

Tawfick was honored for his excellence in the development of new manufacturing processes to produce 3D microstructures and casting of continuous metal nanowires for compliant electro-mechanical systems. He developed a mechano-capillary forming process to design and manufacture 3D microstructures by a simple wetting and drying process. His approach has enabled one to manufacture composite carbon nanotube (CNT) forests with high strength and toughness. His research is motivated by the need to produce and understand materials with advanced mechanical behavior in the framework of design of micro- and nano-architectures; heterogeneous composition; and tuning of molecular structural characteristics. 

 

Tawfick joined the MechSE department in 2013 after a postdoctoral position at MIT. He earned bachelor and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Cairo University, and a PhD in mechanical engineering in 2012 from the University of Michigan.