2010 NAMRI/SME Wu Award goes to DeVor and Kapoor

Professors Richard DeVor and Shiv Kapoor have been selected to be co-recipients of the 2010 S. M. Wu Research Implementation Award. The award is in recognition of their innovative research on the development of mechanistic simulation models for machining processes, which they began in the early 1980’s. Their simulation models have commercially benefited industry by providing guidance in terms of product design and process planning, and in supporting the design of machine tool systems at both the conventional and microscales.

Kapoor holds the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Chair in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and is Director of the Center for Machine Tool Systems Research. DeVor, a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Manufacturing, is currently a research professor in the department. Both serve as co-directors of the Machine Tool Systems Research Laboratory which continues to support research activities in the areas of machining and machine tool systems.

The Wu Award, which is sponsored by the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of the Society of Mechanical Engineers (NAMRI/SME), is given in recognition of outstanding original research presented as a paper at an annual NAMRC conference, and which subsequently, upon implementation, has had a significant commercial and/or societal impact.