CAVS Chair earns national honor
December 7, 2007
STARKVILLE, Miss – The Center for Advance Vehicular Systems (CAVS) Chair in Computational and Solid Mechanics will be honored with a national award for engineering education.
Dr. Mark Horstemeyer, a professor in mechanical engineering, has been selected to receive a 2008 Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. Established in 1953, the award is presented annually to young engineering educators in an effort to help strengthen the bond between engineers in education and those in industry.
The award will be presented during the SAE 2008 World Congress and Exposition in Detroit, Mich. As an award recipient, Horstemeyer will be privileged to a tour at General Motors Corporation including personal meetings with industry leaders and engineers.
With this award, Horstemeyer hopes to strengthen MSU’s relationship with the automotive industry. In addition to his research activities, he currently serves as the MSU SAE faculty adviser and takes an active role in the student Formula Car and Challenge X Hybrid Crossover Vehicle teams.
“This award reflects Dr. Horstemeyer’s leadership in computational mechanics research and his commitment to mentoring and guiding students who are excited about the automotive area,” explained Dr. Glenn Steele, interim dean of the Bagley College of Engineering.
With more than 90,000 members in 97 countries, SAE strives to facilitate communication and interaction between all branches of automotive engineering. A member for five years, Horstemeyer, like past Teetor Award recipients, can now gain exposure to the automotive industry to better understand the questions and concerns that it faces today. With this added understanding he hopes to help MSU form stronger relationships with the nations leaders in automotive engineering.
“I am very glad to get this recognition from SAE, not for my sake, but for the sake of CAVS, MSU, and the State of Mississippi. This recognition, for a Mississippi employee, helps to signify how advanced Mississippi has become in automotive engineering,” Horstemeyer said. “We need more automotive awards here at MSU, such as this Teeter Award and our recent Challenge X national championship. Then everyone who looks to Detroit, Mich., for automotive answers will start looking more to Starkville, Miss.”