Purdue engineering professor wins early career award

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Michael D. Sangid, an assistant professor in Purdue University's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has received the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society's Early Career Faculty Fellow Award.

Sangid, who has a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Engineering, is one of two recipients of the award this year. 

His research includes work focusing on integrated computational materials engineering, which allows industry to save money and time by using sophisticated models to more efficiently design and manufacture products. The models can simulate material behavior at the crystal level, reducing the need for trial and error, an approach that could make it possible to produce aerospace parts twice as fast at half the cost.

Sangid, who came to Purdue as an assistant professor in 2012, leads the Advanced Computational Materials and Experimental Evaluation (ACME) Laboratory, in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The ACME group combines computational modeling and in situ experiments to solve complex applied problems in aerospace materials.

He has received honors including the 2015 Orr Award for Fatigue and Fracture from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the International Journal of Fatigue's most-downloaded journal paper in 2013, 2014 and 2015; and early career distinctions from the U.S Air Force, Navy, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Sangid earned a bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2002, 2005 and 2010. In between his master's and doctorate, he spent two years in industry working at Rolls-Royce Corp. 

Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, venere@purdue.edu           

Source: Michael D. Sangid, 765-494-0146, msangid@purdue.edu