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Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. William Oates, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, has been selected to receive the 2012 ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award by the Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Technical Committee of the ASME Aerospace Division. This award recognizes Oates for his notable contribution to the field of Adaptive Structures and Material Systems and is awarded to young researchers in their ascendancy, whose work has already had an impact in their field within Adaptive Structures and Material Systems.
The ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award recipients are selected based on nomination letters and the award this year is a $1000 honorarium and standard certificate. Oates award will be announced officially at the March 2012 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE conference in San Diego and will be presented to Oates at a formal banquet at the ASME SMASIS conference in the fall in Stone Mountain, GA.
Oates joined the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering faculty in 2006 after receiving his doctoral degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2009, he won national honor for his research on smart materials when he was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as one of 33 rising stars at 24 U.S. universities that participated in the agency's Young Faculty Award program for that year. In 2011 he received a NSF CAREER Award from FSU to continue research on the photomechanics of adaptive polymer materials and structures with applications in robotics, medicine, and aerospace.
"This is a great honor that recognizes Billy's work," said Emmanuel Collins, professor and chair in mechanical engineering, to colleagues and College administration in response to the announcement about Oates latest achievement.
Congratulations again to Dr. Oates.
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