Announcements and News – Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures Laboratory

Group member Wayne Tu wins Elasticity Committee Best Student Paper Award at EMI/PMC 2024

Posted on June 3, 2024 (August 20, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Wayne was the co-winner of the Elasticity Committee Best Student Paper Award along with another competitor. This competition was held at the EMI/PMC 2024 Conferences, and Continue Reading

Group member Anan Ghrayeb Receives the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

Posted on March 14, 2024 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Congratulations, Anan! The full story

Group members Evgueni Filipov, Yi Zhu, and Anan Ghrayeb presented at the Society of Engineering Science 2023 Conference.

Posted on October 1, 2023 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Group member Anan Ghrayeb receives the 1st prize in the Three Minutes Thesis Competition at University of Michigan. Congratulations!!

Posted on September 1, 2023 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Group member Anvay Pradhan receives the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) fellowship. Congratulations, Anvay!!

Posted on August 1, 2023 (January 3, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Group member Maria Redoutey successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “A Versatile Framework for Stable Reconfigurable Structures with Efficient Actuation.” Congratulations, Maria!!

Posted on May 23, 2023 (June 3, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Prof. Evgueni Filipov receives the ASCE EMI Leonardo Da Vinci award

Posted on May 1, 2023 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

Professor Evgueni Filipov Received this award for his ground-breaking developments in the field of Engineering Mechanics and Mechanical Sciences. Congratulations, Prof. Filipov!

The paper: Redoutey, M. & Filipov, E. T. (2023). Designing continuous equilibrium structures that counteract gravity in any orientation was published in Scientific Reports

Posted on May 1, 2023 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

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Prof. Evgueni Filipov and Group Member Hardik Patil teach a new class on “Introduction to Adaptable and Deployable Structures” (ENG 100)

Posted on January 1, 2023 (August 16, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka

The class was offered to first-year students where they worked on semester-long team projects including deployable sea walls, solar arrays, facades, bridges, and more. (Course

Group members Evgueni Filipov, Zhongyuan Wo, Yi Zhu, and Hardik Patil presented at the ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) 2022.

Posted on November 1, 2022 (May 30, 2024) by Jacob Pavelka