2014 Innovation Award Series: Gutmark Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation

Ephraim Gutmark

, PhD and Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Professor of Otolaryngology at the UC College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation at the 2014 Business Courier Innovation Awards on Thursday, April 10th for his research and development of innovative fluid engineering applications.

For over 30 years, Gutmark has made outstanding contributions to his field. His novel research and development of innovative fluid engineering applications have impacted diverse technical areas including stable and clean combustion, quiet aircraft engines, improved missile propulsion systems, aerodynamic flight control, turbomachinery for power generation, automotive turbochargers and new actuators.

Ephraim Gutmark joined the University of Cincinnati in 2000 and has been instrumental in generating over 30 new research projects in a range of multidisciplinary topics with a budget of over $27 million. He’s garnered several awards for his various research efforts including the 2013

ASME

Fluids Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award; the

AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Best Paper Award for his work, “Plasma Dynamics and Lasers;” the 2013

ASME

Fluid Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award; and the

American Physical Society (APS) Fellowship

.

Gutmark received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in aerospace and aeronautical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He has experience working in industry, government and academe. Prior to joining UC, he was a chaired professor of mechanical engineering and the chairman of the mechanical engineering eepartment at Louisiana State University from 1995-2000. He joined the faculty at LSU after working as a senior research scientist at the Naval Air Warfare Center in California where he developed a national program on flow and combustion control.

Also being honored at the 2014 Business Courier Awards are:

A&B Sensor Technologies

, founded in 2009 by

Anastasios Angelopoulos

, CEAS Department of Biomedical, Chemical, and Environmental Engineering associate professor, and

Jonathan Bernstein

, MD, College of Medicine Internal Medicine and Immunology professor, brings unique catalyst-based optical sensing devices to the market. In particular, the researchers have developed a non-invasive breath analysis method of measuring blood-glucose in diabetics. For this novel device, A&B Sensor Technologies has been named a finalist in the 2014 Business Courier Innovation Awards.

CEAS spin-off company,

General Nano LLC

, has been named a finalist of the 2014 Business Courier Innovation Awards. The young company, which manufactures nanoscale materials for aerospace and defense applications, licenses inventions from UC. General Nano previously won the Engineering Innovation Award at the 2013 Business Courier Innovation Awards.

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http://ceas.uc.edu