In the article “2026 MMAE Poster Competition and Departmental Awards,” the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) announced the winners of its annual MMAE Student Research Poster Competition and departmental awards ceremony. The ceremony also honors alumni of the department with a Distinguished Alumni Award, for which GW Engineering’s Michael Plesniak received.
Here is an excerpt from the article: “The recipient of the 2026 MAE Distinguished Alumni Award was Michael Plesniak (ME’83, MS’84), professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at George Washington University. He presented a lecture, titled “Vortex Dynamics Downstream of a Surface Protuberance in Highly Pulsatile Flow Motivated by Human Speech Pathologies.”
Read the full article on the Illinois Tech website.