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John Kuhlman, professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at West Virginia University, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. The fellow grade recognizes outstanding contributions and achievements to the mechanical engineering profession. A member of the West Virginia faculty for 18 years, Kuhlman earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at case Western Reserve University.

Robert Nerem, director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscienee and professor of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, received the Pierre Galletti Award from the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. The annual award recognizes an individual's efforts to raise public awareness of medical and biological engineering and technical education in general.