Awards

A partial list of awards.

• U.S. Patent Number US 11,090,225 B2, “Protection Device That Promotes Air Flow For Heat Transfer,” Inventor: Andreas Vlahinos and Stephen Joseph Scully Jr., Granted August 17, 2021
   
• Member of the ASME Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Group The Mission of the group is the Deployment of Intelligent Manufacturing Technology knowledge and practice throughout the Industrial Base April 2021 - present
   
• U.S. Patent Number US D865,924 S, “Fluid Transportation Device With Directed Cooling” Inventor: Andreas Vlahinos, Granted November 5th, 2019
   
• 2019 COFES Leadership Award. COFES is the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software, April 11, 2019
   
• U.S. Patent Application Number US 2019 / 0277553 A1, “Medical product transportation and storage enclosure with directed cooling and heating” Inventors: Andreas Vlahinos, and Maiki Vlahinos filed March 8, 2019
   
• U.S. Patent Application Number US 2020/0033070 A1, “Minimal Surface Heat Exchanger” Inventors: Andreas Vlahinos, and Maiki Vlahinos filed July 25, 2018
   
• Tech-Connect Innovation Award for the AES technology “Efficient & Compact Heat Exchangers with Gyroid Topology” Inventors: Andreas Vlahinos, and Maiki Vlahinos, May 2018
   
• Honorary Member of the TechNet Alliance Honorary Membership status is offered to scientists and engineers from universities and research institutes, as well as to those renowned industry professionals 2012 - present
   
• Technical Thrust Lead for Advanced Analysis at DMDII Digital Manufacturing Design Innovation Institute 2015-2016
   
• Best User Presentation Award presented at the 2009 PTC/User World Event for the paper entitled "Automating Demonstration of Regulatory Compliance with Pro/ENGINEER Mathcad Integration"
   
• US Patent Number 7,859,846 B2 entitled "Low Thermal Resistance Power Module Assembly," December 28, 2010.
   
• 2007 Best Conference Paper Award presented at the 2007 ANSYS U.S. Regional Conference Series for the paper entitled "From Good to Great Automotive Designs with DesignXlorer."
   
• US Patent Number 7,190,581 B1 entitled "Low Thermal Resistance Power Module Assembly," March 13, 2007.
   
• 2005 Best Presentation Award presented at the 2005 ANSYS World Wide Conference for the paper entitled "Enabling Six-Sigma Quality and Low Cost Products in a Digital Product Environment."
   
• 2004 Best User Presentation Award presented at the 2004 Colorado Pro/E User Conference for the paper entitled "Fast Discovery of the Best Designs."
   
• 2002 Best SAE Paper Award presented at the 2002 SAE International Body Engineering Conference for the paper entitled "Designing For Six-Sigma Quality with Robust Optimization using CAE."
                  
• 2002 Best User Presentation Award presented at the 2002 PTC/User World Event for the paper entitled "Using Behavioral Modeling to Build Smart Parts that Design Themselves."
   
• 2001 Best SAE Paper Award presented at the 2001 SAE International Body Engineering Conference for the paper "Body-In-White Weight Reduction Via Probabilistic Modeling of Manufacturing Variations."
   
• 2001 Best User Presentation Award presented at the 2001 Colorado Pro/E User Conference for the paper entitled "Using Behavioral Modeling to Build Smart Parts that Design Themselves."
   
• European Patent EP1185830 entitled "Self-Contained, Pressure-Activated Cooling Device," July 16, 1999.
   
• Director’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Computer Aided Engineering and Virtual Prototyping of Mechanical Systems at NREL.
   
• Member of Team awarded the R & D 100 Award for the development of a catalytic converter. Selected by R & D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of 1996.
   
• Member of Team that received the award Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for the development and transfer of a variable conductance vacuum insulated catalytic converter to eliminate cold start emissions.
   
• Certified Engineering Provider (CEP) by Parametric Technology Corporation to provide PTC-endorsed consulting and implementation services to Pro/ENGINEER end users.
   
• Authorized Consultant of Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan.
   
• Provided training internationally for ANSYS, Pro/FEA, Pro/Engineer and Pro/Mesh and Behavioral Modeling.
   
• Acknowledged by the Colorado Advanced Technological Institute as the Primary University Resource for their proposed Rapid New Product Development Center.
   
• Several times recipient of the Professor of the Year Award.