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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Yuebin Guo, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. CAREER Awards are NSF’s most prestigious awards for top performing scientists and engineers who are early in their careers.

Guo has been awarded a five-year, $400,000 grant to advance his study and teaching of precision manufacturing. Specifically, this research will enable the machining industry to make high-quality, precision components, such as bearings, gears and cams, at high efficiency and low cost. The expected result will be superior fatigue performance of machined components used in various applications, including machinery, transportation equipment and other mechanical systems.

The educational initiatives will facilitate students’ learning processes and continuing education, broaden participation of underrepresented students in research, and transfer new research findings to a broad audience.

Guo received the 2004 Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award and the 2003 Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award.

The CAREER award is courtesy of NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program. NSF established the CAREER program in 1995 to help top performers early in their careers to develop simultaneously their contributions and commitment to research and to education.

According to the NSF Web site, the CAREER program supports the activities of those teacher-scholars who are “most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.” CAREER award recipients are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

In 1837, The University of Alabama became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering has about 1,800 students and more than 95 faculty. It has been fully accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.