To kick off the mechanical and aerospace engineering department’s Distinguished Centennial Lecture Series, Dr. Galip Ulsoy will present “Designing Reconfigurable Systems for Manufacturing and Automotive Applications” 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in Room 199 Toomey Hall. A reception will follow. Ulsoy will also give a technical talk, “Co-design of a Smart Artifact and Its Controller,” 4:30-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, in Room 140 Toomey Hall.

Ulsoy is the C.D. Mote Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and the William Clay Ford Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, received the 2012 Presidential Special Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and is a fellow of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Federation of Automatic Control.