Dear Mechanical Engineering Community,

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Ankit Goel on board. He will join us as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering starting this fall semester.

I want to congratulate Ankit on his appointment, resulting from a vigorous national search and strong recommendations from the ME faculty and the search committee. His appointment should help us firmly establish research and instructional activities in the robotics and control areas and benefit our students gaining education in these increasingly important subjects.

I look forward to seeing him soon.

Ruey-Hung Chen, Ph. D., Professor and Chair