Honda Partnership Highlights

Class of 2012 Math Medal Recipients Honored

The Honda-OSU Partnership awarded math medals to 226 high school seniors in central and southwestern Ohio at two regional ceremonies, Oct. 22nd at GE Aviation in Cincinnati and Nov. 3rd at Honda in Marysville. The central region marked its eighth year of recognizing math scholarship, while seniors in the southwest region were the third class to receive the academic award.

Area high schools nominated their top math student in the Class of 2012 for the math medal last spring. Each student received a pewter math medal, certificate and $100 Barnes and Noble gift card. Participating high schools receive a bronze name plate each year to add to the school math medal plaque. In addition, the math medal award comes with a $3,000 scholarship opportunity at Ohio State's College of Engineering for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Forty-five seniors and their guests attended the Oct. 22nd southwest region ceremony at GE Aviation in Cincinnati. GE Aviation, the world’s largest designer, manufacturer and service provider of commercial and military aircraft engines, partners with Honda to produce GE Honda Aero Engines.

The central region honored 126 math scholars and their guests at a breakfast ceremony on Nov. 3rd at Honda of America Manufacturing in Marysville.

Honda-OSU Partnership Annual Report

Honda President Hidenobu Iwata and OSU President Gordon Gee attended the annual report of the Honda-OSU Partnership on Aug. 16 at the OSU Longaberger Alumni House. The Honda-OSU Partnership, which has completed its first decade of collaboration and support of iniatives in research, education and outreach, presented a strategic vision for the next 10 years to the presidents, Honda executives and OSU administrators.

Partnership Welcomes New Director

Upon the retirement of Director Steve Yurkovich, OSU Prof. Glenn Daehn was named executive director of the Honda-OSU Partnership. Daehn will manage partnership programs and activities with co-director Tim Downing, who heads the North American Engineering Center for Honda of America Manufacturing in Marysville.

Daehn is the Mars G. Fontana professor of Metallurgical Engineering in the OSU Materials Science and Engineering department. He also served as the initial director of the Ohio Manufacturing Institute, an organization dedicated to maintaining manufacturing leadership in the Great Lakes region through university-industry partnerships. He holds engineering degrees from Northwestern University and Stanford University. His research group has been actively developing electromagnetic metal forming technologies for shaping, cutting and joining sheet metals. Prof. Daehn's research interests are focused in the high temperature creep deformation of solids, and the reactive processing of ceramics to create ceramic-metal composites.  One long-term theme in his work is using unusual mechanics or reactions to open new paths to manufacturing processes.

Honda-OSU Partnership Recognized by Carnegie Foundation

The Honda-OSU Partnership was one of 15 Ohio State University outreach initatives to receive national recognition by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Cited as a positive models for community outreach and community-engaged curricula, Ohio State's recognized initiatives include collaborations with community partners, businesses, other universities, and other nations.

More than 1,000 students have benefited from programs through the Honda-OSU Partnership. Students of all ages are targeted with activities including an on-campus engineering awareness program for high school students; a mentoring program to enhance engineering awareness in underrepresented groups in middle and high schools; the Math Medal program for high school students in central Ohio; and education and collaboration for engineers in the workplace to advance the American automotive industry. To learn more about the 2008 Community Engagement Classification, go to http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/news/sub.asp?key=51&subkey=2821.

Honda-OSU Partnership Among Top 5 in Nation

Business Facilities magazine, a leading publication for corporate executives, has ranked the Honda-OSU Partnership among the top five industry-university partnerships in the U.S., along with Stanford, MIT, the University of California system and Penn State. The Honda Partnership Program is a collaboration between Ohio State and Honda of America Manufacturing that supports initiatives in education, research and public service. The Business Facilities article describes industry-university partnerships as innovative, synergistic relationships that combine the best resources of academia and industry to fuel economic development. Read the article.