The ASME Fellow: a membership grade of distinction.

The ASME Board of Governors confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by their peers, these 2002-2003 Fellows have had 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of continuous active corporate

The 2002-2003 ASME Fellows ...

Robert B. Abernethy

Robert B. Abernethy is regarded as a leading expert on Weibull analysis. He is the author of The New Weibull Handbook, which began with a U.S. Air Force contract to Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. He made a substantial, patented contribution to the supersonic engine for the reconnaissance airplane SR-51. For the past 20 years, Abernethy has been an educator and short course presenter in converting statistical concepts (Weibull analysis) into an engineering tool for assessing useful life and predicting future failures. His training impact applies to a wide variety of industries--aviation, medical devices automotive, chemical plants, refineries, and military systems Ph.D. (1965), imperial College, University of London.

Serge Abrate

Serge Abrate is an internationally known authority in the area of impact on composite structures. He has also conducted research on the mechanics, optimal design, and manufacturing of composite structures and problems related to vibrations and wave propagation. He is the author of over 100 publications, including Impact on Composite Structures (1998). Abrate has conducted seminars and given short course in the U.S. and in Spain, Italy, Brazil, and Prance. He has organized sessions at numerous conferences and served as a reviewer and guest editor for many journals in mechanics. Ph.D. (1983). Purdue University.

John W. Ahlen

John W. Ahlen has been a leader an pioneer in bridging the gap between engineering and public policy. By virtue of positions at the Illinois Legislative Council, the White House Office of Science and Technolog'y Policy, and Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, and as an adjunct professor, he has brought sound engineering and scientific information and analysis to the legislative process in state and federal government. He has served as the science advisor to Govs. Bill Clinton (1984-93). Jim Guy Tucker (1993-96) and Mike Huckabee (1996-present). Ahlen has earned a national reputation for the initiation and implementation of state economic development program based on access of industry to government and university science, engineering, and technology resources. He has served in leadership positions on numerous boards, councils, and task forces. including the Arkansas Education Technology Advisory Board, which he currently chairs. Ph.D. (1974), University of Chicago.

Dennis A. Armstrong

Dennis A. Armstrong has made significant engineering contributions to a broad spectrum of nuclear applications. Early on, his work in improving manufacturing processes at the Hanford Engineer Works was recognized by production management. Later, as vice president of a small company, he directed the design, production, and marketing of compacting presses for the manufacture of powder metallurgy parts and ceramic nuclear fuel. Most recently, Armstrong led the mechanical equipment qualification program for the WNP-2 1,100-megawatt commercial nuclear power plant. His strong reputation for engineering knowledge and integrity led to his selection as "Engineer of the Year" by the Columbia Basin Section of ASME in 1985. He has supported ASME at many levels, and currently serves as vice president, Region VIII. B.S.M.E. (1963), Washington State University.

Steven Arndt

Steven Arndt has managed a 40-person team that made valuable technical contributions to the Russian and Ukrainian nuclear regulatory agencies on the safety of VVER and RBMK nuclear plants and the training of Russian and Ukrainian personnel. He also made valuable technical contributions to thermal hydraulic analysis uncertainty, conversion to digital instrumentation systems, software reliability analysis, and quantification of reliability in risk-important systems. Arndt contributed significantly to secondary and university education, including establishing the first high school graduation competency standards in Ohio, the education of learning disabled (dyslexic) students, and accreditation curricula in engineering and technology. He has served as a team leader for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. B.S. (1981), Ohio State University.

Ronald A. Aungier

Ronald A. Aungier's career spans more than three decades. Following graduation from Cornell University, he worked for four years at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, where he was involved in the development of the first practical fully three-dimensional flow field analysis for hypersonic re-entry vehicles. Since 1970, he has held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering and management with two of the world's outstanding compressor manufacturers, Elliott Co. and Carrier Corp. Aungier has developed many original design procedures to improve performance and efficiency of single and multistage centrifugal compressors. His contributions to the turbomachinery industry are well documented in his two books on centrifugal and axial compressors, ASME Transactions and other journals, and conference proceedings. M.E. (1956), Cornell University.

Scott S. Bair

Scott S. Bair, P.E., has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech's School of Mechanical Engineering since 1974. He has published more than 70 papers, primarily in the fields of tribology and rheology. He has been the co-recipient of two best paper awards from ASME and the recipient of a best paper award from STLE. He provided the first observations of both thermal and mechanical shear bands in liquids. Also, he did the first measurements of the ordinary shear-thinning response of lubricant base stocks, which characterize EHL traction and film thinning. In work completed outside of Georgia Tech, he has developed two cable systems for target missiles and water-jet instruments for surgery. Ten patents have been issued to him on such diverse devices as a vacuum cleaner transmission and a cataract surgery tool. Ph.D. (1990), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Charles E. Bakis

Charles E. Bakis, professor and director of the Composites Manufacturing Technology Center at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of 44 refereed journal articles, 87 conference papers, and seven books or parts of books. Bakis is well-known for his research in the design, fabrication, and test of fiber-reinforced composites and on polymer composite materials applications in flywheel rotors and reinforcement for concrete. He earned the 1996 outstanding teaching award from the Penn State Engineering Society and the 1998 outstanding teaching award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He has been a reviewer for ASME's Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, and Journal of Mechanical Design. Ph.D. (1988) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Balakumar Balachandran

Balakumar Balachandran's career started as naval architect more than 15 years ago. He joined the University of Maryland in 1993. His current research interests lie in nonlinear dynamics, vibration and acoustics control, signal analyses, and system identification. His research contributions have had an impact in the following ways: enhancement of understanding of the influence of internal resonances on the nonlinear response of structural and mechanical systems; model development for dynamics and stability of milling processes in the presence of time delay and loss-of-contact effects; introduction of the concept of mechanical filters for control of large-amplitude crane-load oscillations; understanding of actuator nonlinearities in interior acoustics control, and active control of wave transmission in finite-length struts. The textbook he has co-authored is used at universities worldwide. He has authored or co-authored about 30 journal publications. Ph.D, (1990), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Robert G. Bea

Robert G. Bea, P.E., has made pioneering contributions to the field of marine risk assessment and management, including human and organizational factors and inspections, maintenance, and rehabilitation of marine structures, which encompasses commercial tankers, platforms, and pipelines. He introduced an engineering-based philosophy, approach, and assessment process for the management of human and organization error in reliability of marine structures. Bea is well-known for his primary expertise in the areas of ocean environmental conditions and forces, foundations design and construction, structures design, and construction. Ph.D. (2000), University of Western Australia.

James E. Bernard

James E. Bernard, P.E., began his professional career in 1971 at the Highway Safety Research Institute of the University of Michigan, where he led a team in writing pioneering computer simulations of heavy trucks. Over the years, he has continued his work in vehicle dynamics and is highly regarded for his work in vehicle simulation. He has also been a national leader in graphics applications, and later in virtual reality applications. He is the founding director of Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center, which is known worldwide for its groundbreaking work in applying virtual reality techniques to the challenges of science and engineering. Ph.D. (1971), University of Michigan.

Sushil H. Bhavnani

Sushil H. Bhavnani is on the mechanical engineering faculty at Auburn University. He was co-recipient of the 1999 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award for a live Internet-delivered course on thermal management of electronics. He served as the general chairman of the 1998 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Sytems (ITherm-98). He also serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, and on the ASME-HTD K-16 Committee on Heat Transfer in Electronics Equipment. He has authored 65 refereed conference and journal publications, is the recipient of seven awards recognizing his teaching, and advises Auburn's solar-electric vehicle and solar decathlon teams. Ph.D. (1987), Iowa State University. John C. Blanton

John C. Blanton, P.E., has established a solid reputation as an engineer, manager, and educator throughout a career that spans over 20 years with GE. He is well-known and respected for his technical and leadership contributions in R&D and in the industrial gas turbine and aircraft engine businesses, particularly in the areas of thermal analysis methods. He has also been active in university engineering education as a highly rated adjunct faculty at two schools. Blanton has been a tireless supporter of ASME and has been active in IGTI for more than 20 years. Ph.D. (1981), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Stephen J. Burns

An outstanding engineer, Stephen J. Burns, P.E. is chair of the mechanical engineering department at the University of Rochester. A teacher and researcher for 40 years, he is a recognized authority on materials and fracture mechanics, publishing over 150 papers and articles. His contributions to materials engineering focus on the control of crack growth and fatigue crack propagation. He has pioneered the concepts of crack-tip shielding from plastic deformation and his ideas are widely used to retard cracking in design. Burns has consulted for many companies and presented seminars both in the United States and abroad. Ph.D. (1965), Cornell University.

Gregory P. Carman

Gregory Paul Carman is in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at UCLA. He has made major contributions to the active/smart materials field with his pioneering work on piezoelectric devices, magnetostrictive composites, thin film shape memory alloys, and fiber optic sensors. Carman has been chair of the Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Committee of ASME, is an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, and serves on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Composite Materials. He was awarded the Northrop Grumman Young Faculty Award in 1995 for his research work on active materials, and received two best paper awards from the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Committee, in 1996 and 2001. Ph.D. (1991), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Michael C. Catapano

Michael C. Catapano has had over 28 years of experience in the operation, design, procurement, and maintenance of feedwater heaters and other shell and tube heat exchangers, including seven years with PSE&G and 20 years as president of Powerfect Inc. His current work at Powerfect is primarily devoted to consulting, troubleshooting problems, and assisting utilities with feedwater heater replacement and maintenance activities. He has supported EPRI in numerous feedwater heater projects and seminars. In addition, he holds three patents pertaining to feedwater heater testing and repair. Catapano was one of 12 inventors recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy in its product commercialization program. He was the chair of the ASME Power Division Heat Exchanger Committee from 2000-2002, and has served as its technical program coordinator. B.S.M.E. (1973), Newark College of Engineering.

Michael M. Chen

Michael M. Chen is an engineer, inventor, project leader, and manager who can bring new inventions to reality. All product development projects that he has worked on have led to great technical and commercial success. Each has become a real and important product for the company and society. The heat transfer element he invented has improved power plant efficiency significantly (1 to 2 percent), which means major energy savings and reduced emissions. Chen has been a contributor to ASME leadership. During 1997, as chair of the Olean Section, he re-energize the section and helped to double member attendance at monthly meetings. He also supports the student section to get members involved with ASME at an early age. Chen was also an ASME LDI with the Council on Engineering during 1998-99. M.S.M.E (1988), Wright State University.

Wen-Hwa Chen

Wen-Hwa Chen has made outstanding and lasting contributions to the disciplines of structural integrity, damage tolerance finite element methods, computational fracture mechanics, and electronic packaging. He has also made singular contributions to academic administration at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Currently, he is a professor at Tsing Hua University. Chen is the founder of the ASME Taiwan Section and he has served as the section chair since 2001. Ph.D. (1977), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Inderjit Chopra

Inderjit Chopra is Alfred Gessow Professor in Aerospace Engineering and director of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland. Chopra has made pioneering contributions rotary-wing aeromechanics, modeling of composite rotors, smart a structures technology for rotor systems, and aeroelastic optimization. For his outstanding research contributions, he earned the 2002 AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award, 2001 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize, 2002 AHS Grover E. Bell Award, 1996 AIAA/ASME Best Paper Award, 1995 Maryland's Distinguished Research Professorship, 96-00 Minta Martin Research Professorship and 2002 AJ. Clark School of Engineering Research Achievement Medal. Sc.D. (1977), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Fu-Chu Chou

After obtaining his doctorate, Fu-Chu Chou joined the National Central University. He was on the frontier development of the "vorticity-velocity" numerical method, which has been widely used for solving the problems of heat transfer and fluid dynamics in the entrance region of channels. In 1995, he started studies of fluid dynamics in semiconductor processing, and made significant contributions by reducing the use of photoresist during spin coating, thus significantly reducing the running cost of semiconductor manufacturing companies. He won the Excellent University-Industry Cooperation Award in 2000 and was named Outstanding Engineering Professor in 2001 Taiwan. Ph.D. (1986), National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.

Robert L. Clark, Jr. Robert L. Clark, Jr. has provided broad leadership in adaptive structures and was cited in his Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for "outstanding research and development in the field of adaptive structures involving active noise and vibration control." He has pioneered the application of adaptive structures for structural acoustic control and has extended this work to include aeroelastic structures. Clark has served as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, as chair and technical chair of the AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Forum, and as a member of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems TC. Ph.D. (1992), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Carl D. Crane, III

Carl D. Crane, III is a full professor at the University of Florida, where he has served on the Faculty since 1988. He is director of CIMAR (Center For Intelligent Machines and Robotics), which currently consists of over 25 master's and Ph.D. students studying robotics. Crane's interests include geometry, controls, automation, autonomous vehicle navigation, and computer graphics, along with teaching and curriculum development. He has contributed significantly to the development and implementation of unmanned ground vehicles and has served as a consultant to industry. He maintains an active research program, with more than 100 publications and 50 supervised graduate students. Ph.D. (1987), University of Florida.

Steven Danyluk

Steven Danyluk was honored for outstanding contributions in the tribology and manufacturing of semiconductor materials. He is a professor and holds the Morris M. Bryan, Jr., Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also director of the Manufacturing Research Center. Danyluk earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Delaware in 1969. Ph.D. (1974), Cornell University.

Karen R. Den Braven

Karen R. Den Braven is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Idaho in Moscow. She is well-known for research into the design of ground loops for ground-coupled heat pump systems, transient in-ground heat transfer and routing materials, and for contributions to evaluating and influencing state regulations that apply to both open and closed loop systems. Den Braven helped start the Heat Pump Technical Committee, was on the Executive Committee of the Advanced Energy Systems Division, and is the present member-at-large for division operations of the Energy Resources Board. Ph.D. (1988), Colorado State University.

Lee G. Dodge

Lee G. Dodge has made major contributions to combustion, optical diagnostics, sprays, and engine control for 30 years. He was at United Technologies Research Center for seven years, concentrating on optical diagnostics for shock tubes and flames. He performed fundamental spectroscopic measurements of nitric oxide that pointed out the errors and corrected previous published results. He has worked at Southwest Research Institute for 23 years and has made advancements in spray instrumentation, model-based control for spark-ignition engines, low-emissions technologies for both diesel and spark-ignition engines, and computer models to predict engine performance and emissions, which have gained him an international reputation. M.S. (1973), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Philip E. Doepker

Philip E. Doepker, P.E., has dedicated himself to the engineering profession, in industry, in academia, and in ASME For over 30 years. During 16 years at Babcock & Wilcox, he headed vibration analysis and design teams developing and testing innovative power plant equipment. Since 1984, as a professor at the University of Dayton, he has led the way in integrating engineering education with engineering practice to improve the product realization process. His highly regarded 30-year volunteer leadership within the ASME was recognized in 1999 with the Ben C. Sparks Medal and in 2001 with the Robert Abbott Award for Outstanding Service to the Design Division. M.S.M.E. (1968). Ohio State University.

R. Cengiz Ertekin

R. Cengiz Ertekin is active in the ocean and offshore engineering field, conducting research and teaching. He is recognized for his contributions in the design and analysis of large floating structures for energy applications. An expert in theoretical and numerical marine hydrodynamics, he applies his knowledge to solving problems related to nonlinear shallow-water waves, ship resistance, wave loads on offshore structures and pipelines, hydroelasticity of large floating structures, and oil spills. His research activities have won him several prestigious awards and produced outstanding design software, currently in use by practicing engineers worldwide. A prolific author, Ertekin has published over 130 technical papers and books. Ph.D. (1984), University of California, Berkeley.

Charbel Farhat

Charbel Farhat career covers 15 years. He is one the most recognized authorities on parallel processing applied to computational engineering, a field that is revolutionizing computational science today in the mechanical and aeronautical industries. Since joining the University of Colorado in 1987, he has made numerous seminal contributions to computational mechanics. These contributions have been rewarded by major national and international awards from ASME, AIAA, IACM, IBM, IEEE, SAE, and USACM, among others. He was elected a Fellow of AIAA in 1999, a Fellow of USACM in 2001, a Fellow of the WIF in 2001, and a Fellow of IACM in 2002. Ph. (1986), University of California, Berkeley.

Harindra J. Fernando

Harindra J. Fernando is a leading educator and researcher in the area of fluid mechanics, After completing his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics and post-doctoral work in environmental engineering, he joined Arizona State University in 1984, becoming a full professor in 1992. His research spans turbulence in stratified and rotating fluids, double diffusion, jets and plumes, atmospheric and oceanic flows, and engine cooling problems. He has published more than 120 research papers in archival journals, in addition to numerous conference and seminar presentations. He is on the editor boards of Applied Mechanics Reviews, Theoretical & Computational Fluid Mechanics, and the Journal of Environmental Fluid Mechanics. Ph.D. (1984). Johns Hopkins University.

Kenneth J. Fewel

Kenneth J. Fewel, P.E., has played a significant role in advancing the science and art of liquid/gas phase separation in the gas processing industry. He was a pioneer in the use of laser spectrometry for separator performance measurement and CFD to model separation processes in the 1980s. He led the development of the first laser-based counter and sizer for pressurized natural gas streams in 1994. He invented the Peerless P6X vane separator, which has been patented worldwide, for smaller, less expensive offshore marine and gas processing liquid/gas separators. Fewel was chair of the Petrolemn Technical Chapter in North Texas in 1995-96, and chair of the North Texas Section in 2001. He was also active in the ASME Petroleum Division. M.B.A. (1987), University of Texas at Arlington.

Jeffrey R. Friedman

Jeffrey R. Friedman is a principal engineer and the technical group leader for performance testing at Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. Prior to his 12 years at Siemens Westinghouse, he was in performance engineering and R&D at American Electric Power for 14 years. He has become an international leader in power plant and equipment performance testing to demonstrate compliance with contractual guarantees and for strategic, diagnostic, and research purpose. Friedman has contributed to several Performance Test Codes a has established new code committees related to power generation performance. He has in-depth expertise in multiple testing of related disciplines, including equipment behavior, fluid metering instrumentation, and uncertainty analysis. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1973. M.E. (1976), Stevens Institute of Technology.

Suresh V. Garimella

Suresh V. Garimella is an internationally recognized leader in the areas of thermal control of electronics and transport in materials processing. His research emphasizes experimental studies of transport in novel thermal control schemes and development of computational tools for analysis of thermal processes in electronics cooling and materials processing. Significant contributions include miniaturization of cooling techniques such as non-conventional heat pipes, microchannel heat sinks, phase change energy storage and piezoelectric fans, development of a novel computational scheme for accurately tracking interfaces during solid-liquid and liquid-vapor phase changes, and is discovery of a novel and inexpensive method to suppress defect formation in castings. Ph.D. (1989), University of California Berkeley. Mark N. Glauser

Mark N. Glauser's career covers 15 years in engineering education, research, and development of the profession. His contributions are significant in the areas of turbulence, flow control, and unsteady aerodynamics involving fundamental as well as experimental applied research. His research has been supported by industries and government agencies, such as NSF, AFOSR, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, Dantec, and Beam Technology. His contributions on turbulence have had significant impact on various industrial applications within mechanical engineering. Glauser has participated in cooperative research programs with institutions abroad (France, Korea), served as a program manager for AFOSR, and currently directs a major research center dedicated to industrial turbulence. Ph.D. (1987), University of Buffalo.

Suresh Goyal

Suresh Goyal, a principal investigator with Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, is a lead researcher in the field of impact mechanics. His research has contributed to the understanding of impact-induced motion of objects and the modeling of the forces induced therein. Focusing on designing impact-tolerant portable electronic products, he has extended basic shock protection theory, designed new shock testing methods, and developed highly effective general design guidelines for engineering rugged products. His work has won him several awards and has realized wide commercial application. He has also made contributions in friction mechanics and the biomechanics of the spine. For the past two years, Goyal has been leading a multidisciplinary effort in understanding how to configure and manufacture low-cost, next-generation, optical networking equipment, with special emphasis on using data-mining and analysis techniques. Ph.D. (1988), Cornell University.

Allen T. Green

Allen T. Green, P.E., is a pioneer in the development of acoustic emission technology. Early in his career, he worked to develop the first online, real-time computerized data acquisition, source display system for acoustic emission. He was instrumental in the development of the non-destructive method known as "Acousto-Ultrasonics," an idea spurred by NASA Ames Research Center that was further developed by Green and sold commercially as an inspection instrument. He has been involved with research and development, the creation of acoustical properties for materials of many structural shapes, and the development of products that apply or improve the use of acoustic emission technology. He holds several patents and is the author and co-author of more than a hundred technical papers. B.S. (1956), University of Illinois.

Ichiro Hagiwara

After earning his master of science degree in 1972 at Kyoto University, Ichiro Hagiwara was employed at Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. as a researcher for 24 years. His main research interests have been crash analysis, sound and vibration studies, and their related fields. He successfully applied his theoretical achievements to the automotive industry. Since 1996, Hagiwara has been a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also serves as a guest professor and consultant at the Harbin Institute of Technology and Shanghai Jiao Ton University. He has more than 200 published articles and he has presented many lectures in the fields of sound and vibration, buckling and crashworthiness, and CAD/ CAM/CAE. His current research fields are mainly CAD/CAM/CAE, sound and vibration, as well as new origami structures. Ph.D. (1990), University of Tokyo.

Prabhat Hajela

Prabhat Hajela has had a distinguished record of teaching and research in structural and multidisciplinary optimization. He is internationally recognized for seminal contribution in the adaptation of soft computing methods in problems of multidisciplinary analysis and optimization. He has published more than 235 technical papers and four books in related areas. In addition to his contributions to ASME's Aerospace Division, he has held key leadership positions in other technical societies and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is a professor. He is the editor of Evolutionary Optimization, and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. Hajela is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Aeronautical Society India (AeSI). Ph.D. (1982), Stanford University.

Robert E. Hall

Robert E. Hall is a branch chief and charter employee with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As chief'ofthe Air Pollution Technology Branch, he leads 19 engineers, scientists, and post-doctoral researchers on combustion research in the areas of[NO.sub.x], [SO.sub.x], particulate matter, and air toxics for a variety of combustion equipment, including boilers, engines, hazardous and municipal waste combustors. He has authored and co-authored over 60 research publications and EPA reports on combustion research and has one patent. Hall's research has focused on [NO.sub.x] control via combustion modification and hazardous waste incineration. He has worked for EPA since 1970. A Life Member of ASME, an Invited Member of AFRC, and an elected Fellow of AWMA, he has organized and chaired over 30 conferences and workshops. He initiated the EPA/AWMA Environmental Information Exchange, which has been held for 25 years. M.S. (1970), University of Kentucky.

Thomas C. Heil

Thomas C. Heil is a member of the ASME Board of Performance Test Codes and chairman of PTC 4.3 Air Heaters. He is also on the PTC 4, Fired Steam Generators Committee, where he was a major contributor to the Computations Section. For his efforts, Heil was presented with an ASME Dedicated Engineer Award in 1994. At Babcock & Wilcox Co., he was instrumental in the creation of data reduction software for boiler performance testing. It was through his efforts that boiler performance could be evaluated in nearly real time. This led to the development of an online system and, eventually, to a stand-alone product, for optimizing power plant performance. He was a major contributor to the B&W published book, Steam, and was selected as the sixth honors recipient as B&W's Engineer of the Year. His boiler performance analysis experience has led to the development of a great number of in house design standards. B.S.M.E. (1960), University of South Carolina.

Russell F. Henke

Russell F. Henke's career spans 35 years, including his recent seven years of business and management consultancy and previous 28 years of multifunctional senior corporate executive experience in building high-technology organizations in mechanical CAD/ CAM and electronic design automation; developing and marketing new client-server and Internet applications software products, electronic hardware, and systems, training, and professional services; creating corporate financing, and achieving strong customer loyalty. Henke has been an ASME member since 1966. He has been active at the local levels of ASME ever since. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Cincinnati (1989), and a Professional Leadership Award from the IEEE (2002). He is both a Fellow (2000) and a director of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for 2002-03. Ph.D. (1968), University of Cincinnati.

Frank S. Hermance

Frank S. Hermance is a business leader in the electronic instruments and dectromechanical industry. He is the CEO of Ametek Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and air-moving motors for the process, aerospace, and power industries. He began his career with the Taylor Instrument Co., where he rose to become senior vice president of all U.S. operations. In 1984, he joined the Tektronix Corp., where he was general manager of four different electromechanical instrument divisions. His tenure at Ametek began in 1990 as president of the Precision Instruments Group of seven operating divisions. Hermance was named chairman and CEO of Ametek in 2001. Throughout his career, he has emphasized operational excellence, customer satisfaction, market expansion, and the introduction of new products B.S.E.E. (1971), Rochester Institute of Technology.

Tai Ran Hsu

Tai Ran Hsu, P.E., has been a successful practicing engineer, educator, and administrator. He worked as a desioma engineer with fossil and nuclear power plant equipment, and has served as a faculty member and chair of mechanical engineering departments at major universities in the United States and Canada. He has published 61 journal papers and four books, including a new textbook on MEMS and microsystems design and manufacture in 2002. He served ASME as the program chair of the InterPak 1995 conference and as a session organizer on design education with mecha-tronics and MEMS for IMECHE since 1996. M.S. (1963), University of New Brunswick, Canada.

S. Jack Hu

S. Jack Hu has made important contributions to mechanical engineering, especially in manufacturing engineering. He has taught seven different undergraduate and graduate courses, and developed a new graduate course at the University of Michigan. He has served as advisor or co-advisor to 20 Ph.D, graduates and 10 M.S. graduates. He also served as graduate program chair of mechanical engineering and the director of the program in manufacturing at the University, of Michigan. In addition, Hu is the author or co-author of over 90 journal and conference papers and the co-author of a textbook. He is an associate editor for ASME's Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering and is the co-chair for the Technical Committee on Quality and Reliability of the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division. Ph.D. (1990), University of Michigan.

Mounir B. Ibrahim

Mounir B. Ibrahim, P.E., has over 30 years of administrative, academic, research, and industrial experience. He served as chair of the mechanical engineering department at Cleveland State University from 1998 2002 and holds a patent on a high-temperature, non-catalytic, infrared heater. He has received over $3 million for research proposals and grants. Ibrahim has supervised the theses of more than 50 master's and doctoral students and has been a member or chair of regional and national committees. He holds membership in numerous professional organizations (Associate Fellow, AIAA, ASGE & SPE; ASME K-14 Committee, Heat Transfer in Gas Turbines). He has taught more than 20 undergraduate and graduate courses and has had more than 60 publications. Ph.D. (1977), Bradford University, Yorkshire, England.

Steve Ingistov

Steve Ingistov P.E., has spent over 38 years in wideranging aspects of mechanical engineering, including design, research and development, testing, teaching and consulting. He has developed and implemented innovative approaches for improving gas turbine cogeneration plant performance, resulting in savings exceeding $7 million to his company since 1995. His innovations in the gas turbine field have earned him several patents. He is an active member of ASME/IGTI, where he has published technical papers, participated in panel and tutorial sessions, including organizing, chairing and co-chairing technical papers and panel sessions. He has served IGTI as secretary, vice chair, and chair of the Industrial & Cogeneration Committee. His professional leadership and contributions to his company were recognized by receipt of the BP Amoco 2000 Leadership Technology Award. M.S.M.E. (1973), Loyola University, Los Angeles.

Koichi Ito

Koichi Ito is a professor in the Department of Energy Systems Engineering at Osaka Prefecture University. His main research interest is optimal planning of several types of energy supply systems, such as cogeneration, district heating and cooling, fuel cells, etc. Many of his optimization techniques have been adopted by energy industry. Ito has published more than 250 research papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings in addition to over 240 technical reports and 10 books. Currently, he serves as a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Advanced Energy, the Journal of Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production, and the Journal of Energy and Resources. Dr. Eng. (1972), Kyoto University, Japan.

Iwona M. Jasiuk

Iwona M. Jasiuk has been associated with academia for 16 years, and since 1996 has been a professor of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technolgy. She is known for her research in micromechanics of materials. Her contributions include the studies of interface effects on local fields and effective properties of composite materials, reduced parameter dependence in mechanics of composite materials, scale and boundary condition effects on properties of composite materials, micromechanics-based prediction of couple stress moduli of composite materials, and fracture in heterogeneous materials. These results have been documented in more than 40 refereed journal papers and numerous conference papers. In her current as research, she extends the micromechanics concepts to the areas of electronic packaging (interfacial fracture), biomechanics (modeling of bone), and nanotechnology (modeling of nano-materials). Ph.D. (1986), Northwestern University.

Robert I. Jetter

Robert I. Jetter, P.E., has more than 35 years of experience in the design and structural evaluation of nuclear components and systems for elevated temperature service where the effects of creep are significant. He was a contributor to the original ASME Code Cases eventually leading to Subsection NH. For over 20 years he was chairman of the Subgroup on Elevated Temperature Design responsible for the design criteria for elevated temperature nuclear components. He was also chairman of the Subgroup on Elevated Temperature Construction, responsible for the rules for fabrication, examination, testing, and overpressure protection. In addition, he was vice chairman of the Subcommittee on Design and a member of the Subcommitte on Nuclear Power. M.S.(1957) Stanford University.

Hamid Johari

Hamid Johari is currently a professor and the associate department head of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is known for his contributions in the area of diffusion and mixing in buoyant and unsteady flows, specifically unsteady jets. He holds two patents and is co-inventor of an acoustic method for direct circulation measurements. He has served as the chair of the ASME Worcester Section. Johari received SAE's Ralph R. Teetor Award in 1999 and the Russell M. Searle Award as teacher of the year in mechanical engineering at WPI in 2000. Ph.D. (1989), University of Washington.

Guy A. Jolly

Guy A. Jolly's career covers more than four decades of making significant contributions to the piping industry while an employee of a large manufacturer of valves and fittings. His accomplishments include the establishment of a nuclear products group during the early days of the nuclear power industry. He was later promoted to chief engineer, responsible for the design and manufacturing effort for Vogt Valve Co.'s line of valves and fittings. Jolly has worked in a number of national and international organizations involved in the development of codes and standards. He served as president of the Manufacturers Standardization Society of the Valve and Fittings Industry. B.S.M.E. (1960), University of Kentucky.

Alexander L. Kalamkarov

Alexander L. Kalamkarov is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His academic career spans more than 25 years in research and university teaching. His research in the areas of mechanics of solids, composite materials, and smart structures is internationally recognized. He has made a significant contribution to the analysis, design, and optimization of composite materials and smart structures, manufacturing, testing, and application of smart composites. Kalamkarov has authored two monographs and more than 200 research papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and also holds two patents. He is a member of several editorial and advisory boards in the area of composite materials and smart structures. Ph.D. (1979), Moscow State University; Sc.D. (1990), Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

George E. Karniadakis

George E. Karniadakis received his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After lecturing at MIT, he joined the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford/NASA Ames, where he developed spectral element numerical codes for simulation of complex geometry turbulent flows. He was assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, while also associate faculty of the program in applied and computational mathematics. He has been with Brown University for the last eight years, during which time he also was a visiting professor at California Institute of Technology and MIT. His research interests are centered on fundamental numerical and theoretical research in turbulence and fluid mechanics, and other aspects of computational mechanics. Ph.D. (1987), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Stephen P. Kavanaugh

Stephen P. Kavanaugh is recognized for his technical leadership and contributions to the ground-coupled heat pump industry through educational leadership, research, technical publications, and development of tools used as the basis for current industry design practices. He is also recognized as a humanitarian for his sharing of technical knowledge within the industry and for his service to his community as president of the Tuscaloosa Affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. Ph.D. (1984), Oklahoma State University.

Essam E. Khalil

Essam E. Khalil has done extensive research over the past 25 years. As a consultant, he has designed air conditioning and mechanical services for major hospitals, hotels, and public buildings in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. He carried out the research and development of aluminum reduction potline at Egyptalum, Egypt, frona 1983 2001. Khalil is the current chairman of the National Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Code in Egypt and is the group leader for Energy Efficiency in HVAC of Buildings. He is a member in the ISO TC205 WG2 and a member of the European African Wind Engineering Committee. Khalil is known for his contributions to industrial furnace designs for burner arrangements, pollution reduction, and heat transfer enhancement. He had written three texts on the subject in English, one of which has been translated into Chinese. Ph.D. (1977), Imperial College, University of London.

Byoung Sung Kim

Byoung Sung Kim works at Avaya Inc., a telecommunications equipment company, and was formerly with Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. In these roles, he has been a pioneer in applying design for manufacturability to telecommunications equipment. His research and industrial leadership led to substantial improvements in product performance, while ensuring competitiveness through reductions in product cost and development time. Kim is a former acting chair of the Design for Manufacturability committee of the Design Division, as well as a former chair of the IMECE DFM conferences and DFM program chair of ASME National Design Engineering Conferences. As an adjunct professor, he taught at Stevens Institute of Technology and Princeton. He is currently teaching a graduate-level DFM course at Columbia University through the Columbia Video Network. This course draws many working engineers from various industries and some from foreign countries. Ph.D. (1974), Princeton University.

Kyuil Kim

Kyuil Kim is a professor and the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Marquette University. He has been a dedicated educator and active researcher for over 20 years, with expertise in manufacturing. His research interests include accuracy analysis of multi-axis machine tools and online control of machining processes, sculptured surface machining, and flexible three-dimensional inspection systems. He received the outstanding young manufacturing engineer award from SME in recognition of significant achievement and leadership in manufacturing engineering in 1988. He has made major contributions to university-industry relations at both the University of Illinois-Chicago and Marquette. Ph.D. (1986), University of Wisconsin.

James F. Klausner

James F. Klausner has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of two-phase flow and heat transfer with phase change. In addition to his highly recognized archival publications, his creative and high-quality research in heat transfer and power transport has found applications in many engineering areas. As a result, he received the 1992 NASA Technology Transfer Award. Klausner has been recognized as an outstanding teacher and educator in engineering. He has received numerous teaching awards, which include the General Electric Teaching Incentive Award, University of Florida Teaching Award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. Ph.D. (1989), University of Illinois.

Norman F. Knight. Jr.

Norman F. Knight, Jr.'s 20-plus-year career includes work in a government laboratory, in academia, and presently in industry, and involves research, analysis, and engineering education. Notable are his contributions related to the buckling and post buckling analysis of composite structures, including progressive failure response, to finite element technology and computational methods for nonlinear analysis, and to structural analysis software design. He has received many awards and citations from NASA Langley, including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for his contributions to Space Shuttle Challenger accident investigation and redesign. He has approximately 100 technical publications and serves on the editorial board of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design. Sc.D. (1984), George Washington University.

Kenneth D. Kok

Kenneth D. Kok, P.E., has had 35 years of varied experience in the nuclear industry. He spent 22 years at Battelle's Columbus Division, in neutron radiography, nuclear systems operations, nuclear materials shipping and storage, safeguards and security, and decontamination and decommissioning. He then moved to the DOE Hanford site, where he participated in safety analysis and engineering work while building a site operation for LATA. Since 1996, he has developed business and work in the areas of nuclear system safety, waste management and D&D. He is currently a Fellow Engineer with WSMS Mid-America in Oak Kidge, Tenn., providing support for the Bechtel Jacobs Nuclear Facility Safety group as an independent technical reviewer. Kok has served as the chair of the ASME Nuclear Engineering Division, directed the ASME course related to D&D, and supported the ICEM and ICONE meeting,s as a track leader and session chair. He has authored more than 20 technical papers and is the holder of two patents. M.S. (1968), Michigan Technological University.

Klod Kokini

Klod Kokini is an expert in thermo-mechanical fracture mechanisms in high-temperature materials, and transient thermoelastic fractures of interfaces, notably applied to ceramic thermal barrier coatings. Several combustion engine manufacturers have benefited from his work in designing high-reliability, high-temperature engines. His work has contributed to both the reliability and efficiency of these engines. He is also recognized for his contributions to tissue engineering (biomechanics). Kokini's studies of small intestinal submucosa have shown that this material can be used as a scaffold for the histogenesis of tendon tissue and hernia repair tissue. He also developed new approaches to measure the mechanical properties of biomaterials and their interactions with cells, which will allow him to develop design criteria for tissue repair or regrowth. Ph.D. (1982), Syracuse University.

Sridhar Kota

Sridhar Kota has made outstanding contributions to diverse fields of mechanical engineering design, including rigid body kinematics, compliant mechanisms, MEMS, smart structures, and reconfigurable machine tools. He has demonstrated an extraordinary breadth and depth of research activity that is universally characterized by singular creativity and rigorous design work. Kota is recognized today as a leading expert in compliant mechanisms. He has also demonstrated a strong emphasis on technology transfer and invention of devices with practical applications. Ph. (1988), University of Minnesota.

Radovan Kovacevic

Radovan Kovacevic's academic career spans three decades. He has published five books and over 350 technical papers, of which 120 have been published in technical journals. He has received more than 40 research grants funded by different foundations, government state agencies, and industry. Kovacevic has three U.S. patents and 16 invention disclosures. He has made significant contributions to numerous manufacturing fields, including modeling, sensing, control of traditional and nontraditional manufacturing processes, understanding the mechanisms involved in abrasive waterjet cutting technology, the sensing and control of welding processes, and the development of rapid prototyping/manufacturing processes and machines Kovacevic is also a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Ph.D. (1978), University of Montenegro.

John M. Kuhlman

John M. Kuhlman has made significant contributions to the development of Doppler Global Velocimetry as a nonintrusive velocity measurement technique, and also has significant research experience with thermal plumes, jets, aeropropulsion interaction, laser velocimetry, spark gap recovery, and winglets. In the course of his 28-year career as an engineering educator teaching fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics and heat transfer. Kuhlman has been recognized for outstanding teaching 18 times, has served as the faculty advisor to two ASME student sections, and served as Eastern Virginia Section treasurer, vice chair, chair, and director. Ph.D. (1975), Case Western Reserve University.

Vilay R. Kumar

Vijay R. Kumar has made outstanding contributions in dynamics control, and design aspects peers of robotics, in particular, in the force distribution and redundancy resolution in constrained dynamic systems with intermittent contacts and time-varying constraints. The theoretical rigor of his work, coupled with innovation and practical implementation, has impacted diverse areas, including cooperative payload manipulation by humans and robot teams, legged and wheeled locomotion systems, hybrid systems, and bimolecular networks. He has more than 200 refereed technical publications, and many of his doctoral students hold academic positions at leading institutions. He is currently the deputy dean of research for the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. (1987), Ohio State University.

Rainer Kurz

Rainer Kurz, currently manager of the systems analysis department at Solar Turbines in San Diego, has made outstanding contributions in the field of gas turbine technologies. His research activities, particularly in the area of nonuniform turbine geometries, led to the development of empirical procedures, which have been implemented in the CFD codes. His research and industrial work have resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications and a book, Introduction to Gas Turbine Theory. Kurz has conducted numerous tutorials and is a member of the advisory committee for aerospace engineering at San Diego State University. He is a member of ASME B133, a chair of ASME B133.4, and a session organizer and session chair for the IGTI Turbo Expo events. Ph.D. (1991) University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.

Jose Lage

Jose Lage is a professor and the associate chair of mechanical engineering, and is also the director of international programs for the School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he started his career in 1991. An internationally recognized authority in the fields of heat transfer and transport in porous media, Lage's research contributions cover bioengineering, electronics, energy systems, and the environment. He is an advisor to Ph.D. students, and the author of more than 110 technical papers, six book chapters, and a book. Lage pioneered the use of compressed microporous media for cooling airborne military avionics, for which he received a patent. He also broke new ground with the analysis of alveolar gas diffusion using porous medium theory, and the application of fractional calculus to experimental heat transfer of thin films. A member of the Heat Transfer Division, Lage has served as secretary of the K8 committee since 1997. He chaired the ASME North Texas Section in 1999-2000. He is now a member of the Industry Advisory Board. Ph.D. (1991), Duke University.

John E. LaGraff

John E. LaGraff is an internationally recognized authority on flow fields in gas turbines. He has made significant cant contributions to understanding the fluid mechanics and heat transfer in such systems with sophisticated measurements of boundary layer transition and turbulent spot size. He is also the founder and principal organizer of the International Minnowbrook Workshops on Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery. In addition to his research, LaGraff has a record of accomplishment for the education of undergraduate and graduate students in both mechanical and aerospace engineering. His services to education include serving as a program evaluator and a commissioner on the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission. He also has served on numerous committees at the national level, including his current position of vice president of education for AIAA. Ph.D. (1970), Oxford University,.

Robert J. Lankston

Robert J. Lankston, P.E., was hired by Taylor Forge in 1952 as a field engineer and has been vice president of technology since 1999. His contributions in mechanical design, welding, nondestructive evaluation, pressure vessel and piping design, and high-yield materials have greatly strengthened Taylor Forge's motto, "Traditionally Dependable." One of his top achievements is in the process and mechanical design of separator/ slug catchers. The first working slug catcher was installed in 1971, and since then more than 40 models have gone into operation worldwide. Lankston has been prominent in the field of mechanical engineering, serving on technical committees in ASME, PVRC, ASTM, and WRC. He has published several papers on pressure vessels, high yield materials, flanges, and fittings. He holds six U.S. patents and seven foreign patents. B.S.M.E. (1950), University, of Illinois.

Edwin Lee

Edwin Chi Kin Lee, P.E., has been a practicing engineer for over 20 years, particularly in the area of building services engineering. He is general manager of Wo Hing Engineering in Hong Kong and his project teams have completed many large projects in Hong Kong and California. He has devoted himself to training young engineers, particularly for the Hong Kong institution of Engineers and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (U.K.). Lee also assisted the local authorities of Hong Kong in the advancement of codes and standards by advising many government committees of Hong Kong, such as OTTV review. IAQ, fire services contractor's license review, building contractor's license review, new building codes review, electronic tendering, and many other. He is a Fellow of the institution of Mechanical Engineers (U.K.) and the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers. Executive M.B.A. (2001), The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Thay Q. Lee

Thay Q. Lee began his full-time career with the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1983 its a biomedical engineer and is now a top researcher in orthopedic biomechanics. He is a research career scientist at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System in Long Beach, Calif. He is also on the Academic Senate Faculty at the University of California and serves as director of joint biomechanics research in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California, lrvine. During the past 13 years, he established the PACT/Rehab-Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory. His work has enhanced the treatment of patients in rehabilitation and orthopedic surgery. Lee uses mechanical concepts to develop methodologies for testing diarthroidal joints and provide basic understanding and etiology, of joint disease, repair, and reconstruction as well as healing. Ph.D. (1999), Gothenburgh University.

Yung Cheng Lee

Yung Cheng Lee has made a significant contribution to the technological advancement for the integration of microelectronics, microwave, optoelectronics, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). He is recognized as a leader in solder self alignment, thermosonic flip-chip bonding, and MEMS packaging. He has received an outstanding paper award from ASME's Journal of Electronic Packaging; an Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from SME, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Electronic Packaging, and an editor of two books, Optoelectronic Packaging and Manufacturing Challenges in Electronic Packaging, Lee served as the general chair of ASME Inter-PACK'01. Ph.D. (1984), University of Minnesota.

John E. Leland

John E. Leland, P.E., established the U.S. Air Force's thermal management R&D plan for airborne and space-based directed energy weapons and managed several Air Force projects related to active cooling technology. He made key contributions to heat pipe literature and most notably to miniature heat pipe design. Leland invented and patented several technologies related to heat transfer. He has published 75 research articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, and meetings. He has made notable contributions to ASME. AIAA, and other professional so cieties by serving as an advisor to congressmen and senators. He has made significant efforts to transfer the Department of Defense technology to commercial sectors. Ph.D. (1994), University of Kentucky.

Steven Y. Liang

Steven Y. Liang is a professor and Woodruff Faculty Fellow of Mechanical Engineering, associate director of the Manufacturing Research Center, and director of the Manufacturing Education Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his research on precision machining principles and theories, and his work has been documented in over 150 book chapters and technical papers that he has authored. Liang has been invited to deliver more than 50 seminars and keynote speeches throughout the world, has educated over 3,000 students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has served on the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division's Executive Committee and on the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME's Board of Directors. Ph.D. (1987), University of California, Berkeley.

Anthony Licata

Anthony Licata is a pioneer in air pollution measurement and control. His work as an air pollution regulator predated the Clean Air Act by a decade. As president of York Environmental, he was instrumental in developing advance pollution measurement methods for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as developing air pollution control equipment to meet the new demands of the Clean Air Act. As chairman of the ASME Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Processing Divisions, he assured that ASME was a major partner with the EPA and industry. During the 1980s, Licata chaired the ASME Dioxin Committee, mobilizing many people and resources to solve the combustion dioxin problem. The results were a 99 percent reduction of dioxins from municipal waste combustors. His accomplishments in the environmental, power, and waste to energy industries have had positive impacts on many people. A.S. (1964), Westchester College, SUNY.

K.M. Liew

K.M. Liew is a professor of mechanical and production engineering, and director of the Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization and Center for Advanced Numerical Engineering Simulations at the Nanyang Technological University. Singapore. He works in the areas of solid and structural mechanics and computational solid mechanics, with particular emphasis on mathematical modeling and simulations of advanced materials and structures. Liew has published more than 270 refereed journal papers and one book. He is one of Singapore's most prolific mechanical engineering researchers, who has had a profound impact on the students, young researchers in academia and industry, and computational science and mechanics in Singapore. Ph.D. (1990), National University of Singapore.

David L. Littlefield

David L, Littlefield is a research scientist for the University of Texas at Austin. His multifaceted role at the university includes an assignment to the research staff of the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, where he recently developed and implemented adaptive mesh refinement methods for Eulerian impact mechanics simulations. He is also a team leader at the Institute for Advanced Technology, where his computational mechanics team develops tools and performs numerical simulations of hypervelocity impact and penetration. Littlefield is a frequent lecturer in the engineering mechanics department. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and technical reports on computational solid and fluid mechanics, and has received international awards and recognition for his work. Ph.D. (1989), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Anastasios S. Lyrintzis

Anastasios S. Lyrintzis P.E. is currently a professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research interests are computational aeroacoustics and aerodynamics (CAA). His goal is to investigate noise reduction for rotorcraft and jet flows. He has made significant contributions to the use of integral techniques in CAA. Lyrintzis was a member of the award-winning (NASA, AHS) Tiltrotor Aeroacoustic Code (TRAC) system developed by NASA Langley. He has written 44 journal papers and 73 conference papers. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and a Boeing Welliver Fellow. Ph.D. (1988), Cornell University.

Joseph M. Mansour

Joseph M. Mansour is the associate dean for research and graduate programs and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he has taught since 1982. In addition, he is a leading biomedical engineer in rehabilitation and soft tissue mechanics, He was associate director of the Gait Analysis Laboratory at the Children's Hospital in Boston, where he developed a biomechanics research program to correct the gait abnormalities children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. At Case, his research centered on the simulation of human movement in conjunction with the implementation of functional electrical stimulation programs for people with spinal cord injury. His work in soft tissue mechanics has concentrated on the study of the mechanics of normal and diseased cartilage and the processes involved in cartilage de-generation in osteoarthritis. Mansour is currently involved in biotechnology methods associated with cell and tissue engineering of cartilage. Ph.D. (1975), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Theodore U. Marston

Theodore U. Marston is a technical contributor and a leader in both nuclear research and development and in nuclear industry management. As vice president and chief nuclear officer at EPRI, he represents a focal point for collaborative industry R&D to support safe and economical operation of the nation's commercial nuclear power plant fleet, and for efforts to extend the operating lives of these plant and to construct the next generation of nuclear plants. His past achievements include significant contributions to the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, Section XI, which covers the requirements for in-service inspection and testing of operating nuclear power plant components, in order to assure their fitness for continued service. His voice as an industry leader is sought within organizations that represent the nuclear power industry, such as the Nuclear Energy Institute. Ph.D. (1973), University of Michigan.

Gursaran D. Mathur

Gursaran D. Mathur, P.E., is an engineering specialist in thermal systems at Calsonic Kansei North America in Farmington Hills, Mich. His responsibilities at Calsonic include work related to compact heat exchangers, comfort heating and cooling, and alternative refrigerants for automobiles. Mathur is known internationally in the area of automotive air conditioning systems, alternative refrigerants, and heat recovery systems. He has published over 65 technical papers along with more than 100 corporate reports. The editor of three books, he is a member of SAE and ASHRAE. He was listed as a significant contributor for the ASHRAE Handbook in 1992, '96 '99, and 2000. Ph.D. (1986), University of Windsor, Canada.

Michael E. McCormick

Michael E. McCormick, P.E., has made significant contributions in ocean Wave energy conversion. His 1974 ASME paper (74-WA/Oct 2) is recognized by the wave-energy community as being the first theoretical analysis in the field. His additional papers in the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology and other technical journals have done much to advance the technology needed for the wave energy conversion area. He co-edited a book on the subject that was published by the ASCE in 1986. He is presently under contract to Elsevier Publishers to write a book titled Ocean Wave Utilization. Ph.D. (1966), Catholic University of America; Ph.D. (1985), Trinity College, Dublin; Sc.D. (1991), Trinity College, Dublin.

Charles Meneveau

Charles Meneveau's research in fluid mechanics has explored the realms of theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in turbulence. In particular, this includes his work in large-eddy-simulation (LES) and turbulence modeling, and fractals and scaling in complex systems. The implications for LES modeling are wide-ranging, including areas such as weather prediction, turbomachinery, and biological and medical applications. Meneveau began his career at The Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and contributed to the revitalization of fluid mechanics research at Hopkins, bringing recognition to the university as a leading investigative institution in fluids. At Johns Hopkins, he serves as vice chair of mechanical as engineering and director of the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics. He holds a secondary appointment with the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. He is a member of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Physical Society, as well as ASME. Ph.D. (1989), Yale University.

Ashok Midha

Ashok Midha is the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and has held faculty positions at Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, and Michigan Technological University. His pioneering research in the areas of complaint mechanism and high-performance machine design has made fundamental contributions in mechanical design. An author of over 130 technical publications and several patents, he has also shared his knowledge through consulting, research, service to ASME and other professional organizations, and engineering education. Ph.D. (1977), University of Minnesota.

Joseph W. Milton

Joseph W. Milton, P.E., is currently a project manager and consultant for Reliant Resource in Houston. He is recognized as a technical expert in the fields of thermodynamics, power plant performance, and efficiency. He serves as a consultant in these areas for Reliant Energy as a whole and as a mentor for other engineers, Milton has led two Performance Test Code Committee to successful completion and to the publication of code documents. For the power generation industry, he has conducted more than 50 separate power plant acceptance tests and developed computer coded testing and data acquisition in advance of personal computers. Milton earned his bachelor's degree in 1981 at the University of Florida. M.S.M.E. (1982), University of Florida.

Alan Moghissi

Alan Moghissi has dedicated himself to the health and science profession for over 40 years, specifically to ASME as a Life Member for almost 30 years. He has served as chair on various national panels, committees, and civic organizations, was the recipient of eight service awards, and has authored over 270 publications, including journals, books, and articles. Moghissi established the ASME Peer Review Program through a multiyear grant awarded by the Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology. Through this nationally recognized program, more than 900 emerging cleanup technologies have been successfully deployed, which has resulted in billions of dollars in cost avoidance. Ph.D. (1960), Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Hukam C. Mongia

Over the past 30 years, Hukam C. Mongia has contributed to the gas turbine industry, especially to combustion technology, coal-fired gas turbines, turbomachinery, and advanced compressors. He managed several programs, which led to the development of 29 certified engine combustors, 15 technology-engine combustors, 27 advanced combustors and three afterburners. He was the first one in the gas turbine cumbustion community to formulate, develop, and use multidimensional combustion models in the design of advanced technology combustors, technology demonstrators, and production engine combustors. Mongia provided leadership in formulation, development, and application of empirical/analytical gas turbine combustor design methodology at Garrett, Allison, and GE Aircraft Engines. He has eight combustion patents to his credit. Mongia has more than 150 technical publications and has co-edited ASME's Calculations of Turbulent Reactive Flows. Ph.D. (1971), University of Massachusetts.

Godfrey Mungal

Godfrey Mungal is a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, where he has won several teaching and advising awards. He has perform fundamental research to elucidate mixing and chemical reaction phenomena in turbulent shear layers where he has quantified the effects of Schmidt, Damkohler, Reynolds, and Math numbers, whose results are important for predictive modeling. He has also investigated the effects of heat release upon the dynamics, entrainment and structure of free jets, coflowing jets, and jets in cross flow for improved understanding of pollutant formation. Mungal has examined flame liftoff and flame blowout phenomena, showing the importance of instantaneous low-speed stabilization. He has most recently performed studies of drag reduction in water using polymer injection. Ph.D. (1983), California Institute of Technology.

Ganapathy Naganathan

Ganapathy Naganathan is currently the Interim Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Toledo in Ohio. His research interests are in the areas of smart material systems and structures, robotics, and microcomputer applications in electromechanical systems. He is the author of more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has also been awarded a U.S. patent on the use of piezoelectric devices in active suspension systems. He is a recipient of many awards, including ASME's Outstanding Regional Faculty Advisor award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational award. Naganathan has served as graduate advisor for more than 40 students at the master's and Ph.D. levels. He has served as a consultant for industrial projects for companies such as Dana Corp., Eaton Corp., GM, Procter and Gamble, Solar Energy Research institute, and others. Ph.D. (1986), University of Oklahoma.

Arvind Nagar

Arvind Nagar P.E., is internationally known for his fatigue and fracture mechanics modeling of damage due to cracks in structures and machines. For the past 16 years at the Air Force Research Laboratory, in addition to conducting research on thermomechanical fatigue crack growth, he has planned, directed and managed research and development programs to develop design methods for life prediction to assure structural integrity advanced aerospace vehicles under flight simulated loads. He has served as ASME Dayton Section chairman and has been active on the Aerospace Division's Structures and Materials committee. Nagar has organized symposiums on fatigue and fracture and has published five ASME volumes, 70 technical publications, and made over 50 presentations at universities, industry, national, and international conferences. Ph.D. (1984), Ohio State University.

Mohammad H. Naraghi

Mohammad H. Naraghi has been involved in research in the areas of thermal analysis of rocket engines, modeling of crystal growth processes, and radiation heat transfer. He has developed comprehensive computer program for the thermal analysis rocket engines. As a result, received a certificate of recognition from NASA for the creative development of technically significant software, which has been accepted and approved for dissemination to the public by NASA. His program is presently being used by a number of aerospace companies for designing cooling systems of regeneratively cooled rockets. He has helped to develop a comprehensive radiation heat transfer model for crystal growth processes, primarily Czchralski crystal growth processes. Naraghi's research in radiation heat transfer resulted in number of novel methods for analysis of radiative transport problems. Ph.D. (1984), University of Akron.

Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi

Hami Nayeb-Hashemi's care in the last quarter-century has yielded significant contributions in several areas. He has done seminal work on Mode Ill crack propagation, thereby providing critical insights to multi-axial fatigue. He also developed a methodology for predicting fatigue life of anisotropic materials under multi-axial loadings, where he identified key fatigue damage parameters. In the area of non-destructive evaluation, he develop ultrasonic techniques to evaluate the effect of adhesive flaws on the strength of bonded joints. His Identification of an important NDE parameter was instrumental in the success of his techniques for damage evaluation in composite structures subjected to combined fatigue and impact loads. Other strong contributions were made in anisotropic constitutive modeling the effect of Mode II loading on Mode I crack growth, and the dynamic response of flawed adhesive joints. Ph.D. (1982), MIT.

Luu T. Nguyen

LUU T. Nguyen's career electronic packaging has spanned over 17 years. During this time, he has contributed significantly to plastic packaging technologies. As program manager for a number of projects funded by DARPA, DOD, SEMATECH, and NIST. he established the breakthrough groundwork for key enabling technologies for the electronic packaging infrastructure. These efforts led to successful product introduction from multichip module assembly platform, low-cost bumping, low-cost laminates design and fabrication, package ruggedization, package thermal enhancement, and CAD-based tools for package design, analysis, and optimization, and reactive flow modeling. His contribution to wafer level packaging has led to a de facto standard for the analog, mixed signal low-pin count devices that constitute the highest volume runners in the WLP market. Nguyen is an IEEE Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. He has a over 130 publications and has 46 invention disclosures and patents. Ph.D. (1984), MIT.

Shlomo Novotny

Shlomo Novotny is a well-know contributor in the electronic packaging area. He has worked in major communication and computer companies, including Bell Labs, DEC, and Sun. While at DEC, he led the development of the first chilled CMOS cryogenic cooling system and the first refrigerated commercial workstation. Since joining Sun, he has worked in the areas of thermomechanical packaging in major consortia: Data-Center Heat Loads, ASHRAE-TG-9 Data-Center Cooling, and Infini-Band. His thermal and packaging leadership has enabled the packaging strategy of Sun's high-performance SPARC CPUs, and the architectural and thermal optimization of Sun's midrange computers. Novotny has eight patents. He serves as an associate technical editor of the ASME Press series on electronic packaging. M.S. (1978), Polytechnic University Brooklyn, N.Y.

J. Michael Owen

J. Michael Owen has made significant contributions to the technology of secondary flow systems for turbo-machinery. He is an authority on flow and heat transfer in disk cavities, and flow and heat transfer in rotating cavities. His pioneering work at the University of Sussex on rim seal ingestion has formed the basis for the cooling design systems of several gas turbine manufacturers. More recent work at the University of Bath has included experiments and analyses on air transfer systems applicable to the supply of gas turbine blade cooling. Owen has been active since 1986 in the Heat Transfer Committee of the IGTI as the co-initiator and organizer of Secondary Flow Sessions at the IGTI Turbo Expos. As head of the School of Mechanic Engineering at the University of Bath, he led the efforts that significantly increased the department's national scholastic and research ratings. Sc.D. (1989), University of Sussex, England.

Metin Ozen

Matin Ozen is the director of the West Coast branch of the CFD research Corp. He received his bachelor's degree in 1982 and his master's in 1983, both from Lehigh University. He has implemented numerical solution techniques in several different industries for the past 20 years. Ozen has performed simulation in the electronics, aerospace, medical, automotive, semiconductor, and MEMS industries. He is the founder of the BGA club and served as chair for ASME's Santa Clara Valley Section (2001-02). Ph.D. (1989), University of Connecticut.

H. Nevzat Ozguven

The career of H. Nevzat Ozguven has spanned almost 30 years, As a university professor he has conducted research mainly in structural dynamics, gear dynamics, and rotor dynamics, and has received several awards for his research, teaching, and supervision. He served as the CEO and president of Turkish Cement and Earthenware Ind. Co. During this period, he was also president of the Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association. He then became assistant president at the Middle East Technical University, and contributed to the establishment of the first technopark in Turkey. Since 1998, he has been vice president of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. Ph.D. (1978). University of Manchester, England.

Tina L. Panontin

Tina L. Panontin P.E., has played an important role in the research and development program at NASA Ames Research Center for nearly 19 years. With expertise in failure analysis, structural integrity, and material performance, she has solved numerous complex and mission-critical problems by correctly and efficiently identifying the a root causes of problems and developing appropriate, practical solutions. Panontin is an authority on the micro mechanisms of fracture and the experimental verification of analytical tools for failure prediction and diagnosis. In her current position as chief, engineer, she advises the center's director on technical and risk issues, and on strategic new research directions. Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University.

Horacio Perez-Blanco

Horacio Perez-Blanco is a professor at Penn State University. The common thread to all his activities the study and improvement of the energy efficiency of thermal systems. At Penn State, he teaches courses in the thermal area, notably gas turbine recently developed an interest in the dynamics of vibrations; mentors graduate students, and conducts research in advanced energy systems. He joined Petal State in 1990 after 11 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he specialized in research on absorption technology for space conditioning and as a component of industrial processes. Perez Blanco has led the design and construction of 12 experimental facilities, from benchtop to full-scale prototype of various concepts. He created an "energy systems" laboratory at Penn State for undergraduates in the areas of design integration and instrumentation. Among his theoretical insights, he has shown that heat transfer enhancement coupled with decreases in the pressure drop of a circulating fluid is an event allowed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Ph.D. (1979), University of Illinois.

Fernando E. Pla-Barby

Fernando E. Pla-Barby has served the engineering profession and Puerto Rico for almost 40 years. He has been a student, soldier, educator, trainer, consultant, and island activist. His commitment to educational leadership and professional services through ASME and the Colegion de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico has been recognized by both with distinguished awards. Through his long tenure at the University Puerto Rico, he has been a role model for engineers, faculty, and students. He has built the ME department at UPR and guided the college through ABET reviews. For over 20 years, he has been consultant to industry in the design of solar energy systems and in the development and training of personnel for major corporations on the island. Ph.D. (1963), University of Puerto Rico.

Cary Presser

Cary Presser has been at the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1980. He currently serves as leader of the Thermal and Reactive Processes Group. He is the co-author of more than 140 archival journal reports and conference articles, and has received several awards in spray combustion, including "Best Paper Awards" three times from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). In 1991 he received the Silver Medal Award, and is listed in the 2001 edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World. Presser has served since 1986 on ASME's K6-Committee on Heat Transfer in Energy Systems, and has been a member since 1995 of the ASME Committee for Academic and Industrial Research. He is also an AIAA Associate Fellow. Sc.D. (1980), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Rengasamy Ponnappan

Rengasamy Ponnappan is a senior researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory and has made significant contributions in the beat pipes and thermal sciences area. He has pursued thermal management technologies for over 25 years, and has organized and chaired sessions in many technical conferences. He co-invented the concept of double-wall artery wick, explored gas-loaded liquid metal heat pipe start-up, and developed facilities at WPAFB for testing heat pipes in high "g" centrifuge. His "rotor cooling structure" patent has been licensed by an aircraft alternator manufacturer for improving bearing life and reliability. Ponnappan pioneered research on the high-speed rotating heat is pipe. He is the author of five U.S. patents and more than a hundred research publications. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a past chair of ASME's Dayton Section. Ph.D (1988), University of Dayton.

Douglas C. Rabe

Douglas G. Rabe has developed a center of excellence for turbo-machinery research through his leadership in the Air Force Research Laboratory. This center provides the foundation for the Air Force Research Laboratory to meet the national goals of the integrated high performance turbine engine technology and the high cycle fatigue programs. Owen has made numerous technology contributions in laser technology, pressure-sensitive paint, and transonic compressor aerodynamics and structures. Ph. D. (1987), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Koneru Ramakrishna

Koneru Ramakrishna is a nationally recognized leader in the areas of thermal and thermomechanical analysis for electronics packaging, first at IBM Microelectronics division and currently at Motorola's DNA labs. Recent he has been involved in stress analyses for delamination for Al and Cu interconnects on chips. He has also developed unique and first-of-a-kind simulation-based design guidelines for Joule beating effects in Cu interconnects with TEOS and low-k di-electrics for 0.13 and 0.1 mm technology nodes. The design guidelines are widely used for back end reliability. Ramakrishna has led teams of engineers and technicians, both at IBM and at Motorola, to solve critical product-related design problems. He been active in ASME for many years, and has organized and chaired sessions and symposia at IMECE, ITherm, and Interpack. Ph.D. (1989), University of Pennsylvania.

Ganesh G. Raman

Ganesh G. Raman is an expert in the field of flow control and experimental aeroacoustics. At the Illinois Institute of Technology, he has served as associate chair for aerospace engineering. He is particularly known for his research in the areas of supersonic jet noise, screech, and high-speed jet flows. He has more than 100 technical publications to his credit that have appeared in conference proceedings and leading journals. Raman has organized numerous ASME programs, including the Forum on High Speed Jet Flows, the Forum on Advances in Fluids Engineering Education, and the Forum on Fluidics. Raman has also served as chairman of the Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee of ASME. He was awarded the ASME Lewis F. Moody best paper award in 2002. Ph.D. (1991), Case Western Reserve University.

K. Ravindra

K. Ravindra, P.E., serves as chair of the aerospace and mechanical engineering department at Parks College of Saint Louis University, has contributed significantly to the engineering education infrastructure. He started the mechanical engineering program and now it is one of the finest programs in the country. The program has several innovative features, such as courses on stare-of-the-art topics (mechatronics and consumer product design), industry sponsored projects, and hands-on technique He is an associate fellow of AIAA Ph.D. (1987), Pennsylvania State University.

John E. Renaud

John E. Renaud, P.E., is a faculty member in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He spent five years as a manufacturing systems design engineer with the Eastman Kodak Co. He is a National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award winner and currently is chair of the ASME Design Automation Technical Committee. Renaud's research interests include large scale numerical optimization, simulation based design under uncertainty, shape optimization in orthopedics and biomechanics, parallel computing in large scale optimization, and multi-functional materials. Funding in support of his research efforts has come from the NSF, NASA, General Motors Corp. and the Ford Motor Co., among others Ph.D. (1992), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

H. Ronald Riggs

H. Ronald Riggs has been active in academic and industrial research. His research has produced several well-known design/analysis software programs used in U.S. industry. They include MANOA, Hydran, OCI/HydroMOB and VHC/ PBridge. He conceive and was the primary programmer of MANOA (MAtrix and Numerical-Oriented Analysis), an educational/research tool that is in the public domain and can be downloaded from the Web. It also forms the kernel of the analysis engines of the other three programs. OCI/HydroMOB was developed for the Navy, while VHC/PBridge was development for the Army. He has over 50 technical publications. In his 15-year teaching career, Rigg's students have become engineers at such prominent organizations as Parametric Technology Corp. and the American Bureau of Shipping. M.S. (1976), University of California, Berkeley.

William M. Roquemore

William Roquemore has made significant contributions to air breathing combustion (including the revolutionary Trapped Vortex Combustor Quasi Constant Temperature Engine Cycle), advanced laser based combustion diagnostics, CFD design models, thermally stable jet fuels, and integrated fuel system technologies. He invented the Electro-Optical Sensor for High Temperature Fiber Optical Thermometry and VTOL. Landing Site Fabrication. He managed several U.S. Air Force programs related to both fundamental and applied combustion and fuels research. Roquemore has published more than 150 research and technical articles. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1999. Ph.D. (1973), University of Cincinnati.

Joseph L. Rose

Joseph L. Rose, the Paul Morrow Professor in Design and Manufacturing at Pennsylvania State University, is a member of the engineering science and mechanics department. The author of over 380 articles in the ultrasonic field, he has developed eight patents, and published four textbooks on wave mechanics, guided waves, and dispersion principles. Rose is an ASNT Fellow and has received numerous teaching and research awards. Among them are the Mehl Honor Lecture Award in 2001 and the Pennsylvania State University Premier Research Award in 2002. Ph.D. (1970). Drexel University.

David W. Rosen

David W. Rosen is currently an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has focused on the intersection of design, manufacturing, and computing, with specific contributions in the areas of design methodology, virtual prototyping, and rapid prototyping. He led a large multidisciplinary rapid prototyping laboratory with an industry consortium and a strong record of technology transfer, Rosen has published more than 80 technical papers and four book chapters. His contributions to ASME include serving as Executive Committee member of the Computers and Information in Engineering Division, chair of the division (2001), conference chair of the 2002 CIE Conference, and an associate editor of the Journal of Computing and Information Sciences in Engineering. Ph.D (1992), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jeffrey A. Roux

Jeffrey A. Roux's accomplishments in research and development are not only in the field of thermophysics and heat transfer, but also in composite materials, infrared measurements, solar energy, and optics. His educational leadership, research grants, and technical publications have contributed to strengthening the mechanical engineering department at the University of Mississippi. Roux has received multi-million dollar grants for his consulting services from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Tennesse Valley Authority, Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force. He won the ASME Meritorious Service Award for the Southeastern Region for his contributions to the statewide high school student math and science contest. He earned his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University Ph.D. (1970), University of Tennessee.

Ajit K. Roy

Ajit K. Roy is known for his broad expertise in experimental and analytical mechanics of composite materials, and his excellence in technical program management. He has developed a three-dimensional variation method to systematically implement fracture mechanics to three-dimensionally reinforced textile composites, along with experiments to identify complex failure mechanism in textile composites. His test method has receive widespread acceptance in the industry for measuring shear stiffness strength of porous materials. Roy served on the executive committee or the French-U.S. carbon-carbon meeting, and as guest co-editor of Composites Science and Technology. As the focal point for the carbon foam program at the Air Force Research Laboratory, he implemented a focused teaming approach among the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, processing industry, and end users to accelerate the maturation of carbon foam technology Ph.D. (1985), University of Minnesota.

Marina B. Ruggles-Wrenn

Marina B. Ruggles-Wrenn, an active ASME member, has published more than 30 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, over 25 technical reports, and has co-authored three books on fatigue, fracture, and high-temperature design methods in pressure vessels and piping. Her design guidelines are used by the Automotive Composites Consortium of the Big 3 automobile manufacturers. In the area of high-temperature structural design methods, she has led efforts to develop a flaw assessment guide for high-temperature reactor components subject to creep-fatigue loading and design guidelines for the prevention of crack initiation due to thermal striping liquid metal reactors. She is internationally recognized for her expertise in investigating high-temperature material behavior and for her contributions to high-temperature structural design methods. Ph.D. (1982). Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Hemmat H. Safwat

Hemmat H. Safwat, P.E., has spent 36 years in engineering. For 12 years, he was in academia, where he made contributions in solar energy, radiation heat transfer, and fluid transients. At Bechtel Power Corp. for 15 years, he was instrumental in the development of thermal hydraulics analysis tools that have been applied in completing the engineering and licensing of a large number of nuclear plants. He has contributed to water hammer diagnosis in nuclear power plant systems. Since 1997 Safwat has been with Enron, where he has led the development of power cogeneration and desalination plants, plus energy services in the Middle East. He has developed effective methods in technology transfer and introduced a pioneering approach for integration of IT professionals a large project team. Safwat organized symposiums for ASME and was chairman of the ASME Fluid Transients Committee from 1986 to '88. Ph.D. (1968). West Virginia University.

Samuel M. Sami

In the past 10 years, Samuel M. Sami, P.E., has been very active at ASME annual meetings and ASME/AICHE National Heat Transfer and ASME/JSME Joint is Thermal Engineering conferences. He challenges and intrigues ASME members and fellows with his research papers on energy conversion and heat transfer issues in energy systems. He is a member of the ASME Executive Committee for Process Industry Division, vice chair of the PID division, and member of the Advanced Energy Systems Division. Sami sits on the editorial boards of various international scientific journals, including ASME. He is the director of the Research Centre for Energy Conversion (RCEC) at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick and attracts significant research projects. Ph.D. (1973), University of Montreal.

David M. Sanborn

David M. Sanborn, P.E., has had a distinguished and varied career as engineer, educator, entrepreneur, and manager. In the course of his academic tenure, he has been a highly rated teacher, has done significant and varied research, has published numerous papers, and has received the Melville Medal. In industry, he has been a principal in three start-up companies and has developed numerous products and manufacturing techniques. His expertise has been in tribology, rotor dynamics, high-pump development, and high-temperature combustion. Recently, he returned to teaching at Georgia Tech and is the capstone design coordinator. Ph.D. (1969), University of Michigan

Robert J. Sanford

Robert J. Sanford is an internationally renowned scholar and researcher in experimental solid mechanics and fracture mechanics. He has also established himself as a leader in engineering education at the University of Maryland. His efforts have been recognized by his peers through various awards from the Naval Research Labs and the Society for Experimental Mechanics; by his students and colleagues through departmental and national level awards for outstanding teaching; and by government and industry through the support he has attracted for his research and development work at the University of Maryland and the Naval Research Labs. Ph.D. (1972), The Catholic University of America,

Joseph J. Santoleri

The career of Joseph Santoleri, P.E., has spanned 54 years, from co-op student at Drexel to senior consultant in the combustion, heat transfer, and incineration field. He began as a fuels engineer at Lukens Steel Co. in Coatesville, Pa. His experience developing a line of high-intensity burners and waste liquid vortex burners at Thermal Research & Engineering Corp. in Conshohocken, Pa., provided the hands on background for their applications in industry. Santoleri's background in development, design, application manufacturing, field-testing, and start-up enabled him to provide consulting services to industry and government at Four Nines Inc. His expertise in these areas helped many industrial companies to continue operations of waste disposal systems by proper redesign, retrofit, testing, and final acceptance by state and federal regulators. M.S. (1957), Drexel University.

Robert J. Santoro

Robert J. Santoro's outstanding contributions to mechanical engineering involving the application of laser diagnostics to reacting flows have significantly advanced the understanding of combustion chemistry, the interaction of chemistry and flow and, most especially, the physics and chemistry of soot-particle interaction. His diagnostic approaches of applying Raman spectroscopy to two-phase combustion or using laser-induced incandescence and optical tomography for measuring soot volume fraction lead the way to ward a more fundamental understanding of combustion processes that are important in gas turbines and rocket engines. As an engineering educator, his leadership and guidance of graduate students over the past decade have yielded one of the nation's most productive university laboratories dedicated to combustion research. Ph.D. (1975), Boston College.

George E. Saxon

George E. Saxon's career spans over four decades, from his early days as a production engineer at General Electric, Westinghouse, and Babcock & Wilcox to his current position as chairman of the board at Ounce Systems Inc. His no-nonsense approach to resolving difficult problems with engineering facts has led to numerous innovations in effective tube cleaning technology. Condensers cleaned with Conco technology continue to outperform those cleaned by the company methods, according to the company. As a result, dramatic sayings in fuel, megawatt capacity, carbon dioxide emissions, and heat rate have been achieved in the United States and around the world. Saxon's work has led to advancements in heat transfer research, fouling research, and corrosion protection technology B.S. (1955), University of Pittsburgh.

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