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Sarim N. Al-Zubaidy, PHD, PE - 2000
Sarim Naji Al-Zubaidy, P.E., has over 20 years' experience in both senior academic and administrative positions in a variety of higher education institutions around the world. He has been actively involved in university service and is a member of many university committees. A registered consultant, he has spent several years advising industry, and has initiated and attracted large sums of funding for research projects. He has initiated innovative postgraduate programs and fostered efforts to forge closer links between higher education and industry. Recognizing the need for continuous professional developments, Al-Zubaidy has developed training courses for industry and academic staff. He is actively involved in research, postgraduate work, and publication. Ph.D. (1982), University of Hertfordshire, England.
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Stephen D. Antolovich, PHD - 2000
Stephen D. Antolovich has made significant contributions to the advancement of life prediction modeling of super alloys subjected to thermomechanical loading by combining materials science-based models and engineering-based models (fracture mechanics and fatigue crack growth models). His model for the life prediction of Ni-based super alloys has become an industry standard in the jet engine design community. Antolovich, who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin, has also demonstrated strong educational leadership in advising many undergraduate and graduate students while maintaining a busy administrative schedule. He has been director of the materials department and programs at three universities. Antolovich has earned prestigious medals and awards, including the ASME Nadai Award. Ph.D. (1966), University of California, Berkeley.
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Stephen W. Attaway, PHD - 2000
Stephen W. Attaway is noted for his seminal contribution to novel computational mechanics method-ologies, including smoothed particle hydrodynamics approaches, parallel computing, and study of nuclear waste disposal methods. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. Ph.D. (1986), Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Bilal M. Ayyub, PHD, PE - 2000
In his 18-year career, Bilal M. Ayyub, P.E., has made outstanding research contributions to reliability analysis, risk analysis, and risk-based design of industrial and marine systems. He has used probability theory, fuzzy sets, and uncertainty modeling to produce realistic, practical solutions to design and analysis problems, especially for structural and mechanical systems. Ayyub has led several studies on developing risk-based guidelines for assessing power plants, marine systems, and dams; on reliability-based rules for ship structural design; and on risk-informed compliance approval of personal flotation devices. The author of more than 250 publications in journals, conference proceedings, and reports that include several textbooks and edited books, Ayyub led and contributed to several ASME studies by being an active member of ASME's Research Committee on Risk Technology. He has earned several ASCE, ASNE, and NAFIPS awards.
Ph.D. (1983), Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Erio Benvenuti - 2000
Erio Benvenuti is manager, advanced design and technologies, at Nuovo Pignone, where he has had a distinguished 34-year career spearheading research and engineering activities. His prolific and innovative work has helped to position his company as a leader in the gas turbine and compressor field. He has been instrumental in the aerothermal design of a wide range of machinery, including the PGT-10, PGT-5, and PGT-2 gas turbines and for the very successful high-speed power turbines for the LM2500 and LM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbines. Benvenuti has conducted and directed research activities in almost all facets of Nuovo Pignone's industrial axial and centrifugal compressor line. His seminal work for the aerodynamic design and experimental analysis forms the basis for the full line of centrifugal compressors offered by Nuovo Pignone.
Laurea in Ingeneria Meccanica (1964), University of Bologna, Italy.
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Maciej P. Bieniek, PHD - 2000
Maciej P. Bieniek, P.E., has supervised the doctoral research of 33 students and was author or co-author of numerous papers in refereed technical journals during his 42-year tenure as a professor. His achievements cover highly advanced areas in continuous mechanics, vibrations, structural dynamics, and reliability of structures. His research is noteworthy for being innovative and applicable to engineering practice and the national interest. He serves as a consultant to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on the George Washington Bridge and to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority on the major suspension bridges of New York City. His significant contributions have been recognized by the Roebling Award of the Metropolitan Section of the ASCE.
Ph.D. (1951), Gdansk Institute of Technology, Poland.
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William W. Bower, PHD - 2000
In his twenty-eight years at McDonnell Douglas/Boeing, Dr. Bower has contributed to the development of design tools for military aircraft in the areas of propulsion, aerodynamics, and acoustics. He performed pioneering work in the numerical simulation of separated subsonic diffuser flows, the aerodynamics of V/STOL aircraft in ground effect, high speed jet acoustics, and boundary layer transition control. He currently leads the supersonic impinging jets. He is a Boeing Technical Fellow.
Purdue University, - Ph.D., 1971
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James P. Brill, PHD, PE - 2000
James P. Brill, P.E. National Academy of Engineering (1997); ASME member (1984); BS (1962), Universtiy of Minnesota, Ph.D. (1966); University of Texas, Assistant Associate and F. M. Stevenson Professor of Petroleum Engineering at University of Tulsa since 1966. Founded (1973) Tulsa University Fluid Flow projects an industry consortium to conduct research on multiphase flow in pipes. Results on mechanistic modeling of multiphase flow phenomena are sued by most oil and gas companices to size wellbores and pipelines. Author or co-author of over 100 publications.
Active in Petroleum Division. Technical Editor of J. Energy Resources Technology. Member, ABET Board of Directors.
University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. - 1966
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Yigang Cai, PHD - 2000
Dr. Yigang Cai is a well recognized expert in unsteady flow, fluid-structure interactions, and Maglev. Having his Doctor of Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, he has conducted many frontier research programs, supervising outstanding students, and publishing over 160 journals and proceeding papers and 3 books, and is a strong member of ASME. With his unique ability to demonstrate both originality and excellence in his research and development, his contributions have resulted in many outstanding accomplishments.
Zhejiang University - Ph.D., 1987
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Van P. Carey, PHD - 2000
Dr. Van Carey has been a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, for the past 17 years, during which time he has made significant research contributions to the field of heat transfer. Dr. Carey's expertise involves multi-phase flows, with an emphasis on boiling, condensation, heat exchangers, and micro-scale transport. He has written two graduate-level instructional texts, Liquid-Vapor Phase-Change Phenomena and Statistical Thermodynamics and Micro-scale Thermophysics, which are used throughout the world. During his career, he has distinguished himself as an outstanding scholar and research mentor to dozens of graduate students.
State University of New York at Buffalo, MS ME 1976
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Kyung K. Choi, PHD - 2000
K.K. Choi is the director of the Center for Computer Aided Design at the University of Iowa. He joined the mechanical engineering faculty in 1980. He is an associate editor of three international journals and the author of two textbooks, 65 journal papers, and more than 57 papers on conference proceedings. He received a NIH National Research Award (1983) and the University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award. He received significant research funding in support of his research from the National Science Foundation, Defense Department, and industry. He led a successful technology transfer of DSA and optimization methodologies for noise, vibration, and harshness to Ford Motor Co. Choi was the leader of a research team that developed CAD-based design process software for fatigue, design sensitivity, reliability analysis, and design optimization. This development was commercialized by one of the leading software companies, Mechanical Dynamics Inc.
Ph.D. (1980), University of Iowa.
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Bruce M. Chrisman - 2000
Bruce M. Chrisman's engineering career spans more than 32 years, dedicatedto the design and development of reciprocating internal combustion engines.As a recognized leader in large-bore engine emissions reduction, he has advisedthe EPA and various state air boards on the development of viable exhaustemissions standards and introduced the cleanburn combustion concept tomedium-speed natural gas engines to significantly reduce NOx emissions. Hisnumerous technical publications provide testimony to many of his accomplishments.While spending his entire career in industry, he has generously donated his time and expertise to the ASME ICE Division and the DEMA, holding a number of leadership positions.
B.S.M.E. (1967), University of Michigan.
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William W. Copenhaver, PHD - 2000
William W. Copenhaver is a principal research aerospace engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate. He has been involved in compression system research for 22 years. He has led the U.S. Air Force in-house basic research program on compressor aerodynamics for the past eight years. His team includes nine senior scientists and engineers operating in the Compressor Aero Research Lab at Wright Patterson AFB. He represents the Air
Force in basic compression system research throughout the world, and has been requested by many foreign governments to provide seminars on the research efforts under way in his laboratory. Copenhaver has made significant contributions in the field of compressor aerodynamics, related to stall in multistage compressors, shock system unsteadiness, and blade row interactions. He has been awarded the Air Force Aero Propulsion and Power Laboratory's (currently the Propulsion Directorate) highest award for in-house research. Ph.D. (1988), Iowa State University.
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Marino Di Marzo, PHD, PE - 2000
Marino di Marzo, P.E., received his undergraduate degree from the University of Naples in Italy in 1976. He worked in industry for four years in Italy and the United States. During this period, he designed a small-scale geothermal power plant for the DOE. In 1981, he joined the University of Maryland, where he now serves as professor and associate chair in mechanical engineering. In his longstanding association with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, di Marzo has contributed to fire safety sciences with his study of dropwise evaporative cooling. His findings are now applied to the modeling of fire sprinkler thermal response. Over the past 17 years, he has investigated the behavior of nuclear power plants during accidental transients. In the wake of the Three Mile Island accident, he focused on small-break-loss of coolant accidents as well as on energy transport during severe accidents. More recently, he has been working on reactivity insertions due to boron dilution transients. In 1994, he joined the U.S. Westinghouse advanced light water reactor AP600.
Ph.D. (1982), Catholic University of America, Washington.
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Osborne J. Dykes Jr., PE - 2000
O.J. Dykes, Jr. has had a distinguished career since earning his undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech. He entered the Navy and served as an officer whose duties were primarily concerned with aircraft maintenance. He formed his own company, The Dykes Co., in 1947. This firm was active in the heating and air conditioning field until 1955. After that time, the company was reorganized, and offered equipment and engineering services for heating and industrial boilers and central station systems. Dykes has been active in ASME for more than 30 years. He has been the guiding force in his local chapter of the organization. In addition, he has served at the regional and national levels of ASME. He continues to serve his profession through the Society even in his retirement. B.A. (1941), Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Raghu Echempati, PHD, PE - 2000
The career of Raghu Echempati, P.E., spans more than two decades. He has made significant contributions in mechanical design at several educational institutions, including the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), Ohio State University, Michigan Technological University, University of Mississippi, and Kettering University. He is involved in consulting and is developing applied undergraduate research in computer simulation of metal forming processes. In 1997, he was endowed with the Bosch-Kettering Professorship to conduct studies related to air bag injuries. Based on these studies, he has recommended the use of black boxes on passenger cars to capture pertinent accident data. Ph.D. (1978), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
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Mohamed S. El-Genk, PHD - 2000
Mohamed S. El-Genk is Regents Professor and director of the Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies at the University of New Mexico. He has been on the faculty there since 1981, after 13 years in industry. He has made significant and original contributions to the fields of space nuclear power and propulsion systems; heat pipes and thermosyphons; pool boiling from the underside of inclined, curved, and hemispherical surfaces; natural and mixed convection; nuclear reactor safety and thermal-hydraulics, and direct energy conversion systems, including thermionic and alkali-metal thermal-to-electric conversion (AMTEC). El-Genk is the editor of a book and over 40 volumes on heat transfer. He has authored 170 refereed articles and more than 250 conference papers and technical reports, and holds three patents. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society; active for life member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; and the recipient of the UNM Presidential Lectureship award (1985), Research Excellence award (1988), Teaching Excellence award (1989), and Graduate Students Outstanding Teacher award (1988). He was named Regents Professor in 1996.
Ph.D. (1978), University of New Mexico.
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Izhak Etsion, PHD - 2000
Izhak Etsion's career spans 35 years. After seven years as an aeronautical engineer, he attended Technion and obtained his Sc.D. in tribology. Since then, he has been a faculty member at the mechanical engineering department at the Technion, where he heads the tribology activity. He is the major source of tribology consulting to Israeli industry. In 1996, Etsion founded Surface Technologies Ltd., a high-tech start-up company that is developing a new technology of reducing friction and wear by special surface laser texturing.
Ph.D. (1974), Technion, Israel.
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Jerzy M. Floryan, PHD, PE - 2000
Dr. J.M. Floryan's career began in Warsaw with research into the finite element method, took him to the USA, and eventually to Canada, to UWO, the University of Western Ontario, in London. He made major contributions to fluid mechanics, where his theoretical and experimental work on Marangoni effects which cause a breakup of liquid layers stands out because of its great importance for the thermal management of spacecraft. Of equal significance is his dedication to engineering education. A gifted teacher and administrator he has been instrumental in re-structuring the curriculum at UWO, providing for custom designed programs, combining an engineering discipline, such as ME with business administration (or) law, biochemistry, languages to name a few, an approach that has become very popular and is graduating a new brand of engineer.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ph.D., 1980
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John H. Fowler , PE - 2000
John H. Fowler, P.E., began his career as a development engineer for the McEvoy Co., and after several mergers and acquisitions, including 10 years with Rockwell in Pittsburgh, he eventually became the vice president of engineering at McEvoy. His creativity in design is evidenced by 28 U.S. patents. He has served on API committees since 1980, during which time he pioneered the use of ASME Pressure Vessel Code-type calculations for high-pressure oilfield equipment. As a consultant, he teaches a seminar on designing to API requirements, which has been attended by over 400 engineers worldwide. He also provides design, analysis, and engineering management consulting services.
B.S.M.E. (1962), Rice University.
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