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Robert B. Abernethy, PHD - 2003
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.
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Serge Abrate , PHD - 2003
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 courses in the U.S. and in Spain, Italy, Brazil, and France. 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.
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John W. Ahlen, PHD - 2003
John W. Ahlen has been a leader and 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 Technology 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 programs 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.
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Dennis A. Armstrong - 2003
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.
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Ronald H. Aungier - 2003
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. (1966), Cornell University.
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Balakumar Balachandran, PHD - 2003
Balakumar Balachandran's career started as a 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.
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Prashant P. Banerjee, PhD - 2003
Prashant (Pat) Banerjee is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He has over 90 peer reviewed technical publications in manufacturing systems design and in virtual reality applications, where he has been a pioneer. His book on virtual manufacturing has recently been published by John Wiley. His research has been sponsored by NSF, NIST, and NASA, and he has consulted with companies such as Caterpillar, Searle and Motorola. He has received a ASME MHED Best Technical Paper Award, a UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award and a US Army Summer Faculty Fellowship. He has served various ASME committees in the areas of MHED and MTG.
Purdue University Ph.D. 1990 Industrial Eng
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Ever J. Barbero, PHD - 2003
Dr. Barbero is Chairman of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at West Virginia University. He oversees 26 faculty and over 30 staff, 400 undergraduate students, 180 graduate students, with annual budget over $9 million. He is the author of a. successful textbook "Introduction to Composite Materials Design." His patents "Modular Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Deck System #6,455,131 and #6,544,624" led to the development of Superdeck TM, one of the first polymer composite bridge-deck commercially available for vehicular bridges. He has made outstanding scholarly contributions on a variety of topics including composites, stability, etc. He is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications and many more conference presentations.
Virginia Tech Ph.D. 10/89 Engineering Mechanics
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Chakrapani Basavaraju, PHD, PE - 2003
Dr. Chakrapani Basavaraju, P.E., has over 30 years of experience, which includes more than 28 years in the power industry involving design of nuclear and non-nuclear power plants, and 3 years in the teaching profession. As Assistant Professor at Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC, Dr. Basavaraju was awarded the Instructor of the Year Award for Excellence in teaching. Currently he is working as a Senior Engineering Specialist with Bechtel Power Corporation. He has been recognized with several awards for his exceptional achievements, contributions, and innovative solutions to practical engineering problems. He has authored 17 technical papers and contributed 3 chapters for internationally recognized reference handbooks. Technical papers written by him have broken new grounds in providing innovative and cost effective approaches to complex industry issues. His in-depth knowledge of analytical methods, expertise in finite element analysis techniques, and extensive application experience in applying those techniques for design and analysis of power plant piping and mechanical components have earned him the respect of his peers and superiors. He has chaired sessions of the ASME Conferences and he is serving as a member of the ASME PVP D&A Technical Committee. Dr. Basavaraju received his Ph.D. in 1971 from Texas A&M University.
Texas A & M University Ph.D. 1971 Mech. Engineering
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Robert G. Bea, PHD - 2003
Dr. Bea 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, including commercial tankers, platform 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. He is well known for his primary expertise in the areas of Ocean Environmental Conditions and Forces, Foundations Design and Construction, Structures Design, and Construction
University of West Australia; Ph.D. - 2000 - Oil Gas Engineering
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Stephen E. Bechtel, PHD - 2003
Professor Bechtel's work applies the highly theoretical and mathematical subject of continuum mechanics to various practical problems in science and technology. Prof. Beechtel's research includes the modeling of industrial and agricultural materials, and the study of fundamental modeling and computational issues in mechanics. Computer-based models that Prof. Bechtel and his research group have developed provide quantitatively accurate predictive capability for product design and process optimization, replacing the need for costly physical prototyping. Prof. Bechtel has developed and taught undergraduate courses statics, dynamics, and strength of materials, and an Introduction to Engineering Laboratory, and graduate courses in continuum mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and elastic wave propagation.
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. 1983 Mech. Engineering
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Sushil H. Bhavnani, PHD - 2003
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 Systems (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.
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John C. Blanton, PHD, PE - 2003
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.
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Wen-Hwa Chen, PHD - 2003
Professor Wen-Hwa Chen has made outstanding and lasting contributions to the disciplines of structural integrity, damage toleranc, finite element methods, computational fracture mechanics, and electronic packaging. He has also made singular contributions to academic administration at the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently, he is a Professor at Tsing Hua University. Professor Chen is the founder of the ASME Taiwan Section and he has served as the Section Chair since 2001.
Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. 1977 Engineering Science and Mechanics
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Mr Michael M. Chen - 2003
Mr. Chen is an engineer, inventor, project leader, manager, who can bring new inventions into realty. All product development projects that Mr. Chen has worked on have lead 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 improved heat transfer by 30% and also power plant efficiency significantly, which means major energy savings and reduced emissions. The impact to society will shine years to come.
Mr. Chen has been a contributor to ASME society leadership. During 1997, as Chair of the Olean section, he re-energized the section and member monthly meeting attendance was more than doubled with highest attendance to member ratio in the nation. He is also a supporter with student chapter to get them involved with ASME at early age. Mr. Chen was also ASME LDI with Council on Engineering during 1998-99.
Engineering College or University Wright State University, MS, 1988, Mech. Eng
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Fu-Chu Chou, PHD - 2003
After obtaining his Ph. D. Degree, Dr. Fu-Chu Chou joined the National Central University. He was on the frontier of development of "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 the studies of fluid dynamics in semiconductor processing, and made significant contributions by reducing the usage of photoresist during spin coating, thus significantly reducing the running cost of semiconductor manufacturing companies. He won the Excellent University-Industry Cooperation Award, 2000 and Outstanding Engineering Professor, 2001 in Taiwan.
National Tsing-Hua University; Ph.D. - 1986 - Mechanical Engineering
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Brian N. Cox, PHD - 2003
Dr. Cox has made significant contributions through over 150 published articles in materials science, including the theory of crack bridging, material constitutive modeling, micromechanical analysis of experiments, textile composites, dynamic behavior of composites, energy absorbing materials, the statistics of fatigue cracks, the quantum chemistry of surface phenomena, and the many-body theory of magnetism. Highlights include showing how material length scales control the stability and notch sensitivity of bridged cracks; and analytical and computational models of textiles composites, which are now used for designing ceramic and polymer composite components. Dr. Cox is a past chair of the Materials Division of ASME.
Monash University Ph. D. 1976 Theoretical Physics
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Carl D. Crane III, PHD - 2003
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.
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Steven Danyluk, PHD - 2003
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.
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William De Fotis - 2003
William DeFotis, a distinguished associate dean and professor emeritus, helped the growing Engineering College at the University of Illinois at Chicago become a nationally recognized institution - in part for the rigorous admission standards he developed, implemented and upheld in his 36-year career. Technically astute and a humanist, he pushed to bring a liberal and worldview to thousands of technology-focused engineering students in four decades of teaching the History of Engineering. He also successfully advised thousands on their career paths. His numerous writings include a recent history of the College, journals on College research, and many Landmark brochures he has edited as a member of the ASME International History and Heritage Committee.
University of Illinois BS February, 1954 Mechanical Engineering Northwestern Univ. MS August, 1963 Journalism
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