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Giridhari L. Agrawal, PHD - 2004
Dr. Giridhari (Giri) Agrawal is a world leader and has 30+ years of experience in foil air bearing technology and high-speed turbomachinery. He pioneered the development of high speed rotating machines supported on foil air bearings which are used in air cycle machines of all modern aircraft, civil or military. Dr. Giri Agrawal performed the pioneering foil bearing work at Honeywell from 1971-1979. He supported AiResearch Phoenix in development of foil bearings for advanced engines. In 1979, he joined Hamilton Standard, where he invented the second generation of foil air bearing which are used on 747, B-1B, B-2, 777 and other aircraft. He was awarded the George Mead Medal, the highest technical award, by the Board of Directors of United Technology Corporation for his work in foil bearings. In 1990 Dr. Giri Agrawal founded R&D Dynamics with the intention of extending the air bearing technology to rotating machines other than air cycle machines. It is at R&D Dynamics that Dr. Giri Agrawal invented and patented the third generation of foil bearing technology suitable for gas turbine applications. Today R&D Dynamics is a world class center for research, development and production manufacturing of high-speed small turbomachinery for aerospace and commercial applications.
University of Colorado PhD 1963 Mechanical Engineering
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Sunil K. Agrawal , PHD - 2004
Dr. Agrawal is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware. His research has made contributions in robotics and control, including novel design of robots and autonomous systems, computational algorithms for planning and optimization of dynamic systems, and devices for medical rehabilitation. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and has worked in universities, government laboratories, and industries throughout the world. His work has yielded over 140 technical publications and two books and has received numerous awards, including the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship from the White House and a Freidrich Wilheim Bessel Prize from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
Stanford University, PhD, 1990, Mechanical Engineering
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Hasan U. Akay, PHD - 2004
Dr. Akay is Chancellor's Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at IndianaUniversity-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He has been with IUPUI since 1980. He received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1967; M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969 and 1974, respectively. Prior to joining IUPUI, he served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Chair of Civil Engineering at the Middle East Technical University.
Dr. Akay has over twenty eight years of research and teaching experience in the development of finite element and computational algorithms for the solution of multiphysics problems, including the development of parallel and dynamic load balancing algorithms for large-scale problems with broad range of applications in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and solid mechanics. His primary activities in these areas include research, teaching, development, and technical consulting. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of two computational journals (International Journal of Computational Engineering Science and International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics).
University of Texas, Austin, Texas Ph.D. 1974 Civil Engineering
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Ali A. Ameri, PHD - 2004
Dr. Ameri is a Research Scientist at the Ohio State University. He is an expert in aerodynamics and heat transfer of turbines used in gas turbine engines. His experience includes 16 years of residence at the NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio where he worked on simulations of flow and heat transfer in turbine passages. He has performed important work in modeling of internal and external flow passages and pioneering work in simulation of secondary flows and tip and endwall heat transfer. He has contributed many papers to the Gas Turbine conferences and to the Journal of Turbomachinery. He has made many presentations in this area including a lecture at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.
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Caren B. Anders, PE - 2004
She is a recognized leader, with Director level operating experience,
in a major electric/gas utility. Change agent motivated by challenge.
Achieves results through application of leadership and management skills,
broad and in-depth line experience, and excellent independent judgment,
interpersonal and communicational skills combined with strong engineering
credentials.
Drexel University MBA (Finance) 1988
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Sunao S. Aoki, PHD - 2004
Dr. Sunao Aoki has made outstanding and sustained contributions to design and product development at several levels. These range from the creation and implementation of innovative turbine design procedures, to leadership in the engineering of gas turbine engine components, to setting strategic directions for technology development and then executing these strategies. His efforts have had a substantial effect in enhancing the performance of MHI gas turbines and fluid machinery products.
Kyusyu University Ph.D. 1986 Mechanical Engineering
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Shapour Azarm, PHD - 2004
After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Dr. Azarm
joined the University of Maryland at College Park where he is currently
a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Azarm is a leading educator,
researcher and practitioner of design optimization. He has made significant
contributions to multicriteria, multidisciplinary decision making for
design of complex mechanical systems. His work includes the use and
development of mathematical programming and genetic algorithms, formulation
of metrics for quality assessment of multiobjective solution sets, and
integration of engineering design optimization methods with customer
preferences in the design of single products and product lines. He has
worked with numerous manufacturers helping them successfully implement
design optimization in their product development processes, thereby
improving the quality and cost structure of new products. Dr. Azarm
currently serves as an Associate Editor of the international journal
of Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, was an Associate
Editor of the ASME Transactions Journal of Mechanical Design. He served
as the Conference and Paper Review Chair of the ASME Design Automation
Conference, and the Chair of the ASME Design Automation Committee. He
is currently serving as a member of the ASME Design Engineering Division's
Executive Committee. Dr. Azarm is a Registered Professional Engineer
in the State of Maryland.
University of Michigan Ph.D. 1984 Mechanical Engineering
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Steven C. Batterman, PHD - 2004
Steven C. Batterman, Ph.D., engineering consultant and Professor Emeritus,
University of Pennsylvania, is an internationally recognized authority
on applied mechanics, mechanics of solids, biomechanics, forensic engineering
and accident reconstruction. He received his B.C.E. from The Cooper
Union School of Engineering in 1959 and continued his education at Brown
University where he received his Sc.M. (Engineering) in 1961 and his
Ph.D. (Engineering) in 1964. From 1964 to 1997, he was a continuous
full-time faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania where he
served as a Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science
(Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Department
of Bioengineering) with secondary appointments in the School of Medicine
(Department of Orthopaedic Surgery) and in the School of Veterinary
Medicine (Professor of Biomechanics in Veterinary Medicine). During
his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania he engaged in pioneering
research, as well as undergraduate and graduate course development,
in solid mechanics, plasticity, viscoelasticity, plates and shells,
bioengineering (including biomechanics, orthopaedic biomechanics, dental
biomechanics), and forensic engineering. In 1970-71 he was awarded a
National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship and performed research
in plasticity and plastic buckling as a visiting faculty member in the
Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology, Haifa, Israel. In 1997 he retired from the University
of Pennsylvania as a Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering (Biomechanics)
and a Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering in Orthopaedic Surgery but
actively continued as a consultant and doing research in forensic engineering,
biomechanics and accident reconstruction. He has made fundamental research
contributions in numerous areas which include, but are not limited to,
plastic buckling, stress analysis, development of rate equations for
plates and shells, plasticity, thermoplasticity, biomechanics, injury
mechanics, failure analysis, and mechanics of adhesion. His areas of
expertise in forensic engineering include accident reconstruction, occupant
kinematics, vehicle dynamics, biomechanics, mechanics of human injury,
crashworthiness, restraint systems, products liability, safety engineering
and human factors. He holds numerous honors and awards, has lectured
internationally, has published extensively, is the holder of a United
States patent, and is the first engineer in the world to be elected
President (1994-95), and a Distinguished Fellow (2001), of the American
Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Ph.D., Brown University, 1964, Engineering (Solid Mechanics)
Sc.M., Brown University, 1961, Engineering (Solid Mechanics)
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Christian L. Belady, PE - 2004
Christian Belady is a renowned expert in thermal management of electronic systems. He has received the North Texas ASME 1998 Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award as well as the IMAPS 1999 William D. Ashman Memorial Achievement Award In 1998, Christian woke up the electronic equipment industry to power density issues in data centers in 1998 and has attacked this problem from multiple fronts. He has been the primary inventor for many breakthrough innovations in data center cooling as well as computer packaging with many of these innovations shipping in products today. Mr. Belady was also Co-founder of the "Thermal Management Consortium on Data Center and Telecom Rooms" which has been responsible for authoring the equipment power projections published by the Uptime Institute in 2000 as well as working on guidelines for equipment manufacturers for fielding systems. Christian is Vice-Chair of the ASHRAE TC9.9 committee for which he led in the development of the "Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments" published January 2004. He has been instrumental in the mechanical packaging solution for HP's high end servers and has developed design tools that are currently used throughout HP. Christian has led many conferences both within HP and the industry serving either as the Technical or General Chair. He has published many papers and currently holds 23 US and 5 foreign patents. Christian is also an IMAPS fellow.
RPI MSME 1986 Mechanical Engineering
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Thomas S. Buchanan, PHD - 2004
Dr. Buchanan is a biomechanical engineer with outstanding contributions
in the areas of neuromuscular and musculoskeletal biomechanics. His
seminal work on the neural control of muscle coordination laid a foundation
for work in that field. His research on musculoskeletal models of the
knee involve a marriage of medial imaging and electromyography through
mathematical formulations that provide insight into the ways loads are
shared between muscles and ligaments in healthy and impaired subjects.
As Director of both the Biomechanics & Movement Science Program
and the Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, he has been instrumental
in advancing the field of biomedical engineering.
Northwestwestern Univ. PhD 1986 Theor & Applied Mechanics
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Richard T. Burton, PHD, PE - 2004
Dr. Richard Burton has shown outstanding achievements in Mechanical Engineering in the areas of Education, Research Development, and Leadership in the Engineering Profession. Though Dr. Burton's scholarly activities have been of great importance, perhaps his greatest contribution has been in leading international cooperations for Fluid Power research an education. These efforts have been made manifest by his seminal activities in establishing the ASME Fluid Power System and Technology Division and in providing links to both national organizations such as SAE, NFPA and the international community via Fluid Power Net International. Dr. Burton remains as an active leader in all of these organizations and deserves the honor that ASME can bestow upon him by awarding him this prestigious fellowship.
Univ. of Saskatchewan, Ph.D. 1974 Hydraulic Control Syst.
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Ismail B. Celik, PHD - 2004
Dr. Celik accumulated contributions to the areas of uncertainty analysis, particle-gas mixtures, combustion modeling, and suspended sediment transport, and has had an extraordinary impact in computational fluid dynamics and fluids engineering. He leads the Computational Fluid Dynamics Center (CFDC) at West Virginia University where he mentors one Assistant Professor, one Research Assistant Professor, and one PostDoctoral Fellow with annual budget over $1/2 million/yr. Celik personally mentors six Doctoral students and two Master's students, while associates to the center mentor many more. He has been recognized for his leadership in teaching, research, and service with the ASME ICE Division Meritorious Service Award, and at West Virginia University with Outstanding Researcher Award (1998, 2002) and the Benedum Award (2001-2002). His established international reputation in research is attested by his position as associate editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering (2001-2003). He is the author of the textbook "Introductory Numerical Methods for Engineering Application (2001).
U. Of Iowa - Ph.D. -1980 - Mechanics & Hydraulics
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Yossi Chait, PHD - 2004
Yossi Chait received his Mechanical Engineering degrees from Ohio State
University in 1982 (BS), and from Michigan State University in 1984
(MS) and 1988 (PhD), respectively. Currently he is a professor at the
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Chait has numerous publications in the area of QFT, reset control
and applications. He is a co-author of the QFT Frequency Domain Control
Design Toolbox for MATLAB. He was an Air Force Institute of Technology
Distinguished Lecturer and was a Dutch Network Visiting Scholar at Delft
University, and Philips Research Laboratories, a visiting appointment
at Tel Aviv University, an Academic Guest at ETHZ, Switzerland and a
Lady Davis Fellow at the Technion, Israel. Dr. Chait has consulted for
industry in a broad range of applications, for example, real time particle
analyzers and opto-electro-mechanical devices. His recent research focuses
on Internet congestion control and resource allocation, and modeling
of biological systems such as the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Thyroid axis
and the master pacemaker.
Michigan State University, PhD, 1988, Mechanical Engineering
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Kwai S. Chan , PHD - 2004
Dr. Chan's outstanding accomplishment is in the development of physics-based material degradation models for predicting the useful lives of structural alloys and high-temperature coatings in various engineering applications.
Michigan Tech Ph.D. 1980 Metallurgical Engineering
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Muguru S. Chandrasekhara, PHD - 2004
Dr. Chandrasekhara has made significant and numerous contributions
to the understanding of the basic fluid flow physics of compressible
dynamic stall, its onset mechanisms and control. His research on dynamic
stall control using the novel concept of the dynamically deforming leading
edge (DDLE) airfoil offers great potential in controlling many other
types of flow separation, for a wide range of problems from wind turbines
to RPVs. His development of the sophisticated, nonintrusive, quantitative
flow visualization technique known as point diffraction interferometry
(PDI) has enabled documenting complex fluid flows at a fine detail.
The University of Iowa, Ph.D. May 1983 Mechanical Engineering
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Gong Chen, PHD, PE - 2004
Dr. Gong Chen's career spans a broad area of engineering research, development, and education in industry and academia. At Sunpower, Inc., following obtaining his Ph.D. degree from RPI, he led the development of novel thermal-cycle engines, coolers, and linear systems. He joined General Electric in 1994 and made significant contributions to developing the low-emission medium-speed locomotive diesel engines. While at Gannon University since 2001, Dr. Chen has continued his contributions to the analysis, design, development and optimization of mechanical-thermal systems and combustion engines, and has developed high quality graduate-level engineering courses. He is a recognized expert in mechanical-thermal systems and continues to serve as a consultant to industry on thermal engine development issues. He is a recipient of numerous research, teaching and service awards, including the ASME-ICE Division Citation Award in 2002. He was Co-Chair of the Local Arrangement Committee for the ASME-ICED
& RTD 2003 Joint Fall Technical Conference. Dr. Chen is a registered professional engineer (PE). He has 30 technical publications and is an inventor for nine issued U.S. patents.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ph.D. 1988 Mechanical Engineering
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Kuo-ning Chiang , PHD - 2004
Professor Kuo-Ning Chiang has published more than 100 journal/conference papers in the area of computational solid mechanics, electronic/optical packaging, MEMS and nano-technology. From 1989 to 1993, he worked with MacNeal-Schwendler Co., Los Angeles, he was one of the key developers of MSC/NASTRAN which is the world largest finite element system. His parallel, numerical and eigenvalue modules were widely adopted by worldwide automotive, aerospace and semi-conductor manufacturing companies. He has frequently organized, and served as a technical committee member and/or session chair in IEEE/ASME sponsored conferences. He was responsible for more than 30 electronic packaging/MEMS projects that related to solder reflow, package simulation/design, sensor design and reliability analysis of electronic/MEMS devices. He was the principal investigator for the tire explosion project of the Taipei Metro Transmission System, where he was successful in discovering the root cause of the tire explosion problem, thus enabling the metro transmission system to run safely till today. Dr. Chiang holds 3 US and 18 Taiwan MEMS/Electronic Packaging Device Patents, and has 6 US and 11 Taiwan MEMS/Bio/Electronic Packaging/Optical Device patents pending. Dr. Chiang is the first section chair of ASME, Taiwan section. Currently, he is the secretary-general of ASME, Taiwan section. He also served as a board member of IMAPS - Taiwan (International Microelectronics and Packaging Society) and the Chinese CAE association. He is on the editorial board of the journal "Sensor Letters", a reviewer of several journals such as ASME transactions journal of electronic packaging, the IEEE transactions journal of advanced packaging,
the IEEE transactions journal of components and packaging technology, etc.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Ph.D., July 1989 . ME
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Wai Keung Chow - 2004
Ir WK Chow, a career energy manager, has 30 years experience in design, operation, commissioning, project engineering/management, and project management of steam raising plant for both industrial and power utility applications in China, Hong Kong, India, Norway, Taiwan and United Kingdom. Over the years, with his extensive and expert knowledge in boiler, fuel firing equipment, balance of plant, he managed to select the design for the 1st 600MW class anthracite firing boilers and got it accepted
by the Technical Banks' Independent Engineer and the PRC State Power Corporation. Successfully extended the 680MW PF boilers fuel-firing capability by burning off specification coal. The above has made a significant contributions in fuel utilisation with due regards in air emission considerations.
Cranfield Institute of Technology, England, MSc, 1990, Energy Conservation and Environment
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Edmund W. Chu, PHD - 2004
Dr. Edmund Chu is a highly respected expert in the area of metal plasticity and its many industrial applications. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University, Canada in 1983. Prior to joining Alcoa in 1987, Dr. Chu spent three years on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department at the Michigan Technological University. Dr. Chu's career contributions consist of developing simulation tools to support a wide variety of aluminum development programs. These include sheet and plate forming, extrusion shaping and hydroforming, machining distortion and residual stresses. He pioneered the well-known computerized square-grid strain measurement technique, which has been widely used in the metal forming industry. Dr. Chu also acts as a catalyst and technical advisor in Alcoa to enable the successful transfer of technology from research to product applications. He is also providing leadership in several industry-government funded multi-disciplinary technology development programs. Currently, Dr. Chu is a Technical Leader at the Alcoa Technical Center. He has coauthored over 40 technical publications.
McMaster Univ. Ph.D. 1983 Engineering Mechanics
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Cecil O. Cogburn, PHD, PE - 2004
Dr. Cecil Cogburn was a tireless mentor of generations of Mechanical Engineering students and single-handed developer of Nuclear Engineering coursework and research programs in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His work in nuclear engineering resulted in a donation to the University of Arkansas of the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) and its conversion to the Southwest Regional Calibration Center which still provides calibration for neutron detection instruments. Dr. Cogburn encouraged countless students to attend graduate school and seek professional registration. He was a long term faculty advisor for the University of Arkansas Student Section of the ASME and a Liaison Officer for the Air Force Academy. He is a charter member of the Arkansas Academy of Mechanical Engineers and served for years in various officer roles for the organization. Dr. Cogburn was during his time as a teacher and continues by example to be a one of the best role models for Mechanical Engineering in this state, region, and nation.
University of London, Ph.D, 1970, Nuclear Engineering
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