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Fellows Listing
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Kosuke Ishii, PHD - 2006
Ishii earned his BSME in 1979 at Sophia University, Tokyo, MSME in 1982 at Stanford University, and Masters in Control Engineering in 1983 at Tokyo Institute of Technology. After serving Toshiba Corporation for three years as a design engineer, he returned to Stanford and completed his PhD in 1987. He was on the faculty at The Ohio State University from 1988 to 1994. At Stanford, he focuses on structured product development methods, commonly known as “Design for X.” He has authored or co-authored more than 200 refereed articles. He served as chair of the ASME Computer and Information in Engineering Division (1998), was an associate editor of the Journal of Mechanical Design (95-98), and is an ASME Fellow (2007). He was a Visiting professor at EPFL Switzerland (summers of 2001-2005) and is currently serving as a Production Engineering Advisor to Toyota Motor, is a member of the Science Council of Japan, and is a Consulting Professor at Keio University. Awards he received include the NSF PYI Award (1991), Pitney Bowes-ASME Award for Excellence in Mechanical Design (1993), AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellowship (1995), GM Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty Award (1996), JSME Achievement Award (2000), and ASME Design for Manufacturability Best Paper Award (2003). Ph.D. (1987), Stanford Unviersity Mechanical Engineering
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Masaru Ishizuka, PHD - 2006
Dr. Ishizuka has been a leading member of the Heat Transfer Field specializing in thermal design and management techniques for a wide spectrum of electronic systems. He currently is a Professor at Toyama Prefectural University in the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering. Previously he worked as "Toshiba Chief Thermal Architect" where his research resulted in several patents and over 140 technical publications. He serves on several editorial boards and has organized numerous conferences. He is a Fellow of JSME and has received numerous awards including the "2006 Outstanding Contribution Award, Heat Transfer Division, Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers."
The University of Tokyo, Ph.D.,1975, Mechanical Engineering
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Ahmet Kahraman, PHD - 2006
Ahmet Kahraman is recognized as an authority on the dynamic analysis of power transmission and geared systems. His innovative contributions include the development of novel vibration models for multi-mesh gear systems including planetary gear trains, design guidelines for reducing noise and enhancing the power density of such systems. His ground-breaking experiments on spur gears revealed highly nonlinear behavior that led to significant improvements in their mathematical formulations. Kahraman’s seminal work, described in more than 60 papers, is the basis of contemporary research in gear dynamics, contact mechanics, tribology and efficiency. He was the recipient of STLE Wilbur Deutsch Memorial Award. He is currently the chairman of the ASME Power Transmission and Gearing Sub-committee and has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Mechanical Design. Prior to the academic appointment, he worked at General Motors Powertrain as a researcher and engineering manager.
Ohio State University Ph.D., 1990, Mechanical Engineering
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Swami Karunamoorthy, PHD - 2006
Dr. Swami Karunamoorthy has received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. His leadership experience include Associate Dean of Engineering at Parks College of Engineering and Aviation, Saint Louis University; Chair of the St. Louis Section of ASME, Regional Vice President of the American Helicopter Society, and Mechanical Engineering Program Evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. His academic experience include 20 years of teaching, developing many courses in contemporary areas of mechanical engineering, mentoring many graduate students in their thesis, and publishing numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences.
Washington University/St. Louis, Ph.D. 1985, Mechanical Engineering
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Masahiro Kawaji, PHD, PE - 2006
Masahiro Kawaji of the University of Toronto has published over 300 archival articles, including one Handbook, seven Chapters in four Handbooks, and 180 refereed journal/conference papers mainly in the areas of multi-phase flow, heat transfer, microfluidics, and microgravity fluid science. He has made contributions to both fundamental and applied research as recognized by both the academic and professional societies in Canada (Jules Stachiewicz Medal from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and Ontario Professional Engineers Medal). He has investigated a wide range of fundamental and practical problems, and in several of those, he was one of the first to obtain and report new and important findings. He has also been actively engaged in academic and professional activities both in Canada and internationally: collaborating with researchers in North America, Europe and Asia, serving on various government agency committees (e.g., Canadian Space Agency, NASA and Japanese Space Agency), organizing and participating in numerous international conferences including the ASME International Conference on Nanochannel, Microchannel and Minichannels, and serving on editorial boards of several journals.
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Mark A. Kedzierski, PHD - 2006
Mark A. Kedzierski is a Senior Scientist/Engineer in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His research career has focused primarily on heat transfer issues that impact the refrigeration and air-conditioning industry and the welfare of the general public, such as energy efficiency, and alternative refrigerants. The body of knowledge that Dr. Kedzierski has developed was recognized when he received the Bronze Medal award from the Department of Commerce and the BFRL Communications Award for improving the mechanistic understanding of heat-transfer-enhancing additives and refrigerant/lubricant mixtures. The development of this fundamental understanding has benefited from his focus on devising new measurement techniques. He also makes a concerted effort to communicate this body of knowledge with short courses, invited lectures, seminars, and technical publications. Because of this, Kedzierski was recognized with the William P. Slichter award for his contribution to building and strengthening ties between NIST and Industry. Kedzierski holds a PhD from The Pennsylvania State University in Mechanical Engineering. He is the co-author of the “Condensation” chapter in Wiley’s Handbook of Heat Transfer and regional-editor of the International Journal of Transport Phenomena. Kedzierski has been a member of ASME since 1983 and is a former Chair of ASME HTD's K10 Heat Transfer Equipment Committee.
Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. 1987, Mechanical Engineering
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Michael Keefe, PHD, PE - 2006
Dr. Michael Keefe has spent his twenty-plus year career mentoring young engineers - primarily undergraduates. While finishing his graduate degree, he worked for Honeywell modeling hyper-velocity impacts on rigid armor - work continuing in current research on fabric (flexible) armor. His research work has included 40 undergraduates - encouraging students to innovate. He has directly instructed over 1000 undergraduates and 14 graduate students and has helped create a senior-design course utilizing industrial sponsors and real-world projects. Active in ASME, he has served at the Section and National levels and was one of the founders of an ASME student competition.
University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 1985, Mechanical Engineering
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Boris Khusid, PHD - 2006
Development of a predictive theory and bringing the understanding of the fundamentals of the field and flow driven transport and aggregation of polarizable particles dispersed in a host fluid to the level where it became useful in the design and operation of novel technologies for the control, manipulation, and separation of particles in a wide variety of applications, ranging from the removal of contaminants from used oils to biodetection and to smart electrorheological and magnetorheological fluids and to the guided assembly of large-scale nanostructures.
Heat & Mass Transfer Inst., Ph.D., 1975, Thermal Sciences & Engineer
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Sung Jin J. Kim, PHD - 2006
Sung Jin Kim is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). He worked at Thermal Engineering Center of IBM in Tucson, Arizona for 7 years until he joined KAIST in 1997. He has contributed to advancement of thermal design and optimization of microchannel heat sinks encountered in electronic equipment cooling. This work includes modeling and sensing techniques for microscale transport. He treated microstructures as a porous medium, determined flow and heat transfer characteristics, and optimized the thermal resistance of heat sinks. He also has developed MEMS-based temperature and flow sensors, which are useful for experimental analysis of microfluids and microscale heat transfer devices. He strives to find fundamental and practical solutions to engineering challenges in high performance thermal systems.
Ohio State University, Ph.D. 1989, Mechanical Engineering
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Sanford A. Klein, PHD - 2006
Professor Klein has made significant contributions to engineering research and education through software he has developed and the engineering studies that have been carried out with these tools. The transient simulation program TRNSYS he developed is used worldwide to conduct research into solar energy, HVAC, electric utility, and refrigeration systems. He created the Engineering Equation Solver EES, which is now distributed with several engineering texts. This software has revolutionized engineering problem solving in both education and research. He is a recognized authority on the solar radiation and weather data, the performance of solar, building energy, absorption, and conventional refrigeration systems.
University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., 1976, Chemical Engineering
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Kenneth Kuo, PHD - 2006
Professor Kenneth Kuo (Ph.D. from Princeton, 1971) has a professional career of 38 years: 4 years at AiResearch Company and 34 years at Pennsylvania State University as a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of a first-coass High Pressure Combustion Laboratory. Prof. Kuo is an expert in combustion, rocket propulsion, ballistics, and fluid mechanics. He has directed more than 75 research projects, edited eight books and authored two versions of a combustion textbook, has won 6 Best Paper Awards, and delivered an invited von Karman Lecture. Prof. Kuo has supervised 40 Ph.D., 77 M.S., 12 Honored Undergraduates, and guided advanced research for 17 Post Docs
Princeton University Ph.D., 1971, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
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Fengchyuan Lai , PHD - 2006
Dr. Lai is very active in research and education related to both thermal sciences and heat transfer. In research, he is well known for his work in heat and mass transfer in porous media. His experimental data have been widely used in performance assessment of proposed nuclear waste repositories. More recently he has made major contributions to heat and mass transfer enhancement using electric field. In education, he has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by his students both at University of Oklahoma and at the University of Texas where he was a visiting professor on sabbatical leave. He has been on the forefront of courseware development for thermal sciences. He has received numerous university and statewide awards for these activities.
University of Delaware, Ph.d., 1988, Mechanical Engineering
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Tung T. Lam, PHD, PE - 2006
Tung T. Lam has been involved with engineering projects on land, in the ocean and in space during his professional career that spans over thirty years. He was involved with the design of the world’s largest underground cross-country crude-oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia and the biggest offshore platform in the North Sea. He supported the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and the consecutive successful launches of more than 40 GPS satellites. He served as the session chair at numerous ASME InterPACK conferences, chairman of the 38th AIAA Thermophysics Conference and STAIF’s Conference on Thermophysics Applications in Microgravity. Author of more than 60 technical publications. Ph.D. (1987), Rice University
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Donald F. Landers , PE - 2006
Donald Landers is recognized internationally for his knowledge and application of the engineering principles associated with the design, and construction of piping systems. He has been active in this field for over 40 years and has participated in leadership roles the development of the ASME Codes and Standards on the integrity of the pressure boundary both in the nuclear and non-nuclear fields. He is particularly recognized for his knowledge, application and development of the piping requirements for the Section III Code of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code for which he has participated in their development from the start as a member of the ASME B31.7 Code. This Code was eventually incorporated into Section III in the early 1970’s. His technical prowess extends past the piping requirements into the other the associated fields of vessel and valve design and this expertise is recognized by his colleagues in the BPV Standards Committee.
Northeastern University, B.B.A, 1963, Engineering & Management
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Michael A. Langerman, PHD - 2006
Dr. Langerman’s career spans thirty-one years. He began at the Naval Missile Center developing thermal protection for ordinance. Later at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory he made significant contributions to numerical methods for analyzing hypothetical accidents in nuclear systems. He later joined a consulting firm and developed methods for adapting thermal-hydraulic codes to analysis of reactors during overpressure transients. His models are still used today. He entered academia in 1992, later serving as chair of the department. In his current position he has significantly enhanced the understanding (in and out of the classroom) of thermal effects on advanced materials processing.
University Idaho, Ph.D., 1989, Mechanical Engineering
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Enrique J. Lavernia, PHD - 2006
Professor lavernia's seminal contributions are in the field of manufacturing, with emphasis on the structure and properties of materials processed under non-equilibrium conditions. This, area of research is critical partly because of its technological importance and partly because of its scientific implications. From a technological point of view, research activities in this area are important in the development of advanced materials and novel alloys which exhibit optimum combinations of properties, and which are useful for many engineering applications (such as automotive and aerospace applications). From a scientific point of view, Prof. lavernia's work has contributed to our fundamental knowledge on diffusion, thermodynamics, phase transformation, heat transfer, non-equilibrium microstructures, and synergism among processing, microstructure, and behavior.
Massachusetts Inst of Technology, Ph.D. 1986, Materials Engineering
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Chih-Kung Lee, PHD - 2006
Taking his 7 years experience as an accomplished researcher atIBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, Dr. Lee has, over the last 12 years, initiated a successful cross-disciplinary project-based learning/research program at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. By integrating optics, electronics, biology, piezoelectricity, MEMS and nanotechnology into the field of mechanics, he leads a team consisting of over 40 faculty members and 200 researchers/students into highly rewarding high-tech areas. Students and faculty members participate together to integrate educational/research programs to produce innovative results only mechanical engineering scientists equipped with knowledge from many disciplines can even approach. Starting from the interaction between surface Plasmon resonance and nano-featured surface structures for laser writers with sub-wavelength lithographic capabilities, to innovative lipids found to dissolve or inactivate deadly viruses such as SARS, avian flu, etc., towards innovative electrochemistry-based blood analysis instruments possessing breakthrough coulometry capabilities, the team has won many international and domestic awards. Dr. Lee’s research team founded motto “Be Vital to Taiwan and Be Famous for Its Science and Technology” also sets a new paradigm for university-industrial collaborations. The guiding cross-disciplinary principles which form the basis of Dr. Lee’s team is now defining Taiwan’s national engineering and applied sciences funding policies as Dr. Lee is currently “on loan” for a 3-year assignment at the National Science Council as Director General of the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Ph.D. (1987), Cornell University
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Manfred Lengsfeld, PE - 2006
After immigrating to the United States from Germany, Manfred started in a technical career at Fluor spanning 40 years. Professional colleagues, coworkers, and customers alike know him for his knowledge of codes and standards in pressure vessel technology. They know him for his breadth of knowledge, for finding new solutions. He uses this to give back to the profession through sharing in numerous papers, American Petroleum Institute code contribution, mentoring technical engineers, and leading industries' use of ASME Section VIII Division 2. His work has not only emphasized the technical solution but the cost effective solution that makes it possible."
University of Southern California, MS, 1972, Mechanical Engineering
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Yiannis A. Levendis, PHD - 2006
Dr. Levendis holds a B.S. (1980) and an M.S. (1982) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (1988). He is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. Dr. Levendis has made scientific and technical contributions in the fields of Combustion, Air Pollution, Acid Rain Prevention, Incineration of Municipal Wastes, Engine Performance and Emissions, Combustion Diagnostics and Pyrometry, Fire Prevention and Extinction, Carbonaceous Material, Synthesis and Characterization, and Polymeric Coatings. He developed technologies that improve the combustion/emissions of waste tires, the combustion/emissions of coal and liquid fuels, as well as the combustion/emissions of diesel engines. In these fields he has invented chemical and physical methods for reducing toxic pollutants. These techniques range from high-temperature filtration to development of novel SO2 and HCI sorbents as well as NOx reductions agents. Dr. Levendis has published 175 technical papers and holds 9 US and several International patents. He is a member of the engineering honorary societies ???, ??S, F?F and the professional societies ASME, SAE, SME, ACS, and The combustion Institute. Ph.D. (1988), Caltech
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C James Li, PHD - 2006
Dr. Li most important accomplishments are (1) the development of hybrid and embedded modeling methods that enable the integration of physics based and data driven input-output models, (2) the utility of such models in identifying and modeling non-linear dynamics e.g., caused by mechanical faults including fatigue cracks. Using such modeling methodologies, Dr. Li has developed and realized model-based diagnostics/prognostics for e.g., cracked gears and rotors, and control of micro-positioning systems. Additionally, Dr. Li has developed the utility of a number of advanced signal processing algorithms for mechanical diagnostics of bearings, gears and metal cutting tools.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., 1987, Mechanical Engineering
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