Julio Guerrero Selected as President-Nominee

Julio Guerrero, PhD

During the President's Dinner held at the Society's Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore., the ASME Nominating Committee announced the selection of Julio Guerrero, PhD, as ASME president-nominee for 2015-2016. The Committee also announced the nominees for six other ASME leadership positions, including the next three members of the Board of Governors.

Dr. Guerrero is a principal, R&D and business development, at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., and founder of Cambridge Research and Technology LLC. Guerrero served as a member of ASME's Board of Governors from 2011-2013, and as vice-chair of the Society's Industry Advisory Board from 2008-2010. His other Society activities include serving on the advisory board for the ASME 2014 Energy Forum on Shale Development and Hydraulic Fracturing, reviewer for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design from 2010-2014, and working with the steering committee that proposed the ASME Innovation Showcase (IShow) in 2006.

Prior to joining Draper in 2011, Guerrero served as a principal research scientist for seven years at Schlumberger Research (SLB), where he established 15 research collaborations with professors and students from Massachussetts Insittue of Technology's mechanical and electrical engineering departments, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Center (WHOI) for Marine Robotics for subsea and land oil operations. Since 2003, he has also done research with several MIT professors, graduate students and WHOI researchers; taught engineering courses at MIT; and served as a member of six doctoral committees at MIT and the University of Texas at Austin. An owner of nearly 20 patents worldwide, Guerrero received his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and 1998, respectively.

At the President's Dinner, the Nominating Committee also announced the names of three Board of Governors members and three vice presidents who will begin their three-year terms at next year's Annual Meeting, following membership approval by proxy ballot this autumn. Bryan Erler, Sriram Somasundaram and Caecilia Gotama are the three Board of Governors nominees. The three vice president nominees are William Predebon, Education; Louis Bialy, Safety Codes and Standards; and Richard Stevenson, Conformity Assessment.