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The 1995-96 ASME Fellows
The ASME Board of Governors confers the
Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding
engineering achievements. Nominated by their peers, these 1995-96 Fellows
have had 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of continuous
active corporate membership in ASME.
There are 146 new Fellows out of a total of 2,264 Fellows.
Herakovich has researched interlaminar stresses, test methods, inelastic response, environmental effects, and damage development through fundamental studies of composite-material mechanics with an emphasis on correlations developed by a synthesis of experimental and computational/analytical modeling. His findings are contained in more than 115 papers and six books. He is leading a major Air Force research effort as the director of the Center for High-Temperature Composite Materials.
Ph.D. (1968), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Hillberry has identified the physical mechanisms contributing to osteoarthritis in the hand and hip and has developed procedures for evaluating joint prostheses. His work on fatigue has contributed to the assessment of failure mechanisms for metal alloys and metal-matrix composites in applications ranging from prosthetic devices to aircraft structures. As chair of the design area of Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering, he has had an impact on the development of design curricula. As the first director of Purdue's Technical Assistance Program, he has established an organization that is contributing to business development within the state of Indiana.
Ph.D. (1967), Iowa State University, Ames.
Hollinger has been responsible for the mechanical and structural design of numerous nuclear- pressure-vessel components and has made significant contributions to ASME code classifications of 3-D finite-element results. He is an active member of many ASME Codes and Standards Committees and of the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division, of which he is presently chairman.
M.S.C.E. (1974), University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.
Howard has served in the National Bureau of Standards, as an explorer scoutmaster, and as a teacher of mechanical engineering. He actively participates in ASME's local section executive committee in an advisory capacity and works on the local section's Board of Directors and IMECE planning committee.
M.S. (1951), Texas A&M University, College Station.
Since 1984, Hsieh has been on the mechanical engineering faculty of National Sun-Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he was promoted to full professor in 1989. He has researched enhancement-heat transfer, separated-flow phenomena over roughened surfaces, high-performance heat exchangers with strip-type insert, 3-D natural convection in enclosures, and boiling-heat transfer on enhanced tubes. His has received the National Sun-Yat Sen University Outstanding Teaching Award, National Science Council on Outstanding Research Award, Defense Research Project Outstanding Performance Award, and National Sun-Yat Sen University Outstanding Research Award.
Ph.D. (1983), Ohio State University, Columbus.
Huang, manufacturing technology manager of 3M Commercial Graphics Division, has 27 years of experience in thin-film coatings. His technology encompasses thin-film processes of adhesives, vinyl, color media, photopolymers, vacuum deposition, and microstructured surfaces. He focuses on developing cost-effective and environmentally safe processes for large-format graphic materials. He mentors students and supports education-initiative and nontenure faculty grants.
Ph.D. (1968), Washington State University, Pullman.
Huang's applied-mechanics research includes structural stability, viscoelasticity, optimal design, textile mechanics, porous media, fracture mechanics, and composite materials. His early work on unsymmetrical buckling of spherical shells has been recognized as one of the classic works in the theory of shell stability. His recent work on hydraulic fracture in water-flooding technique has been applied in oil exploration.
Ph.D. (1963), Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Hwang has taught and conducted research in thermal-fluids engineering for the last 25 years. He has received awards in Taiwan. As director and advisor of the Tan-Eng Iron Work Co. for three years, he has developed electric vehicles for mail delivery in Taiwan. He served as department chairman, Dean of General Affairs, and other administrative positions.
Ph.D. (1970), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
Johnson has taught and researched engineering mechanics for 36 years. His research has dominated his career. He has contributed to rheology, shell theory, finite element, lubrication, and paper mechanics, all published in journals, and is sought after by government and industry for consultation.
Ph.D. (1957), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Kirchhoff's career began in the Apollo Program at NASA Ames. After obtaining his Ph.D. in low-density plasma flows, he joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts. He has taught fluid mechanics, potential flow, viscous flow, and turbulence. He has been a research advisor to more than 35 graduate students. He has been awarded a number of Distinguished and Outstanding Teacher Advisor Awards. His research interests include wind-resource assessment, flows over complex terrain, and the dynamics and aerodynamics of wind turbines. He has contributed to the aerodynamics of polymer processing while working with Johnson & Johnson Corp. as a consultant.
Ph.D. (1969), University of California, Berkeley.
Knauss has made contributions to time-dependent fracture process and dynamic-fracture mechanics. For more than 35 years, he has devoted much of his experimental/theoretical analysis to the failure of solid-propellant rocket motors, where he provided the first mechanics-based theory for crack propagation in polymers. He developed experiments to study dynamic-crack propagation and crack branching and has resolved the major difference between the classical elasticity prediction of crack velocity and experimentally observed values.
Ph.D. (1963), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
During Koch's 30 years of service at GE Aircraft Engines he has contributed to compressor aerodynamic design. He developed correlations that allow the stall margin and efficiency of a compressor to be predicted from basic design parameters and which are the basis of the compressor preliminary-design process at GEAE. His designed the 23:1-pressure-ratio 10-stage compressor for the GE/NASA energy-efficient engine. He now directs the fan and compressor aerodynamic designs of all GE large-aircraft engines and serves as chairman of its Fan and Compressor Aerodynamics Design Board.
M.S. (1964), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Koves is an engineering fellow at UOP Inc., where his career has spanned more than 22 years. Prior to UOP, he worked for companies in the nuclear and aerospace industries. He is recognized for his expertise in the design, analysis, and troubleshooting of process equipment and piping, particularly in the areas of fatigue, fracture, and elevated temperature. He is a member of the ASME B31.3 Piping Code Committee, chairman of the ASME B31.3 Design Task Group, chairman of the PVRC Elevated-Temperature Subcommittee on Analytical Methods, and chairman of the PVRC Task Group on Large-Diameter Intersections.
Ph.D. (1993), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Krothapalli is the Don Fugua Chair Professor and chairman of the mechanical engineering department at Florida A&M University and Florida State University in Tallahassee. He was the principal founder of the department, established in 1983. He has established a research program in fluid mechanics and founded the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory. His work has drawn recognition in the study of discrete-sound generation in supersonic jets, particle-image velocimetry, unsteady separated flows, and fluidic-thrust vectoring of supersonic jets. From 1981Ð83 he was an acting assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., where he taught and researched activities of the Joint Institute for Aeronautics & Acoustics.
Ph.D. (1979), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Krumm has developed compact heat exchangers for nuclear submarines, including a tension- cover basket for Ljungstrom H-type air preheaters. He has evaluated and developed devices for air-pollution control and has participated in corporate studies for solid-waste and air-pollution control. His technical and marketing experience has been with all types of air preheaters, including Ljungstrom and Rothemuhle rotary regenerative, plate, APEX plate, and heat pipe. He has contributed to the ASME Historic Landmark nomination submitted by the San Antonio Section for the Ljungstrom air preheater in Stockholm.
M.S. (1991), State University of New York at Buffalo.
Leckie has researched matrix methods that he developed and popularized through two books. He pioneered simplified methods of analysis and design for shells and for high-temperature structures. These developments have influenced high-temperature design codes throughout the world. His efforts at curriculum development have had an effect at the four universities where he has taught and throughout the world.
Ph.D. (1958), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Lee is an inventor, designer, and researcher for turbine-cooling devices. He began his career at the General Electric Co. Aircraft Engines Group in 1978. In the past 16 years he has invented cooling devices for aircraft-engine components, resulting in 20 patents and 17 pending. He has designed turbine blades for an efficiently cooled engine to power large commercial jetliners. He has established research within GE and universities to advance the understanding of turbine cooling. He began his career as a cooling designer for high-pressure turbine blades, became manager of turbine aero and cooling design for the CF6/M&I commercial-production engine family, and then became manager of turbine aero and cooling design for all Evendale-production engines.
Ph.D. (1978), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
At Stanford University, Lenox has synthesized kinematic methods that have enabled real-time 3-D motion analysis. At Southwest Research Institute, he and his engineering-medical team have provided biodynamic support for U.S. automakers that has enabled the development of airbag restraint systems. At General Dynamics, he has fostered the development of engineering computer resources and dogfighting capabilities for fighter pilots. In 1989, he founded Design Excellence Inc., a corporation dedicated to providing biomechanical engineering and product-safety engineering support to manufacturers engaged in developing motor vehicles that afford advanced occupant protection.
Ph.D. (1976), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Leon was responsible for the development and application of advanced structural design and analysis techniques and new structural materials for submarine pressure hulls, such as the HY-130 NHTV pressure hull. He has served as program manager of two ARPA projects: the Advanced Submarine TechnologyÑThick Composites Program and the Synthesis and Processing of Intelligent Cost-Effective Structures Program. He is a contributor to ASME's Pressure Vessel and Piping Division and chairs PVRC's Polymers for Pressure Components Committee.
M.S.C.E. (1966), New York University.
Macken taught for several years at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., before moving to Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa., in 1977. He has built up the undergraduate experimental laboratories. He has researched two-phase flow, boundary-layer heat transfer, tribology, and reactor safety. He has worked with two-phase flow as applied to oil-refrigerant mixtures.
Ph.D. (1967), University of Delaware, Newark.
Mallick, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, has researched the mechanical properties and processing of random fiber composites for the last 20 years. He has developed preheating techniques for compression molding of sheet-molding-compound composites and has been working on mechanical and adhesive joining of automotive composites. He has developed a composite-spring concept that can potentially replace coil springs in automotive applications. He is developing stamping techniques for structural thermoplastic composites.
Ph.D. (1973), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
McDowell has contributed to the experimental study and modeling of nonlinear elastic-plastic and viscoplastic behavior of metallic materials subjected to complex multiaxial loading histories, including deformation and failure modes such as fatigue and fracture. He has authored or co-authored more than 70 articles on multiaxial cyclic plasticity and viscoplasticity, multiaxial fatigue, creep-fatigue environment interaction, time-dependent fracture mechanics, compressibility and anisotropy effects in large-strain deformation, elastic-plastic rolling and sliding contact and damage mechanics and mechanical behavior of prosthetic devices for biomedical applications. He is the director of the Mechanical Properties Research Laboratory at Georgia Tech, where he has been on the faculty of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering since 1983.
Ph.D. (1983), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
McEvily has contributed to the fields of deformation, crack initiation, crack propagation, and fracture. He has led graduate students for the past 25 years to perform experiments in mechanical metallurgy and for 10 years before that at Ford and NASA Langley. He has been the instigator and supervisor of several international conferences on fatigue and corrosion. He laid to rest the argument about fatigue-crack retardation, showing that for plane-strain experiments, retardation was strictly a surface phenomena. His publication record spans 40 years with more than 160 references. He has contributed to research on creep and fatigue-crack growth, thermal ratcheting, corrosion, fatigue-crack initiation, and the growth of small cracks.
Sc.D. (1959), Columbia University, New York.
Meng is the chief scientist of the Weapons Systems Directorate at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. He has authored journal articles on numerical methods in supersonic vehicles, discrete-vortex elements in hydrodynamics, laser propagation in atmosphere, turbulent wakes in stratified and sheared medium, superconducting electromagnetic thruster (SCEMT), turbulence reduction by microbubble injection, and Lorentz pressure in electrically conducting medium.
Ph.D. (1969), University of California, Berkeley.
Merte has been involved in heat transfer related to phase changes of boiling and condensation under reduced- and high-gravity fields since 1957. Gravity levels have ranged from 10 to 5 gs in the space shuttle to 103 gs in a large laboratory centrifuge, using as fluid R-113, water, liquid nitrogen, liquid hydrogen, and boiling mercury. A clear picture of the role of buoyancy in heat transfer associated with boiling and condensation has been a result of these activities.
Ph.D. (1960), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Miller is the director of nuclear mechanical engineering at Fluor Daniel. He has contributed to nuclear-waste cleanup on several projects. He has analyzed technologies for power-generation cycles, such as fuel cells, coal/coke gasification, high-temperature gaseous reactor (HTGR) using helium as the working fluid, and is presently contributing to a technology that will reduce hazardous/toxic and possibly nuclear wastes to simpler compounds for environmental safety using a high-temperature molten-iron bath.
M.S. (1975), California State University, Fullerton.
Mulholland is a mechanical engineering professor at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. During the past 30 years he has been an assistant, associate, professor, department head, and director of the Advanced Manufacturing Center at the university. He has started the manufacturing engineering education and research programs that are joint efforts between the Colleges of Business and Engineering. He interacts with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and 40 industries on manufacturing- education-related issues.
Ph.D. (1967), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
Ng is a professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg. He has won five awards for academic and professional achievements. His research interests are fluid dynamics and aeroacoustics. He invented a high-frequency temperature and pressure probe for time-resolved measurements in unsteady compressible flows. He has contributed to the understanding of the aeroacoustics of inlets for the high-speed civil-transport research program. He was chairman of the ASME Aerospace Division and is a technical editor for several journals.
Ph.D. (1984), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Osman's work has contributed to the understanding of mechanical-system dynamics, machine design, thermal deformation of machine-tool structures, manufacturing systems and robotics, and the application of multiple coordinated robots in the flexible manufacturing-system environment. His research has led to the development of adaptive control of machining operations using expert systems and the development of active suspension systems for rail vehicles. He holds a patent for the design and development of a new type of BTA tool. He is the founder and chairman of the Canadian Council for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms.
Dr. Sc. Tech (1964), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (E.T.H.), Zurich, Switzerland.
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