(Paul-Soedel) / (Sonntag-Zinn)
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.
Paul has contributed to the development of thermal structures technology for more than 27 years. He played a key role in the early development of ramjet structures and insulation materials for the Navy at China Lake in the late 1960s. He continued his work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1971 on ramjets for the Airborne Laser Laboratory and Air Force aircraft. In the 1970s he developed thermal structural-analysis techniques and structural concepts for the SDI and NASP programs. Currently he is the leader for the development of U.S. military airplane structures technology.
Ph.D. (1980), Ohio State University, Columbus.
Peppin's career started in heat transfer and numerical methods, then in lubrication and finite elements. He used engineering to improve noise regulation in the local/federal government sector. His specialties now, as president of Scantek Inc., are acoustical measurements, standards, quality control, and instrumentation. His contributions include the finite-element-analysis program at Pratt & Whitney, efforts in acoustical standardization and measurement, and consulting in mechanical and acoustical engineering.
M.S. (1969), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.
Pifko has contributed to nonlinear computational mechanics. Thirty-five years ago, at Grumman Aerospace Corp., he started developing and implementing finite-element methods for geometric and material nonlinearities, a computational area he helped develop. His efforts led to the development of the PLANS (plastic and large deflection analysis of structures) code and then, with continued support from NASA Langley Research Center, the development of the DYCAST (dynamic crash analysis of structures) code, which is used by NASA, the marine industry, and the automobile industry for the simulation of structural impact and crashworthiness.
Ph.D. (1974), Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Placek has devoted more than 25 years to the development, design, and manufacture of steam turbines with General Electric Co. He is an authority on steam-turbine design and has been an instructor of ASME's short course on Steam-Turbine Design, Operation, and Maintenance since 1984. He has been involved in implementing improvements in steam turbines related to torsional vibration, stress-corrosion cracking, torsional fatigue of large-rotor forgings, and improved attachment of rotor discs.
Ph.D. (1963), University of Illinois, Urbana.
Rabas is an expert in enhanced heat-exchange processes for the power, desalination, and process industries. He is a editor of a journal dedicated solely to this topic, the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer. He has been involved in local and national ASME Heat Transfer Division activities, such as chair and co-chair of committees and sessions, a paper reviewer, and an editor of HTD symposia volumes. He was elected technical-committee member of heat-exchanger research organizations such as Heat Transfer Research Inc. and the Heat Exchange Institute.
Ph.D. (1970), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Raichel's doctoral thesis laid the foundation for sonic viscometry. While still a graduate student, he performed thermal analyses of vector rockets for soft lunar landings. Other achievements included the design of a hovercraft, patenting a high-fidelity speaker, analysis of the structural dynamics of communication satellites, simulation of spacecraft pyrotechnic shocks, and modifications of building acoustics. At Cooper Union, he developed courses in acoustics and materials science. He is advisor to the ASME chapter that recently won an Allied Signal Award.
Sc.D. (1970), New York University.
Ramulu has advanced the understanding of dynamic fracture, crack branching, and crack arrest of engineering structures. He has contributed to the understanding of short-crack fatigue and damage tolerance of metal structures. He has pioneered research in traditional and nontraditional machining processes, including water-jet and abrasive-jet machining of fiber-reinforced composites.
Ph.D. (1982), University of Washington, Seattle.
As technical manager of Stress Technology Inc. in Rochester, N.Y., Rieger is responsible for technical content and value of all STI client programs. For 30 years he has worked on problems of fluid-structure interaction in rotating machinery and in analysis of component failure. He directs STI's efforts in CFD of turbomachines, which involves the writing of throughflow and Navier-Stokes codes, development of fluid-measuring instrumentation, and invasive testing of turbomachine flows.
Ph.D. (1960), Nottingham University, England.
Riley has been a member of the faculty of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis since 1976, was promoted to full professor in 1988, and has developed and taught courses in CAD, CAM, and advanced mechanical design. He was the director of the Computer Graphics & Computer-Aided-Design Laboratory at Minnesota. He has been active in technology transfer, serving as founding director and vice chair of Minnesota Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centers Inc. He currently serves as the associate provost for computing and information systems at the university.
Ph.D. (1976), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
As an engineer at the Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Roberts has contributed to the thermal and hydraulic design of the first commercial power reactor built at Shippingport, Pa. He was among the founders of an engineering college at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. He contributed to magnetohydrodynamics and inertial-confinement fusion, thermal-systems simulations, modern methods for flow-field diagnostics, building energy-transport phenomena, and pre- combustion fuel-air mixing.
Ph.D. (1965), North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
Rose served as the Mechanical Engineering Department head at Queen Mary College, University of London, from 1991Ð95. He is the author or co-author of more than 130 publications/papers and co-editor of two books. His work on heat and mass transfer is internationally recognized. He has recently developed a model for condensation heat transfer on horizontal integral-fin tubes. This research may have an impact on condenser design for the power, process, and refrigeration industries.
Ph.D. (1964), University of London, England.
Rubin has made many contributions to CFD literature. His most recent is the 1995 primitive- variables solution without the pressure Poisson equation requirement. This method provides a major step forward in getting efficient solutions to 3-D time-dependent CFD problems.
Ph.D. (1963), Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Russo teaches engineering at the University of New Orleans. His areas of expertise include acoustics, solar energy, structural analysis, fluid mechanics, and thermal analysis. He is a registered professional engineer of mechanical and electrical engineering.
Ph.D. (1968), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
Sadegh started his engineering practice in 1972. His preliminary work on the boundary-integral-equation formulation started at Michigan State and the University of Michigan. He has pioneered boundary-element formulation for spherical shells. He has introduced the boundary-element method to bone ingrowth problems by developing Wolff's Law for trabecular architecture. He received the Best Paper Award in 1992 and the Melville Medal in 1993. In 1993, he was elected chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York. He has received the Inventor Award from General Motors for his patent and for his contribution on the sparkplug-die design.
Ph.D. (1978), Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Sadhal is an authority on internal flows and heat/mass transfer with drops and bubbles. He has developed a result for the droplet evaporation problem from heated-solid surfaces encompassing a treatment of the thermal interaction between liquid and solid. He has discovered a new class of polynomials that are useful for fluid flow and heat-/mass-transfer calculations. His forthcoming book, Transport Phenomena with Drops and Bubbles, consists of discussions and reviews of several decades of research on this subject, citing nearly 1,000 references.
Ph.D. (1978), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Salmon contributed to U.S. government science and technology programs from 1961Ð86. Advancing from the office of the science advisor to the Secretary of State to senior advisor for science and technology to the Under Secretary of State, he developed programs ranging from desalination to nuclear nonproliferation. Since 1986 he has been executive officer of the National Academy of Engineering, responsible for programs for the engineering profession.
M.S. (1959), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Samimy has been a source of inspiration to his students, has revitalized and developed numerous laboratories and courses, and has attracted and advised a large number of top-notch graduate students. He has contributed to compressible turbulence, especially compressible mixing, mixing enhancement, flow structures in wall-bounded flows, and separated flows. He has developed advanced optical diagnostics to probe compressible turbulence. His experimental results on compressible mixing layers and supersonic separated flows have been used worldwide by researchers and engineers.
Ph.D. (1984), University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign.
Sammataro retired from General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., in 1996 after being involved in pressure vessel and piping engineering for more than 35 years. He has been the principal engineer in the Trident/S8G and New Attack submarine nuclear projects. He is a project engineer at Proto-Power Corp., involved in containment in-service inspection and testing-program development with nuclear utilities. He has been a member on many of ASME's Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Committees, including the Subcommittee on Nuclear In-service Inspection and the Main Committee. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Pressure Vessels and Piping Division.
M.S.C.E. (1962), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.
Semerjian is director of the Chemical Science & Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards & Technology. He guides CSTL as a reference laboratory dedicated to the development of measurement methods and models for chemical, biochemical, and physical properties and the maintenance of measurement standards and reference materials. He has contributed to research on soot-formation processes, spray combustion, and optical-diagnostic techniques. He is active in ASME's K-11 Committee on Fire and Combustion.
Ph.D. (1972), Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Senseny has contributed to engineering mechanics, especially in the area of rock mechanics. Twenty years ago at SRI International, he developed a test machine for the static and dynamic testing of large geological specimens. This machine is still used for simulating ground shock- loading of deep underground structures. During his 10 years at RE/SPEC he made experimental and theoretical contributions to rock-salt constitutive development used in the DOE Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Project (WIPPS). He is a program manager with the Defense Nuclear Agency and manages a large program studying the vulnerability of tunnel facilities to nuclear and conventional munitions.
Ph.D. (1977), Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Shabana has researched the dynamics of deformable bodies and has examined the nature of the inertia coupling between the rigid body and elastic displacements. He has contributed to the mechanics of multibody systems that consist of interconnected rigid and deformable bodies. He has authored four books and more than 80 refereed journal papers. He has been awarded the Humboldt Senior Scientist Research Award from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of his teaching and research contributions.
Ph.D. (1982), University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Shaw, professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing, is a researcher of vibrations with special interest in the nonlinear behavior of engineering systems. He has authored more than 60 technical publications spanning several topics, including the vibration of systems with clearance and friction, vibrations of rotating shafts, the design of vibration absorbers for rotating machinery, ship capsize, and the development of tools for modal analysis of nonlinear structural systems. He is the recipient of the 1986 Henry Hess Award from ASME.
Ph.D. (1983), Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Shima's career spans 35 years at the Institute of High-Speed Mechanics, part of Tohoku National University in Sendai, Japan, where he worked on fluid dynamics, specializing in hydrodynamics of cavitation, dynamics of cavitating bubbles in various liquids, cavitation erosion, design of water-jet cutting, and flowthrough nozzles. He served there as director of the section of high-speed water turbines, the research section on cavitation, and later on cryogenic flows. He participated in the management of Tohoku University. He has been particularly active with ASME's Fluids Engineering Division.
Ph.D. (1959), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Shukla's research has primarily been in dynamic deformation and failure mechanics. His early work has focused on the use of optical methods and high-speed photography for the study of dynamic-fracture phenomena in polymers and metals. He has contributed to the areas of dynamic-crack growth, crack curving, and branching. His current work in dynamic fracture includes the use of fiberoptical sensors, photoelasticity, and strain gages in the study of the dynamic decohesion and failure of bimaterial interfaces and composites. He has pioneered the use of dynamic photoelasticity in the study of dynamic deformation of granular media.
Ph.D. (1981), University of Maryland, College Park.
Siebert's career spans approximately 45 years in various metallurgical positions, the majority of which were at Monsanto Co., where he was elevated to a senior engineering fellow. His industrial activities have ranged from manufacturing plant to in-house consulting engineering. He is a professor at Washington University, St. Louis, and president of Siebert Materials Engineering Inc. His consultancy serves industrial, legal, and insurance clients with capabilities in the areas of materials, corrosion, mechanical and structural engineering, and accident reconstruction.
B.S. (1949), Washington University, St. Louis.
Siginer is professor of mechanical engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, Ala. He has worked on aspects of free-surface problems and flows partially driven by periodic forcing in rheological-fluid mechanics. His research interests include inverse problems in engineering, fluid mechanics of layered systems driven by thermal gradients, vortex breakdown in layered systems and flow of oil-field fluids. He was the first to introduce the use of multiple integral-type constitutive equations to explain observed phenomena in periodic flows. He has organized 11 ASME symposia with multidivisional sponsorship and is active in the Applied Mechanics, Fluids Engineering, and Materials Divisions.
Ph.D. (1982), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Simmons worked at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in design and vibration analysis of jet engines for the SR71 and the F14/F15 fighters. He researched squeeze-film dampers, transient dynamics, multiplane balancing, and rotor optimization. In 1974 he went to Southwest Research Institute where he leads consulting projects to solve machinery and piping vibration problems in the petroleum, pulp and paper, and electric-power industries. His accomplishments include technology to measure blade-tip clearance, to detect blade vibration, to control turbine-blade rubbing, to reduce jet-engine-seal leakage, to reduce noise and vibration of ac compressors, and to balance paper-mill rolls in place.
B.M.E. (1963), University of Florida, Gainesville.
Beginning as an applications-tool engineer and associate instructor in mechanical engineering, Sinnappan later assumed supervisory and training responsibilities related to the qualification of nuclear-power-plant components. He has been involved with the environmental and seismic qualification of safety-related equipment, applicable regulatory requirements, life-cycle management, and maintenance issues. He has been chair of the OAC Committee of the PV&P Division of ASME, initiating new subcommittees and increasing the membership. He is a partner of GDS Associates, responsible for the overall engineering and design activities.
M.S. (1975), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Mr. Sirois has more than 24 years of experience in the power industry, specializing in steam-boiler and fossil-fuels engineering, consulting, and management. His projects have included new boiler design, trouble shooting and diagnostics, boiler mathematical-model development, fuel switching, and NOx- and CO-emission reduction.
M.S. (1976), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
Soboyejo has worked in mechanical/machine design and engineering in Africa, Europe, and the United States. He has researched probabilistic methods for mechanical and civil engineering systems, including the predictions of creep and failure in materials and structures operating at high temperatures. He is now a visiting professor in the Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics, and Aviation Department at Ohio State University in Columbus.
Ph.D. (1965), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Soedel has been a researcher and educator at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., for 30 years. He has contributed to the vibrations of shells, the receptance method for continuous systems, and the dynamics of rolling tires. He has modeled and designed compressors, two-stroke engines, and pulse-combustion devices and has chaired international conferences on compressors. He is the North American editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration, has published more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings, and has authored a textbook on shell and plate vibrations.
Ph.D. (1967), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
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