Diller/Hansen

Heinrich/
Lagoudas

Lau/Raghavan

Rao/Stern

Stronge/Zarka

Thomas E. Diller is a professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has been a principal contributor to the maturation of the art of heat flux measurement in science and industry, and has made significant contributions to bioengineering. He holds two patents related to heat flux gauges and has more than 100 publications. In addition, he has served ASME for nearly two decades, including chairing the K-17 Committee and organizing more than a dozen technical sessions at ASME national meetings.

Ph.D. (1977), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marino di Marzo, P.E., received his undergraduate degree from the University of Naples in Italy in 1976. He worked in industry for four years in Italy and the United States. During this period, he designed a small-scale geothermal power plant for the DOE. In 1981, he joined the University of Maryland, where he now serves as professor and associate chair in mechanical engineering. In his longstanding association with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, di Marzo has contributed to fire safety sciences with his study of dropwise evaporative cooling. His findings are now applied to the modeling of fire sprinkler thermal response. Over the past 17 years, he has investigated the behavior of nuclear power plants during accidental transients. In the wake of the Three Mile Island accident, he focused on small-break-loss of coolant accidents as well as on energy transport during severe accidents. More recently, he has been working on reactivity insertions due to boron dilution transients. In 1994, he joined the U.S. Westinghouse advanced light water reactor AP600.

Ph.D. (1982), Catholic University of America, Washington.

O.J. Dykes, Jr. has had a distinguished career since earning his undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech. He entered the Navy and served as an officer whose duties were primarily concerned with aircraft maintenance. He formed his own company, The Dykes Co., in 1947. This firm was active in the heating and air conditioning field until 1955. After that time, the company was reorganized, and offered equipment and engineering services for heating and industrial boilers and central station systems. Dykes has been active in ASME for more than 30 years. He has been the guiding force in his local chapter of the organization. In addition, he has served at the regional and national levels of ASME. He continues to serve his profession through the Society even in his retirement.

B.A. (1941), Georgia Institute of Technology.

The career of Raghu Echempati, P.E., spans more than two decades. He has made significant contributions in mechanical design at several educational institutions, including the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), Ohio State University, Michigan Technological University, University of Mississippi, and Kettering University. He is involved in consulting and is developing applied undergraduate research in computer simulation of metal forming processes. In 1997, he was endowed with the Bosch-Kettering Professorship to conduct studies related to air bag injuries. Based on these studies, he has recommended the use of black boxes on passenger cars to capture pertinent accident data.

Ph.D. (1978), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Mohamed S. El-Genk is Regents Professor and director of the Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies at the University of New Mexico. He has been on the faculty there since 1981, after 13 years in industry. He has made significant and original contributions to the fields of space nuclear power and propulsion systems; heat pipes and thermosyphons; pool boiling from the underside of inclined, curved, and hemispherical surfaces; natural and mixed convection; nuclear reactor safety and thermal-hydraulics, and direct energy conversion systems, including thermionic and alkali-metal thermal-to-electric conversion (AMTEC). El-Genk is the editor of a book and over 40 volumes on heat transfer. He has authored 170 refereed articles and more than 250 conference papers and technical reports, and holds three patents. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society; active for life member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; and the recipient of the UNM Presidential Lectureship award (1985), Research Excellence award (1988), Teaching Excellence award (1989), and Graduate Students Outstanding Teacher award (1988). He was named Regents Professor in 1996.

Ph.D. (1978), University of New Mexico.

Abraham Engeda's turbomachinery career started in 1983, when he joined the Institute of Turbomachinery at the University of Hannover as a research assistant; he later became a research engineer. At the institute, from 1983 to '90, he initially designed and built a four-quadrant test facility for centrifugal pumps with variable speed and fully automated data acquisition. His work on four quadrant tests and tip clearance losses has been widely published and is often referred to by both academia and industry. In 1990, he joined Michigan State University, where he has developed the turbomachinery teaching and research program. This program consists of turbomachinery courses, a teaching lab, and a major research lab. The success of this program is clearly seen in the highly qualified M.S. and Ph.D. students it produces for industry, by the various turbomachinery industries that interact with it in terms of funded research and other forms of cooperation, and by the valuable publications that result from it. The research lab is considered one of the best testing facilities in the country. Engeda has been very active within ASME at various levels, rising to the level of a division chair.

Ph.D. (1987), University of Hannover, Germany.

Izhak Etsion's career spans 35 years. After seven years as an aeronautical engineer, he attended Technion and obtained his Sc.D. in tribology. Since then, he has been a faculty member at the mechanical engineering department at the Technion, where he heads the tribology activity. He is the major source of tribology consulting to Israeli industry. In 1996, Etsion founded Surface Technologies Ltd., a high-tech start-up company that is developing a new technology of reducing friction and wear by special surface laser texturing.

Ph.D. (1974), Technion, Israel.

Jerzy Maciej Floryan, P.E., began his career in Warsaw with research into the finite element method. He went on to the United States, and eventually to Canada, to the University of Western Ontario, in London. He made major contributions to fluid mechanics, where his theoretical and experimental work on Marangoni effects that cause a breakup of liquid layers stands out, because of its great importance for the thermal management of spacecraft. Floryan has been instrumental in restructuring the curriculum at Western Ontario, providing for custom designed programs, combining an engineering discipline, such as mechanical engineering, with business administration or law, biochemistry, or languages, to name a few, an approach that has become very popular and is graduating a new brand of engineer.

Ph.D. (1980), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

John H. Fowler, P.E., began his career as a development engineer for the McEvoy Co., and after several mergers and acquisitions, including 10 years with Rockwell in Pittsburgh, he eventually became the vice president of engineering at McEvoy. His creativity in design is evidenced by 28 U.S. patents. He has served on API committees since 1980, during which time he pioneered the use of ASME Pressure Vessel Code-type calculations for high-pressure oilfield equipment. As a consultant, he teaches a seminar on designing to API requirements, which has been attended by over 400 engineers worldwide. He also provides design, analysis, and engineering management consulting services.

B.S.M.E. (1962), Rice University.

Alan Freed has concentrated his research activities at NASA's John Glenn Research Center on developing advanced material models with a focus on engineering utility, specifically with an eye toward ease of characterization. He has also done research in areas of enabling technologies, such as systems of stiff ordinary differential equations and systems of nonlinear fractional order differential equations. His current interests are in finite deformation analysis (theoretical, numerical, and experimental) of polymer resins and elastomers, with special interests in the use of body tensor fields in the construction of constitutive formulae and the role that the fractional calculus may play.

Ph.D. (1985), University of Wisconsin.

Christopher J. Freitas, P.E., has 20 years of industrial, academic, and research experience in the computational analysis of fluid flow behavior. His work has spanned a broad range from hydraulic pipeline transient analysis to 3-D time-dependent simulations of complex turbulent flow behavior in enclosures to fluid-structure interaction including blast and penetration effects. At Southwest Research Institute, he has led research and development into high-performance parallel computing for workstation clusters and "massively parallel processor" machines. He has been active in ASME as chairman of the Fluids Engineering Division, as chairman of the Coordinating Group for Computational Fluid Dynamics and as an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering. He has led the development of standards for quantification of numerical uncertainty and simulation accuracy, and standards for reporting in archival publications like the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering.

Ph.D. (1986), Stanford University.

Ahmed F. Ghoniem has made great fundamental contributions in the area of computational fluid mechanics. His development of grid-free methods that reduce numerical error have been universally recognized as milestones in the field. He was able to apply such advanced methods to solve engineering problems like the transport of pollutants, the mixing of plumes, and the spreading of large fires as well as a variety of engine problems. Recognizing his expertise, many industries requested his consulting services and he was invited to serve as an advisor for organizations like the National Research Council, the Department of Energy, and others.

Ph.D. (1980), University of California, Berkeley.

Somnath Ghosh is an outstanding researcher and educator in the area of computational mechanics of materials. The value of his research is reflected in his high level of sponsored research, number of invited lectures at conferences, workshops, industries, and universities, and the high esteem he has earned from his peers. His research work in the area of hierarchical modeling of materials is very original in nature. Ghosh has had a significant effect upon the engineering mechanics graduate program through his teaching, new course introduction, and curriculum restructuring. He has received a number of awards for his research, including the NSF National Young Investigator Award and the OSU Lumley Research Award.

Ph.D. (1988), University of Michigan.

Joan P. Gosink, P.E., has been a member of ASME since 1979. Her research activities are in the area of cold regions engineering, where she is the originator of thermal models currently in use for the prediction of the thermal regime of permafrost, saline stability in freezing soils, the freezing of river and lakes, and ka-tabatic winds in Antarctica. As division director in engineering at the Colorado School of Mines since 1991, she has led the division to national and regional distinction, culminating in the designation as a Colorado "Program of Excellence" in 1999. She was also a leader in the development of the award-winning sequence, the Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory at CSM.

Ph.D. (1979), University of California, Berkeley.

Selcuk I. Guceri is known for his research activities in the development of innovative technologies for fabrication of high-performance composite materials. He and his research team pioneered online consolidations of thermoplastic composites and, more recently, extended their studies to the area of solid free forming. Guceri has been instrumental in the establishment and growth of a number of research programs, first at the Center for Composite Materials at the University of Delaware, and later in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is currently serving as department head. His current research concentrates on transport tissues in additive manufacturing with the focus on functional ceramics and ceramic composites. He was founding editor of the Journal of Thermo-plastic Composites (1989-1994) and Journal of Material Processing and Manufacturing Science (1993 to the present).

Ph.D. (1976), North Carolina State University.

Remn-Min Guo, P.E., started his career as a designer at Wean United Inc., a major rolling mill builder. After obtaining his doctorate, he left his manager position and joined Armco Inc., an integrated steel producer. He has published and presented more than 50 papers and documented more than 30 confidential internal reports. Guo holds two issued patents. He received six Kelly awards from the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE), one award from the IAS/IEEE, and three technical achievement awards from Armco. He is heavily involved in professional society activities, as reviewer of several journals, session chairs in AISE/ ASME, and IAS/IEEE, and a symposium organizer of ASME and IEEE.

Ph.D. (1986), Carnegie Mellon University.

Ashwani K. Gupta is a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Combustion Laboratory at the University of Maryland in College Park. He is internationally known for his work on swirl flows and combustion and has co-authored two books, on swirl flows and on flow field modeling and diagnostics. He was awarded a higher doctorate degree of Sc.D. from the University of Sheffield in 1986 for his published high-quality research work and authority in his field of study. He is a co-editor of the Environmental and Energy Engineering Series published by CRC press. Previously he was co-editor of the Energy and Engineering Science Series. He has published over 200 technical papers in refereed journals, symposia, and conference proceedings, receiving two best paper awards from ASME and four from AIAA. He has received many honors and awards, including the 1998 ASME George Westinghouse Gold Medal, 1990 AIAA Energy Systems Award, and 1999 AIAA Propellants and Combustion Award. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Institute of Energy-U.K. He is chair of ASME's Fuels and Combustion Technologies Division and program chair of the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.

Ph.D. (1973), University of Sheffield, U.K.

Chunill Hah's career spans the last two decades. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he went to work for the Corporate Research and Development Center at General Electric Co. His work there started with the development of a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes CFD code for the flow and heat transfer analysis inside turbomachinery. The code has been widely used to optimize blade designs, resulting in reduced time for new engine developments. In 1989, he went to NASA Lewis Research Center. Hah has made significant contributions to the development of component technologies for aircraft engines and space transport engines.

Ph.D. (1980), Pennsylvania State University.

Kenneth C. Hall is an expert in the aeromechanics of turbomachinery. He has made important contributions to the field of unsteady aerodynamics of turbomachinery, especially the aerodynamics associated with the damaging phenomena of flutter and high cycle fatigue. For example, he has been a pioneer in the use of so-called "time-linearized" analysis of unsteady flows. Hall has been instrumental in the development of "reduced order modeling," a new and novel technique for simplifying highly complex computational models of unsteady flows. In 1990, he joined the faculty at Duke University, where he is currently an associate professor. He has been an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, having helped organize eight of the last nine ASME Turbo Expo meetings. He is currently vice chair of the ASME/IGTI Structures & Dynamics Technical Committee.

Sc.D. (1987), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Robert J. Hansen, P.E., has played a prominent role in mechanical engineering research and research leadership for more than a quarter-century. His original research on turbulent polymer flows, fluid-structures interactions, and hydroacoustics have been reported in more than 70 publications. As a research manager, he has originated nationally significant activities in active control of turbomachinery surge and rotating stall and condition-based maintenance, with applications in both aircraft and ground-based propulsion and power systems. These research and leadership activities reflect the balance between innovation and application that distinguishes Hansen's career.

Sc.D. (1968), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.