Diller/Hansen

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Lagoudas

Lau/Raghavan

Rao/Stern

Stronge/Zarka

Juan C. Heinrich is a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona, where he has taught since 1980. He served as associate head of the depart- ment from 1995 to '97. He is co-author of two books on the finite element method, and co-editor of two international journals dealing with numerical methods in engineering. Heinrich is also a member of the advisory board for Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and a member of the board for Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. He has authored and co-authored over 68 referred journal articles, and 48 papers published in conference proceedings. He is co-leader of the ASME short course series on finite elements, and co-leader of the AIAA home study courses on the finite element method.

Ph.D. (1975), University of Pittsburgh.

James C. Hermanson's career has covered more than 15 years of research and development in industry and academia in fluid mechanics, especially compressible flow, combustion, and turbulent mixing. At United Technologies Research Center, his contributions included demonstrating enhanced mixing scramjet and mixer/ejector geometries in compressible flow and developing a lean, partially premixed combustion approach for improved flame stability and emissions. At the University of Connecticut, he quantified the mixing enhancement achieved by the interaction of normal shock waves with turbulent jets for supersonic combustion applications. Under his leadership, Worcester Polytechnic Institute was chosen by NASA to conduct one of the first flight definition combustion experiments planned for the International Space Station.

Ph.D. (1985), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Gregory M. Hulbert is an internationally recognized expert in computational dynamics, especially in space-time finite elements and transient integration methods (the generalized alpha method). He has written over 60 articles, edited six books, and been an invited speaker at national and international conferences. He is active in the Computers in Applied Mechanics Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division and in the Pressure Vessel and Piping Division. Hulbert is an associate editor of two international journals: the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology and Mechanics of Structures and Machines.

Ph.D. (1989), Stanford University.

Charles J. Hurst, P.E., has been a career faculty member with a strong interest in undergraduate teaching. He has been responsible for many curricular modifications and improvements during his tenure, establishing courses at Virginia Tech in automatic control system engineering and in acoustics and noise control. He revised the upper division laboratory courses and instituted a technical writing program within the mechanical engineering department. He established and built up a research laboratory for acoustics work and started a graduate program in acoustics. He brought the computer into use in the curriculum in many courses. Hurst helped to establish a large and well-funded Student Projects Laboratory wherein students from many engineering curricula are gaining hands-on experience with engineering. He has been very active in ASME, holding many sectional and regional offices, including that of regional vice president. He now chairs the Student Design Contest Committee and chairs the Course Review Committee of the Board on Professional Development.

Ph.D. (1966), Pennsylvania State University.

Thomas Hwang has 20 years of industrial, academic, and research experience in the experimental and analytical study of transport phenomena in energy systems. His work has spanned a broad range of subjects: fuel/oil delivery systems analysis, boiling phenomena in heat exchangers, cooling techniques, mist flow heat transfer enhancement, online process monitoring and sensing techniques, as well as design for six-sigma methodology for increasing productivity and product quality. At GE Power Systems, he has led deployment and execution of design for six-sigma effort into highly reliable, high-performance gas turbine product, resulting in substantial incremental revenue. He has been active in ASME and as the chairman of the K-10 Committee on Heat Transfer Equipment in the Heat Transfer Division.

Ph.D. (1985), Carnegie Mellon University.

Yong-Taek Im is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST, which has one of the most competitive graduate programs in Korea. During his career, he has acquired an international reputation for his expertise in the areas of numerical simulation of powder metallurgy, forming, casting, compression molding of composites, and development of expert systems. He has published over 100 papers in archival journals and conference proceedings, and has supervised 50 master's and Ph.D. students. Im has supported his profession by serving on several national and international committees and organizing international conferences.

Ph.D. (1985), University of California, Berkeley.

Junjiro Iwamoto's career spans three decades. After obtaining his doctorate, he started to teach in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tokyo Denki University. While working at TDU, he was invited to teach a course on fluid mechanics, or gas dynamics at other institutions, such as Hosei University, Chuo University, and Tokyo A&M University. In 1977, he was invited to the University of Saskatchewan in Canada to work with Professor Deckker on high-speed flow. The results of their joint research were presented at symposia and published in journals.

Ph.D. (1970), Keio University.

Mohammed Jamshidi has been an innovative member of the engineering community for over 30 years. His doctoral thesis at Illinois, on optimal control of large-scale complex systems, eventually led to the publication of a seminal book on the subject in 1983 (revised 1996), which has been translated into four languages and adopted in over 55 countries. Since 1989, he has taken on the development and application of soft computing paradigms like fuzzy logic neuro-computing and evolutionary computations. His pioneering results on these and other control system approaches have found relevance in American fuzzy logic commercial products and on image enhancement photographic processes, as well as NASA's Mars Pathfinder, the Hubble Telescope, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Ph.D. (1971), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

David Japikse is a recognized leader in the global industrial turbomachinery field, having published four major textbooks on the subject and editing five other reference books. He regularly designs advanced turbomachinery, conducts pioneering research in the field, authors design codes, and publishes technical papers on the subject. He is the founder of an R&D company specializing in turbomachinery development. In addition to maintaining a strong technical career, he is committed to his family and volunteer work with youth. He now spends summers working with the chaplain's detail at a Boy Scout High Adventure Base in Minnesota.

Ph.D. (1969), Purdue University.

Yogendra Joshi's career spans 15 years in the area of thermal applications in emerging technologies. After receiving his doctorate, he spent a year in the semiconductor assembly industry investigating thermal issues. During his academic career at the Naval Postgraduate School and University of Maryland, his research has focused on thermal issues in electronics packaging and manufacturing. Joshi's key contributions have been in the investigation of combined mode heat transfer, phase change materials, and microfabricated thermal management devices. This research, which has resulted in 40 journal publications, has been sponsored by several companies and federal agencies. He won the IEEE/NSF/Georgia Tech Education Award at the University of Maryland.

Ph.D. (1984), University of Pennsylvania.

Alain J. Kassab, P.E., has contributed to numerical heat transfer and inverse methods in heat transfer. In the area of numerical heat transfer, he developed coupled finite volume/boundary element algorithms to efficiently model conjugate heat transfer. He developed a new boundary integral equation for heat conduction in nonhomogeneous media, which advances the boundary element method by permitting treatment of partial differential equations with variable coefficients. In the area of inverse problems, Kassab developed the anchored-grid pattern approach to solve the inverse geometric problem, further advancing the infrared computerized axial tomography used in nondestructive testing. He also contributed inverse algorithms to identify unknown spatially varying thermal conductivity and to identify multidimensional heat transfer coefficients using TLC methods.

Ph.D. (1989), University of Florida.

David Kercher has compiled a distinguished record of developing and managing heat transfer technology for gas turbines and implementing cooling designs and systems for aircraft and electricity-producing engines. Results from his impingement cooling study from the late 1960s are used throughout the gas turbine industry. Innovations in the development of the TF39/CF6 engines resulted in seven patents. The design studies he managed in the High Temperature Turbine Technology project defined limitations for complex airfoil configurations and laid the groundwork for current high-efficiency, combined-cycle engines. As a GE heat transfer technical manager and principal investigator, he has co-authored five papers on turbulator heat transfer experimental investigations and two papers on CFD. He was granted four additional patents for gas turbine cooling inventions. Kercher was chairman of the IGTI/HTD Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Committee from 1994 to '96.

M.S. (1967), University of Cincinnati.

For the past 15 years, Michael M. Khonsari has tackled many challenging problems of engineering significance in the area of tribology. He has developed novel procedures for analyzing both journal and trust bearings; extensively examined bearing failure due to thermally induced seizure and scuffing; and analyzed thermo-elastic instability and problems associated with hot spotting in mechanical components such as automotive clutches and seals. In recent years, he has worked on powder lubrication problems and precision positioning devices. His research contributions are coupled with a keen interest in education, both inside and outside the university. Khonsari, an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology, is currently Dow Chemical Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University.

Ph.D. (1983), University of Texas.

George J. Kidd, P.E., has made impressive contributions to technology, management, his profession, and the Society over 45 years. His service to ASME runs from student chapter leadership to vice president of general engineering. He has authored numerous technical papers on theoretical and applied thermofluid mechanics, in the fields of management and quality, and also authored a book on the application of quality principles to R&D. His scientific work at Oak Ridge covered such diverse topics as the study of advanced machining technologies, the thermofluid design of advanced reactor concepts, the use of compact heat exchanger surfaces for cooling uranium hexafluoride, and the use of laser for enriching uranium.

Ph.D. (1986), University of Tennessee.

The educational and research career of Kenneth D. Kihm, P.E., has been in thermal and fluid science, using advanced laser diagnostic techniques. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he joined Texas A&M University, where he established the Optical Diagnostics Laboratory. He has successfully developed a number of state-of-the-art laser diagnostic systems, including the most recent addition, the particle imaging/tracking velocimeter. His current research interest is in three-dimensional unsteady ocean wave breaking, highly turbulent coolant flows inside a turbine blade, and microscale flow behavior in evaporative thin film. Kihm has taught several thermal and engineering courses for both undergraduate and graduate students and has always received outstanding student evaluations.

Ph.D. (1987), Stanford University.

Erich Klementich, P.E., has spent 35 years performing drilling and completion engineering of deep high-pressure wells with aggressive production elements. He has analyzed and coordinated technically complex drilling programs, including doing the engineering and supervision of field operations. He has worked to improve the specifications of sour service oil country materials tubulars, wellheads, and facilities.

B.S.M.E. (1964), California State University, Los Angeles.

Kyriakos Komvopoulos is an authority in contact mechanics, tribology, thin-film processing and testing, surface topography characterization, fracture mechanics, and fatigue. His research, reported in more then 75 archival publications and five U.S. patents, has led to the development of new friction and wear theories, insight into the micro/nano mechanical behavior of contacting rough surfaces, analytical and finite element models for various contact and machining problems, and novel solid films and monolayers used for friction and wear control in micromachine devices. The most significant implications of his research are in the fields of microelectromechanical systems, information technology, biomaterials, laser materials processing, and ultrathin hard films synthesized by plasma and ion beam techniques. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 1988 ASME B.L. Newkirk Award and a 1987 NSF Engineering Initiation Award. He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ph.D. (1986), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert Koski is the founder and chairman of Sun Hydraulics Corp. Sun employs over 500 people at plants in Sarasota, Fla., and Coventry, England, and a distribution facility near Aachen, Germany. He has promoted fluid power education at engineering universities around the world and was also instrumental in forming the ASME 36th Division -- The Fluid Power Systems and Technology Division. Koski was also vice chairman of ASME's System and Design Group and served as a director-at-large of the National Association of Manufacturers. His forward thinking and interest in design (as opposed to analysis) has resulted in his being in demand as a guest speaker on frequent occasions.

B.A. (1951), Dartmouth College.

Young W. Kwon's engineering and teaching accomplishments have been honored by several prestigious awards, including the Excellent Research Award from the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine in 1997 for his research in human knee motion; the Cedric K. Ferguson Medal from the Society of Petroleum Engineers for the best paper on helical buckling in 1989; and outstanding teacher and research awards in 1992, 1993, and 1995. He is currently associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., where he teaches and provides consulting services and research activities in finite element methods, solid mechanics, composites, fluid/structure interaction, and biomechanics. He also serves as chairman of the Fluid-Structure Interaction Committee, and develops symposia within the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division.

Ph.D. (1985), Rice University.

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Dimitris Lagoudas is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, as well as director of the TEES Center for Mechanics of Composites at Texas A&M University. For the past decade, he has worked on various research projects, ranging from micromechanics and mechanics of composites to smart materials and structures. Lagoudas has conducted research for the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and industry. For his scientific work, he has received the best paper award on smart materials from ASME (1995). He was recently selected as a member of the prestigious Defense Science Study Group. He has published over 60 journal publications and over 60 conference proceedings. In addition to research, he has been involved with the restructuring of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Texas A&M.

Ph.D. (1986), Lehigh University.