Diller/Hansen

Heinrich/
Lagoudas

Lau/Raghavan

Rao/Stern

Stronge/Zarka

William J. Stronge, a reader in applied mechanics at Cambridge University, U.K., has performed seminal research in the areas of the mechanics of solids and nonlinear structural dynamics applied to vehicle crashworthiness. At China Lake, he worked on rocket sled design and development, dynamic plasticity, wave propagation, and structural response to blast. During the last 19 years at Cambridge, he has become a leading authority on the impact of solids exhibiting friction and associated energy dissipation, dynamic analysis of structural response, crushing of cellular solids, and stress diffusion. Stronge has also made major academic contributions in the supervision of outstanding doctoral students, and innovations in teaching and research.

Ph.D. (1969), Stanford University.

Ray R. Taghavi is currently a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas. His career spans the last 29 years as an engineer, researcher, and educator. His main area of expertise is fluid mechanics and propulsion. He worked from 1985 to '91 at NASA Glenn Research Center, conducting experimental research in the area of aeroacoustics of supersonic jets and acoustic excitation of swirling shear layers. His pioneering work with a smart supersonic vortex generator has earned him and co-inventor Saeed Farokhi a patent that they are applying to supersonic thrust vectoring nozzles. He has published numerous journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical papers in the areas of supersonic twin-jet coupling and multijet ejectors. Taghavi was the founder and lead organizer of the ASME Forum on Advances in Fluids Engineering Education in the Fluids Engineering Summer Conferences for the past three years. He was the recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1999.

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

Nien-Tszr (Tom) Tsai has had a 30-year career as a mechanical engineer. He is widely recognized as an expert in structural dynamics. In his work for the federal government, he developed analytical models and testing techniques for the vulnerability and safety assessment of naval ships, space vehicles, and conventional and high-speed passenger trains. For the past few years at the Federal Railroad Administration, he has been one of the leading national technical experts in the development of the first comprehensive passenger rail equipment safety standards. Tsai has published many technical papers on the dynamics and design of land and ocean structures.

Ph.D. (1969), University of Rochester.

Robert D. Tzou is currently James C. Dowell Professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri at Columbia. During the past decade, he has been engaged in research on fast-transient processes in heat transport. His recognized contributions include wave behavior in heat propagation, thermomechanical modeling in high-speed penetration, thermal localization in dynamic crack propagation, and thermal properties for porous solids. He is internationally known for his pioneering contribution on the lagging behavior in microscale heat transfer. These studies have resulted in numerous publications, including invited panel papers at IMECE and review articles in the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and Annual Review of Heat Transfer.

Ph.D. (1987), Lehigh University.

Elmar Upitis, P.E., has more than 40 years of experience in the design of plate structures, both for Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. and as principal of his own consulting firm, Upitis & Associates. He is an acknowledged expert in the application, fabrication, and joining of metals used to construct tanks, vessels, penstocks, and other similar structures. Upitis has been active in numerous technical organizations, including the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee, Metals Properties Council, ASTM, and the Pressure Vessel Research Council, where he served as the chairman.

B.S. (1955), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Rene A. Van den Braembussche of the Von Karman Institute is a well-known turbomachinery expert and teacher. He is responsible for developing a criterion for the recognition of different types of rotating stalls. This criterion is presently used by most manufacturers and users of industrial centrifugal impellers and compressors. He is recognized for his major experimental and theoretical work on flow in volutes of centrifugal compressors. This work has resulted in a significant and better understanding of the flow structure and losses in volutes. His efforts have been documented in six ASME Transactions, numerous conference proceedings, theses, and reports. In recent years, he has developed an inverse design and optimization methods for compressor and turbine blades. These methods are currently used in industry. This work has been documented in three ASME Transactions.

M.S. (1969), Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium.

Steven W. Van Sciver has spent more than quarter-century in the field of cryogenics and low-temperature engineering. After completing his doctorate in 1976, he joined the University of Wisconsin, where he began a research program in HeII (superfluid helium) for large-scale superconducting magnet applications. This work continued over most of his 15 years at Wisconsin. In 1991, he accepted a joint position with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the faculty of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, where he continues to pursue large-scale cryogenics R&D. At the NHMFL, Van Sciver was responsible for the cryogenic system of the 45T hybrid magnet. He is currently director of magnet science and technology, and oversees all magnet research, design, and development activities at the NHMFL.

Ph.D. (1976), University of Washington.

Anthony M. Waas has been conducting research on composite materials and composite structures for the past 17 years. He has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and has received several teaching and research awards. In addition, he has more than 50 publications in the response, failure, and stability of composite materials and composite structures that encompass experimental, analytical, and numerical advances. Waas is an associate editor of the AIAA Journal and the Composites: B Journal. He has been the principal investigator for numerous government and industry-sponsored projects involving composite materials and composite structures.

Ph.D. (1987), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Jonathan A. Wickert, a professor of mechanical en- gineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is being recognized for his research in vibration and machine dynamics, and for his contributions to mechanical engineering education. Through close cooperation with partners in the data storage, aerospace, and automotive industries, his research has combined analytical computer modeling and experimental findings. Wickert has published extensively, and developed new insights and solutions to vibration engineering problems in disk and tape drives, aircraft and automotive brakes, and web and strand transport systems in manufacturing. He has initiated new courses and instructional laboratories at all educational levels, and is an active participant and organizer of symposia at ASME conferences.

Ph.D. (1989), University of California, Berkeley.

E. Allen Womack, Jr. has built a 30-year career in managing research and business development. He began as assistant director for reactors at USERDA (predecessor to the U.S. Department of Energy) in 1970. In 1975, he transferred to Babcock & Wilcox, where he moved through several management positions, including vice president of sales (utility power), before becoming vice president of research and development in 1985. During the next seven years, he played an instrumental role in fostering a range of environmental (SO2 and NOx) control technologies for coal-fired power plants. Many of these technologies became part of the Department of Energy's Clean Coal Technology Program, and have been commercialized, reducing emissions from coal-fired stations by millions of tons. Womack became technical officer of McDermott International in 1993, a position he still holds. In 1998, he became president of BWX Technologies Inc.

Ph.D. (1969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The 45-year career of Marvin M. Yarosh, P.E., began in education, teaching mechanical engineering courses for four years. He then moved to the emerging nuclear energy field, where he started as a design engineer and advanced quickly before moving into the field of solar and alternative energy conversion and conservation. His career in nuclear energy included 19 years as a member of the senior staff of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 1973, at the request of the governor's office, he took what he thought would be a two-year leave of absence to help Florida develop a long-term energy policy. He set the groundwork for the establishment of the Florida Solar Energy Center, and then became one of the center's original staff members. During his 13 years as second in command, the center became widely recognized as one of the world's leading research, development, testing, and training centers in its field.

M.S.M.E. (1950), University of Pennsylvania.

The research interests of Yaman Yener include radiation interaction in radioactively participating media, thermophoretic motion of high-temperature aerosols, natural convention stability in enclosed spaces, transient forced convection, and spectral methods as a numerical simulation technique. While a graduate student, his work resulted in the development of a series of exact solutions for thermal radiation in participating media. Later, his works in this area contributed to the development of an approximate but highly accurate method of solution, the Galerkin method in thermal radiation--a unique method that led to dozens of publications by many researchers. Yener's publications on the implementation of the Galerkin method to understand radiation interaction problems have been widely accepted throughout the profession as fundamental contributions to the field.

Ph.D. (1973), North Carolina State University.

Koichiro Yoshida has been very active in academic and industrial research. His research activities have produced several well-known design software programs being used by Japanese industry. His contribution to the development of large floating structures in the Japanese waters is noteworthy. Yoshida proposed a concept of a very large, floating, ring-like human habitat for use in the Japanese coastal waters, which is considered the most unusual and attractive so far by the Japanese professional society. He has over 150 technical publications. In his 30-year-long teaching career, Yoshida has helped produce many now-prominent engineers in industry and teaching.

Ph.D. (1966), University of Tokyo.

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During his 35-year career in research and education, Joseph Zarka, P.E., has distinguished himself as an innovator and trendsetter. His early work in research focused on the modeling of single metallic crystals (anisotropy, large strains, and visco-plasticity). He later defined a novel framework for analysis of inelastic structures (under cyclic, dynamic, and contact loading) and organized numerous courses on his theories in the United States and Europe. His current work is focused on the optimal design of materials and structures based on the best expert knowledge and automatic learning.

Ph.D. (1968), University of Paris.