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Chih-Hsin Chen initiated and developed the study of the theory of conjugate surfaces, and developed its applications to numerous technical realms: gearings, theory of mechanisms, analysis and design of innovative mechanisms (bio-like robots) with multipoint conjugation joints, motion interpolation for numerical machining and animation, multibody system dynamics/conjugato-elasto-dynamics, and surface interpolation of computation graphics through his three books and more than 20 professional articles in English.

B.S.M.E. (1952), Quin-Hua University.

Ming-Chien Chyu, P.E., is a professor at Texas Tech University. Since 1984, he has taught more than a dozen undergraduate and graduate courses, primarily in thermal-fluid science and engineering, and has won four teaching awards at Texas Tech. He has nearly 90 technical publications on enhanced boiling heat transfer, spray film evaporation, boiling in narrow channels, thermal control of superconducting systems and moisture effect on insulation. Among others, he has received the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division Best Paper Award. He is a member of the ASME K-10 Committee on Heat Transfer Equipment in the Heat Transfer Division, and is the chair of the Superconductivity Technical Committee in the ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division.

Ph.D. (1984), Iowa State University.

Ronald D. Coffield, P.E., has risen through the ranks in the Westinghouse Electric Advanced Energy Systems division. He is currently an advisory engineer for Bechtel Bettis Inc. at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. His contributions have led to the successful safety analysis, inherent safety testing, and licensing of liquid metal fast breeder reactors, including FFTF, CRBR, and EBR-II. Coffield pioneered the inherent safety concept in reactor safety design at Westinghouse. His work led to many of the inherent safety features of liquid metal reactors that later were adopted in the more recent passive, inherently safe Westinghouse advanced water reactors, such as the AP-600. During the last 10 years he has developed and qualified safety analysis methods for naval reactors.

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

David H. Cooke, P.E., is an independent consultant with 42 years of experience in design, development, and application of gas turbines and other turbomachinery components and systems, in the independent power, utility, process, cogeneration, aerospace, and marine fields. During the last 20 years, with Paragon Engineering, Enron, M.W. Kellogg, Stone & Webster, and Bechtel, he has specialized in computer modeling, design, and economic optimization of steam and gas turbine power and process cycles, including integrated coal gasification, combined cycle, cogeneration, exhaust integrated ethylene furnaces, and gas turbine repowered plants for the recess and utility industries. He has been a voting member of the Reading Committee, IGTI Awards and Honors since 1995.

M.S. (1958), University of Pittsburgh.

John H. Crankshaw was an integral part of Adm. Hyman Rickover's Reactors Group personnel for more than three decades. During that time, he conceived and designed the main propulsion coupling used on all submarines since 1961 to join a flexibly mounted power plant to a fixed propeller shaft, simultaneously providing for the trans-mission of full-power torque, accommodating substantial misalignment, and isolating vibration from being transmitted along the shaft system. His contributions to the effectiveness of U.S. submarines was unique-ly single-handed and contribu-ted a great deal to their success. Crankshaw holds 27 U.S. patents and five foreign patents.

M.S. (1940), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Malcolm J. Crocker has been a leader in many fields in education research and professional service. Besides his contributions to ASME, he has contributed to several other engineering and scientific societies and been instrumental in the founding of others, INCE and IIAV. He has served as editor-in-chief of two journals, Noise Control Engineering Journal and the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration. His Encyclopedia of Acoustics captured the 1997 award in physics and astronomy from the Association of American Publishers. Crocker has conducted groundbreaking research in FEM, sound intensity, and SEA.

Ph.D. (1969), Liverpool University, U.K.

Marcus B. Crotts, P.E., earned a mechanical engineering degree from North Carolina State University in 1953. He obtained three patents early in his career in wave-guide forming techniques and authored publications and instructed while in the Air Force. In February 1956, he and Charles Saunders co-founded Crotts and Saunders Engineering Inc. to do machine designs, specializing in pneumatics and hydraulic metalworking production machines. Forty-three years later, the company continues to pursue engineering solutions for its clients. Crotts has been cited for many contributions to manufacturing engineering technology and the machine tool industry. North Carolina State, the University of Illinois, and the North Carolina Society of Engineering have recognized him as "Engineer of the Year."

M.S. (1956), University of Illinois.

Glenn T. Cunningham, P.E., has served the state of Tennessee for the past 12 years in a variety of roles, all of them related to energy and environmental conservation. He conducted the first-ever inventory of greenhouse gas emissions from Tennessee and then led a three-year multidisciplinary study to develop GHG mitigation strategies. Cunningham has traveled the state extensively, conducting more than 40 in-depth energy conservation studies for a wide variety of businesses, industries, schools, and prisons. He has served as the engineer of record and lead design engineer on more than 30 construction projects, providing the mechanical designs for schools, churches, industrial plants, convention centers and medical facilities.

Ph.D. (1990), Tennessee Technological University.

Donald W. Dareing, P.E., has spent half his career in industry and half in academia. His industrial experiences range from research to overseas field operations, while his academic experiences include teaching, research, and administration. His industrial experience has been mainly in the petroleum area. His early industrial research (1964) included measurements of mechanical vibrations along drill strings. He used this data to develop mathematical models for predicting dynamic forces along drill strings and at the drill bit. This work has been a key reference for current drilling practices. Much of his university research has focused on lubrication of bearings using transfer films, powder slurry lubricants, and dry powder lubricants. As a department head at the University of Tennessee, he successfully led his department through the new ABET EC 2000 accreditation evaluation process.

Ph.D. (1962), University of Illinois.

L. Berkley Davis, Jr.'s contributions to combustion evolution have spanned more than two decades. After obtaining his doctorate, he joined General Electric. As early as 1973, he led GE's commitment to anticipate and solve gas turbines' ever-tightening emission constraints. His work has included improved design practices, CFD tool development, and control schemes. From multinozzle quiet combustors with water/steam injection to dry low-NOx combustion systems, Davis has made valuable and imaginative technical contributions, meeting or exceeding the challenge of reduced emissions with increased firing temperatures of high-technology gas turbines.

Ph.D. (1972), University of Kentucky.

Lynden F. Davis, P.E., is currently serving as ASME's Western Region director. He has occupied that position since 1990. Prior to taking up the staff position with ASME, he worked with Bechtel as the primary specialist for cranes and hoists. He was the engineer in charge of cranes and hoists on the melt cell of the defense waste processing facility in Savannah River, Ga. His other accomplishments include developing designs for the container cranes, which serve seagoing vessels and improved stress analysis techniques to obtain high reiability and quality standards.

B.S. (1964), University of California, Berkeley.

Artin A. Dermenjian is discipline manager of the Nuclear Piping Analysis Group for Sargent & Lundy LLC in Chicago, and manages engineering and design activities for more than 10 major work processes related to nuclear plant design and modification activities. In 27 years with his company, he has done design and betterment for power plant projects. He has worked on Nuclear Regulatory Commission questions about design reviews and licensing issues. Dermenjian has supervised design and analysis piping work on Commonwealth Edison Co.'s nuclear stations. As a member of the task groups for the Nuclear Construction Issues Group, he was instrumental in the preparation of two significant technical reports. Since 1982, he has been active on the Design and Analysis Committee of the ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Division.

B.S. (1973), University of Illinois.

Lokeswarappa R. Dharani is well-known to the international research community for his contributions to the fracture and damage of composites, micromechanics, and mechanics of brittle matrix composites. He has published 160 research papers, including 80 contributions to archival journals and book chapters. The NSF, NASA, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Air Force, and Ford are among his research sponsors. Dharani is known as an outstanding teacher. In addition to his research and teaching, he serves as associate dean for research and graduate affairs at the School of Engineering of the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Ph.D. (1982), Clemson University.

Manoranjan N. Dhaubhadel has made significant contributions in computational fluid dynamics and, for practically a decade, has been organizing CFD symposia for the ASME Fluids Engineering Conferences. But his chief accomplishment is the application of sophisticated and advanced computational methods, based on nonlinear differential equations, to practical engineering problems. He has written and applied software to accurately predict coolant temperatures in heat exchangers in an automobile underhood environment. These techniques have significantly reduced cooling system design cost and cycle time for the products of several companies, including his current employer, CNH Global.

Ph.D. (1986), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Marino di Marzo, P.E., worked for four years in Italy. When he came to the United States, he designed a small-scale geothermal power plant for the U.S. Department of Energy. In 1981, he joined the University of Maryland, where he is now a professor and associate chair in mechanical engineering. During his long association with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, di Marzo has contributed to fire safety science with his study of drop wise 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 both on small break loss-of-coolant accidents and on energy transport during severe accidents. More recently, he has worked on reactivity insertions due to boron dilution transients.

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

Shmuel Einav, P.E., is an expert in biofluid dynamics and biomedical engineering. He is director of the Ela Kodesz Institute for Medical Engineering and Physical Sciences, the scientific director of the Slezak Super Center for Cardiac Research and Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, and holds a Distinguished Visiting Faculty position at California Institute of Technology. Einav has published more than 100 scientific articles, abstracts, and chapters in his field. He has several patents, including a prosthetic heart valve, intra-aortic support pump, MRI of blood flow, and ultrasound recanalization system. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Ph.D. (1980), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Maher Elmasri, president of Thermo Flow Inc., is a world leader in the development of software for the design and simulation of gas turbine-based power plants. His computer codes have been developed and marketed through Thermo Flow, a company that he founded. His company's products are used by more than 650 companies worldwide. In addition, Elmasri has published a string of papers on gas turbine performance. An engineer with theoretical and computational ability, he earned an M.S. from Alexandria University in Egypt.

Ph.D. (1978), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

M. Reza Eslami has contributed to undergraduate and graduate programs and courses at Amirkabir University of Technology since earning a doctorate. He served as a consultant to the Minister of Mines and Industry and Defense on issues that related to his work in solid mechanics and design. Through his participation in ASME and AIAA, working with his students and colleagues, he has been able to do research and publish his findings in various journals in the United States and abroad. He has written books, on his own and in collaboration with others, to further the technical base in his country, Iran. His involvement in ASME professional activities can be traced back to his contributions to ASME meetings and short courses he has presented on codes and standards.

Ph.D. (1973), Louisiana State University.

L. Ike Ezekoye is in the energy systems business unit at Westinghouse Electric Co. in Pittsburgh. For more than 30 years, he has worked on the design, analysis, and application of valves for commercial nuclear power plants. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 papers on valves and related subjects, and has 12 patents. Ezekoye is active in the ASME Operations and Maintenance (OM-22) Committee and the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division, where he is chairman of the Operations, Applications, and Components Committee.

Ph.D. (1989), Carnegie Mellon University.

John F. Gehbauer, P.E., served as senior technical executive of the U.S. Army, TACOM-ARDEC's Close Combat Armaments Center for eight years, and is a member of the Senior Executive Service. He is the technical leader of over 600 scientists, engineers, and support personnel. The Close Combat Armaments Center has more than 1,000 product lines used in support of air defense, aircraft, combat vehicles, infantry, and armor weapon systems. Gehbauer has been recognized for his industrial leadership and program management. He was a recipient of the Picatinny Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association's Firepower Award for Systems Development in 1992. In 1994, he received the Vice Presidential Hammer Award for Reinventing Government.

B.S. (1964), Pennsylvania State University.

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Gordon J. Gerber's career spans 35 years. While working at Joy/Cooper Turbocompressor Co., his primary work included new product design and development, and aerodynamic design of compressors. In 1989, Gerber joined Praxair Inc. where he was responsible for the development and application of a quick, reliable, wide-range, high-efficiency, custom centrifugal compressor stage design system. He has a long record of highly successful custom centrifugal compressor stage designs extending efficiency, range and limits for Praxair applications. He is constantly pushing the envelope in computational fluid dynamics to improve aero designs resulting in state-of-the-art performance for turbo-machinery equipment.

M.S. (1972), State University of New York at Buffalo.