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Kandadai Srinivasan's career spans more than three decades. Following graduation from the Atomic Energy Establishment in Bombay, he worked for five years in the Indian Space Research Organization, where he was involved in the development of environmental test facilities. Since 1980, his research has encompassed thermodynamic and thermophysical properties of fluid phases and refrigeration. His current interests are in solar photovoltaic refrigeration and use of adsorption cycle for small-capacity refrigeration, and developing thermodynamic properties of refrigerants. Srinivasan has taught graduate courses at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and has consulted in ventilation and air conditioning.

Ph.D. (1982), Australian National University.

Paul S. Steif has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University since 1983. He is noted for his modeling of the connection between interface properties and the overall mechanical response of composite materials, research that has been widely published. In addition, he has used mechanics to provide valuable insights into a number of industrial problems, including the design of hysteretic dampers, the blistering of carbon face seals, and the use of titanium aluminides in turbine blades. He has also been active in devising new methods and technologies for the teaching of engineering mechanics.

Ph.D. (1982), Harvard University.

Sherrill Stone, P.E., has spent four decades in engineering. From his modest beginnings in the small town of Nashville, Ark., Stone has risen to the position of chief executive officer at Peerless Mfg. Co. in Dallas, a company with annual revenue in excess of $40 million. Throughout his years at the helm of Peerless, Stone has stressed the importance of international activities, adherence to codes and standards, manufacturing accreditation, industry relations, and continuing engineering education. His success has been built upon superior engineering standards, a high degree of personal integrity, leadership skills, and in-the-trenches experience.

B.S. (1960), Texas Technological University.

Mikio Suo, P.E., has directed research and technology on turbine cooling, aerodynamics, and secondary air systems for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and for General Electric Aircraft Engines. His managerial contributions include the introduction of common heat transfer and secondary air systems analysis methods based on fundamental physics and the direction of their application across gas turbine engine product lines. He has developed erosion prediction technology for turbine airfoils and film cooling technology. For ASME, he organized the Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine Components technical sessions at the Gas Turbine Division annual meeting, was vice chair and chair of the K-14 Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Committee, and was honors and awards chairman of IGTI.

Ph.D. (1963), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Stephen R. Swanson, P.E., has contributed significantly to the un- derstanding of materials, especially as related to the behavior of rocks under high pressure and dynamic loading, and to the properties of composites. His contributions to testing the behavior of composites under biaxial loading and the development of biaxial failure criteria are especially noteworthy. He has been very prominent in ASME life, serving on technical committees in three divisions and being one of the primary champions of composite materials in ASME, especially through the many symposia he has sponsored at the Congress. Swanson has published widely and has written a textbook on advanced materials.

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

Ray R. Taghavi is currently a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas. His 29-year career's main area of expertise is fluid mechanics and propulsion. At NASA Glenn Research Center, he conducted experimental research in the 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. Taghavi has published numerous journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical papers on supersonic twin-jet coupling and multijet ejectors. He is the founder and has been lead organizer of the ASME Forum on Advances in Fluids Engineering Education in the Fluids Engineering summer conferences for the past three years.

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

John M. Tarbell's career as a researcher and educator spans nearly 30 years. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to cardiovascular fluid mechanics, arterial wall transport, and artificial heart fluid mechanics, including the function of mechanical heart valves and blood damage in mechanical devices. He has pioneered the development of in vitro endothelial transport models for examining the permeability of the endothelial barrier. As an educator, Tarbell has mentored more than 50 graduate students, nearly half of whom have already obtained their doctorates. He has also been a leader in the organization of numerous national meetings and symposia for ASME, BMES, and AIChE in areas related to his research.

Ph.D. (1974), University of Delaware.

Judith A. Todd is Iron and Steel Society Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has a distinguished record in ferrous metallurgy research, including alloy design of pressure vessel steels and development of the first quantitative model for interphase precipitation, which earned the 1990 Vanadium Award from the British Institute of Materials. She is a Fellow of ASM International and the Association for Women in Science. Todd received awards from the ASME Board on Minorities and Women in Science in 1997. She served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Pressure Vessel and Piping Technology, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, and the Journal of Machining Science and Technology. Todd pursued all of her higher education at the University of Cambridge.

Ph.D. (1977), University of Cambridge, U.K.

The career of N. Thomas Tsai's career has spanned three decades. 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. He has published many technical papers on the dynamics and design of land and ocean structures.

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

Youjiang Wang, P.E., joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and is currently associate professor in the School of Textile and Fiber Engineering. He has developed and taught courses on fibers, textiles, and composites and, through research, has made significant contributions to the fields of textile engineering, fibrous waste recycling, and textile composites. Wang has more than 80 publications in these areas, and he has received several teaching and research awards. He is a Fellow of the Textile Institute and currently serves as an associate technical editor of ASME's Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.

Ph.D. (1989), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Donald R. Webb, P.E., has had a distinguished career in the hydropower industry. He has been involved in the design of the world's largest hydroturbines, including those at the Grand Coulee, Bath County, and Aswan powerhouses. He was manager of the Allis-Chalmers Hydraulics Laboratory and responsible for the modeling and measurement of hydraulic turbines and pumps. This test facility is regarded by many as the best in the world. Webb has been active on the ASME Hydropower Technical Committee and in the Fluids Engineering Division, serving both as chairman. He has published or edited many technical papers and was primary author of the turbine chapter in The Guide to Hydropower Mechanical Design.

M.S. (1976), Pennsylvania State University.

Peng S. Wei is a professor in the mechanical engineering department at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has published more than 25 papers in internationally recognized archival journals. Original contributions include quantitative results and control of the melting and molten metal flow around an electron beam welding cavity; the effect of secular reflection on energy absorption in an electron beam cavity; the deflection of an electron beam induced by thermoelectric magnetism during welding of dissimilar metals; resistance spot welding; rippling of a weld bead during solidification; the shape of a pore trapped in the solid phase during freezing; and transport processes across the space-charge layer between a plasma and solid surface.

Ph.D. (1974), University of California, Davis.

William A. Weiblen, P.E., was recognized for his leadership and his management skills as a manager in engineering, finance, and manufacturing during his 38-year career at Pratt & Whitney. These skills were honed on assignments in a variety of advanced engine programs, including large industrial gas turbines, rocket engines, and military and commercial aircraft turbojet and turbofan engines. He led a feasibility study to design a cost-effective, paperless work management system now used at Pratt & Whitney assembly and test facilities. Weiblen has served ASME as a vice president and senior vice president on the Council of Member Affairs. He also was a member of the Board of Governors. He is the ASME president-elect for 2000-2001.

M.B.A. (1972), M.S.M.E. (1967), University of Connecticut.

At the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Herbert Weinstock, P.E., conducted studies of vehicle and guideway dynamics, structural integrity, and collision dynamics. His work was instrumental in the development of improved safety standards for railroad tracks and equipment by the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration. He has contributed to improved understanding of the dynamics of railroad vehicles, including development of two-point contact theory permitting better prediction of curving behavior of rail vehicles, identification of mechanisms of dynamic instability in guided steering trucks not previously understood, and improved criteria establishing safety from derailment during rail vehicle operation and testing (so-called "Weinstock Criteria").

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

For better than four decades, Jack Weitsman, P.E., has contributed significantly to the structural mechanics and composite materials areas of mechanical engineering. He has worked in industry, academia, and in government laboratories, and is one of the three original researchers in what has become the world-renowned applied mechanics research program of the Office of Naval Research. During the last 20 years, his research in damage produced by hygrothermal effects on polymeric composite materials has been unique. He has mentored the research of over 20 graduate students and has authored or co-authored more than 125 research publications. Weitsman did his undergraduate work at the Technion in Israel and earned a master's degree from the University of Connecticut.

Ph.D. (1962), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

David Wieland has made significant contributions in project management at John Deere, guiding it toward compliance with ISO 9000 and 9001 requirements. He also shifted the organization from a primary focus of quality control to quality planning from design through production. In ASME, he has been an active member for over 20 years and has been a leader on the Council on Member Affairs and Council on Public Affairs. Recently undertaking the office of vice president, Region VII, he has volunteered in a variety of positions within his region and section over the years. He also led the Committee on Issues Identification for six years and oversaw a variety of key projects and reports, including The Globalization of Engineering Practice, and Mechanical Engineering: the 21st Century.

M.B.A. (1990), University of Northern Iowa.

William Martin Worek is recognized for his work in combined heat and mass transfer, as one of the leading experts in the area of sorption technologies as they apply to alternate cooling technologies. The systems that use solids or liquid sorbents include zeolites, silica gel, activated carbon, activated alumina, solutions of calcium chloride and lithium chloride or glycols, where the sorbate can be water, methanol, ammonia, or carbon dioxide. The objective of his research is to develop air-conditioning systems that have the potential to control and improve indoor air quality and do not use chlorinated fluorocarbons.

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

Sean F. Wu has worked on acoustics, vibration, and noise control for 16 years and has developed many new theories and methodologies. The most widely acknowledged include: the Helmholtz Equation Least Squares, or HELS, method for reconstructing the acoustic field radiated from a vibrating structure; an extended Kirchhoff integral formulation for predicting acoustic radiation from a vibrating structure in arbitrary motion; an FFT-KIT algorithm for faster and more efficient transient acoustic radiation calculations; an explicit solution to the Kirchhoff integral formulation for predicting transient acoustic radiation; and a variation principle for predicting acoustic radiation and scattering from a finite object in a free field. Wu also developed computer models for predicting noise spectra from engine cooling fans and air-handling systems in passenger vehicles.

Ph.D. (1987), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Vigor Yang is an internationally recognized leader in all aspects of the field of unsteady combustion in propulsion systems. His research involves the development of new theories and numerical models for various combustion and gas dynamics problems that arise from both rocket and air-breathing engines. He has published five comprehensive volumes and more than 100 technical papers. He was the recipient of the Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Teaching and Research Award in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and the Best Paper Award from AIAA in 1995 for research on supercritical combustion. Yang is currently acting editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power.

Ph.D. (1984), California Institute of Technology.

Allan B. Zarembski, P.E., has been an industry leader for almost three decades. He is president of Zeta-Tech, a consulting engineering firm he founded in 1984, which serves the railroad, transit, and transportation systems industries. Licensed in five states, he also has two master's degrees from Princeton University. His career includes positions with Grumman Aerospace and the Association of American Railroads. In 1981, he became director of research and development for two major railroad track supply companies, Pandrol Inc. and Speno Rail Services Inc. His expertise includes rail fasteners, ballast, and subgrades. Zarembski originated the concept of proactive rail grinding to maintain conformal wheel rail contact, which reduces rail and wheel wear, saving countless dollars. He is a leading track research expert and won the Rail Transportation Award in 1992.

Ph.D. (1975), Princeton University.

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The career of Lt. Col. Eric Zimmerman, P.E., in the Army Corps of Engineers spans 24 years. He has served in a variety of leadership and managerial positions in the Corps of Engineers and has been on the faculty at West Point for eight years. Zimmerman has contributed technically to the development of three new major weapons programs for the U.S. Army. He provides systems engineering advice and conducts thermal analysis on new and proposed equipment. Zimmerman is considered the Army's heat transfer expert in uniform. He earned his bachelor's degree at the U.S. Military Academy and a master's at Louisiana State University. He is licensed in Virginia.

Ph.D. (1985), Georgia Institute of Technology.