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Reza S. Abhari is chair of aerothermodynamics and director of the Turbomachinery Laboratory at ETH Zurich. Abhari's research interests are in the areas of experimental and computational study of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and aeromechanical response of aircraft engines and power generation plants. He is an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, chairperson of the ASME Turbomachinery Committee, and a member of ASME's National Nominating Committee and Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Committee.

Ph.D. (1991), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ronald J. Adrian is the inventor and pioneer of the particle image velocimetry technique, which is used for measuring fluid flows. A professor at the University of Illinois, he has published more than 100 journal articles and helped to produce 28 Ph.D. and 16 master's degree recipients. Adrian has edited leading fluid dynamics journals, such as JFM and Experiments in Fluids. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1991 and a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics in 2000. He was chosen a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1996 and won the Nusselt-Reynolds Prize in 2001. He earned the Tau Beta Pi D.C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award in 1988.

Ph.D. (1972), Cambridge University (U.K.).

Ryoichi Samuel Amano has provided more than two decades of original and unique contributions, served the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with practical applications of his developments, presented and published widely in his research field of computational methods in fluid mechanics, authored numerous archival papers, and directed significant research programs. He is recognized nationally and internationally as an authority on the identification of loss mechanism in gas turbine blade cascade using a CFD approach, and on solid propellant in experimental and theoretical techniques, design, developments, and applications in the field of turbomachinery and power engineering.

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

Neil Anderson has contributed to the progress of transmission and gear design and applications for nearly 20 years, as demonstrated by his 24 published papers. His research and contributions at the NASA Lewis Research Center in bearing and gear steels, transmission efficiency predictive modeling, and traction drives provided valuable tools for designers. Anderson continued to advance the art of gearing while at General Motors by implementing artificial intelligence in gear design, a project that received GM's Boss Kettering Award. He has served the technical community through leadership in ASME's Power Transmission and Gearing Committee for the past 18 years and as the chair of the 8th ASME International Power Transmission and Gearing Conference.

M.S.M.E. (1978), University of Toledo.

Balkrishna S. Annigeri, a senior consulting scientist at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), has been a mechanical engineer for 28 years. He joined UTRC in 1984. He developed the Surface Integral and Finite Element (SAFE) code for fracture mechanics at MIT, and later at UTRC, for effective modeling of crack growth and life prediction of metallic structural components. He was at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft from 1976-81, working on fatigue life prediction of gas turbine engine components, and serving as a product support engineer. He received his master's in mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (1976) and his B.E. in mechanical engineering from the Government College of Engineering in Aurangabad, India (1973). Since joining UTRC, he has focused on life and damage prediction and the durability of structural components. He has been a program manager at UTRC, earning three awards and three patents.

Sc.D. (1984), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jasbir S. Arora, the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Iowa, has taught a variety of courses in mechanics and optimization areas since 1972. He has maintained a superior record of teaching, having been nominated for the Tau Beta Pi teaching award in 1993. His textbook, Introduction to Optimum Design, is known around the world and has been adopted for courses at many universities. Arora has guided 38 Ph.D. dissertations and 12 M.S. theses, and has published 12 journal articles and 24 chapters in books. He is recognized internationally for his outstanding research and educational contriutions in the area of structural and mechanical systems.

Ph.D. (1971), University of Iowa.

Arvind Atreya, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan, has been associated with academia and ASME for nearly two decades. His research is in the area of fire and combustion generated pollutants. He is an author of more than 100 journal and conference papers, as well as numerous government and industry reports. He received the ME Research Excellence Award in 1998, the Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence for IAFSS in 1994, and the NSF-PUI Award in 1986. Atreya is a member of The Combustion Institute, ASME, IAFSS, Sigma Xi, and the U.S.-Japan Natural Resources Panel on Fire Research. He is also an associate editor of ASME's Journal of Applied Mechanics Reviews.

Ph.D. (1983), Harvard University.

Donald B. Barker is an outstanding researcher and educator with the Department of Mechanical Enineering at the University of Maryland. He is a co-founder of the CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Center, which is an industry/university cooperative research center concerned with assessing, mitigating, and managing the risks associated with the design, manufacture, and fielding of electronic products and systems. Barker is best known for his research involved in analyzing, characterizing, and modeling the failure mechanisms in electronics and photonic components and assemblies, and the integration of reliability assessment design tools into a concurrent engineering environment.

Ph.D. (1976), University of California, Los Angeles.

Amiyo Basu, P.E., is licensed in Arizona. During his tenure at Arizona Public Service, he was manager for several solar energy-related projects, including the 500-kW photovoltaic power plant for the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. He later became general manager of the Integrated Power Division for Exide Industries Ltd. in India. His responsibilities included advanced battery design, remote power system design and implementation, and photovoltaic power plants. He won a competitive bid to design and install India's first photovoltaic power plant (100 kW), located near New Delhi. After receiving his Ph.D., Basu worked for Delphi Automotive Systems, where he led project teams developing sensors and activation devices for automobiles and trucks, and received 10 records of invention. Currently the product development engineer at Ford Motor Co., he was a founding member of ASME's Solar Central Receiver Codes and Standards Committee and was a past president of the ASME Rio Grande Section.

Ph.D. (1995), New Mexico State University.

Donald E. Beasley has been a professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University for the past
18 years, during which time he has made significant research contributions to the field of heat transfer. His expertise involves multiphase flows, with an emphasis on packed and fluidized beds, instrumentation, and modeling. He has co-authored an undergraduate—level text, Theory and Design for Mechanical Measurements, which is widely used and currently in its third edition. Beasley has had a distinguished career as an educator and has earned local and national awards for teaching.

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

Christoph Beckermann is an internationally recognized expert in the modeling of solidification processes. His research ranges from basic theoretical and experimental studies of microstructure development in materials to simulation of a large variety of industrial metal casting processes. He has pioneered the coupled modeling of microscopic and macroscopic transport and has done transformation phenomena. His models have been incorporated in commercial casting simulation software and are used by hundreds of companies around the world. He is currently leading the development of two micro gravity experiments on the International Space Station. During the past 15 years, he has published over 130 papers and edited five books. Beckermann has also been active in curriculum development and established new courses in heat transfer and materials processing. He is an associate editor of ASME's Journal of Heat Transfer and is on the editorial boards of several other journals.

Ph.D. (1987), Purdue University.

Donald E. Bently, P.E., is the founder, owner, and chief executive officer of Bently Nevada Corp., which manufactures electronic systems for monitoring the mechanical condition and management of machinery. He pioneered the first commercially successful eddy current proximity transducer, and introduced its use to measure vibration and other critical parameters in rotating machinery. He is a globally recognized authority on rotor dynamics as well as vibration and other critical parameters in rotating machinery. Bently, who is licensed in Nevada and California, is an authority on rotor dynamics and vibration instrumentation to protect and diagnose machinery. Today, he is actively pioneering fully lubricated, pressurized bearing technology, which is destined to be as influential as the proximity probe in revolutionizing rotating machinery.

Honorary Doctorate in Engineering (1987), University of Iowa.

Rakesh K. Bhargava has been involved over 25 years in the design, research, development, and applications of gas turbines and other rotating and reciprocating machines used in the petrochemical, power generation, pipeline, and off-shore industries. His contributions include the first-time measurements of wall-pressure fluctuation and its correlation with velocity fluctuations in three-dimensional turbulent flows on a NASA-sponsored research project, design and development of a research quality wind tunnel facility, and performance retention analyses of advanced technology industrial gas turbines. A project engineer at Universal Ensco Inc., he also serves as a turbomachinery consultant worldwide. Bhargava is actively involved in IGTI, having served as the secretary and chair of the Industrial and Cogeneration Committee. He is currently chair of the Oil and Gas Applications Committee.

Ph.D. (1989), City University of New York.

Richard S. Boswell, P.E., has made his most outstanding contributions in pressure vessel engineering, where his field testing and analysis have made him a recognized world authority in coke drum design and behavior. His work in residual stress measurement and the use of the measurements in life predictions of pressure vessels, along with his analysis and practice leadership, has been a cornerstone of his company's successful consulting practice in fitness-for-service. Boswell, who holds a license in Texas, has been an effective servant to the profession through his long-term work at the local section and regional levels of ASME.

M.S. (1975), West Virginia University.

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Robert C. Brown has contributed to the science and engineering of thermochemical processing of fossil and biomass fuels. Early in his career, he advanced the theoretical understanding of ionization processes in hydrocarbon flames. As an experimentalist, he developed new techniques to study combustion dynamics and fluid dynamics in fluidized beds, an increasingly important combustion technology. Brown, a professor at Iowa State University, is also a noted inventor, with five patents to his name. Among them are a carbon in ash monitor, which won an R&D 100 Award in 1997, and a latent heat-ballasted gasifier, which has received international attention for its potential to expand the use of biomass resources.

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