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Fred W. Emshousen's career in engineering has spanned almost 35 years. Initially, he worked in research and design of environmental systems in commercial aircraft. He then changed careers and applied his talents to the design of thermal systems in the beverage industry. For the past 25 years, Emshousen has worked in the field of educational leadership. He has served through both the faculty and academic administrative ranks at Purdue University and was recently named Acting Dean of the School of Technology. He has served his profession by being a role model in his leadership and commitment to professional service. He has served ASME, ASEE, and ABET through almost every leadership role that pertains to technology education.

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

Thomas N. Farris has made contributions to the fields of tribology, manufacturing processes, and fatigue and fracture, as well as being a leader in engineering education. A mechanics-based model capable of predicting fretting fatigue life was developed and verified experimentally and has been used by industry to evaluate gas turbine engine hardware. He used fast Fourier transform techniques to develop models of rough surface contact and frictional induced heating, forming the basis of manufacturing process models that predict surface integrity. Farris has served the educational and research communities through editorial duties, conference organization, and duties as head of the Purdue University School of Aeronautics & Astronautics.

Ph.D. (1986), Northwestern University.

Keith Good, P.E., is Noble Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He is the principal investigator for the internationally recognized Web Handling Research Center. In this role, he also organizes and oversees the ASME Web Handling Symposium and the biennial International Conference on Web Handling. He has been recognized as an outstanding teacher at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and his extension courses have been among the most strongly supported and attended by industrial participants.

Ph.D. (1983), Oklahoma State University.

Allen T. Green, P.E., is a pioneer in the development of acoustic emission technology. Early in his career, he worked to develop the first online, real-time computerized data acquisition, source display system of acoustic emission. Green was instrumental in the development of the non-destructive method known as acousto-ultrasonics, an idea from the NASA Ames Research Center that was further developed by Green and sold commercially as an inspection instrument. Throughout his career, he has been involved with research and development, the creation of acoustical properties for materials of many structural shapes, and the development of products that apply or improve the use of acoustic emission technology. He holds several patents and is author and co-author of more than a hundred technical papers.

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

Crispin Hales is a principal mechanical engineer with Triodyne Inc. of Niles, Ill. He has made significant contributions in forensic engineering, failure analysis, engineering design, and mechanical systems. He has investigated major boiler pressure vessel and mechanical equipment failures. As the result of engineering design analysis and the underlying process, Hales has developed publications and manuals on the prevention of commercial vehicle accidents and hazardous mater ial accidents for the Federal Highway Administration. He has served ASME International as chair of the Design Theory and Methodology Committee, as a member of the executive committee of the Design Engineering Division, and as chair of the Design Engineering Division (1999-2000).

Ph.D. (1987), Cambridge University (U.K.).

George K. Haritos' professional career was spent in the U.S. Air Force, where he performed in a broad range of assignments. He was a faculty member at the Air Force Academy, an adjunct professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and eventually commandant of AFIT. He served as an engineer in the Aeronautical Systems Division, and managed and directed basic research at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, where he rose to deputy director. His combined contributions in engineering, research and development, and education have had a positive and permanent influence on the Air Force, its programs, and its infrastructure.

Ph.D. (1978), Northwestern University.

Howard Hodson is a professor of aerothermal technology in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University. In 1985, he shared the ASME Gas Turbine Award for a paper that arose from his Ph.D. dissertation work. In 1998, he was an author of a paper that received the ASME Melville Medal. One year later, he received the Kenneth James Harris Prize for best paper, awarded by the Aerospace Industries Board. Hodson is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Ph.D. (1983), Cambridge University (U.K.).

Mohammad H. Hosni is currently a professor and interim department head of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University. He served as director of the Institute for Environmental Research at Kansas State from 1993 until 2001, where he was responsible for acquiring more than $4.5 million in funded research projects from various government, industry, and private organizations. Hosni has received a number of research and teaching awards, including the Myers-Alford Teaching Excellence Award in 1997 and the Engineering Research Excellence Award in 2001, from the College of Engineering at Kansas State University. He was also the recipient of the 1989 and 1990 Outstanding Research Paper Awards from Mississippi State University. In 1999, he received the Symposium Paper Award from the American Society of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Engineers.

Ph.D. (1989), Mississippi State University.

The mechanical engineering career of R. Michael Hunt, P.E., has included electric power generation (steam, hydro, and nuclear) and automotive design. He has designed innovative spillway gates, managed development and analysis projects for nuclear power plants, and invented new automotive vehicles. Hunt, who is licensed in Pennsylvania and California, chairs the History and Heritage Committee of ASME International.

Sc.D. (1968), University of South Wales.

Shuang Huo's career has covered the last 35 years. He has worked on large steam turbines at Siemens. Compressor blading and boundary layer research at the von Karman Institute led to a Sc.D. at the University of Brussels, after which he worked for Westinghouse R&DE Center on turbomachinery blading and components. After this, he went to AiRsearch/ Garret Engine Co. (currently the Honeywell Engine Co.) and was responsible for the design and development of the Quiet Clean General Aviation turbofan turbine for the TFE731, which remains in service. Finally, Huo went back to Westinghouse (presently Northrop Grumman) to design and develop the superquiet, efficient steam turbines for modern nuclear submarines.

Sc.D. (1973), University of Brussels.

Clifford C. Imprescia has played an important role in mechanical engineering research and development services at NASA Ames Research Center for more than 20 years. He has managed a number of multimillion-dollar facility projects, including an $80 million modernization project for the transonic/supersonic Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel Complex, and the $105 million Pressure Wind Tunnel restoration project. He was the chair of the Source Evaluation Board for the $480 million Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). He has also managed the design and construction of major laboratory facilities, as well as a number of aerodynamic research projects. Imprescia's management of the facilities for aerodynamic research and testing has led to improved safety and more efficient performance of NASA programs at the center.

M.S. (1986), Stanford University.

Robert E. Johnson is a distinguished teacher, researcher, and engineering administrator. Prior to joining the College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he was a professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his tenure at Illinois, he developed process models for the aluminum industry through interactions with Alcoa. He joined UNCC in 1994 as department chair and became dean in 2000. As the department chair, Johnson initiated a motor sports program in the department that has achieved national recognition. As dean, he continues an active research program and mentors junior faculty.

Ph.D. (1977), California Institute of Technology.

Jer-Nan Juang has been recognized for his achievements in the dynamics and control of mechanical systems for over 26 years. In particular, his pioneering work in system identification (resulting in several software packages and two books) has had a significant impact on vibration and dynamic testing across government agencies, corporations, and universities. Juang's method, originally referred to as ERA, has been widely accepted and remains one of three methods used routinely by the testing community to determine mode shapes and natural frequencies of test articles. He was the first to tie vibration testing to the realization theory of electrical engineering and hence created a huge leap forward in vibration testing. Another technical innovation of note was his contribution to low-frequency suspension systems for ground testing of large flexible spacecraft. The mechanism simulates zero gravity and won the 1990 ASME Mechanism Conference's Mechanism, Design and Analysis of Application award.

Ph.D. (1975), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

During his 26-year career at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Landis Kannberg has been involved in a wide range of research topics, ranging from energy storage to aerosol physics. For more than a decade, he managed a large research program in storage of energy. Most recently, he has been active in critical energy infrastructure protection, serving on a White House Office of Science and Technology Task Force addressing this topic. He is currently the leader of the Energy Technology and Management Technical Network. Kannberg is a past chairman of ASME's Advanced Energy Systems Division and a past member at large for external affairs for the ASME Energy Resources Board (the board comprises the Petroleum, Solar, Ocean Engineering, and Advanced Energy Systems Divisions). He has also served on the Global Technologies Workshop Committee. From 1996 to 2000, he was the Energy Committee chairman for ASME.

Ph.D. (1976), Oregon State University.

Rishi Kant's career is highlighted by work ranging from mechanical design to heat transfer in thin films to wave optics. After earning his doctorate, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he invented a novel connector for plated through assemblies. In 1981, he joined IBM in San Jose, Calif. Of particular interest were his publications in the area of wave optics, which addressed diffraction problems in the focal regions of aplanatic systems. Using analytical tools, Kant was the first to solve problems of vector diffraction in aplanatic systems with Seidel aberrations. This part of his research was chosen for republication in the SPIE's Milestone Series in Optics. He also worked on heat transfer in thin films to solve and simulate writing processes in magneto-optical disks. In 1992, Kant joined San Jose State University and in 1995 moved to Seagate Technology. There he is a principal scientist and director of engineering, and also researches disk drive technology. He has authored 20 papers and has received eight U.S. patents.

Ph.D. (1979), University of California, Berkeley.

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H. Allan Kidd has been associated with design automation throughout his entire career. For the last 24 years, he has been automating the process controls of gas turbine-driven mechanical and electrical equipment trains. His efforts have led to the development of numerous innovative designs for oil, gas, and control systems, each focused on the gas turbine drive module. Since 1995, Kidd has applied the knowledge of automation to business processes. This has led to financial improvements for his company and its clients. Recently, he started a new business devoted to business process automation.

B.S.E.E. (1971), Northeastern University.