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Jang M. Lee's career spans about three decades. After obtaining his doctorate, he focused on teaching and conducting research in machine dynamics, machine tools, design, and sound/vibration. He has been active in developing new courses with innovative concepts and in reforming engineering education in Korea and, in particular, at Seoul National University. Lee has published 169 original journal papers, including 50 in international journals in the areas of machine tools and sound/vibration. As a former president of the National Association of Deans of Colleges of Engineering of Korea and a past president of the Korean Society for Mechanical Engineers, he has played a key role in improving education, research, and technology development in mechanical engineering.

Ph.D. (1975), Iowa State University.

Arthur Lefebvre has made major contributions to the knowledge of atomization and combustion fundamentals, especially in areas related to gas turbine combustion. He has played a major role in the design and development of fuel injection systems for gas turbines. His innovative work on the theory and design of air blast atomizers in particular resulted in direct and substantial reductions in atmospheric pollution by exhaust smoke from aircraft engines. Lefebvre has made outstanding contributions to the theory and design of gas turbine combustion systems. He was almost solely responsible for the development of gas turbine combustion as an academic discipline, which, together with his teaching of this subject throughout the world, has raised him to a position of preeminence in gas turbine combustion education. He has published books on atomization and gas turbine combustion and has more than 150 refereed journal publications.

Ph.D. (1952), Imperial College, London.

Charles R. Leonard, P.E., a native of Bristol, Va., holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech and an M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee. For the past 31 years, he has worked for Eastman Chemical Co., where he is currently a senior engineering associate in reliability technology. He has served ASME at the local, regional, and national levels, administratively and technically, and currently participates in Codes and Standards' Post Construction committees. He is a member of NSPE, Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society, and Ruritan National.

B.S. (1970), Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Richard Madden, P.E., has served mechanical engineering in several capacities. He has designed vital mechanical and elec- tromechanical devices and systems, such as noise abatement for air-bags, aircraft engines, and mining equipment; micrometeoroid shields for satellites; load-measurement/monitoring systems for oil platforms, and extra-wide-range load cells. In addition, he has done critical R&D on parachute deployment, dynamic loading of fabric structures, and water impact loads on recoverable Space Shuttle boosters. Madden has exhibited outstanding leadership capabilities, including the guidance and development of young engineers, as manager of groups and departments in advanced RD&D at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Mass., and as department head at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he incorporated modern design and laboratory instruction into the mechanical engineering curriculum.

Ph.D. (1967), Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Hisaaki Maeda, a professor of science engineering at Nihon University, has achieved outstanding accomplishments in the field of marine hydrodynamics, dynamics of floating structures, wave energy utilization, dynamics and control of underwater vehicles, safety engineering for marine facilities, and development of aquaculture facilities. A high point has been the development of computer codes for 2-D and 3-D waveless form development, which are used to float structures with less motion. He developed the wave energy absorption theory and this was applied to design the Mighty Whale Wave power device developed by the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center. Recently he investigated hydro elastic behavior of a very large floating structure. He has authored more than 300 papers.

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

Arun Majumdar, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has worked in many varied areas, spanning heat transfer, tribology, micromechanical systems, nanoengineering, surface science, and bioengineering. In particular, he is a pioneer in the area of micro/ nanoscale thermal engineering, in which he has not only made sigificant contributions over the last decade, but has played a leadership role in initiating research, courses, book and journal editorships, and international conferences and workshops. More recently, his research on integrating molecular biology with mechanical devices for studying cancer has received much attention. From ASME, he received the Melville Medal and he earned the Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. He is leading the effort in integrating nanoscale science and engineering for nanotechnology, and currently serves as the chair of the advisory board of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute.

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

Giampaolo Manfrida has been working in education and research in power plants and turbomachinery for 25 years. He has helped introduce exergy analysis for power plant application in Italy and Europe, and has performed several studies in this field. He has always combined this interest with experimental fluid and dynamics of turbomachinery, with special reference to the analysis of secondary flows and turbulence structure. At the international level, he has been working within ASME (the AES Division and IGTI) and he organized the Flowers conferences of 1994 and 1997. In addition, he has been responsible for European international student exchange (Erasmus project) in mechanical engineering for five years. Since 1996, he has been in charge of the new undergraduate program in mechanical engineering at the University of Florence.

M.S. (1978), University of Florence.

Ali Meghdari worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then, in 1988, he joined the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. In 1997, he was recognized by the Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers as the youngest (at age 37) full professor of the discipline in Iran. During 1996-99, he chaired the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University. In 1993-94, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Davis, and from 1999-2000, he served the Colorado School of Mines and the Rocky Mountain Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory as a visiting research professor. Meghdari has performed extensive research in robotics dynamics, flexible manipulators, kinematics/dynamics, and dynamic modeling of biomechanical systems. He has published over 70 technical papers. He is currently a professor and the director of the Robotics Research Laboratory at the Sharif University of Technology.

Ph.D. (1987), University of New Mexico.

Viung Mei, P.E., is an innovative senior researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who has made significant contributions to the field of refrigeration and heat pumps. He is the recipient of seven U.S. patents, issued for his creative and novel concepts and devices, and has earned the prestigious RD 100 Award for his frostless heat pump innovation. He has also been a recipient of the Lockheed Martin Co. and ORNL Energy Division awards for sustained contributions to his field of expertise. A native of Taiwan, Mei holds an M.S. degree from the University of Toronto.

Ph.D. (1979), Illinois Institute of Technology.

Ted Meyer, an advisory engineer at the Westinghouse Electric Co., developed analytical methods and test programs and implemented structural analysis programs to address PWR reactor vessel integrity concerns. He has been an industry leader in the development of methods to evaluate reactor vessel integrity; for example, pressurized thermal shock and mitigative measures such as flux reduction. Meyer led the development of structural risk technologies to evaluate fossil generating unit high-energy steam line failures and boiling water reactor IGSCC pipe crack issues. He also led the development of plant life extension technologies, aging management programs and economic risk models to support the continued operation of nuclear plants.

B.S.M.E. (1972), University of Detroit.

Currently a professor at Arizona State University, Marc P. Mignolet has made significant contributions to the areas of structural dynamics and random vibrations. In his 14 years of research, he has successfully addressed a wide array of problems, in particular developing comprehensive simulation techniques of random processes and fields, devising new probabilistic approaches for the analysis of the random mistuning effects in turbomachinery blade vibrations, introducing and applying structural identification techniques to flow-induced vibration problems, and analyzing the characteristics of spinning beams and plates. Mignolet serves as associate editor of the Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (ASME) and on the board of Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics. In addition, he serves on key panels on probabilistic methods, statistical mechanics, and structures and dynamics in ASME and ASCE.

Ph.D. (1987), Rice University.

John C. Mihm is a senior vice president of technology and project development for Phillips Petroleum Co. During his 38-year career, his accomplishments include management responsibility for the completion, startup, and modifications to the Greater Ekofisk development in the North Sea. The facilities include 25 steel piled jacket platforms and the world's largest concrete tank gravity-based platform and production facility. He was vice president of a research and development staff that developed and patented significant commercial technologies for production of polyethylene, 1-hexane, reformer catalysts, low-sulfur diesel and gasoline, methyl mercaptan, and other technologies. His leadership in global negotiations and leadership in ASME affairs include the Foundation Capital Campaign and the Industry Advisory Board.

B.S. (1964), Texas Tech.

Jack E. Miller, P.E., is recognized for his contributions in the areas of design and development of equipment for offshore oil and gas drilling and production. He has been awarded 21 U.S. patents for equipment, ranging from subsea casing suspension systems to several varieties of pipeline repair equipment. His patented innovations also include surge pressure reduction devices for placement of subsea oil well casing and liners and oil well cementing tools. During his 28-year career, Miller has compiled achievements in the numerical dynamic simulation of complex mechanical- hydraulic-pneumatic systems. He has also led the development of a state-of-the-art system for ultrasonic inspection of pipe in pipe production mills. Licensed in Texas, Miller is a principal with Stress Engineering Services Inc. in Houston, and currently also serves as the managing principal of the Mohr Engineering and Testing Division of Stress Engineering.

M.S. (1975), Texas A&M University.

William H. Miller, P.E., has had a noteworthy career in design, engineering management, and consulting. He is a recipient of ASME's Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award. For 30 years, he was with Sargent & Lundy, retiring as a senior vice president. While at S&L, he designed HVAC systems for numerous coal-fired and nuclear power plants. He was a division head, guiding large staffs (up to 1,000) in the preparation of engineering and design information used in the construction of electric power plants. Under his leadership, the transition from manual design and drafting to technology-based CAD/CAE took place. As a senior vice president, he had overall responsibility for S&L's Midwest Fossil Power and U.S. R&D clients, including EPRI. In 2000, Miller joined Innogy America LLC, a division of Innogy plc of the U.K., as founding president and CEO. Innogy America provides consulting, resources, and tools for power plants.

B.S.M.E. (1968), Marquette University.

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Kamran Mokhtarian has been with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. for the past 37 years. He has worked in a number of supervisory, managerial, and consulting positions, having responsibility for design and analysis of various types of pressure vessels, nuclear structures, and other plate and shell structures. He has developed design and analysis methods that are widely used by the industry. Mokhtarian has contributed to the safety of nuclear containment vessels by participating in NRC peer review of many such vessels. He has contributed to the ASME B&PV Code by participating in several committees. As vice chairman of Subcommittee VIII, he has been responsible for some of the recent improvements to this code and has chaired the special group on interpretations of Subcommittee VIII. He is currently the chairman of the Pressure Vessel Research Council.

M.S. (1964), Northwestern University.