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Jami J. Shah is professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Design Automation Laboratory at Arizona State University. Prior to his academic career, which spans 17 years, he worked in industry for six years, designing chemical processing and welding equipment. At Arizona State, he established research programs in CAD/CAM and manufacturing automation funded by government agencies and the private sector. Shah is the co-inventor of two U.S. patents and the author of two books and more than 125 technical papers. He is best known for his research in developing the foundations of parametric and feature-based CAD/CAM studies related to creativity in engineering design and modeling of geometric tolerances.

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

The career of Mirza Mohammed Shah, P.E., spans more than 35 years. While working for the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute in India, he set up the laboratories for HVAC and refrigeration, and headed the team for the development of flake ice machines that were successfully marketed. He prepared outstanding designs for the HVAC systems of many nuclear and fossil fuel plants while working for leading engineering companies, like Bechtel and Ebasco. Shah has made major contributions in the field of two-phase heat transfer, including the development of general predictive techniques for heat transfer during boiling and condensation, critical heat flux in tubes and annuli, heat transfer in fluidized beds, and heat transfer to two-component gas-liquid mixtures. These are recognized as among the best available, are recommended by design reference works, and are widely used in the industry. He is licensed in California and New York.

Ph.D. (2001), University of Sunderland, U.K.

Mo-How H. Shen is an aerospace structural and mechanical engineering specialist, with an outstanding record of achievements in teaching, research, professional practice, and public service. A professor at Ohio State University, his research contributions are damage identification and passive control, smart materials, probability-based life prediction/design methods, and high-cycle fatigue. He has made significant contributions to the development of improved reliability and safety of U.S. Air Force programs in space vehicle structure and gas turbine engine design. Shen also has earned research awards from NASA and the U.S. Air Force. He is the author and co-author of more than 75 journal papers, book chapters, and technical reports.

Ph.D. (1989), University of Michigan.

Susan H. Skemp, president of ASME International for 2002-03, has compiled a very strong record of achievement at ASME and in project management, technology planning, and forecasting at Pratt & Whitney, her employer since 1981. She managed the $100 million Advanced Technology Engine Gas Generator Core Demonstrator and $8 million NASA Test Engine System Technology programs. Previously, Skemp was involved in the design, analysis, and quality assessment of several of the company's popular high-performance engines, including the PW220 and PW229. For more than 20 years, she has worked within all five of ASME's councils in an official capacity and served as a governor.

B.S.M.E. (1981), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla.

Anthony J. Strazisar is a senior scientist at NASA Glenn Research Center. He was a pioneer in the application of laser measuring systems in aeroengine turbomachinery under realistic Mach number conditions. The measurements led to some of the first detailed assessments of computational tools for turbo machines and gained him an international reputation in the field. More recently, he was the major force in an international collaboration, which provided a platform for rigorous assessment of three-dimensional computational procedures. He has also contributed to ASME through active participation in the International Gas Turbine Institute as chair of the Turbomachinery Committee and as a member of the IGTI Board of Directors.

Ph.D. (1975), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Frank E. Talke is being recognized for his leadership in the field of tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage systems and ink jet printer devices. First at IBM Corp. and later as a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, Talke has been a leading experimentalist in the head-disk interface technology in magnetic hard disk drives. He was a pioneer in the application of laser Doppler measurement systems to nanometer-scale dynamics of the read/write slider and disk. He has also made seminal contributions to ink jet technology, especially in the invention of several ink jet head nozzles and the analysis and experimental development of these printer systems.

Ph.D. (1968), University of California, Berkeley.

Roger Ian Tanner has done outstanding work in experimental, theoretical, and computational rheology. He is the author of the book Engineering Rheology, co-author of a book on the history of rheology, and the author and co-author of more than 200 papers. His main contributions lie in the development of relations between stress and deformation for nonlinear viscoelastic materials; development of computational methods suitable for explaining complex rheological phenomena, and development of theories and associated experiments describing industrial polymer processing. Tanner has used this knowledge to pioneer studies of extrusion, die swelling, lubrication, and many other applications, and has contributed significantly to the development of polymer processing technologies.

Ph.D. (1961), Manchester University, U.K.

David P. Taylor, P.E., has been a practicing mechanical engineer for 35 years. Early in his career, he worked for Boeing Airplane Co. on the SST project, doing wing structure design. He was employed for 29 years by Northwest Natural Gas Co. in Portland, Ore. He supervised the leakage control and system integrity programs, including pipeline inspection programs for the company. In that capacity, he was responsible for reducing leakage by 80 percent and eliminating most of the cast iron pipe from the distribution system over a 13-year period. Taylor serves as a member of the Oregon State Board of Engineering Examiners. He has assisted the Japan Society of Professional Engineers in establishing a licensure program. He was named "Engineer of the Year" in 1997 by the Professional Engineers of Oregon. He is also licensed in the state of Washington. He is a consultant to clients of Pacific Energy Systems.

B.S.M.E. (1967), Brig- ham Young University.

S. Carl Uzgiris, P.E., president of Triodyne Inc., has been a major force in the field of safety engineering for over 35 years. He has successfully carried out thousands of technical investigations of accidents and failures, and has trained many other engineers in forensic engineering. He also led government- and industry-sponsored research projects to improve the levels of safety in industry and transportation. At the Illinois Institute of Technology and Institute of Gas Technology, he became well-known for his role in designing The Blue Flame, holder of the world land speed record from 1970 to '79.

Ph.D. (1966), Illinois Institute of Technology.

Teoman Uzkan has had a distinguished engineering career that has spanned over 35 years with General Electric, the Turkish Navy, Bogazici University, International Harvester, and General Motors' electromotive division, where he is presently a staff research scientist. He has made lasting contributions to the mechanical engineering profession by introducing modern analytical techniques to support new product development, through his patents, and by pioneering the use of the right combination of analysis, small-scale testing, and full-size testing to improve design and reduce costs. His outstanding service to ASME for over 20 years includes being chairman of the ICE Division, organizer of numerous technical sessions, and editor of over 20 publications.

Ph.D. (1985), Stanford University.

Michael R. von Spakovsky has 13 years of academic and 17 years of industrial experience in mechanical engineering, power utility systems, aerospace engineering, and software engineering. From 1970 to 1996, he worked at NASA, in the power utility industry, and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Energy Management Institute at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His major contributions include computational methods for modeling and optimizing complex energy systems; methodological approaches for their integrated synthesis/design, operation, and diagnosis (stationary power and high-performance aircraft); and developments in theoretical thermodynamics and fuel cells for transportation and distributed power.

Ph.D. (1986), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Richard C. Warder, Jr., P.E., is Dean of the Herff College of Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Memphis. He started his teaching career at Northwestern University in 1963. Subsequently, he held positions in industry and the federal government and at the University of Missouri and the University of Memphis, where he rose through the academic and administrative ranks. Prior to joining Memphis in 1994, Warder was at Missouri for 26 years as a faculty member, the James C. Dowell Professor, and chairman of the mechanical and aerospace engineering department. Warder has published extensively, including co-authoring one research monograph, and has guided the scholarship of more than 40 doctoral and master's students. His research has been supported by NSF, DOD, NASA, and the private sector. All of his graduate education was at Northwestern.

Ph.D. (1963), Northwestern University.

Robert O. Warrington, Jr., is currently the Dean of
Engineering at Michigan Technological University and was both the founder and director of the Institute of Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University. He served on the faculty at Montana State University for eight years, was the head of the mechanical and industrial engineering department at Louisiana Tech for 11 years, and was director of the Institute for Micromanufacturing from 1991 to '96. Warrington served as an associate editor for the ASME/IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and has made numerous presentations. He has earned 37 research grants from foundations, government, and industry.

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

Bingen Yang has more than two decades of research experience in dynamics, vibration, controls, and computational mechanics. A professor at the University of Southern California, he is recognized for his achievements on the distributed transfer function method for modeling, analysis, and control of complex distributed parameter systems; the eigenvalue inclusion principles for gyroscopic dynamic systems; time-delay approaches for non-collocated control of flexible structures, and for robust control of high-precision flexible positioning systems; integral formulas, modal analysis, controllability/observability, and closed-form solution methods for non-self-adjoint multibody systems; and viable-parameter models and nonlinear programming solution methods for wrinkling protection of membrane space structures.

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

Trained initially as an aeronautical engineer specializing in structural mechanics, Frank Chi-Pong Yin has devoted the last 35 years of his career to education and research in the field of biomedical engineering. Applying his expertise in mechanics to living biological materials, he has earned an international reputation for his original contributions in the domains of cell and tissue mechanics. He has been especially recognized for his contributions to the establishment of constitutive equations for the myocardium of the human heart. Together with his numerous students and postdoctoral trainees, Yin has published more than 120 journal pieces.

Ph.D. (1970), University of California, San Diego.

Since 1978, Jung Yule Yoo has devoted himself to teaching and research in fluid mechanics and fluids engineering, supervised 14 Ph.D. and 83 M.S. students, and played an active role in the academic world. As the Associate Dean of Engineering at Seoul National University, he contributed greatly to the Engineering College Expansion Project and, as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the same university, he established various university educational systems. He is presently serving as a vice president of the Korea Society of Mechanical Engineers, as the president of ASME's Korea Section, and as the Secretary General of the Korea Research Foundation in the Ministry of Education.

Ph.D. (1977), University of Minnesota.

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Hussein M. Zbib is a leader in the mechanics and materials field. Recently, he has developed a complex numerical model for discrete dislocation dynamics, Micro3d, which provides scientists with the ability to realistically address the complexities of deformation. Micro3d is one of the most visible recent developments in computational materials sciences and mechanics during the last two decades, and it has appeared prominently in many international journals, most notably in Nature. It is being used by many engineers and scientists at leading national laboratories and universities.

Ph.D. (1987), Michigan State University.