Doepker/Johari

Jolly/Liang

Licata/Panontin

Perez-Blanco/
Santoro

Saxon/Zohar

View the 2001
- 2002 Fellows

View the 2000
- 2001 Fellows

View the 1999
- 2000 Fellows

View the 1998
- 1999 Fellows

Robert B. Abernethy is regarded as a leading expert on Weibull analysis. He is the author of The New Weibull Handbook, which began with a U.S. Air Force contract to Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. He made a substantial, patented contribution to the supersonic engine for the reconnaissance airplane SR-51. For the past 20 years, Abernethy has been an educator and short course presenter in converting statistical concepts (Weibull analysis) into an engineering tool for assessing useful life and predicting future failures. His training impact applies to a wide variety of industries— aviation, medical devices, automotive, chemical plants, refineries, and military systems.

Ph.D. (1965), Imperial College, University of London.

Serge Abrate is an internationally known authority in the area of impact on composite structures. He has also conducted research on the mechanics, optimal design, and manufacturing of composite structures and problems related to vibrations and wave propagation. He is the author of over 100 publications, including Impact on Composite Structures (1998). Abrate has conducted seminars and given short courses in the U.S. and in Spain, Italy, Brazil, and France. He has organized sessions at numerous conferences and served as a reviewer and guest editor for many journals in mechanics.

Ph.D. (1983), Purdue University.

John W. Ahlen has been a leader and pioneer in bridging the gap between engineering and public policy. By virtue of positions at the Illinois Legislative Council, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, and as an adjunct professor, he has brought sound engineering and scientific information and analysis to the legislative process in state and federal government. He has served as the science advisor to Govs. Bill Clinton (1984-93), Jim Guy Tucker (1993-96) and Mike Huckabee (1996-present). Ahlen has earned a national reputation for the initiation and implementation of state economic development programs based on access of industry to government and university science, engineering, and technology resources. He has served in leadership positions on numerous boards, councils, and task forces, including the Arkansas Education Technology Advisory Board, which he currently chairs.

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

Dennis A. Armstrong has made significant engineering contributions to a broad spectrum of nuclear applications. Early on, his work in improving manufacturing processes at the Hanford Engineer Works was recognized by production management. Later, as vice president of a small company, he directed the design, production, and marketing of compacting presses for the manufacture of powder metallurgy parts and ceramic nuclear fuel. Most recently, Armstrong led the mechanical equipment qualification program for the WNP-2 1,100-megawatt commercial nuclear power plant. His strong reputation for engineering knowledge and integrity led to his selection as "Engineer of the Year" by the Columbia Basin Section of ASME in 1985. He has supported ASME at many levels, and currently serves as vice president, Region VIII.

B.S.M.E. (1963), Washington State University.

Steven Arndt has managed a 40-person team that made valuable technical contributions to the Russian and Ukrainian nuclear regulatory agencies on the safety of VVER and RBMK nuclear plants and the training of Russian and Ukrainian personnel. He also made valuable technical contributions to thermal hydraulic analysis uncertainty, conversion to digital instrumentation systems, software reliability analysis, and quantification of reliability in risk-important systems. Arndt contributed significantly to secondary and university education, including establishing the first high school graduation competency standards in Ohio, the education of learning disabled (dyslexic) students, and accreditation of curricula in engineering and technology. He has served as a team leader for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

B.S. (1981), Ohio State University.

Ronald A. Aungier's career spans more than three decades. Following graduation from Cornell University, he worked for four years at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, where he was involved in the development of the first practical fully three-dimensional flow field analysis for hypersonic re-entry vehicles. Since 1970, he has held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering and management with two of the world's outstanding compressor manufacturers, Elliott Co. and Carrier Corp. Aungier has developed many original design procedures to improve performance and efficiency of single and multistage centrifugal compressors. His contributions to the turbomachinery industry are well documented in his two books on centrifugal and axial compressors, ASME Transactions and other journals, and conference proceedings.

M.E. (1966), Cornell University.

Scott S. Bair, P.E., has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech's School of Mechanical Engineering since 1974. He has published more than 70 papers, primarily in the fields of tribology and rheology. He has been the co-recipient of two best paper awards from ASME and the recipient of a best paper award from STLE. He provided the first observations of both thermal and mechanical shear bands in liquids. Also, he did the first measurements of the ordinary shear-thinning response of lubricant base stocks, which characterize EHL traction and film thinning. In work completed outside of Georgia Tech, he has developed two cable systems for target missiles and water-jet instruments for surgery. Ten patents have been issued to him on such diverse devices as a vacuum cleaner transmission and a cataract surgery tool.

Ph.D. (1990), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Charles E. Bakis, professor and director of the Composites Manufacturing Technology Center at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of 44 refereed journal articles, 87 conference papers, and seven books or parts of books. Bakis is well-known for his research in the design, fabrication, and test of fiber-reinforced composites and on polymer composite materials applications in flywheel rotors and reinforcement for concrete. He earned the 1996 outstanding teaching award from the Penn State Engineering Society and the 1998 outstanding teaching award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He has been a reviewer for ASME's Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, and Journal of Mechanical Design.

Ph.D. (1988) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Balakumar Balachandran's career started as a naval architect more than 15 years ago. He joined the University of Maryland in 1993. His current research interests lie in nonlinear dynamics, vibration and acoustics control, signal analyses, and system identification. His research contributions have had an impact in the following ways: enhancement of understanding of the influence of internal resonances on the nonlinear response of structural and mechanical systems; model development for dynamics and stability of milling processes in the presence of time-delay and loss-of-contact effects; introduction of the concept of mechanical filters for control of large-amplitude crane-load oscillations; understanding of actuator nonlinearities in interior acoustics control, and active control of wave transmission in finite-length struts. The textbook he has co-authored is used at universities worldwide. He has authored or co-authored about 30 journal publications.

Ph.D. (1990), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Robert G. Bea, P.E., has made pioneering contributions to the field of marine risk assessment and management, including human and organizational factors and inspections, maintenance, and rehabilitation of marine structures, which encompasses commercial tankers, platforms, and pipelines. He introduced an engineering-based philosophy, approach, and assessment process for the management of human and organization error in reliability of marine structures. Bea is well-known for his primary expertise in the areas of ocean environmental conditions and forces, foundations design and construction, structures design, and construction.

Ph.D. (2000), University of Western Australia.

James E. Bernard, P.E., began his professional career in 1971 at the Highway Safety Research Institute of the University of Michigan, where he led a team in writing pioneering computer simulations of heavy trucks. Over the years, he has continued his work in vehicle dynamics and is highly regarded for his work in vehicle simulation. He has also been a national leader in graphics applications, and later in virtual reality applications. He is the founding director of Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center, which is known worldwide for its groundbreaking work in applying virtual reality techniques to the challenges of science and engineering.

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

Sushil H. Bhavnani is on the mechanical engineering faculty at Auburn University. He was co-recipient of the 1999 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award for a live Internet-delivered course on thermal management of electronics. He served as the general chairman of the 1998 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm-98). He also serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, and on the ASME-HTD K-16 Committee on Heat Transfer in Electronics Equipment. He has authored 65 refereed conference and journal publications, is the recipient of seven awards recognizing his teaching, and advises Auburn's solar-electric vehicle and solar decathlon teams.

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

John C. Blanton, P.E., has established a solid reputation as an engineer, manager, and educator throughout a career that spans over 20 years with GE. He is well-known and respected for his technical and leadership contributions in R&D and in the industrial gas turbine and aircraft engine businesses, particularly in the areas of thermal analysis methods. He has also been active in university engineering education as a highly rated adjunct faculty at two schools. Blanton has been a tireless supporter of ASME and has been active in IGTI for more than 20 years.

Ph.D. (1981), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

An outstanding engineer, Stephen J. Burns, P.E., is chair of the mechanical engineering department at the University of Rochester. A teacher and researcher for 40 years, he is a recognized authority on materials and fracture mechanics, publishing over 150 papers and articles. His contributions to materials engineering focus on the control of crack growth and fatigue crack propagation. He has pioneered the concepts of crack-tip shielding from plastic deformation and his ideas are widely used to retard cracking in design. Burns has consulted for many companies and presented seminars both in the United States and abroad.

Ph.D. (1965), Cornell University.

Gregory Paul Carman is in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at UCLA. He has made major contributions to the active/smart materials field with his pioneering work on piezoelectric devices, magnetostrictive composites, thin film shape memory alloys, and fiber optic sensors. Carman has been chair of the Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Committee of ASME, is an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, and serves on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Composite Materials. He was awarded the Northrop Grumman Young Faculty Award in 1995 for his research work on active materials, and received two best paper awards from the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Committee, in 1996 and 2001.

Ph.D. (1991), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Michael C. Catapano has had over 28 years of experience in the operation, design, procurement, and maintenance of feedwater heaters and other shell and tube heat exchangers, including seven years with PSE&G and 20 years as president of Powerfect Inc. His current work at Powerfect is primarily devoted to consulting, troubleshooting problems, and assisting utilities with feedwater heater replacement and maintenance activities. He has supported EPRI in numerous feedwater heater projects and seminars. In addition, he holds three patents pertaining to feedwater heater testing and repair. Catapano was one of 12 inventors recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy in its product commercialization program. He was the chair of the ASME Power Division Heat Exchanger Committee from 2000Ð2002, and has served as its technical program coordinato

B.S.M.E. (1973), Newark College of Engineering.

Michael M. Chen is an engineer, inventor, project leader, and manager who can bring new inventions to reality. All product development projects that he has worked on have led to great technical and commercial success. Each has become a real and important product for the company and society. The heat transfer element he invented has improved power plant efficiency significantly (1 to 2 percent), which means major energy savings and reduced emissions. Chen has been a contributor to ASME leadership. During 1997, as chair of the Olean Section, he re-energized the section and helped to double member attendance at monthly meetings. He also supports the student section to get members involved with ASME at an early age. Chen was also an ASME LDI with the Council on Engineer- ing during 1998-99.

M.S.M.E. (1988), Wright State University.

Wen-Hwa Chen has made outstanding and lasting contributions to the disciplines of structural integrity, damage tolerance, finite element methods, computational fracture mechanics, and electronic packaging. He has also made singular contributions to academic administration at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Currently, he is a professor at Tsing Hua University. Chen is the founder of the ASME Taiwan Section and he has served as the section chair since 2001.

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

Inderjit Chopra is Alfred Gessow Professor in Aerospace Engineering and director of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland. Chopra has made pioneering contributions to rotary-wing aeromechanics, modeling of composite rotors, smart structures technology for rotor systems, and aeroelastic optimization. For his outstanding research contributions, he earned the 2002 AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award, 2001 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize, 2002 AHS Grover E. Bell Award, 1996 AIAA/ASME Best Paper Award, 1995 Maryland's Distinguished Research Professorship, 96-00 Minta Martin Research Professorship and 2002 A.J. Clark School of Engineering Research Achievement Medal.

Sc.D. (1977), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After obtaining his doctorate, Fu-Chu Chou joined the National Central University. He was on the frontier of development of the "vorticity-velocity" numerical method, which has been widely used for solving the problems of heat transfer and fluid dynamics in the entrance region of channels. In 1995, he started studies of fluid dynamics in semiconductor processing, and made significant contributions by reducing the use of photoresist during spin coating, thus significantly reducing the running cost of semiconductor manufacturing companies. He won the Excellent University-Industry Cooperation Award in 2000 and was named Outstanding Engineering Professor in 2001 in Taiwan.

Ph.D. (1986), National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.

Robert L. Clark, Jr. has provided broad leadership in adaptive structures and was cited in his Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for "outstanding research and development in the field of adaptive structures involving active noise and vibration control." He has pioneered the application of adaptive structures for structural acoustic control and has extended this work to include aeroelastic structures. Clark has served as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, as chair and technical chair of the AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Forum, and as a member of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems TC.

Ph.D. (1992), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Carl D. Crane, III is a full professor at the University of Florida, where he has served on the faculty since 1988. He is director of CIMAR (Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics), which currently consists of over 25 master's and Ph.D. students studying robotics. Crane's interests include geometry, controls, automation, autonomous vehicle navigation, and computer graphics, along with teaching and curriculum development. He has contributed significantly to the development and implementation of unmanned ground vehicles and has served as a consultant to industry. He maintains an active research program, with more than 100 publications and 50 supervised graduate students.

Ph.D. (1987), University of Florida.

Steven Danyluk was honored for outstanding contributions in the tribology and manufacturing of semiconductor materials. He is a professor and holds the Morris M. Bryan, Jr., Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also director of the Manufacturing Research Center. Danyluk earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Delaware in 1969.

Ph.D. (1974), Cornell University.

Karen R. Den Braven is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Idaho in Moscow. She is well-known for research into the design of ground loops for ground-coupled heat pump systems, transient in-ground heat transfer and routing materials, and for contributions to evaluating and influencing state regulations that apply to both open and closed loop systems. Den Braven helped start the Heat Pump Technical Committee, was on the Executive Committee of the Advanced Energy Systems Division, and is the present member-at-large for division operations of the Energy Resources Board.

Ph.D. (1988), Colorado State University.

Return to ME Homepage

Lee G. Dodge has made major contributions to combustion, optical diagnostics, sprays, and engine control for 30 years. He was at United Technologies Research Center for seven years, concentrating on optical diagnostics for shock tubes and flames. He performed fundamental spectroscopic measurements of nitric oxide that pointed out the errors and corrected previous published results. He has worked at Southwest Research Institute for 23 years and has made advancements in spray instrumentation, model-based control for spark-ignition engines, low-emissions technologies for both diesel and spark- ignition engines, and computer models to predict engine performance and emissions, which have gained him an international reputation.

M.S. (1973), Georgia Institute of Technology.