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Anthony Licata is a pioneer in air pollution measurement and control. His work as an air pollution regulator predated the Clean Air Act by a decade. As president of York Environmental, he was instrumental in developing advance pollution measurement methods for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as developing air pollution control equipment to meet the new demands of the Clean Air Act. As chairman of the ASME Air Pollution Control and Solid Waste Processing Divisions, he assured that ASME was a major partner with the EPA and industry. During the 1980s, Licata chaired the ASME Dioxin Committee, mobilizing many people and resources to solve the combustion dioxin problem. The results were a 99 percent reduction of dioxins from municipal waste combustors. His accomplishments in the environmental, power, and waste to energy industries have had positive impacts on many people.

A.S. (1964), Westchester College, SUNY.

K.M. Liew is a professor of mechanical and production engineering, and director of the Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization and Center for Advanced Numerical Engineering Simulations at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He works in the areas of solid and structural mechanics and computational solid mechanics, with particular emphasis on mathematical modeling and simulations of advanced materials and structures. Liew has published more than 270 refereed journal papers and one book. He is one of Singapore's most prolific mechanical engineering researchers, who has had a profound impact on the students, young researchers in academia and industry, and computational science and mechanics in Singapore.

Ph.D. (1990), National University of Singapore.

David L. Littlefield is a research scientist for the University of Texas at Austin. His multifaceted role at the university includes an assignment to the research staff of the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, where he recently developed and implemented adaptive mesh refinement methods for Eulerian impact mechanics simulations. He is also a team leader at the Institute for Advanced Technology, where his computational mechanics team develops tools and performs numerical simulations of hypervelocity impact and penetration. Littlefield is a frequent lecturer in the engineering mechanics department. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and technical reports on computational solid and fluid mechanics, and has received international awards and recognition for his work.

Ph.D. (1989), Georgia Institute of Technology.

Anastasios S. Lyrintzis, P.E, is currently a professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research interests are computational aeroacoustics and aerodynamics (CAA). His goal is to investigate noise reduction for rotorcraft and jet flows. He has made significant contributions to the use of integral techniques in CAA. Lyrintzis was a member of the award-winning (NASA, AHS) Tiltrotor Aeroacoustic Code (TRAC) system developed by NASA Langley. He has written 44 journal papers and 73 conference papers. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and a Boeing Welliver Fellow.

Ph.D. (1988), Cornell University.

Joseph M. Mansour is the associate dean for research and graduate programs and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he has taught since 1982. In addition, he is a leading biomedical engineer in rehabilitation and soft tissue mechanics. He was associate director of the Gait Analysis Laboratory at the Children's Hospital in Boston, where he developed a biomechanics research program to correct the gait abnormalities in children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. At Case, his research centered on the simulation of human movement in conjunction with the implementation of functional electrical stimulation programs for people with spinal cord injury. His work in soft tissue mechanics has concentrated on the study of the mechanics of normal and diseased cartilage and the processes involved in cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis. Mansour is currently involved in biotechnology methods associated with cell and tissue engineering of cartilage.

Ph.D. (1975), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Theodore U. Marston is a technical contributor and a leader in both nuclear research and development and in nuclear industry management. As vice president and chief nuclear officer at EPRI, he represents a focal point for collaborative industry R&D to support safe and economical operation of the nation's commercial nuclear power plant fleet, and for efforts to extend the operating lives of these plants and to construct the next generation of nuclear plants. His past achievements include significant contributions to the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, Section XI, which covers the requirements for in-service inspection and testing of operating nuclear power plant components, in order to assure their fitness for continued service. His voice as an industry leader is sought within organizations that represent the nuclear power industry, such as the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Ph.D. (1973), University of Michigan.

Gursaran D. Mathur, P.E., is an engineering specialist in thermal systems at Calsonic Kansei North America in Farmington Hills, Mich. His responsibilities at Calsonic include work related to compact heat exchangers, comfort heating and cooling, and alternative refrigerants for automobiles. Mathur is known internationally in the area of automotive air conditioning systems, alternative refrigerants, and heat recovery systems. He has published over 65 technical papers along with more than 100 corporate reports. The editor of three books, he is a member of SAE and ASHRAE. He was listed as a significant contributor for the ASHRAE Handbook in 1992, '96, '99, and 2000.

Ph.D. (1986), University of Windsor, Canada.

Michael E. McCormick, P.E., has made significant contributions in ocean wave energy conversion. His 1974 ASME paper (74-WA/Oct 2) is recognized by the wave-energy community as being the first theoretical analysis in the field. His additional papers in the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology and other technical journals have done much to advance the technology needed for the wave energy conversion area. He co-edited a book on the subject that was published by the ASCE in 1986. He is presently under contract to Elsevier Publishers to write a book titled Ocean Wave Utilization.

Ph.D. (1966), Catholic University of America; Ph.D. (1985), Trinity College, Dublin; Sc.D. (1991), Trinity College, Dublin.

Charles Meneveau's research in fluid mechanics has explored the realms of theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in turbulence. In particular, this includes his work in large-eddy-simulation (LES) and turbulence modeling, and fractals and scaling in complex systems. The implications for LES modeling are wide-ranging, including areas such as weather prediction, turbomachinery, and biological and medical applications. Meneveau began his career at The Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and contributed to the revitalization of fluid mechanics research at Hopkins, bringing recognition to the university as a leading investigative institution in fluids. At Johns Hopkins, he serves as vice chair of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics. He holds a secondary appointment with the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. He is a member of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Physical Society, as well as ASME.

Ph.D. (1989), Yale University.

Ashok Midha is the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and has held faculty positions at Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, and Michigan Technological University. His pioneering research in the areas of complaint mechanisms and high-performance machine design has made fundamental contributions in mechanical design. An author of over 130 technical publications and several patents, he has also shared his knowledge through consulting, research, service to ASME and other professional organizations, and engineering education.

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

Joseph W. Milton, P.E., is currently a project manager and consultant for Reliant Resource in Houston. He is recognized as a technical expert in the fields of thermodynamics, power plant performance, and efficiency. He serves as a consultant in these areas for Reliant Energy as a whole and as a mentor for other engineers. Milton has led two Performance Test Code Committees to successful completion and to the publication of code documents. For the power generation industry, he has conducted more than 50 separate power plant acceptance tests and developed computer coded testing and data acquisition in advance of personal computers. Milton earned his bachelor's degree in 1981 at the University of Florida.

M.S.M.E. (1982), University of Florida.

Alan Moghissi has dedicated himself to the health and science profession for over 40 years, specifically to ASME as a Life Member for almost 30 years. He has served as chair on various national panels, committees, and civic organizations, was the recipient of eight service awards, and has authored over 270 publications, including journals, books, and articles. Moghissi established the ASME Peer Review Program through a multiyear grant awarded by the Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology. Through this nationally recognized program, more than 900 emerging cleanup technologies have been successfully deployed, which has resulted in billions of dollars in cost avoidance.

Ph.D. (1960), Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Over the past 30 years, Hukam C. Mongia has contributed to the gas turbine industry, especially to combustion technology, coal-fired gas turbines, turbomachinery, and advanced compressors. He managed several programs, which led to the development of 29 certified engine combustors, 15 technology engine combustors, 27 advanced combustors and three afterburners. He was the first one in the gas turbine combustion community to formulate, develop, and use multidimensional combustion models in the design of advanced technology combustors, technology demonstrators, and production engine combustors. Mongia provided leadership in formulation, development, and application of empirical/analytical gas turbine combustor design methodology at Garrett, Allison, and GE Aircraft Engines. He has eight combustion patents to his credit. Mongia has more than 150 technical publications and has co-edited ASME's Calculations of Turbulent Reactive Flows.

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

Godfrey Mungal is a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, where he has won several teaching and advising awards. He has performed fundamental research to elucidate mixing and chemical reaction phenomena in turbulent shear layers where he has quantified the effects of Schmidt, Damkšhler, Reynolds, and Mach numbers, whose results are important for predictive modeling. He has also investigated the effects of heat release upon the dynamics, entrainment and structure of free jets, coflowing jets, and jets in cross flow for improved understanding of pollutant formation. Mungal has examined flame liftoff and flame blowout phenomena, showing the importance of instantaneous low-speed stabilization. He has most recently performed studies of drag reduction in water using polymer injection.

Ph.D. (1983), California Institute of Technology.

Ganapathy Naganathan is currently the Interim Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Toledo in Ohio. His research interests are in the areas of smart material systems and structures, robotics, and microcomputer applications in electromechanical systems. He is the author of more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has also been awarded a U.S. patent on the use of piezoelectric devices in active suspension systems. He is a recipient of many awards, including ASME's Outstanding Regional Faculty Advisor award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational award. Naganathan has served as graduate advisor for more than 40 students at the master's and Ph.D. levels. He has served as a consultant for industrial projects for companies such as Dana Corp., Eaton Corp., GM, Procter and Gamble, Solar Energy Research Institute, and others.

Ph.D. (1986), University of Oklahoma.

Arvind Nagar, P.E., is internationally known for his fatigue and fracture mechanics modeling of damage due to cracks in structures and machines. For the past 16 years at the Air Force Research Laboratory, in addition to conducting research on thermomechanical fatigue crack growth, he has planned, directed, and managed research and development programs to develop design methods for life prediction to assure structural integrity of advanced aerospace vehicles under flight simulated loads. He has served as ASME Dayton Section chairman and has been active on the Aerospace Division's Structures and Materials committee. Nagar has organized symposiums on fatigue and fracture and has published five ASME volumes, 70 technical publications, and made over 50 presentations at universities, industry, national, and international conferences.

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

Mohammad H. Naraghi has been involved in research in the areas of thermal analysis of rocket engines, modeling of crystal growth processes, and radiation heat transfer. He has developed a comprehensive computer program for the thermal analysis of rocket engines. As a result, he received a certificate of recognition from NASA for the creative development of technically significant software, which has been accepted and approved for dissemination to the public by NASA. His program is presently being used by a number of aerospace companies for designing cooling systems of regeneratively cooled rockets. He has helped to develop a comprehensive radiation heat transfer model for crystal growth processes, primarily Czchralski crystal growth processes. Naraghi's research in radiation heat transfer resulted in a number of novel methods for analysis of radiative transport problems.

Ph.D. (1984), University of Akron.

Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi's career in the last quarter-century has yielded significant contributions in several areas. He has done seminal work on Mode III crack propagation, thereby providing critical insights to multi-axial fatigue. He also developed a methodology for predicting fatigue life of anisotropic materials under multi-axial loadings, where he identified key fatigue damage parameters. In the area of non-destructive evaluation, he developed ultrasonic techniques to evaluate the effect of adhesive flaws on the strength of bonded joints. His identification of an important NDE parameter was instrumental in the success of his techniques for damage evaluation in composite structures subjected to combined fatigue and impact loads. Other strong contributions were made in anisotropic constitutive modeling, the effect of Mode II loading on Mode I crack growth, and the dynamic response of flawed adhesive joints.

Ph.D. (1982), MIT.

Luu T. Nguyen's career in electronic packaging has spanned over 17 years. During this time, he has contributed significantly to plastic packaging technologies. As program manager for a number of projects funded by DARPA, DOD, SEMATECH, and NIST, he established the breakthrough groundwork for key enabling technologies for the electronic packaging infrastructure. These efforts led to successful product introduction from multichip module assembly platform, low-cost bumping, low-cost laminates design and fabrication, package ruggedization, package thermal enhancement, and CAD-based tools for package design, analysis, and optimization, and reactive flow modeling. His contribution to wafer level packaging has led to a de facto standard for the analog, mixed signal low-pin count devices that constitute the highest volume runners in the WLP market. Nguyen is an IEEE Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. He has over 130 publications and has 46 invention disclosures and patents.

Ph.D. (1984), MIT.

Shlomo Novotny is a well-known contributor in the electronic packaging area. He has worked in major communications and computer companies, including Bell Labs, DEC, and Sun. While at DEC, he led the development of the first chilled CMOS cryogenic cooling system and the first refrigerated commercial workstation. Since joining Sun, he has worked in the areas of thermomechanical packaging in major consortia: Data-Center Heat Loads, ASHRAE-TG-9 Data-Center Cooling, and InfiniBand. His thermal and packaging leadership has enabled the packaging strategy of Sun's high-performance SPARC CPUs, and the architectural and thermal optimization of Sun's midrange computers. Novotny has eight patents. He serves as an associate technical editor of the ASME Press series on electronic packaging.

M.S. (1978), Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, N.Y.

J. Michael Owen has made significant contributions to the technology of secondary flow systems for turbomachinery. He is an authority on flow and heat transfer in disk cavities, and flow and heat transfer in rotating cavities. His pioneering work at the University of Sussex on rim seal ingestion has formed the basis for the cooling design systems of several gas turbine manufacturers. More recent work at the University of Bath has included experiments and analyses on air transfer systems applicable to the supply of gas turbine blade cooling. Owen has been active since 1986 in the Heat Transfer Committee of the IGTI as the co-initiator and organizer of Secondary Flow Sessions at the IGTI Turbo Expos. As head of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, he led the efforts that significantly increased the department's national scholastic and research ratings.

Sc.D. (1989), University of Sussex, England.

Metin Ozen is the director of the West Coast branch of the CFD Research Corp. He received his bachelor's degree in 1982 and his master's in 1983, both from Lehigh University. He has implemented numerical solution techniques in several different industries for the past 20 years. Ozen has performed simulations in the electronics, aerospace, medical, automotive, semiconductor, and MEMS industries. He is the founder of the BGA club and served as chair for ASME's Santa Clara Valley Section (2001-02).

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

The career of H. Nevzat Özgüven has spanned almost 30 years. As a university professor, he has conducted research mainly in structural dynamics, gear dynamics, and rotor dynamics, and has received several awards for his research, teaching, and supervision. He served as the CEO and president of Turkish Cement and Earthenware Ind. Co. During this period, he was also president of the Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association. He then became assistant president at the Middle East Technical University, and contributed to the establishment of the first technopark in Turkey. Since 1998, he has been vice president of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.

Ph.D. (1978), University of Manchester, England.

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Tina L. Panontin, P.E., has played an important role in the research and development program at NASA Ames Research Center for nearly 19 years. With expertise in failure analysis, structural integrity, and material performance, she has solved numerous complex and mission-critical problems by correctly and efficiently identifying the root causes of problems and developing appropriate, practical solutions. Panontin is an authority on the micro mechanisms of fracture and the experimental verification of analytical tools for failure prediction and diagnosis. In her current position as chief engineer, she advises the center's director on technical and risk issues, and on strategic new research directions.

Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University.