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Horacio Perez-Blanco is a professor at Penn State University. The common thread to all his activities is the study and improvement of the energy efficiency of thermal systems. At Penn State, he teaches courses in the thermal area, notably gas turbines; recently developed an interest in the dynamics of vibrations; mentors graduate students, and conducts research in advanced energy systems. He joined Penn State in 1990 after 11 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he specialized in research on absorption technology for space conditioning and as a component of industrial processes. Perez-Blanco has led the design and construction of 12 experimental facilities, from benchtop to full-scale prototype of various concepts. He created an "energy systems" laboratory at Penn State for under- graduates in the areas of design integration and instrumentation. Among his theoretical insights, he has shown that heat transfer enhancement coupled with decreases in the pressure drop of a circulating fluid is an event allowed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Ph.D. (1979), University of Illinois.

Fernando E. Pla-Barby has served the engineering profession and Puerto Rico for almost 40 years. He has been a student, soldier, educator, trainer, consultant, and island activist. His commitment to educational leadership and professional services through ASME and the Colegion de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico has been recognized by both with distinguished awards. Through his long tenure at the University of Puerto Rico, he has been a role model for engineers, faculty, and students. He has built the ME department at UPR and guided the college through ABET reviews. For over 20 years, he has been a consultant to industry in the design of solar energy systems and in the development and training of personnel for major corporations on the island.

Ph.D. (1963), University of Puerto Rico.

Cary Presser has been at the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1980. He currently serves as leader of the Thermal and Reactive Processes Group. He is the co-author of more than 140 archival journal reports and conference articles, and has received several awards in spray combustion, including "Best Paper Awards" three times from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). In 1991 he received the Silver Medal Award, and is listed in the 2001 edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World. Presser has served since 1986 on ASME's K6-Committee on Heat Transfer in Energy Systems, and has been a member since 1995 of the ASME Committee for Academic and Industrial Research. He is also an AIAA Associate Fellow.

Sc.D. (1980), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Rengasamy Ponnappan is a senior researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory and has made significant contri- butions in the heat pipes and thermal sciences area. He has pursued thermal management technologies for over 25 years, and has organized and chaired sessions in many technical conferences. He co-invented the concept of double-wall artery wick, explored gas-loaded liquid metal heat pipe start-up, and developed facilities at WPAFB for testing heat pipes in high "g" centrifuge. His "rotor cooling structure" patent has been licensed by an aircraft alternator manufacturer for improving bearing life and reliability. Ponnappan pioneered research on the high-speed rotating heat pipe. He is the author of five U.S. patents and more than a hundred research publications. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a past chair of ASME's Dayton Section.

Ph.D. (1988), University of Dayton.

Douglas C. Rabe has developed a center of excellence for turbomachinery research through his leadership in the Air Force Research Laboratory. This center provides the foundation for the Air Force Research Laboratory to meet the national goals of the integrated high performance turbine engine technology and the high cycle fatigue programs. Owen has made numerous technical contributions in laser technology, pressure-sensitive paint, and transonic compressor aerodynamics and structures.

Ph.D. (1987), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Koneru Ramakrishna is a nationally recognized leader in the areas of thermal and thermomechanical analysis for electronics packaging, first at IBM Microelectronics division and currently at Motorola's DNA labs. Recently, he has been involved in stress analyses for delamination for Al and Cu interconnects on chips. He has also developed unique and first-of-a-kind simulation-based design guidelines for Joule heating effects in Cu interconnects with TEOS and low-k dielectrics for 0.13 and 0.1 mm technology nodes. The design guidelines are widely used for back end reliability. Ramakrishna has led teams of engineers and technicians, both at IBM and at Motorola, to solve critical product-related design problems. He has been active in ASME for many years, and has organized and chaired sessions and symposia at IMECE, ITherm, and Interpack.

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

Ganesh G. Raman is an expert in the field of flow control and experimental aeroacoustics. At the Illinois Institute of Technology, he has served as associate chair for aerospace engineering. He is particularly known for his research in the areas of supersonic jet noise, screech, and high-speed jet flows. He has more than 100 technical publications to his credit that have appeared in conference proceedings and leading journals. Raman has organized numerous ASME programs, including the Forum on High Speed Jet Flows, the Forum on Advances in Fluids Engineering Education, and the Forum on Fluidics. Raman has also served as chairman of the Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee of ASME. He was awarded the ASME Lewis F. Moody best paper award in 2002.

Ph.D. (1991), Case Western Reserve University.

K. Ravindra, P.E., serves as chair of the aerospace and mechanical engineering department at Parks College of Saint Louis University, has contributed significantly to the engineering educational infrastructure. He started the mechanical engineering program and now it is one of the finest programs in the country. The program has several innovative features, such as courses on state-of-the-art topics (mechatronics and consumer product design), industry-sponsored projects, and hands-on techniques. He is an associate fellow of AIAA.

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

John E. Renaud, P.E., is a faculty member in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He spent five years as a manufacturing systems design engineer with the Eastman Kodak Co. He is a National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award winner and currently is chair of the ASME Design Automation Technical Committee. Renaud's research interests include large-scale numerical optimization, simulation-based design under uncertainty, shape optimization in orthopedics and biomechanics, parallel computing in large-scale optimization, and multifunctional materials. Funding in support of his research efforts has come from the NSF, NASA, General Motors Corp. and the Ford Motor Co., among others.

Ph.D. (1992), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

H. Ronald Riggs has been active in academic and industrial research. His research has produced several well-known design/analysis software programs used in U.S. industry. They include MANOA, Hydran, OCI/HydroMOB and VHC/ PBridge. He conceived and was the primary programmer of MANOA (MAtrix and Numerical-Oriented Analysis), an educational/research tool that is in the public domain and can be downloaded from the Web. It also forms the kernel of the analysis engines of the other three programs. OCI/HydroMOB was developed for the Navy, while VHC/PBridge was developed for the Army. He has over 50 technical publications. In his 15-year teaching career, Riggs's students have become engineers at such prominent organizations as Parametric Technology Corp. and the American Bureau of Shipping.

M.S. (1976), University of California, Berkeley.

William Roquemore has made significant contributions to air breathing combustion (including the revolutionary Trapped Vortex Combustor, Quasi Constant Temperature Engine Cycle), advanced laser based combustion diagnostics, CFD design models, thermally stable jet fuels, and integrated fuel system technologies. He invented the Electro-Optical Sensor for High Temperature Fiber Optical Thermometry and VTOL Landing Site Fabrication. He managed several U.S. Air Force programs related to both fundamental and applied combustion and fuels research. Roquemore has published more than 150 research and technical articles. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1999.

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

Joseph L. Rose, the Paul Morrow Professor in Design and Manufacturing at Pennsylvania State University, is a member of the engineering science and mechanics department. The author of over 380 articles in the ultrasonic field, he has developed eight patents, and published four textbooks on wave mechanics, guided waves, and dispersion principles. Rose is an ASNT Fellow and has received numerous teaching and research awards. Among them are the Mehl Honor Lecture Award in 2001 and the Pennsylvania State University Premier Research Award in 2002.

Ph.D. (1970), Drexel University.

David W. Rosen is currently an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has focused on the intersection of design, manufacturing, and computing, with specific contributions in the areas of design methodology, virtual prototyping, and rapid prototyping. He led a large multidisciplinary rapid prototyping laboratory with an industry consortium and a strong record of technology transfer. Rosen has published more than 80 technical papers and four book chapters. His contributions to ASME include serving as Executive Committee member of the Computers and Information in Engineering Division, chair of the division (2001), conference chair of the 2002 CIE Conference, and an associate editor of the Journal of Computing and Information Sciences in Engineering.

Ph.D. (1992), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jeffrey A. Roux's accomplishments in research and development are not only in the field of thermophysics and heat transfer, but also in composite materials, infrared measurements, solar energy, and optics. His educational leadership, research grants, and technical publications have contributed to strengthening the mechanical engineering department at the University of Mississippi. Roux has received multimillion dollar grants for his consulting services from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the U.S. Air Force. He won the ASME Meritorious Service Award for the Southeastern Region for his contributions to the statewide high school student math and science contest. He earned his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University.

Ph.D. (1970), University of Tennessee.

Ajit K. Roy is known for his broad expertise in experimental and analytical mechanics of composite materials, and his excellence in technical program management. He has developed a three-dimensional variation method to systematically implement fracture mechanics to three-dimensionally reinforced textile composites, along with experiments to identify complex failure mechanism in textile composites. His test method has received widespread acceptance in the industry for measuring shear stiffness and strength of porous materials. Roy served on the executive committee of the French-U.S. carbon-carbon meeting, and as guest co-editor of Composites Science and Technology. As the focal point for the carbon foam program at the Air Force Research Laboratory, he implemented a focused teaming approach among the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, processing industry, and end users to accelerate the maturation of carbon foam technology.

Ph.D. (1985), University of Minnesota.

Marina B. Ruggles-Wrenn, an active ASME member, has published more than 30 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, over 25 technical reports, and has co-authored three books on fatigue, fracture, and high-temperature design methods in pressure vessels and piping. Her design guidelines are used by the Automotive Composites Consortium of the Big 3 automobile manufacturers. In the area of high-temperature structural design methods, she has led efforts to develop a flaw assessment guide for high-temperature reactor components subject to creep-fatigue loading and design guidelines for the prevention of crack initiation due to thermal striping in liquid metal reactors. She is internationally recognized for her expertise in investigating high-temperature material behavior and for her contributions to high-temperature structural design methods.

Ph.D. (1982), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Hemmat H. Safwat, P.E., has spent 36 years in engineering. For 12 years, he was in academia, where he made contributions in solar energy, radiation heat transfer, and fluid transients. At Bechtel Power Corp. for 15 years, he was instrumental in the development of thermal hydraulics analysis tools that have been applied in completing the engineering and licensing of a large number of nuclear plants. He has contributed to water hammer diagnosis in nuclear power plant systems. Since 1997, Safwat has been with Enron, where he has led the development of power cogeneration and desalination plants, plus energy services in the Middle East. He has developed effective methods in technology transfer and introduced a pioneering approach for integration of IT professionals in a large project team. Safwat organized symposiums for ASME and was chairman of the ASME Fluid Transients Committee from 1986 to '88.

Ph.D. (1968), West Virginia University.

In the past 10 years, Samuel M. Sami, P.E., has been very active at ASME annual meetings and ASME/AICHE National Heat Transfer and ASME/JSME Joint Thermal Engineering conferences. He challenges and intrigues ASME members and fellows with his research papers on energy conversion and heat transfer issues in energy systems. He is a member of the ASME Executive Committee for Process Industry Division, vice chair of the PID division, and member of the Advanced Energy Systems Division. Sami sits on the editorial boards of various international scientific journals, including ASME. He is the director of the Research Centre for Energy Conversion (RCEC) at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, and attracts significant research projects.

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

David M. Sanborn, P.E., has had a distinguished and varied career as engineer, educator, entrepreneur, and manager. In the course of his academic tenure, he has been a highly rated teacher, has done significant and varied research, has published numerous papers, and has received the Melville Medal. In industry, he has been a principal in three start-up companies and has developed numerous products and manufacturing techniques. His expertise has been in tribology, rotor dynamics, heat pump development, and high-temperature combustion. Recently, he returned to teaching at Georgia Tech and is the capstone design coordinator.

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

Robert J. Sanford is an internationally renowned scholar and researcher in experimental solid mechanics and fracture mechanics. He has also established himself as a leader in engineering education at the University of Maryland. His efforts have been recognized by his peers through various awards from the Naval Research Labs and the Society for Experimental Mechanics; by his students and colleagues through departmental and national-level awards for outstanding teaching; and by government and industry through the support he has attracted for his research and development work at the University of Maryland and the Naval Research Labs.

Ph.D. (1972), The Catholic University of America.

The career of Joseph Santoleri, P.E., has spanned 54 years, from co-op student at Drexel to senior consultant in the combustion, heat transfer, and incineration field. He began as a fuels engineer at Lukens Steel Co. in Coatesville, Pa. His experience developing a line of high-intensity burners and waste liquid vortex burners at Thermal Research & Engineering Corp. in Conshohocken, Pa., provided the hands-on background for their applications in industry. Santoleri's background in development, design, application manufacturing, field-testing, and start-up enabled him to provide consulting services to industry and government at Four Nines Inc. His expertise in these areas helped many industrial companies to continue operations of waste disposal systems by proper redesign, retrofit, testing, and final acceptance by state and federal regulators.

M.S. (1957), Drexel University.

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Robert J. Santoro's outstanding contributions to mechanical engineering involving the application of laser diagnostics to reacting flows have significantly advanced the understanding of combustion chemistry, the interaction of chemistry and flow, and, most especially, the physics and chemistry of soot-particle interaction. His diagnostic approaches of applying Raman spectroscopy to two-phase combustion or using laser-induced incandescence and optical tomography for measuring soot volume fraction lead the way toward a more fundamental understanding of combustion processes that are important in gas turbines and rocket engines. As an engineering educator, his leadership and guidance of graduate students over the past decade have yielded one of the nation's most productive university laboratories dedicated to combustion research.

Ph.D. (1975), Boston College.