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George E. Saxon's career spans over four decades, from his early days as a production engineer at General Electric, Westinghouse, and Babcock & Wilcox to his current position as chairman of the board at Conco Systems Inc. His no-nonsense approach to resolving difficult problems with engineering facts has led to numerous innovations in effective tube cleaning technology. Condensers cleaned with Conco technology continue to outperform those cleaned by other methods, according to the company. As a result, dramatic savings in fuel, megawatt capacity, carbon dioxide emissions, and heat rate have been achieved in the United States and around the world. Saxon's work has led to advancements in heat transfer research, fouling research, and corrosion protection technology.

B.S. (1955), University of Pittsburgh.

From welfare-to-work efforts to information technology initiatives, George H. Sehi has an understanding of the possibilities for the community and its people. Academic institutions in the United States and abroad have benefited from his expertise while he served on boards and commissions. He currently is dean of the engineering and industrial technologies division at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. He received the Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement from the Engineering and Science Foundation of Dayton in 1998 and the 1999 Frederick J. Berger Award through the American Society for Engineering Education. He participated in several regional and national initiatives related to workforce development.

Ph.D. (1990), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

An international authority in the area of thermomechanical fatigue, Huseyin Sehitoglu has conducted award-winning research into stress-induced phase transformations in metals, and twinning and slip mechanisms in single crystal steels. He received the Beckman Award in the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Marcus Grossman Award of the American Society for Metals International. A former director of the mechanics and materials program at the National Science Foundation, he currently directs the fracture control program at the University of Illinois, and is editor of the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology.

Ph.D. (1983), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

R. Raj Sekar's career in the United States alone has covered more than three decades. His subject matter of choice has been thermoscience and diesel engines. At Cummins Engine Co., he was involved in crucial heat exchanger development at a time when intercoolers were rapidly becoming standard in diesel engines. Later, he participated in the early development of a daring new engine concept, the adiabatic diesel. At Argonne National Laboratory, Sekar started engine research activity from the ground up, and within about a dozen years, he had converted the initial one-man effort into a busy group that had nine professionals and three technicians. His engine research has resulted in groundbreaking technologies, such as the use of membrane gas separation in diesels and X-ray diagnostics for spray research.

M.S. (1969), University of Wisconsin.

The career of Bruno Siciliano, P.E., has spanned two decades. His research interests are focused on robotics and include inverse kinematics, redundant manipulator control, modeling and control of flexible arms, force and visual control, and cooperative robots. He has co-authored three books, co-edited three books, published more than 180 journal and conference papers, and delivered more than 60 invited seminars abroad. He has held representative positions within professional societies, served on the editorial boards of international journals, chaired various conference committees, and received a number of awards and honors. Siciliano has made contributions to dynamic modeling and control of robotic systems, as well as to robotics education.

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

Robert T. Simmons, P.E., has managed complex engineering projects for more than 35 years. His experience has included duty in the Naval nuclear submarine program and engineering ship repair programs, in the commercial nuclear power industry, and in federal research and development. He has developed and implemented project and engineering management systems for industrial nuclear and national and international fusion projects. Before joining the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, he directed engineering modification design packages, systematic technical in-plant walk-downs, spare parts qualification programs, and documentation review programs for configuration confirmation projects at several operating nuclear power plants. He is currently the system engineering support manager with responsibilities for administering a fusion project's configuration management program.

M.B.A. (1975), Ohio State University.

Alok Sinha has significantly advanced the state of the art in developing methods for predicting the vibratory response of gas turbine engines and robust control techniques for flexible structures. He has served as an active member of ASME: an associate technical editor of ASME's Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, meeting organizer, and program committee member. He has made significant contributions to mechanical engineering education at Pennsylvania State University.

Ph.D. (1983), Carnegie Mellon University.

Alexander Slocum earned his Ph.D. from MIT while he was working from 1983-85 at the National Bureau of Standards, where he earned 12 superior service awards and a Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. He has more than 50 patents issued and pending, and helps to design manufacturing equipment for the automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, and entertainment industries. Slocum has been involved in the development of nine products that were awarded R&D 100 awards, each for annually being one of the hundred most technologically significant new products. As a professor at MIT (where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees), he enjoys educating new mechan- ical design engineers.

Ph.D. (1985), MIT.

Winston O. Soboyejo, a world-renowned researcher, scientist, and educator, earned his bachelor's degree from the University of London. He has contributed immensely to the current state of knowledge in fatigue and fracture, mechanical behavior of materials and structures for applications in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and bioengineering for biomedical applications. The author and co-author of several publications in these fields, he is a full professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. He has made outstanding contributions to ASME as well as to other engineering organizations.

Ph.D. (1988), Cambridge University.

Louis J. Soslowsky has been recognized as an international authority on the biomechanics of the shoulder joint, with particular emphasis on rotator cuff injuries in the young athletic population, in the manual labor force, and in the elderly population at large. In addition, he is internationally recognized for the development of novel approaches and for the development of sophisticated models for investigations concerning tendon and ligament injury, healing, repair, regeneration, and functional tissue engineering. Soslowsky has won recognition for his leadership in bioengineering research, education, and training, and has participated extensively in the advancement of the bioengineering field by many contributions.

Ph.D. (2001), Columbia University.

Larry W. Swanson has worked in low-gravity crystal growth, mixed convection, microscopic phase-change phenomena, heat pipes, multicomponent boiling, heat exchangers, radiation heat transfer, combustion, and gas emissions control. He began at Rockwell International, where he developed thermal/fluids models to analyze and design materials processing experiments for the Space Shuttle. This work was used to design and build the Fluids Experiment Apparatus, a NASA Getaway Special capable of growing large single crystals on the Space Shuttle. In 1987, he became an assistant professor at the University of Denver, where his research focused on the role that microscopic phase-change phenomena play in heat pipe performance. After moving on to Heat Transfer Research Inc. in 1992, he made improvements to multicomponent flow boiling and plate heat exchanger models, software, and experimental facilities. In 1998, Swanson went to work for the General Electric Co., where he has developed design models and computer programs for utility and industrial furnaces and boilers.

Ph.D. (1987), UCLA.

Mohammad E. Taslim is an authority on turbine airfoil cooling. He has been conducting research in this area for the past 20 years. He is credited with setting up a research laboratory at Northeastern University that is dedicated to experimental heat transfer research in subsonic and transonic regimes related to gas turbine airfoils and other hot sections. The results were published in the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery and the AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer. He has been an invited lecturer at research institutions such as the Von Karman Institute and industries such as General Electric Aircraft Engines and Siemens-Westinghouse Power Corp. He is a member of the Heat Transfer Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute and has been a regular author and session organizer in its annual meetings.

Ph.D. (1981), University of Arizona.

Karl M. Thomas retired from Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co. as the executive vice president after 33 years of service. During this period, he participated in the design, development, and qualification of the first engine used for the Boeing 747. He was responsible for the design, development, and introduction of a new engine, the PW 2037, for the Boeing 757. The engine program was conducted as an international partnership with German and Italian aircraft companies. From 1985-89, P&W, under the leadership of Thomas, was honored with the "Big Q" Quality Award by the U.S. Air Force in recognition of improvements made by Thomas. Since 1989, he has overseen materials engineering, information systems, international fuel cells, and chief engineer organizations as the group vice president. From 1991 until his retirement he worked as executive VP with responsibility for materials research and development. Under him, there were advances in CFD modeling using parallel computing with numerous workstations.

Sc.D. (1996), Clarkson University.

K. C. Ting, P.E., is a distinguished mechanical and agricultural engineering specialist, with an outstanding record of achievements in teaching, research, professional practice, educational leadership, and public service. He is a professor and department chair at Ohio State University. Ting's major research contributions are in automation and advanced life support systems for human long duration space exploration, robotics for plant and food production, and phytoremediation engineering design. He served as team leader of the systems studies and mathematical modeling team at the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training. He is a recipient of several awards for research from NASA and others. Ting is the author or co-author of more than 150 journal papers, books, and other technical reports.

Ph.D. (1980), University of Illinois.

Masao Toyoda received his B.S., M.S., and doctoral degrees from one of the premier Japanese educational institutions, Osaka University. After graduation, he remained there, progressing through the ranks to professor. An expert in welding mechanics, fracture mechanics, and interface mechanics, Toyoda has published nine books. His accomplishments go beyond engineering, however, as evidenced by his book, Mystery and Emotion: Technology for Splendid Artifacts. He has also authored 197 peer-reviewed papers, 152 proceedings papers, and 76 technical articles. He has received 15 awards, including those from ASME-OOAED and the American Welding Society. He is the current president of the Japan Welding Society.

Ph.D. (1973), Osaka University.

Ifeanyi Charles Ume has published more than 150 technical papers in premier journals and conference proceedings. He has filed six invention disclosures, and one of these has resulted in a spin-off company. Ume has advised 17 Ph.D. students and 19 M.S. students. These students were supported by over $4 million in research funding that he has received from government agencies and industries. Ume has contributed greatly in the pioneering and education of mechatronics throughout the United States. He has also made contributions to the missions of the EPPD and MED of ASME.

Ph.D. (1985), University of South Carolina.

Katie Vandergriff's career spans 17 years. In that time she has been nationally recognized for her expertise in robotics and automation. She applied this expertise to the successful development of a robotic rearming system for the U.S. Army's M-1A1 tank, which allows reloading on the battlefield under most hostile conditions with personnel risk greatly reduced. She has continuously made contributions to the promotion of engineering education and women in engineering, and to the advancement of engineering by participation in professional societies, including ASME. She was a member of the first Leadership Development Initiative and since has contributed to national and local units of the Society.

B.S. (1987), Tennessee Technological University.

Vijay K. Varadan developed a unified T-matrix approach for scattering and diffraction by arbitrary shaped inclusions and defects for acoustic, electromagnetic, and elastic wave fields. He also came up with a noncontact measurement system capable of measuring dielectric and magnetic properties of composites. The system is being marketed through HVS Technologies, which he founded in 1986. He has created wireless passive MEMS and SAW sensors for remote measurement of temperature, humidity, pressure, and torque, and health monitoring of structures. Varadan also developed a micro stereolithography system for production of truly 3-D MEMS, bioMEMS and nanostructures with carbon nanotubes, and invented a novel microwave CVD system for the large-scale production of carbon nanotubes.

Ph.D. (1974), Northwestern University.

Ting Wang has been actively involved in gas turbine research and has contributed to the mechanical engineering community in full spectrum for the past 22 years. He has done research in fluid dynamics and heat transfer in gas turbine hot sections, including laminar-turbulent transition, surface roughness, separated flow, curved flow, and jet impingement cooling. His contributions to gas turbine application include employing air extraction for IGCC systems and applying mist/steam cooling to the Advance Turbine Systems. Wang has also been active in advocating clean coal technologies, especially for organizing the IGCC panel at the annual ASME Turbo Expo and for IGCC utilization in China and Taiwan. He teaches professional engineer review courses, and serves the gas turbine community by organizing workshops and technical and panel sessions. He is serving on three ASME committees.

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

Robert G. Watts, P.E., has been an expert in climate change research for over 25 years, and has played a key role in establishing and maintaining ASME involvement in this field. He was among the first to investigate the complex interactions between ocean circulation patterns and climate, suggesting the possibility that the climate change signal is hiding in the deep oceans. He is also an expert on innovative energy strategies to meet future global demand, while stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. He has written over 50 journal publications and authored or edited four books, including Innovative Energy Strategies for CO₂ Stabilization. He has written extensively on the science of sports, especially the physics of baseball, including a book called Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Curveballs, Knuckleballs, and The Fallacies of Baseball.

Ph.D. (1965), Purdue University.

During his 30-year career as an engineering educator, Nihal E. Wijeysundera has excelled in teaching, research, industry interaction, and professional/community service. He developed teaching programs in thermal sciences at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the National University of Singapore. His contributions to research in the areas of solar thermal systems, thermal insulation, and refrigeration systems are internationally recognized. He has acted as a consultant to industry on a number of projects on thermal system design, evaluation of thermal transmittance, and energy storage. As an active member of ASME, he has held several positions on the Executive Committee of the ASME Singapore Section, including the chairmanship.

Ph.D. (1972), University of Birmingham, England.

Paul J. Wilbur, P.E., has made significant contributions in the areas of ion thrusters, plasma contactors, electrothermal ramjets, and ion implantation of materials. These contributions have resulted in the publication of 101 journal articles, 98 conference papers and two patents. He has been the advisor to 15 Ph.D. students and 22 master's students, who have taken leadership roles in the spacecraft industry and in academia. Many of them consider Wilbur to be "one of the fathers of spacecraft electric propulsion," as the ion propulsion systems used in many satellites can trace their roots back to his work.

B.S. (1960), University of Utah.

Seung M. You is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has extensive research experience in experimental thermal science and heat. His contributions are related to high-heat-flux heat transfer phenomena with phase changes in microscale structures. He has made contributions to understanding and enhancing nucleate boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux. Also, he has applied fundamental findings to thermal management of high-power microelectronics using liquid cooling techniques. You invented a microporous boiling heat transfer enhancement coating and two-phase metal alloy system for thermal interface materials. He has authored about 90 technical papers.

Ph.D. (1990), University of Minnesota.

T.X. Yu has made outstanding research contributions in impact dynamics, engineering plasticity, and energy absorption of materials and structures. This work has embraced diverse topics, such as the dynamic response and failure of structures, mechanics of sheet metal forming, textile composites, and cellular materials. He has written a book, Plastic Bending: Theory and Applications and Dynamic Models for Structural Plasticity (with W. J. Stronge) and published more than 300 academic papers. Currently, he is head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Institute of Microsystems at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ph.D. (1983), Cambridge University.

Chenn Qian Zhou is a professor and the engineering graduate program coordinator at Purdue University Calumet. She has developed high-quality engineering curricula at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Zhou is an expert on CFD applications, multiphase reacting flow, combustion, and air pollution control. Since 1995, she has been collaborating with Argonne National Laboratory. She is leading the charge in the development of state-of-the-art CFD tools for industries, including aluminum, glass, paper and pulp, refining, and steel. She has published more than 100 technical papers. Zhou received university outstanding teacher and researcher awards in 1999 and outstanding northwest Indiana researcher, Northwest Indiana Chapter of Sigma Xi in 2001.

Ph.D. (1991), Carnegie Mellon University.

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Yitshak Zohar, a professor at Penn State University, has made seminal contributions in research, education, and service to the mechanical engineering profession. He is among the pioneers in studying two-phase flow in microchannels and attained international recognition for it. He has developed a statistical technique for identifying a new dissipation scale in turbulent shear flows. Zohar is one of the founding members of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he established the curriculum for MEMS and experimental fluid mechanics. He is a founding member of the ASME Hong Kong Section.

Ph.D. (1990), University of Southern California.