John J. Adamczyk, P.E., is currently a senior technologist at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. He has been actively involved in the analysis and modeling of turbo machinery flows since 1966. Since 1984, the primary focus of this research has been on the analysis of multistage turbo machinery flows using his Average Passage Technique. This activity includes model formulation, code development and closure modeling. This model is being incorporated into the design systems of numerous gas turbo engine manufacturers, and its use has resulted in significant performance improvements in a number of major turbine engines, ranging in size from the GE90 and PW4000 to the Williams GAP engine. Ph.D. (1971), University of Connecticut.

Kent L. Biringer, P.E., has had a career involving research, analysis and project management, primarily at Sandia National Laboratories. His work includes photovoltaic system development, geotechnical analysis of strategic petroleum reserve storage caverns, systems studies of missile defense, U.S. transportation infrastructure, manned space exploration, conventional forces and nuclear arms control. Since 1993, he has helped establish and direct programs at Sandia's Cooperative Monitoring Center. The center applies monitoring technologies to international security agreements in support of national nonproliferation and arms control objectives. He is a member of the technical staff at Sandia, has authored over 30 papers and is registered in New Mexico. M.S. (1975), Rice University.

Sushil K. Chatruvedi has received 10 awards for his superior teaching skills. His innovations include video help sessions for undergraduate thermodynamics students, development of television-based courses and creation of a global engineering cluster for undergraduate students. He has performed research and made contributions in the areas of atmospheric spray cooling systems and single and multicomponent phase change solar collectors. He has also developed a new technique for measurement of combustion heat, received a patent for exhaust gas-powered truck refrigeration system and received a patent for a fast response oxygen concentration monitoring system for hypersonic wind tunnels. Chaturvedi has published 88 technical papers and reports, and is the recipient of six awards for research and technical innovations, including five from NASA. Ph.D. (1975), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Chih-Hsin Chen initiated and developed the study of the theory of conjugate surfaces, and developed its applications to numerous technical realms: gearings, theory of mechanisms, analysis and design of innovative mechanisms (bio-like robots) with multipoint conjugation joints, motion interpolation for numerical machining and animation, multibody system dynamics/ conjugato-elasto-dynamics, and surface interpolation of computation graphics through his three books and more than 20 professional articles in English. B.S.M.E. (1952), Quin-Hua University.

Donald W. Dareing, P.E., has spent half his career in industry and half in academia. His industrial experiences range from research to overseas field operations, while his academic experiences include teaching, research and administration. His industrial experience has been mainly in the petroleum area. His early industrial research included measurements of mechanical vibrations along drill strings. Dareing used this data to develop mathematical models for predicting dynamic forces along drill strings and at the drill bit. This work has been a key reference for current drilling practices. Much of his university research has focused on lubrication of bearings using transfer films, powder slurry lubricants and dry powder lubricants. As a department head at the University of Tennessee, he successfully led his department through the new ABET EC 2000 accreditation evaluation process. Ph.D. (1962) University of Illinois.

Maher Elmasri, president of Thermo Flow Inc., is a world leader in the development of software for the design and simulation of gas turbine-based power plants. His computer codes have been developed and marketed through Thermo Flow, a company that he founded. His company's products are used by over 650 companies worldwide. In addition, Elmasri has published a string of papers on gas turbine performance. He is an engineer with theoretical and computational ability, who earned a master's in science from Alexandria University in Egypt. Ph.D. (1978), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

M. Reza Eslami has contributed to undergraduate and graduate programs and courses at Amirkabir University of Technology since earning his Ph.D. During these years, he served as a consultant to the Minister of Mines and Industry and Defense of Iran on issues that related to his work in solid mechanics and design. Through his participation in ASME and AIAA, working with his students and colleagues, he has been able to do research and publish his findings in various journals in the United States and abroad. He has written books, on his own and in collaboration with others, to further the technical base in his country, Iran. His involvement in ASME professional activities can be traced back to his contributions to ASME meetings and short courses he has presented on codes and standards. Ph.D. (1973), Louisiana State University.

John F. Gehbauer, P.E., served as senior technical executive of the U.S. Army, TACOM-ARDEC's Close Combat Armaments Center for eight years, and is a member of the Senior Executive Service. He is the technical leader of 600 scientists, engineers and support personnel. The Close Combat Armaments Center has over 1,000 product lines used in support of air defense, aircraft, combat vehicles, infantry and armor weapon systems. Gehbauer has been recognized for his industrial leadership and program management. He was a recipient of the Picatinny Chapter of National Defense Industrial Association's Firepower Award for Systems Development in 1992. In 1994, he received the Vice Presidential Hammer Award for Reinventing Government, and the NDIA Guns and Ammunition Section Special Achievement Award. B.S.M.E. (1964), Pennsylvania State University.

Steven A. Goldstein has been a faculty member and scientist in the area of biomedical engineering for the past 18 years. He founded the Orthopedic Research Laboratories at the University of Michigan, which supports more than 65 individuals, including faculty, graduate students, technical staff and trainees. The Laboratories have been responsible for the publication of over 400 scientific papers and have turned out more than 100 Ph.D., M.S. or B.S. students and fellows. Scientific findings have ranged from fundamental measures of the mechanical properties of bone and its dynamic response to physical biologic stimuli to novel approaches for treating fractures, the development of artificial joint prostheses, and the development of a localized gene therapy for wound repair. Ph.D. (1981), University of Michigan.

Andrew Jackson, P.E., joined Mobil Oil in 1974 and is an internationally recognized leader in the field of tribology. He was president of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) in 1995-96 and has served on the STLE board since 1983. His research on elastohydrodynamic lubrication, rolling contact fatigue, engine lubrication and synthetic lubricants resulted in 18 patents and over 30 papers, with three best-paper awards. He wrote the Mobil EHL Guidebook, used worldwide for gear and bearing lubricant selection and received an ACS Hero of Chemistry award with a Mobil team for work on synthetic engine oils. Jackson is section head of Advanced Lube Sciences at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research in Clinton, N.J. Ph.D. (1974), Imperial College, London.

Charles F. Larson, P.E., has been involved in two major areas of engineering endeavor. As the assistant director of the Welding Research Council and as the secretary of the Pressure Vessel Research Committee, he has made significant contributions in the areas of materials, design, fabrication and nondestructive examination of pressure vessels. He was instrumental in founding the Pressure Vessel and Piping Division of ASME and served on its committees. His current position as president of the Industrial Research Institute Inc., a not-for-profit association of corporate R&D managers, involves interaction nationally as well as globally, with the public, governments and industry. Larson contributes to many studies, task forces and surveys dealing with industrial research and innovation. In this high-level position, he is the spokesperson for a consortium of 270 U.S. companies engaged in a $200 billion industrial research and development effort. M.B.A. (1973), Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Yu-Tai Lee, P.E., has focused on the design and analysis of naval vehicle propulsion and turbo machinery systems. He developed computational methods for analyzing complex turbo machinery flow and coupled CFD/optimization calculation scheme for designing turbo machinery components. He has bridged basic academic research with industrial applications. Using CFD solutions, he has developed efficient schemes for statistical aero/hydro acoustics source modeling for rotating machinery. The effectiveness of his developed computational methods was demonstrated in his extensive design practice. Lee has greatly enhanced high-pressure fan efficiency and reduced its sound levels for shipboard ventilation systems. He collaborates extensively with university research efforts and is active in ASME activity. He serves several technical committees and organizes symposia for ASME's FED and IGTI. Ph.D. (1978), University of Iowa.

Martin Ostoja-Starzweski has been associated with academia for 15 years and, since 1995, has been a professor of materials engineering at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology, and adjunct faculty at Georgia Tech. He is known for his research in stochastic mechanics and mechanics of random media, having done pioneering work in a micromechanics-based formulation of stochastic constitutive laws of heterogeneous materials. He used these results for derivation of random fields and stochastic finite elements with a direct link to material microstructure in elasticity as well as plasticity, fracture/damage and (steady-state and transient) wave phenomena. This formulation is sufficiently general to apply to systems ranging from metals, composites, ceramics and ice fields to functionally graded and granular materials. Since 1998, he has been chair of the Technical Joint Committee on Constitutive Equations. Ph.D. (1983), McGill University, Montreal.

Robert W. Pitz, P.E., has achieved international recognition for his research in laser diagnostics of combustion. He has pioneered the development of ultraviolet excimer lasers for measurement of subsonic and supersonic turbulent reacting flows. He was the first to demonstrate instantaneous multipoint, multispecies measurements of concentration and temperature with excimer-induced Raman scattering. Pitz has patented new laser tagging methods for unseeded velocity measurements in airflows and flames using ultraviolet excimer lasers. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987 and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Best Paper Award in propellants and combustion in 1996. Ph.D. (1981), University of California, Berkeley.

Claire Marguerite Soares, P.E., has over 25 years of experience in gas turbine, steam turbine and rotating machinery specification, engineering and retrofit design, installation, failure analysis and on-site problem solving. As managing director of EMM Systems, which she founded in 1991, she consults worldwide for the oil, gas, petrochemical and power generation industries. Soares has developed and conducted technical training courses in turbo machinery maintenance audits, life assessment and condition monitoring. In addition to technical papers, she has authored or co-authored four technical books and has a fifth one underway. She received her B.S.M.E. from the University of London in 1972. MBA (1993), University of Dallas.

Sherrill Stone, P.E., has spent 40 years in engineering. From modest beginnings in the small town of Nashville, Ark., he has risen to the position of chief executive officer of Peerless Mfg. Co. in Dallas, a company with annual revenue in excess of $40 million. Throughout his years at the helm of Peerless, Stone has stressed the importance of international activities, adherence to codes and standards, manufacturing accreditation, industry relations and continuing engineering education. His success has been built upon superior engineering standards, a high degree of personal integrity, leadership skills and in-the-trenches experience. B.S. (1960), Texas Tech University.

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