Adrian Bejan, an ASME Fellow, received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Moldova. He was also inducted as an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova. Bejan is the J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University. Among his ASME honors are the Max Jacob Award, the Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the Worcester Reed Warner Medal, the James H. Potter Gold Medal and the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award. He has been a member of ASME since 1973.

Robert H. Dodds, Jr., holder of the M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Chair of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was the recipient of the 2001 American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Award of Merit. The award is the society's highest honor for individual contributions to standards work. The award is accompanied by the title of Fellow. Dodds was recognized for his distinguished and sustained technical contributions to ASTM Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture, and for his leadership role in understanding the effects of constraint and its implications for standards that address elastic-plastic fracture mechanics. Dodds has been a member of ASME since 1993.

Former ASME President Leroy S. "Skip" Fletcher received the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award at the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) annual conference in June. Fletcher is Regents Professor and Thomas Dietz Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Established in 1928, the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award recognizes excellence in teaching, contributions to research and technical literature, and achievements that advance the profession of engineering college administration.

Fletcher, an ASME Honorary Member and Fellow, is an engineering educator who has served as an inspiring teacher, researcher, administrator and practicing engineer. His educational books for first-year engineering students have been used extensively, and his service as department chair at the University of Virginia and associate dean at Texas A&M led to many improvements. His service as president of both ASME and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has had a lasting favorable impact on engineering education, and his appointment as Director of Aerospace at NASA Ames Research Center demonstrates his achievements outside the field of teaching.

Fletcher has been actively involved in ASEE during his 34-year affiliation, serving as a member of the board of directors, the Long-Range Planning Committee, the Engineering Research Council, the Projects Board, the Fellow Member Committee, the Centennial Committee, the Honorary Membership Committee, the George Westinghouse Award Committee, the Awards Policy Committee and the Nominating Committee. He was named an ASEE Fellow in 1984. He served as ASME President from 1985-1986. He has been an ASME member since 1958.

The board of directors of SC Companies Inc. elected Richard K. Miller as a director. SC Companies is the parent company of Stanley Consultants Inc., Stanley Design-Build Inc. and Stanley Environmental Inc. Miller is the founding president and a professor of mechanical engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, an undergraduate engineering college that is being established near Boston. Miller served as dean of the University of Iowa's College of Engineering from 1992-99, and he received five teaching awards at two universities. He has been a member of ASME since 1997.

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