Three Honorary Members are named

Jack Raplee
ASME NEWS

Three individuals were named Honorary Members of ASME at the Summer Annual Meeting in June.

The highest grade of ASME membership was granted to Jan D. Achenbach, Bei Tse Chao and Amos E. Holt. Official honors will be granted at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Nov. 17-22 in New Orleans.

According to the ASME Constitution, an Honorary Member must be "a person with distinctive accomplishments in engineering, science, industry, research or public service and those allied pursuits must be beneficial to the engineering profession."

Achenbach is an ASME Fellow, and is the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, and is director of the Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He has published more than 350 research papers, served on several editorial boards for technical journals, and has held several positions on ASME and non-ASME committees.

Chao is a Life Fellow and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began publishing technical papers in 1951 and has focused on fluidized bed research since the late 1970s. He has received several ASME honors, and has served as a consultant to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and Argonne National Laboratory, as well as to several universities.

Holt, an ASME Fellow, is vice president of Institute Quality Systems in San Antonio, Texas. He is an author or co-author of 50 publications, holds several patents and has served in various leadership positions on ASME committees.

Nominations for ASME's highest grade of membership are submitted to the Committee on Honors, which makes recommendations to the Board of Governors. The Board makes a final determination. ASME's constitution limits designations to five Honorary Members each year.

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