Reza S. Abhari is the chair of aerothermodynamics and director of the Turbomachinery Laboratory at ETH Zurich. Abhari's research interests are in the areas of experimental and computational study of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and aeromechanical response of aircraft engines and power generation plants. He is an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, chairperson of the ASME Turbomachinery Committee, and a member of ASME's National Nominating Committee and Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Committee. Ph.D. (1991), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

William C. Elrod, P.E., made significant contributions to education for more than 30 years at the Air Force Institute of Technology and Clemson University through research, teaching, developing graduate level courses, and directing more than 100 master's and doctoral research programs. Prior to joining the AFIT faculty, he led a team of Air Force engineers and physicists in investigating noise suppression and generation and their effect on communities near air bases. He designed AFIT wind tunnel facilities, a noise generator for simulating aircraft engine noise, and a dynamic shaker for a chimpanzee's capsule mounted on the Air Force Aerospace Medical Laboratory centrifuge. Ph.D. (1965), University of Michigan.

Fred W. Emshousen's career in engineering has spanned almost 35 years. Initially, he worked in research and design of environmental systems in commercial aircraft. He then changed careers and applied his talents to the design of thermal systems in the beverage industry. For the past 25 years, Emshousen has worked in the field of educational leadership. He has served through both the faculty and academic administrative ranks at Purdue University and was recently named Acting Dean of the School of Technology. He has served his profession by being a role model in his leadership and commitment to professional service. He has served ASME, ASEE and ABET through almost every leadership role that pertains to technology education. Ph.D. (1983), University of Illinois.

Mohammad H. Hosni is currently a professor and interim department head of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University. He served as director of the Institute for Environmental Research at Kansas State from 1993 until 2001, where he was responsible for acquiring more than $4.5 million in funded research projects from various government, industry and private organizations. Hosni has received a number of research and teaching awards, including the Myers-Alford Teaching Excellence Award in 1997 and the Engineering Research Excellence Award in 2001, from the College of Engineering at Kansas State University. He was the recipient of the 1990 Outstanding Research Paper Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State. In 1999, he received the Symposium Paper Award from the American Society of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineers. Ph.D. (1989), Mississippi State University.

Richard Madden, P.E., has served the mechanical engineering profession in several capacities. His accomplishments include the design of important mechanical and electromechanical devices and systems, such as noise abatement for air bags, aircraft engines and mining equipment; micrometeoroid shields for satellites; load-measurement/monitoring systems for oil platforms, and extra-wide range load cells. In addition, he has done critical R&D on parachute deployment, dynamic loading of fabric structures, and water impact loads on recoverable Space Shuttle boosters. Madden has guided and developed young engineers, as manager of groups and departments in advanced RD&D at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Mass., and as department head at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he incorporated modern design and laboratory instruction into the mechanical engineering curriculum. Ph.D. (1967), Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

William H. Miller, P.E., has had a career spanning more than 30 years, which includes significant achievements in design, engineering management and consulting. He was a recipient of ASME's Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award. For 30 years, he was with Sargent & Lundy, retiring as a senior vice president. While at S&L, he designed HVAC systems for numerous coal-fired and nuclear power plants. He was a division head, guiding large staffs (up to 1,000) of engineers, designers and project planners, in the preparation of engineering and design information, used in the construction of electric power plants. Under his leadership, the transition from manual design and drafting to technology-based CAD/CAE took place. In 2000, Miller joined Innogy America LLC, a division of Innogy plc of the U.K., as founding president and CEO. Innogy America provides consulting, resources and tools for power plants. B.S.M.E. (1968), Marquette University.

Michael R. Von Spakovsky has 13 years of experience in academia and 17 years in industry in mechanical engineering, power utility systems, aerospace engineering and software engineering. From 1970-96, he worked at NASA, in the power utility industry, and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Energy Management Institute at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His major contributions include computational methods for modeling and optimizing complex energy systems; methodological approaches for their integrated synthesis/design, operation and diagnosis (stationary power and high-performance aircraft); and developments in theoretical thermodynamics and fuel cells for transportation and distributed power. Ph.D. (1986), Georgia Institute of Technology.

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