Erik Karl Antonsson, P.E., has contributed in many ways to design teaching and research. He and his students have constructed computational methods to support design programs, particularly during the conceptual phase. In addition to his mechanical design research, he has conducted research on the creation of methods to facilitate design of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). For the past 15 years, Antonsson has been responsible for creation and teaching of the design curriculum at the California Institute of Technology. He currently serves as chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Cal Tech. Ph.D. (1982), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert H. Cantwell, Jr., P.E., has excelled in the area of locomotive brake design for more than 20 years. During that time, he has designed and supplied many brake variations to satisfy the needs of General Motors' Electromotive Division for both domestic and import locomotives. His innovations have also included a unique type of truck-mounted brake for freight cars. He initiated many improvements in manufacturing techniques for heavy components and, at the same time, nurtured his employees with extraordinary scholarships to complete their engineering education. His leadership in ASME over the years culminated in his being elected chairman of the Rail Transportation Division. During his term, he developed the long-range program for the division. He earned his B.S.M.E. from Georgia Tech in 1978. MBA (1995), University of Chicago.

Ming-Chien Chyu, P.E., is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University. In his academic career since 1984, Chyu has taught more than a dozen undergraduate and graduate courses, primarily in thermal-fluid science and engineering, and has won four teaching awards at Texas Tech. He has nearly 90 technical publications on enhanced boiling heat transfer, spray film evaporation, boiling in narrow channels, thermal control of superconducting systems, moisture effect on insulation, etc. He has received ASME's Advanced Energy Systems Division Best Paper Award, the Technical Paper Award from ASHRAE, the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineering and the Outstanding Researcher Award at Texas Tech. He is a member of the ASME K-10 Committee on Heat Transfer Equipment in the Heat Transfer Division, and is the chair of the Superconductivity Technical Committee in the ASME Advanced Energy System Division. Ph.D. (1984), Iowa State University.

John H. Crankshaw worked closely with Adm. Hyman Rickover's Reactors Group personnel for more than three decades. During that time, he conceived and designed the main propulsion coupling used on all submarines since 1961 to join a flexibly mounted power plant to a fixed propeller shaft, simultaneously providing for the transmission of full-power torque, accommodating substantial misalignment, and isolating vibration from being transmitted along the shaft system. His contributions to the effectiveness of U.S. submarines were uniquely single-handed and contributed a great deal to their success. Crankshaw has 27 U.S. and five foreign patents. M.S. (1940), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Shmuel Einav, P.E., is an expert in biofluid dynamics and biomedical engineering. He is director of the Ela Kodesz Institute for Medical Engineering and Physical Sciences, and scientific director of the Slezak Super Center for Cardiac Research and Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. He holds a Distinguished Visiting Faculty position at California Institute of Technology. Einav has published more than 100 scientific articles, abstracts and chapters in his field. He has several patents, including a prosthetic heart valve, intra-aortic support pump, MRI of blood flow and ultrasound recanalization system. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Illinois Institute of Technology. Ph.D. (1980), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Youjiang Wang, P.E., joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and is currently associate professor in the School of Textile and Fiber Engineering. He has developed and taught courses on fibers, textiles and composites, and through research has made significant contributions to the fields of textile engineering, fibrous waste recycling and textile composites. Wang has more than 80 publications in these areas, and he has received several teaching and research awards. He is a Fellow of the Textile Institute and currently serves as an associate technical editor of ASME's Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. Ph.D. (1989), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Peng S. Wei is a professor in the mechanical engineering department at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has published more than 25 papers in internationally recognized archival journals. Original contributions include work on quantitative results and control of the melting and molten metal flow around an electron beam welding cavity; the effect of secular reflection on energy absorption in an electron beam cavity; the deflection of an electron beam induced by thermoelectric magnetism during welding of dissimilar metals; resistance spot welding; rippling of a weld bead during solidification; the shape of a pore trapped in the solid phase during freezing; and transport processes across the space-charge layer between a plasma and solid surface. Ph.D. (1974), University of California, Davis.

William Martin Worek is recognized for his work in combined heat and mass transfer, as one of the leading experts in the area of sorption technologies as they apply to alternate cooling technologies. The systems that use solids or liquid sorbents include zeolites, silica gel, activated carbon, activated alumina, and solutions of calcium chloride and lithium chloride or glycols, where the sorbate can be water, methanol, ammonia or carbon dioxide. The objective of his research is to develop air-conditioning systems that have the potential to control and improve indoor air quality and do not use chlorinated fluorocarbons (CFCs). Ph.D. (1980), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

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