Robert L. Clark, Jr., the senior associate dean for research at Pratt Institute, has provided broad leadership in adaptive structures and was cited in his Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for "outstanding research and development in the field of adaptive structures involving active noise and vibration control." He has pioneered the application of adaptive structures for structural acoustic control and has extended this work to include aero-elastic structures. Clark has served as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, as chair and technical chair of the AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Forum, and as a member of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems TC. Ph.D. (1992), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Harindra J. Fernando is a leading educator and researcher at Arizona State University in the area of fluid mechanics. After completing his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics and postdoctoral work in environmental engineering, he joined ASU in 1984, becoming a full professor in 1992. His research spans turbulence in stratified and rotating fluids, double diffusion, jets and plumes, atmospheric and oceanic flows, and engine cooling problems. He has published more than 120 research papers in archival journals, in addition to numerous conference and seminar presentations. Fernando is on the editorial boards of Applied Mechanics Reviews, Theoretical & Computational Fluid Mechanics and the Journal of Environmental Fluid Mechanics. Ph.D. (1984), Johns Hopkins University.

Mark N. Glauser's career spans 15 years in engineering education, research and development. His contributions are significant in the areas of turbulence, flow control and unsteady aerodynamics, involving government agencies such as NSF, AFOSR, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, Dantec and BEAM Technology. His contributions on turbulence have had significant impacts on various industrial applications within the disciplines of mechanical engineering. Glauser, a mechanical engineering professor at Syracuse University, has had cooperative research programs with institutions abroad (France, Korea), served as a program manager for AFOSR, and currently directs a major research center dedicated to industrial turbulence. Ph.D. (1987), University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Prabhat Hajela has a distinguished record of teaching and research in structural and multidisciplinary optimization. He is internationally recognized for seminal contributions in the adaptation of evolutionary algorithms, neural networks and fuzzy logic in problems of large-scale multidisciplinary design. He has published more than 225 technical papers and four books in related areas. In addition to his contributions to ASME's Aerospace Division, Hajela has held key leadership positions in other technical societies and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is a professor. He is the editor of Evolutionary Optimization, and serves on the editorial boards of five other international journals. Ph.D. (1982), Stanford University.

Crispin Hales is a principal mechanical engineer with Triodyne Inc. of Niles, Ill. He has made significant contributions in forensic engineering, failure analysis, engineering design and mechanical systems. He has investigated major boiler pressure vessel and mechanical equipment failures. As the result of engineering design analysis and the underlying design process, Hales has developed publications and manuals for preventing commercial vehicle accidents and hazardous material prevention for the Federal Highway Administration. He has served ASME International as chair of the Design Theory and Methodology Committee, as a member of the executive committee of the Design Engineering Division and as chair of the Design Engineering Division (1999-2000). Ph.D. (1987), Cambridge University (UK).

Tai-Ran Hsu, P.E., has been a successful practicing engineer, educator and administrator. He worked as a design engineer with fossil and nuclear power plant equipment, and has been a faculty member and the chair of mechanical engineering departments at major universities in both the United States and Canada. Hsu, a professor at San Jose State University, has published 61 journal papers on many different subjects and four books, including a new textbook on MEMS and microsystems design and manufacture in 2002. He served ASME as the program chair of the InterPak '95 Conference and as a session organizer on design education with mechatronics and MEMS for the Congress since 1996. Ph.D. (1968), McGill University, Montreal.

Koichi Ito is a professor in the Department of Energy Systems Engineering at Osaka Prefecture University. His main research interest is optimal planning of several types of energy supply systems, such as cogeneration, district heating and cooling, and fuel cells. Many of his optimization techniques have been adopted by the energy industry. Ito has published over 250 research papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings in addition to over 240 technical reports and 10 books. Currently, he is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Advanced Energy, the Journal of Cogeneration & On-site Power Production, and the Journal of Energy and Resources. Dr. Eng. (1972), Kyoto University.

Alexander L. Kalamkarov, P.E., is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was awarded his Ph.D. degree from Moscow State University in 1979 and Doctor of Sciences degree from the Academy of Science of the USSR in 1990. His academic career spans more than 25 years in research and university teaching. His research in the areas of mechanics of solids, composite material and smart structures is internationally recognized. He has made a significant contribution to the analysis, design and optimization of composite materials and smart structures, manufacturing, testing and application of smart composites. Kalamkarov has authored two monographs and more than 200 research papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and also holds two patents. Sc.D. (1990), Academy of Science, USSR.

Trained initially as an aeronautical engineer specializing in structural mechanics, Frank Chi-Pong Yin has devoted the last 35 years of his career to education and research in the field of biomedical engineering. Applying his expertise in mechanics to living biological materials, he has earned an international reputation for his original contributions in the domains of cell and tissue mechanics. He has been especially recognized for his contributions to the establishment of constitutive equations for the myocardium of the human heart. Together with his numerous students and postdoctoral trainees, Yin has published more than 120 journal pieces. Ph.D. (1970), University of California, San Diego.

Since 1978, Jung Yule Yoo has devoted himself to teaching and research in fluid mechanics and fluids engineering, supervised 14 Ph.D. and 83 M.S. students, and has played an active role in the academic world. As the Associate Dean of Engineering at Seoul National University, he contributed greatly to the Engineering College Expansion Project and, as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the same university, he established various university educational systems. He is presently serving as a vice president of the Korea Society of Mechanical Engineers, as the president of ASME's Korea Section, and as the Secretary General of the Korea Research Foundation in the Ministry of Education. Ph.D. (1977), University of Minnesota.

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