Harry Armen Becomes 123rd ASME President; Inaugural Address Now Online (6/11/04)

Harry Armen, P.E., became the 123rd president of ASME this week at the Society's Summer Annual Meeting, which was held in La Jolla, Calif. He will serve as ASME president until June 2005.

ASME President Harry Armen

An ASME Fellow, Armen has served the Society in a number of leadership positions during his 22-year affiliation.

Armen joined the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1982, becoming active in the ASME Applied Mechanics Division. He served as chair of the Committee on Computing in Applied Mechanics and received the Applied Mechanics Division Award in 1995.

As an ASME Congressional Fellow, Armen worked in the office of Jeff Bingaman, former senator in New Mexico, and assisted on the multi-agency Technology Reinvestment Project of 1993.

Armen is currently the director of technology development at Northrop Grumman Corp., the large U.S. defense contractor located in Bethpage, N.Y.

To learn more about Armen, visit www.asme.org/asme/president.html.

To read Armen's presidential inaugural address, visit www.asme.org/pi/pdf/ArmenInaug0604_1.pdf.



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