2012–2013 AnnuAl RepoRt

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I am proud to present the 2012–13 Annual Report highlighting the fabulous accomplishments of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni over the past year. The Woodruff School enjoyed record enrollments as we implemented our new flexible curriculum while expanding the design-build-innovate component through the Invention Studio and multidisciplinary capstone design experiences. We enjoyed a record year by winning $39.9M in new research awards, which led the College of Engineering. One faculty team won a multi-university research program on the design of inherently safe nuclear reactors while three of our faculty members won large new ARPA-E programs. The fact that four of our junior faculty members received NSF CAREER Awards signifies that we continue to recruit the best and the brightest to the ranks of the Woodruff School’s faculty.

In 2012, we celebrated the 50 year founding of the Nuclear Engineering program at Georgia Tech. It was gratifying to welcome so many NRE alumni and retired faculty members to campus to acknowledge their many contributions to the success of this critically important program.

By any measure 2012–13 was a tremendously successful year. Transforming the lives of our students as well as making significant contributions to solve global challenges are two of our most important accomplishments. We also continued to be an integral member of the Georgia Tech community through a wide range of collaborations and through generating over $100 million in revenue for Georgia Tech.

These are among the many accomplishments that inspire us as we celebrate 125 years of Engineering the Future: ME125, the 125th anniversary of Mechanical Engineering, throughout the upcoming 2013–2014 academic year. The momentum and quality of the Woodruff School will propel future generations of our students and faculty to continue to change the world!

Best Regards,Bill WepferEugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair and Professor

We welcome the following new faculty & staff members to the Woodruff School:

Assistant Professorbegins Nov. 2013

Hailong Chen

Assistant Professorbegan Jan. 2013

Julie Linsey

Assistant Professorbegan Nov. 2012

Anna EricksonProfessorbegan Dec. 2012

Surya KalidindiAssistant Professorbegan July 2013

Tony KimAssistant Professorbegan Jan. 2013

Seung Woo Lee

Assistant Professorbegan Aug. 2013

Julien MeaudAssociate Professorbegins Jan. 2014

Jerry QiAssistant Professorbegan Aug. 2013

Jonathan RogersAssistant Professorbegins Jan. 2014

Shannon Yee

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Lenna Applebee Academic Advisor, began Jan. 2013

Lula Baker HR Coordinator, began Apr. 2013

Kathleen Halley Grants Administrator, began June 2013

Candler Hobbs Communications Officer, began Feb. 2013

Louise Lowe Mail Clerk, began Oct. 2012

Crystal Petway Administrative Professional, began Aug. 2013

Angela Smith Administrative Professional, began July 2013

Calla Talman Academic Advisor, began July 2013

Nathaniel Watkins Financial Administrator, began Apr. 2013

Kenneth Williams Administrative Professional, began Nov. 2012

Student GRoupS

me125: the 125th AnniveRSARy of meChAniCAl enGineeRinG

With thAnkS to ouR SponSoRS:

There are a number of groups for students to join in the Woodruff School. These organizations offer a unique opportunity to learn about the many facets of mechanical engineering, meet practicing professionals, and provide valuable service to the School. Read more...

Competition teAmSGeorgia Tech CanSat Team GT Off-Road GT Motorsports HyTech Racing RoboJackets Solar Jackets Wreck Racing

Student GRoupSMakers Club Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association (MEGA) NRE Student Advisory CommitteeWoodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW)Woodruff School Student Advisory Committee (WSSAC)

honoR SoCietyPi Tau Sigma

pRofeSSionAl SoCietieSAmerican Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)American Nuclear Society (ANS) Acoustical Society of America (ASA)American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)SAE International Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

In 2013, the Woodruff School celebrates

125 YEARS of ENgiNEERiNg THE fuTuRE.

Visit me125.gatech.edu to view our interactive

timeline, sign the ME125 guestbook, subscribe

to the MEGaTech newsletter, plan to attend

events throughout the 2013–2014 academic

year, and make a gift to benefit the Woodruff

School in an effort to leverage our history so as

to continue to ensure the success of our future.

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Mechanics of Materials

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Fine-tune specific skills by earning a

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The new ME curriculum offers a remarkably flexible path to complete your degree, utilizing the breadth or depth option

5 Free Electives + 2 ME Electives

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minor

Gen. Ed. & General Engineering Prep

60hrsME Core

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36 hrsEngineering Design

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The strength of ME curriculum includes fundamentals as well as experience in professional practice and design

Mechanical Engineering is transforming into Multidisciplinary Engineering

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The GT ME degree delivers an amazing start to a successful career

GT BSME's are also offered signing bonuses that average $6,000

Broaden skills by pursuing interests outside ME, earning a

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Job prospects & mobility are remarkably high for GT BSME’s

All industry & service sectors hire ME’s

neW undeRGRAduAte CuRRiCulum

Providing students with more flexibility regarding which courses

they take is at the heart of the change to the mechanical

engineering curriculum. The new Woodruff School curriculum,

effective Summer 2012, retains the strengths of the previous

program, giving students a broad grounding in the fundamentals as

well as experience in professional practice and design. The change

in the curriculum lies in the opportunity for students to elect to

expand their knowledge beyond mechanical engineering, pursuing

interests in multidisciplinary topics, or elect to deeply concentrate

in one specialized area of mechanical engineering. Use your

smartphone to scan the QR code below for even greater details on

the curriculum conversion. Read more...

About the WoodRuff SChool

The first degree offered at the Georgia School of Technology, as the Institute was called at its inception in 1888, was the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Today, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering offers:

3 bachelor of science programs 6 master of science programs 2 doctor of philosophy programs

RAnkinGS, 2012 U.S. News & World Report

national ranking of NRE graduate program

no. 10no. 6national ranking of

ME graduate program

no. 3national ranking of

ME undergraduate program

deGReeS AWARded, 2012–2013

PhD Degrees

43243MS Degrees

438BS Degrees

enRollment

309 women 259 international

2,103undergraduate students

178 distance learning 126 women 225 international

814+455 MS 359 PhD

graduate students

finAnCe

$39.6mnew sponsored research awards for FY13

State$23,736,151

Gt foundation$4,943,485

Sponsored Research$24,361,209

fy13 expenditures

fACulty & StAff

93number of full-time, tenure-track faculty

19 senior faculty with endowed or distinguished chairs

29 faculty with NSF Early CAREER Awards

14 National Academy of Engineering members who hold emeritus or adjunct appointments

59 staff members

+ adjunct appointments27

34 research faculty

7 academic professionals

nSf CAReeR AWARd WinneRS

ARpA-e AWARd WinneRS

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

During the 2012-2013 academic year, four faculty members of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering were awarded NSF CAREER Awards and will receive funding for their research over the next five years. Further, CAREER Awards include an outreach component, in which the recipient of the award must integrate an educational activity as part of their research proposal.

Researchers from the Woodruff School were awarded grants totaling $9.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop energy technology solutions. The new awards are for projects involving solar fuel generation and power generation from vortices of solar heated air.

Srinivas garimella, Hightower Chair in Engineering and Professor, was awarded $2.3 million from the Department of Defense-Navy and ARPA-E to develop a highly efficient absorption heat pump for military use. The pump, using exhaust heat from a diesel generator, could lower the amount of energy used for heating and cooling at forward operation bases by 50 percent. Read more...

Ari glezer, George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems and Professor, is to receive $3.7 million from ARPA-E to develop a method to capture energy from “dust devils,” wind vortices that harvest the thin layer of hot air along the ground created by the sun. If successful, Georgia Tech’s approach could cost 25 percent less than conventional wind and 60 percent less than traditional solar power. Read more...

Asegun Henry, Assistant Professor, will receive $3.6 million from ARPA-E to develop a high-efficiency solar reactor to produce solar fuel. Using liquid metal, the reactor transports heat away from the sunlight-collection point to a chemical reaction zone, minimizing the loss of solar heat. This system could enable cost-effective solar fuels that would be used for transportation and continuous electric power generation. Read more...

Nazanin Bassiri-gharb was awarded for her research into the geometric control of flexoelectricity in patterned dielectric thin films. For her outreach project, she will look to recruit and retain women in science and engineering.Read more...

Alper Erturk’s CAREER Award was in his research on the electroelastic dynamics of flexible piezoelectric composites for enhanced biomimetic locomotion and energy harvesting. As outreach, he will inspire underrep-resented and minority K-12 students to study in the STEM fields. Read more...

David Hu was awarded for his research on the locomotion through particulate environments by inver-tebrates and vertebrates. Hu plans to establish a student photography organization to facilitate scientific communication to the public for his outreach project. Read more...

olivier Pierron received his award for his research on the fundamental investigation of surface fatigue crack initiation mechanisms in nanocrys-talline FCC metals. In outreach, he will develop a summer enrichment program for high school students.Read more...

nSf AWARdS GeoRGiA teCh With $7.3m

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Georgia Tech and the Griffin-Spalding County School System a five-year, $7.3 million grant to enhance middle and high-school education in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

The initiative — led by the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) — will introduce about 5,100 Griffin-Spalding County students in grades six through nine to advanced manufacturing learning experiences, such as working with robots and creating items using computer design and 3-D printers.

Called Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP), the project aims to inspire students to study STEM topics, particularly manufacturing, by exploring their creativity and watching their creations come to life.

Additionally, Georgia Tech faculty will be using the project for research purposes. They will be investigating whether STEM innovation and design courses impact students’ academic engagement, content understanding, knowledge transfer and persistence in STEM. Researchers will also study how professional development of teachers affects the deployment of the advanced manufacturing curriculum, and will explore and describe the barriers to change within educational systems.

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inventuRe pRize WinneR

Christopher Taylor, ME senior, won Georgia Tech’s 5th annual Inventure Prize competition, an invention competition designed to encourage and support Georgia Tech students’ interest in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Broadcast on Georgia Public Broadcasting March 13, 2013, Taylor’s invention, Chewbots, stole the show. Chewbots are a line of fully automated robotic dog toys that make owning a dog easier and are more exciting and interactive for dogs.

As the winner, Taylor walked away with $20,000 provided by Google, a patent for his invention, and a spot in Georgia Tech’s startup accelerator program, Flashpoint.

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ReSeARCh & ACAdemiA

Under the support of the Office of Naval Research, Karim Sabra, associate professor, is developing a passive acoustics means to monitor ocean temperatures variations due in part to global warming effects. This passive technique relies on using previously unexploited recordings of ocean ambient noise from existing hydrophones arrays installed in the world. Read more...

Using piezoelectric materials, Jun Ueda, assistant professor, and Joshua Schultz (ME Ph.D. ’12), replicated the muscle motion of the human eye to control camera systems in a way designed to improve the operation of robots. Read more...

An interdisciplinary team including Craig Forest, assistant professor, was awarded a $4.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. The research team will undertake a five-year effort (2012-2017) to develop new precision robotics that will enable biologists and clinicians to automatically assess the gene expression profile, shape, and electrical properties of individual cells embedded in intact tissues such as the brain. Read more...

Bert Bras, professor, and researchers from Georgia Tech are partnering with GE and Ford Motor Co. to study ways to add greater efficiencies to electric driving and charging performance. Read more...

Minami Yoda, professor, was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society by the Division of Fluid Dynamics “for outstanding contributions for experimental fluid dynamics and optical diagnostics and, specifically, for innovative contributions to the development of evanescent-wave illumination techniques to study flows in near-wall regions.” Read more...

Professors Yogendra Joshi, Satish Kumar, and Minami Yoda have successfully initiated a Site for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) in Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2) to develop new methods for synergistically operating electronic systems and cooling equipment, as dynamic self-sensing and self-regulating systems that are predictive, stable, and verified in real time. Read more...

The research and academic activities at the Woodruff School are defined by our people. Our faculty self-select into one or more research area groups, as well as participate in interdisciplinary centers across campus, many of which are run by the Woodruff School. The size and quality of our research program, along with our ability to partner and collaborate with teams of fellow Georgia Tech colleagues, as well as external companies and organizations, allows us to offer our students remarkable experiences and opportunities both inside and outside the classroom. The following are overviews on select professors and students, their research, and the collaborative and inclusive efforts on behalf of the Woodruff School.

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Jonathan Colton, professor, was named one of thirteen Jefferson Science Fellows for the upcoming academic year of 2013-2014. The Jefferson Science Fellows program is designed to further build capacity for science, technology, and engineering expertise within the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Read more...

Supporting the White House Materials Genome Initiative, Georgia Tech announced the launch of its Institute for Materials (IMat), the newest of nine Interdisci-plinary Research Institutes. Representing a commu-nity of nearly 200 faculty conducting materials-related research, IMat will be run by founding Executive Director, David McDowell, Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing and Regents’ Professor. Read more...

A paper whose authors include four ME graduate students, Bhaskar Pant, Sukwon Choi, Eva Baumert, Brian Allen, and three professors, Samuel Graham, Ken Gall, and Olivier Pierron, on MEMS-based nanomechanics was selected to receive the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) 2014 Hetenyi award as the best research paper published in Experimental Mechanics in 2012. Read more...

Itzhak Green, professor, is the incoming Chair of the Nominations and Oversight Committee of the ASME Tribology Division. His most recent research focuses on the dynamics of rotating machinery, early diagnosis and prognosis of flaws, and the physical extraction and mathematical characterization of the mechanical and tribological properties of articular cartilage. Read more...

Bojan Petrovic, professor, will lead the research team awarded $6 million by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Nuclear Energy University Programs to design improvements that strengthen the performance and safety of nuclear systems beyond today’s capabilities. Georgia Tech’s three-year project will engage universities, industry partners, and international organizations to develop a novel concept of a light water reactor with inherent safety features. Read more...

Assistant professor Lei Zhu’s group develops advanced imaging techniques for diagnosis, prognosis, next-generation radiation therapy modalities, and nano-scale biological studies. With projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Varian Medical Systems, Zhu’s major research interest is to reduce imaging errors and statistical noise of x-ray CT stemming from the fundamental physical processes via better system design and modeling. Read more...

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Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs are an integral part of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Student, fACulty, & StAff AWARdS

fACulty & ACAdemiC pRofeSSionAlS

Said Abdel-Khalik Appointed as member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) Advisory Council

Steve Antoiovich Inducted into World Academy of Structural Integrity

Nazanin Bassiri-gharb NSF CAREER Award; 2013 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award

Wayne Book ASME 2013 Robert E. Koski Medal

Mohammed Cherkaoui NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Award

Sueng-Kyum Choi Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Baratunde Cola AAAS 2012 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science

Jonathan Colton Jefferson Science Fellow for the U.S. State Department/USAID

Suman Das Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair

Nico Declercq Ambassador of the PromoDoc Initiative

Chaitanya Deo Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Alper Erturk NSF CAREER Award

Craig forest 2013 Engineer of the Year in Education recipient by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE); Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award; Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award

Ken gall SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics

Srinivas garimella Department of Defense and ARPA-E Award

Andres garcia 2012 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society of Biomaterials; 2012 AAAS Fellow; Awarded title of Regents’ Professor

Ari glezer ARPA-E Award

Sam graham SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics; Promoted to full Professor

Asegun Henry ARPA-E Award

David Hu NSF CAREER Award; 2013 Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award; ENGAGE Everyday Examples in Engineering Award

Yogendra Joshi 2013 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the General Category

David McDowell Named Founding Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Materials (IMat)

Chris Paredis Promoted to full Professor

Bojan Petrovic Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program Award; Awarded tenure

olivier Pierron NSF CAREER Award; 2013 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics; Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Erica Ryherd Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Richard Salant Appointment of Professor Emeritus, Jan 2014

Dirk Schaefer Appointed as Founding President of the International Society of Engineering Education (IGIP), USA Region; ASME Atlanta Chapter “Mechanical Engineer of the Year”

Suresh Sitaraman 2012 ASME/Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division (EPPD) Applied Mechanics Award

Susan Thomas 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow; BMES 2013 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award

Bill Wepfer ABET Fellow

Wayne Whiteman Anderson D. Smith Administrator of the Year Award

Pui- Kuen Yeung ASME Fellow

Minami Yoda American Physical Society Fellow

Ting Zhu 2013 ASME Sia Nemat-Nassar Early Career Award

Woodruff School Teaching Fellows: Peter Carnell, Askash Dixit, Sam graham, Tequila Harris, Peter Hesketh, David Hu, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Todd Sulchek, Susan Thomas, Charles ume, Yan Wang, Zhuomin Zhang

StAff

Louis Boulanger Promoted to Mechanical Specialist

Dana foster Promoted to Administrative Professional Senior

Mason Hollandbeck Spring 2013 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award

Cary ogletree Fall 2012 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award

StudentS

Brian Allen SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics

Banafsheh Barabadi 2013 ASME InterPACK Best Poster Award

Eva Baumert SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics

Md Bhuiyan Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE)2013 Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) 3rd Place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition

Lauren Casa Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Scholars Award

Sukwon Choi SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics

Chandan Edirisinghe SES2012 2nd Place in Undergraduate Student Presentation Competition

fei fei fan Southeast Regional Energy Symposium Poster Competition 3rd Place

Talia field NSF Award

Man Prakash gupta 2013 ASME InterPACK Travel Grant and Outstanding Poster

Ravi Haksar 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium 1st Place Poster

David Heath Alphabet Energy Inc. Thermoelectric Design Award

Caitlin Henegar NSF Award

Sebastian Herzig Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Software Available for Public Release Award

Davis Hoffman 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium 1st Place Poster

Dhruv Hoysall ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award

Aniruddha Joshi Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Outstanding Paper Award

Alisha Kasam 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Award

Suhasa Kodandaramaiah Named in Forbes.com 30 Under 30

Drew Loney Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Scholars Award

Yan Li Boeing Engineering Student of the Year Award Honorable Mention in the Graduate Category

Malcolm Macdonald ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award

Hassan Masoud SES2012 3rd Place in Graduate Student Presentation Competition

Kathryn Matlack 2013 Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Award Winner

Mason McClatchey Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

Peter McKeon ICA 2013 Montreal International Congress on Acoustics Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics

Alex Muroyama NSF Award

Jaeyun Moon Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Outstanding Paper Award

Dhruv Nair Alphabet Energy Inc. Thermoelectric Design Award

S. Natarajani 2013 Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis

olutobi ogunleye 2013 Class of Space Technology Research Fellow

gregory ostrowicki 2013 Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis

Bhasker Pant SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics

Parisa Pooyan TMS 2012 Student Poster Contest Best of Show in the Graduate Category

Sathya Raghavan Intel Best Student Paper Award

Nathan Sacks ASME Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) Intern

Jason Shieh Pi Tau Sigma’s national recipient of the Ed and Fay Griggs Scholarship

Thomas Stone ASME 2013-2014 Graduate Teaching Fellow

Christopher Taylor 2013 Inventure Prize Winner

Scottie Walker 2013 INMM Conference 2nd Best Student Paper Award

Ryder Winck 2013 Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis

Dazhong Wu ASME Atlanta Chapter Outstanding Student

Sihong Zhao ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference Best Student Paper Award; 2013 Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis

Georgia Tech celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the School of Nuclear Engineering on November 1-2, 2012 with a reunion which featured a symposium on “The Future of Nuclear Energy" and a colloquium on “The History and Contributions of NE at Georgia Tech."

Bringing together nearly 200 attendees from government, industry, research laboratories, and academia to address the future of nuclear energy, sessions of the symposium covered nuclear energy in the near-term, closing the nuclear fuel cycle, and nuclear energy in the future.

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CelebrationFounding of the School of Nuclear Engineering 1962

November 1-2, 2012

Editor: Melissa Zbeeb

Contributors: Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Bert Bras, Jonathan Colton, Franklin Dubose, Alper Erturk, Craig Forest, Srinivas Garimella, Ari Glezer, Itzhak Green, Asegun Henry, David Hu, Yogendra Joshi, Liz Klipp, Satish Kumar, David McDowell, Bojan Petrovic, Olivier Pierron, Karim Sabra, Joshua Schultz, Jun Ueda, Bill Wepfer, Minami Yoda, Lei Zhu

Photography: Candler Hobbs, Gary Meek

Design: Sarah Collins

Printing: The Flint Group

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Mr. Thomas g. ArlottoME 1982Maestro Strategies LLC

Dr. farshad Ali Karimi-AzadBME 1982The Babcock & Wilcox Company

Mr. Michael H. BurnsideBME 1974Retired, Catchlight Energy

Mr. R. Keith ChamblessBME 1980GeoFields, Inc.

Dr. Dana C. ChristensenNational Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mr. Ralph ClevelandBME 1986Chartis Insurance at AIG

Mr. Stanley W. Connally, Jr.BME 1993Gulf Power

Mr. James DullumBME 1974Fieldstone Equity

Mr. Jeffrey gasserBME 1983Southern Nuclear Operating Company

Dr. Johney green, Jr. MSME 1993, PhDME 2000Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mr. Manuel Junco, Jr.BME 1975Jacobs Engineering Group

Mr. Bryan LaBrecqueBME 1981Clayton State University

Dr. Matthew P. MillerMSME 1990, PhDME 1993Cornell University

Mr. Blake MoretBME 1985Rockwell Automation

Mr. floyd R. NationBME 1968Winston & Strawn LLP

Mr. Brian C. PalmerBME 1981GE Energy

Dr. Johné M. ParkerBME 1992, MSME 1995 PhDME 1997University of Kentucky

Mr. Carl RingBME 1978Ring Container Technologies

Dr. Randy SheffieldBME 1988, MSME 1990, PhDME 1994OneSubsea

Dr. finis SouthworthAREVA Inc.

Ms. Stella M. SudderthBME 1980MRU, Inc.

Dr. Karen A. TholeThe Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Lindsey ThornhillBME 1984, MSME 1986, PhDME 1996Science Applications International Corp

Mr. Michael TinskeyMSEE 1991Ford Motor Company

Mr. Manuel WaltersBME 1992Shell Oil Products US

Dr. John f. ZinoPhDNE 1999GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC

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