Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Woodruff School:

While preparing this report, the tragic events of terrorism occurred on September 11th. They put a different perspective on everything we do. It is hard for me to comprehend how anyone can hate others with the vengeance shown by the terrorists. All the world suffers from such actions. Our hearts go out to all who have suffered the loss of loved ones in these tragic events.

In spite of the events of September 11th, the Woodruff School had another great year. We recently learned that the ranking of our undergraduate program went up again. We are now ranked 5th in the country according to U.S. News & World Report. Ten years ago, we were ranked at best 11th, possibly 14th or lower. Academic reputations are slow to change, and we are very pleased with the recognition we are receiving for our outstanding programs.

The most important event of the past year was the completion of the Georgia Tech Capital Campaign. Our goal was to raise $30 million for the Woodruff School. Through the outstanding efforts of our two development officers, Connie Parish and Caroline Wood, we exceeded that amount by nearly fifteen percent, having raised $34,605,978. There were times during the Campaign when I thought the original goal was unattainable, but the generosity of alumni and friends of the Woodruff School and the hard work on the part of many people at Tech helped us exceed that goal. These funds and the previous generosity of others, such as George Woodruff, make it possible for us to go the extra mile and do the special things that make our program truly outstanding. Thanks to everyone who participated and contributed to the Campaign for your efforts on behalf of the School.

The past year was packed with other exciting activities. We were the first academic institution to be named by the ASME History and Heritage program as a mechanical engineering heritage site. This was in recognition of the role that John Saylor Coon played in the early days of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and his implementation of the mechanical engineering education goals of the ASME. We also hosted a highly successful exhibit on Marie Curie and women in science. The Woodruff Distinguished Lecture featured Euan Baird, CEO of Schlumberger Limited, as our first international speaker in the series. The Gegenheimer Lecture was very popular as we hosted Woodie Flowers of MIT, the "dean" of mechanical engineering design education in the United States.

A team of students and a faculty leader advised a high school team in the U. S. FIRST competitions. They are mentoring two Atlanta area high school groups this academic year. GT Motorsports, which has more than ten years of experience, did very well at the national competition in Detroit. Then a team of twenty students and a faculty advisor traveled to Birmingham, England for the international motorsport competition, where they took first place! The GT Off-Road team has only two years experience in mini-baja events and is only one of only six teams to compete in all three U. S. competitions. Many mechanical engineering students are also involved in FutureTruck, which is led by a faculty member from Electrical Engineering. Student involvement in national competitions has become very popular, and it should be no surprise that Georgia Tech students do well when they enter these events.

Recently, the old "Tin Building" was made available to house student competition groups, but it requires some improvement to make it a showcase for our students. If any of you have a spare two or three million dollars you would like to contribute to a naming opportunity to develop the facilities and endow the operation, please give me a call.

Our spring banquet was a success. The students poked fun at the faculty and themselves, and we were honored to designate Pierce Merry (BME 1950) as our distinguished alumnus. We also hosted a successful graduate student cookout in the fall, and the student chapter of ASME held a picnic for all mechanical engineering students in the spring.

We have now completed two years under the semester calendar and are currently reviewing our programs for content and continuity. The

Co-op Program is still flourishing even with the calendar change. In Mechanical Engineering, nearly fifty percent of our undergraduate students participate in the Co-op Program, which is actually higher on average than it was for the last ten years under the quarter calendar. Last year, 236 students received bachelor’s degrees, 137 students received master’s degrees, and 42 students received Ph.D. degrees. The master’s degree class size was nearly a record, and indeed the Ph.D. class size was a record for the Woodruff School.

We continue to have turnover among the faculty, with some people retiring or leaving Georgia Tech. We are hiring replacements and we filled two endowed chairs and a distinguished professorship. Funding was completed for the McKenney/Shiver Chair in Mechanical Building Systems. We expect to fill the position before the end of the 2002 academic year.

It has been exciting for me to chair this department for more than a decade. Our faculty and staff have greatly improved our programs and the quality of the students has continually improved. This fall, we have an all-time high of 616 graduate students. Approximately 110 are enrolled in our distance learning master’s degree programs in mechanical engineering or health physics, and 37 are enrolled in our master’s program at Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, France.

I assume we are doing things reasonably well since we continue to attract outstanding students and many employers come to campus to recruit our students. There is still much that can be done to make our programs even better. For example, I would like to establish an in-house professional leadership program similar in operation to our successful communications program. If anyone has one or two million dollars to endow the student leadership program, please give me a call.

This report highlights the activities I have mentioned and more. After you read this report, if you think of anything else we should be doing better or differently, please tell me. Thank you again for your support and interest. We look forward to continued success in academic year 2002.

Ward O. Winer Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair of the Woodruff School

September 2001

CONTENTS

THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN THE ACADEMIC YEAR IN REVIEW STUDENTS SCHOLARSHIPS FELLOWSHIPS

DEGREES FACULTY STAFF FINANCES THE WOODRUFF ENDOWMENT ALUMNI THE ADVISORY BOARD

Ward Winer and Richard Buzon

Tom Barrow and Dave McKenney

This report is published each year in the fall by the George W. Woodruff

School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. For more information about undergraduate and graduate programs in the School, please contact us by any of the following methods:

Letter Dr. Ward O. Winer Chair of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405 Phone 404-894-3200 Fax 404-894-1658 E-mail [email protected] Web http://www.me.gatech.edu

The most significant news since the last annual report was the completion of the five-year Capital Campaign, which was a great success for Georgia Tech and the Woodruff School. The final tally for the Woodruff School was $34,605,978, which exceeded our goal of $30,000,000. Some examples of the gifts we received during the Campaign are:

● Carter N. Paden Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing (held by Dr. David McDowell); ● HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control (held by Dr. Wayne Book); ● John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair in Building Mechanical Systems (to be filled); ● The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory; ● An endowment from the family of J. Erskine Love, Jr. to support manufacturing education and research in mechanical engineering.

This includes the J. Erskine Love Jr. Manufacturing Building. ● A number of scholarships and graduate topping grants; ● A major gift to the Campaign by Pete Petit for building the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience; ● A generous commitment from Nancy Gwaltney to honor Gene Gwaltney converted the Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing to the Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. This provides the Woodruff School chair with support for research, selected educational programs, and special initiatives within the School.

Campaign Wrap-Up and Celebration To celebrate the end of the Capital Campaign on December 31, 2000, Georgia Tech held a series of events to thank all the donors to the very successful five- year effort. We Ward Winer, Connie Parish, Caroline Wood, and Pete Petit hosted a Celebration Luncheon on April 20, 2001. Dr. Ward Winer, Chair of the Woodruff School, in discussing the significance of the Campaign said: "It has been my privilege to lead the fundraising efforts for the Woodruff School during the Campaign for Georgia Tech. I was thrilled to meet new people, develop new relationships, and renew old friendships. When I called, I knew I could count on your support. Thank you all — alumni, corporations, friends, faculty, and staff — for participating in the Campaign. Because of your generous contributions, we raised $34,605,978, surpassing the School’s goal of $30 million. This is an extraordinary achievement."

Dr. Winer continued, "Your participation in the Campaign is special to us and shows your commitment to Georgia Tech, the Woodruff School, and its students. All gifts, no matter the size, are vital to the School and will allow us to enhance our programs. Your generosity reinforces the education value of the Woodruff School. It strengthens the School, allows us to obtain excellent facilities, and gives us a solid economic foundation to assure our prosperous future."

Donors Ward Winer and Richard Buzon This list includes donors who have designated gifts to the Woodruff School since the Capital Campaign — The Campaign for Georgia Tech — began on July 1, 1995. We acknowledge the considerable generosity of the more than 370 alumni, friends, companies, faculty, and staff who contributed to the Campaign with their time and money and, therefore, to the excellence of our School.

Corporate, Foundation and Association Donors 3M Abatement Technologies Advanced Auto Parts Advanced Tissue Sciences Tom Barrow and Dave McKenney Aerospace Industries Associations Akrometrix LLC Alcoa Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation AlliedSignal, Inc. Allison Engine Company Aluminum Company of America American Heart Association American Nuclear Society American Performance Parts Warehouse American Society of Mechanical Engineers Ames & Gough Insurance/Risk Management Amoco Foundation, Inc. AMP Circuits Anoplate Applied Industrial Technologies Applied Medical Resources Applied Technical Resources ARCS Foundation, Inc. ASHRAE AstenJohnson AT&T Atlanta Market Center Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation Aurora Automated Systems International, Inc. Babcock & Wilcox Baldwin Technology Company, Inc. Bank of America Foundation C. R. Bard, Inc. Bard Urological Society BASF Corporation Baxter Healthcare Corporation BellSouth Foundation Bioamide, Inc. Black & Decker Corporation Boeing Defense & Space Group Braddock Metallurgical Inc. / Drevers Heat Transfer BW/IP International, Inc./Seal Division Camotion, Inc. CarboMedics, Inc. Chevron USA Chrysler Corporation CIBA-Vision Corporation Cimatron Technologies, Inc. Conoco, Inc. Consulting Engineering Council, GA Con-Tek Valves, Inc. Cooper Carry, Inc. CR Industries Cryolife, Inc. Cummins Engine Company, Inc. CV Plus Cytecfiberite DaimlerChrysler Fund David & Ruth Coleman Charitable Foundation Dickerson Vision Technologies, Inc. Digital Equipment Corporation Dixie Bearing Dow Chemical Company Foundation Downing Atlanta Duke Energy Corporation Foundation E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Eastman Kodak Company Elsevier Science Publishers Emory University Engelhard Corporation Equifax Foundation EWH Spectrum, Inc. Express Tool & Die Extrude Hone Corporation Exxon Company, USA First Citizens Banc Shares, Inc. Fisher Controls International, Inc. Ford Motor Company Foundation For The Carolinas Frito-Lay, Inc. Fulton Ventures, Inc. Furukawa Electric Company, Ltd. Future Networks, Inc. Garrett Gay and Erskine Love Foundation, Inc. General Electric Fund General Motors Corporation Georgia Association of Fire Chiefs, Inc. Georgia Pacific Corporation Georgia Power Company Georgia Trane Equipment Company Georgia Valve and Fitting Company GIM Computers Glencast Global Motorsports Globe Turbocharger Specialties, Inc. Gold Mech, Inc. Grandview Foundation, Inc. Grainger Industrial Supply Greater Augusta Community Foundation, Inc. Griffin Thermal Products GT East Hardwick & Company CPAs Harris Foundation Headrick Manufacturing Company Herbert & Marian Haley Foundation High Performance Coatings, Inc. Hitch House LLC Hoechst Celanese Corporation Holox Ltd. Honda Motor Corporation Honeywell Foundation HPS Plastics Hughes Aircraft Company Huntsville Sciences Corporation HUSCO International, Inc. IBM Interactive Media IMAPS Institute of Real Estate Management International Paper Company Foundation Jack May Insurance Agency Johnson & Johnson JWI Group K & N Filters Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. Kvaerner Singapore Kyocera America, Inc. Levenson Foundation, Inc. Little Tree Orchards Lubrizol Corporation Lucent Technologies Lutron Foundation Mallory & Evans Mansson Technologies Marion Merrell Dow, Inc. McCoullah Electric McKenney’s Management Corporation Medtronic, Inc. Michelin North America Millers Powder Coating Milliken & Company, Inc. Mobil Foundation, Inc. Motor and Gear Engineering Motorola, Inc. National Academy Sciences USA National Electrical Carbon Corporation NEC Corporation Newcomb & Boyd Nottingham, Brook & Pennington, Inc. O’Neal Steel, Inc. Performance Coating Pi Tau Sigma Plastech Corp. Polymer Dynamics Procter & Gamble Company ProTech Anodizing Psiphics Technologies, Inc. Puralator Products, Inc. Racing Communications Racing Concepts, Inc. Raychem Raytheon Company RELTEC Republic Refrigeration Rohm and Haas Company Rolls Royce Allison Ross/Deckard Architects, P.A. Royal Purple SAE Foundation Schlumberger Foundation, Inc. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Semiconductor Research Corporation Shaped Wire, Inc. Shell Oil Company Foundation Sheraton Colony Square Hotel Siemens Energy & Automation Signs Now Signs Today Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates SME Manufacturing. Engineering Education Foundation Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. Square D Foundation St. Jude Medical, Inc. Star Enterprise Sterling Securities Stewart Stainless SulzerMedica Suzuki Texaco Foundation The Southern Company Timken Company Tom Barrow Company Torrington Company Total Raffinage Distribution Trane Company Transatlantic Motorsports Tube Sales Tull Metals TW Metals Tyson’s Print Shop Union Camp Corporation Charitable Trust United Negro College Fund, Inc. United Parcel Service of America, Inc. United Technologies Corporation Van Owen Group Acquisition Company VP Racing Fuels Wallenburg Foundation Wellman, Inc. Westin Peachtree Plaza Whitaker Foundation William L Bonnell Company Xerox Corporation Yaskawa Electric Corporation Zexel-Torsen

Alumni, Parents, and Friends Nelson D. Abell, ME’44 John H. Adams, ME’66 T’Lene B. and Joe H. Anderer, ME’47 Gilbert A. Bachman, ME’46 T. A. Barrow, Jr., ME’48 Deborah K. Beattie, ESM’89, MSME’94, Ph.D.’96 Julien P. Benjamin, Jr., Friend

James R. Borders, ME’83 Arthur D. Brook, ME’56 Debra J. Brook, Friend Melvin W. Carter, CE’49 Phyllis H. Clack, Friend Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Clautice, Friends Mr. and Mrs. George Clem, Friend Mimms I. Cleveland, ME’47 David V. Carswell, ME’85 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Daiute, Friend Ben C. Davenport, IM’70 Charles M. Davis, IM’55 Minnie E. Dean, Friend Leslie E. Delgrosso, Friend Art Brook Lois A. Dinges, Friend Thomas M. Dozier, IE’63 Mr. and Mrs. David R. Duda, Friends Michael E. Eckert, ME’70 Jan Emblemsvag, MS’95 Dorothy R. Eschenbach, Friend Sam P. Eschenbach, ME’33 George W. Fleming, Jr., ME’47 H. Byron Gaar, CE’78 Mr. and Mrs. John J. Gasser, Sr., Friend Harold W. Gegenheimer, ME’33 Thomas A. Glaze, IE’70 Jack F. Glenn, ARCH’32 William H. Glenn, Jr., GS’35 Mr. and Mrs. Everett K. Gresham, Friend T. Scott Gum II, IE’90 Thomas W. Hagler, Jr., ME’52 Herbert P. Haley, ME’33 Christopher F. Hammond, ME’34 James G. Hartley, ME’77 Connie C. Hawkins, Friend J. Charles Headrick, ME’71 Pete R. Herran, ME’72 Robert G. Hill, ME’58 Robert A. Howell, ME’82 Lynn C. Huffman, ICS’81 Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hynish, Friend Virginia F. Jackson, Friend William M. Jackson, ME’49 Artis C. Jenkins, Ph.D.’84 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Johnson, Friend Harold L. Johnson, ME’45 John G. Johnson, ME’59 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Johnson, Friend William S. Johnson, Sr., ChE’45 Jung Ho Kim, Friend Kevin C. King, Friend Wayne H. Knox, NE’73 Hellan E. Kreeger, Friend James C. Leathers, ME’55 Robert H. Ledbetter, ME’64 Catherine A. Lill, Friend Gay M. Love, Honorary Alumna David A. Lowell, ME’91 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis MacDougall, Friend Helen K. Maddox, Friend Kathleen L. Maher, ME’83 Mr. and Mrs. William Malires, Friends Holly E. Mallett, STC’94 James E. Mallett, CE’65 Stergios Marinopoulos, Friend J. R. Markley, ME’56 C. Ashley Mast, ID’91 Clinton S. Mathews, ME’63 Warren H. May, Friend Robert D. McClure, Friend Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McClure, Friends David M. McKenney, PHYS’60, IE’64 Inna E. Mebel, MGT’98 Rob J. Millikan, ME’59 Isaac E. Murray, Jr., ME’49 Panida Nasseh, BIOL’98 E. Kathleen Neitzel, Friend William B. Nicholson, ME’34 Joan & Ronald E. Ohl, Friends William S. Ostrander, ME’51 Carter N. Paden, Jr., IM’51 Lorine Payne, Friend Doris Peterson, Friend Parker H. Petit, ME’62 MSEM’64 Carl F. Phillips, ME’20 Mary M. Phillips, Friend Agustin A. Ramirez, AE’68 Charles L. Ray, Jr., ME’50 Lisa Roberson, Friend Barbara Eschenbach Ruddy, Friend Henry A. Saye, IE’58 Mary Ann Sears, Friend Stephen M. Sessler, ME’70 Warren D. Shiver, ME’64, MSME’67 The Family of Warren D. Shiver, Friends Cecilia D. Smith, IMGT’79 Mark D. Smith, ME’93 Paul E. Smith, Friend Charles A. Sparrow, NS’69 Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Spetzler, Parents Joel S. Spira, Friend Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Stute, Friends Jiann-Ming Su, MSME’99 William L. Thacker, ME’67 Harvey Toub, Friend Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Trivers, Friends Mr. and Mrs. William E. Trumbo, Friends Kam Chuen Tse, CE’71 Hal B. Tucker, EE’49 Carlos E. Vidales, ME’77 Cheng Wang, Friend Frank K. Webb, ME’38 Warren K. Wells, ME’58 Thomas F. Williams, Jr., ME’50 Wendell M. Williams, Jr., ME’55 James E. Winer, ARCH’82 Jack M. Zeigler, ME’48 Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Zweifel, Friend Anonymous (4)

Faculty and Staff Janet Allen L. Dennis Ballou Yves H. Berthelot William Z. Black Wayne J. Book Berdinus A. Bras James W. Brazell T. E. Clopton Jonathan S. Colton Gene T. Colwell Kenneth A. Cunefare Steven Danyluk Royal F. Dawkins Prateen V. Desai Stephen L. Dickerson Kenneth Dollar Geoffrey G. Eichholz Aldo A. Ferri Robert E. Fulton Jerry H. Ginsberg Rona A. Ginsberg Robert Guldberg James G. Hartley, ME’77 Catherine C. Inabnit Sheldon M. Jeter, Ph.D.’79 Bernd Kahn Stothe P. Kezios Alan V. Larson Mian Long David L. McDowell Farrokh Mistree G. Paul Neitzel Robert M. Nerem Jianmin Qu Peter J. Rogers Richard F. Salant Raymond P. Vito William J. Wepfer Wendell M. Williams, Jr., ME’55 Ward O. Winer Caroline G. Wood Anonymous (1)

Ward Winer in GT Motorsports car

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SPECIAL EVENTS

New Facility Honors J. Erskine Love About four hundred people attended the dedication of the J. Erskine Love Jr. Manufacturing Building on August 25, 2000. The building is the new home for the School of Materials Science and Engineering and provides additional facilities for the Woodruff School. In addition, a piece of artwork honoring Erskine and highlighting various aspects of mechanical engineering and materials science was unveiled by the Love family.

The 135,000 square foot, $27 million laboratory facility is the largest of its kind in Atlanta and one of the premier engineering research facilities in the country. Special facilities include an underwater acoustics tank, a wind tunnel, and a clean room for MEMS fabrication. Woodruff School research groups in the building are Acoustics and Dynamics; Fluid Mechanics; Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems; and MEMS.

Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough, Georgia Lt. Governor Mark Taylor, Woodruff School Chair Ward Winer, and MSE Chair Ashok Saxena praised the late J. Erskine Love Jr. for his entrepreneurial spirit and devotion to Georgia Tech. Within eight years of earning a mechanical engineering degree from Tech in 1949, Love founded Printpack, a manufacturer of flexible packaging materials.

In 1998 Love’s family marked the 50th anniversary of his graduation from Georgia Tech by creating a $5 million endowment for the Woodruff School. "The investment from this endowment will support education and research programs in manufacturing-related subjects, including interdisciplinary research among faculty and students in various schools of the College of Engineering," said Clough. "Today, we acknowledge the importance of that contribution to Georgia Tech. At the same time, we lift up ethics, values, the spirit of entrepreneurualism and devotion to excellence that characterized Erskine’s life as a model for future students and our faculty and staff." Woodruff School Honored by ASME

On October 6, 2000 the Woodruff School became the first educational institution to be designated a Mechanical Engineering Heritage Site by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This ceremony ended a two-year effort, from the time the idea was proposed to Dr. Ward Winer by Mr. Ron Bannister (BME 1956) in November 1998, to the defense of the nomination at the ASME Nashville meeting in November 1999 by Ward Winer and Rona Ginsberg, and finally, the preparation and publication of the heritage (l to r) Jeff Donnell, Rona Ginsberg, Ben Shackelford, Ward site brochure in summer 2000. Winer, Ron Bannister, Scotty Kezios, and Tal Webb.

Speakers at the designation ceremony included Dr. Winer; Dr. Gerald Jones, Chair of the Atlanta Section of the ASME; Dr. William DeFotis, Associate Dean of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago and member of the ASME History and Heritage Committee; Dr. S. Peter Kezios, past president of the ASME and former chair of the Woodruff School; Dr. Wayne Clough, President of Georgia Tech; and Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau, Provost of Georgia Tech. A reception followed the speakers and the presentation of the plaque.

Since the ASME’s History and Heritage Program began in 1971, 215 landmarks have been designated as historic mechanical engineering landmarks, collections, or sites. Site designations, such as the Woodruff School, note an event or development of clear historical importance to mechanical engineers.

Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation Dr. Woodie Flowers, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, gave the annual Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation on October 10, 2000 to a packed house in the MaRC auditorium. This lecture, which is delivered each fall, is designed to expose students to processes that stimulate creativity and lead to inventions and patents. The lecture was established in 1995 through an endowment from Mr. Harold W. Gegenheimer (class of 1933).

Dr. Flowers posed and answered the following questions on innovation. As aspiring and/or learned professionals, how innovative ought we be? What parts of engineering will not likely become commodified? What part of our profession will be commodified by new-media pedagogy and telepresence? Is innovation the key?

Dr. Flowers helped create MIT’s Introduction to Design course. He was the Inaugural Recipient of the Woodie Flowers Award by FIRST (see the article on Georgia Tech’s FIRST team). If you missed the lecture and want to learn the answers to the posed questions, listen to the webcast here on our home page (open the Gegenheimer Lecture icon).

ANNOUNCEMENT

Leo Beranek, Co-Founder, Past President, and CEO of Bolt Beranek & Newman, will give the Gegenheimer Lecture on Thursday, November 1, 2001 at 3:30 p.m. in the Howey Physics Building, Lecture Room 4. He will talk about Concert Halls of the World and Their Design. The Marie Curie Exhibit From January 22nd to March 2, 2001, Georgia Tech hosted an exhibit titled, "The Legacy of Marie Curie: One Hundred Years of Science Innovation." The exhibit covered Marie Curie’s legacy, that is, other women scientists and their discoveries, including an historical perspective on the difficulties of women getting an advanced education in the sciences. The exhibit also displayed the many benefits of radioactivity in our daily lives. Interactive displays included the Geiger counter, the nuclear quiz, the X-ray light box, and the science Jeopardy quiz.

The exhibit, which was curated at Texas A&M University, was divided into five sections. The first section was about Marie Sklodowska Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. She was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize twice and is the only woman so honored. One of the most important parts of the exhibit was the opportunity to see some of Marie Curie’s laboratory equipment. This was the first time these items have been in the United States.

Other sections were the 19th century, 1900 to 1945, 1945 to 1965, and 1965 to the present. For a complete guide to the exhibit, see our Marie Curie web site at http://www.me.gatech.edu/me/curie.

Graduate students in nuclear engineering, physics, and chemistry hosted approximately 1500 middle and high school aged students through the exhibit and to selected campus facilities. An appreciation reception was held for everyone who helped make the exhibit a success at Georgia Tech after it had been packed and shipped to the next site. More than 2000 people attended the exhibit while it was at Georgia Tech.

We acknowledge the support of our sponsors. At Georgia Tech, these were the Woodruff School, Georgia Tech Library, CEISMC, College of Science, Neely Reactor Research Center, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Physics, and the Women in Engineering Program in the College of Engineering. Our corporate sponsors were the Atlanta Section of the American Nuclear Society, Georgia Power Company, Georgia Space Grant, NAC International, Southern Nuclear Company, and Theragenics.

The Woodruff Distinguished Lecture Mr. D. Euan Baird, President, CEO, and Chairman of Schlumberger, Limited delivered the twelfth Woodruff Distinguished Lecture to a standing-room only audience on April 10, 2001. His lecture was about the role that diversity plays in a company. "Diversity," he said, "must be supported by a sound business rationale that can sustain a company as it goes through the painful changes needed to achieve diversity and quality." Mr. Baird believes that the business values of people and their motivation, technology, and profit each have an important impact on diversity.

Before the lecture, Mr. Baird joined Woodruff School faculty, staff, and students for lunch and a discussion that began on the topic of International Careers in Engineering and then veered in many directions. A tour of our facilities, including the underwater acoustics lab, the design studio, and the robotics laboratory was next on the agenda for Mr. Baird; this was followed by the prelecture reception.

Go to the George Woodruff icon to listen to the webcast of Mr. Baird’s lecture. The transcript of the lecture is in preparation and will be available soon.

NOTICE

John Sununu, who has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT, will deliver the Annual Woodruff Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 11, 2002. Watch the mail for more details about the exciting event.

The Annual Spring Banquet Our Annual Spring Banquet is planned and organized by the Woodruff School Student Advisory Committee (WSSAC) and sponsored by the Woodruff School. The entertainment consisted of music provided by the Discrete Notoriety Sax Quartet and a trivia contest that tested attendees’ knowledge of geography and history. Dr. Winer introduced Mr. Pierce Merry, Jr. as our Distinguished Alumnus and Dr. Farrokh Mistree as the Jack M. Zeigler (BME 1948) Outstanding Educator (see the accompanying stories). WSSAC executive committee members Ono Achukwu, Saniya Ahsan, Ted Akiskalos, Luis Burgos, Usman Chaudry, Muhammad Fahmy, Faris Jessa, Erich Schlender, Stuart Scully, and Sabrina Singh presented the 2001 Academia Awards.

The Distinguished Alumnus Award Pierce Merry, Jr. was named the 2001 Woodruff School Distinguished Alumnus at the Spring Banquet. As is our tradition, Mr. Merry spoke to the assembled students about his career and Georgia Tech.

He said he studied mechanical engineering because his family’s company needed ceramic and mechanical engineers. He felt it was important to have a plan and to stick to it. So when his supervisor asked for his work plans, he said he planned to work forty years. Mr. Merry did just that and retired exactly forty years later. The philosophy he has always adhered to is, "A person that never does more than he’s paid for never gets paid for more than he does."

Pierce Merry, Jr. received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1950. Two months later, he joined Merry Brothers Brick and Tile Co. as a mechanical engineer and assistant department supervisor. He had spent summers at the company working as an apprentice machinist and millwright. Mr. Merry served as executive vice president of production, and later as president and chairman of the board.

Mr. Merry was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. In the fall of 1946 he entered Georgia Tech, where he was in the Glee Club, belonged to Chi Phi, worked as secretary to the Music Director and as a registration aide for the Georgia Tech Evening School, and belonged to the ASME.

Mr. Merry, the grandson of Merry Brothers co-founder, Arthur H. Merry, and one of a long line of Georgia Tech graduates, has been very good to his alma mater. He was a member of the Woodruff School Advisory Board, was chairman of the Augusta Regional Centennial Campaign, and belongs to the Georgia Tech Club of Augusta. Merry Companies contributed the bricks for the Alumni/Faculty House courtyard and wall and for the Main Campus Entrance Wall at North Avenue.

The Jack M. Zeigler (BME 1948) Woodruff School Outstanding Educator Professor Farrokh Mistree was named as the 2001 Woodruff School Outstanding Educator at the Annual Spring Banquet. He joined the Woodruff School in 1992. His design experience spans ships, and mechanical, aeronautical, structural, and industrial engineering. His research focuses on learning how to manage design freedom associated with the design, deployment, operation, and support of open and sustainable engineering systems. Professor Mistree is committed to developing a design pedagogy that is rooted in decision-based design and adaptive action learning. In this context, he enjoys experimenting with the ways in which design can be learned and taught. He started to experiment with web-based education in 1992; he was one of the first among the Woodruff School faculty to do so.

Since his arrival at Georgia Tech, Professor Mistree has supervised the research of seven doctoral and fifteen master’s degree students. Three of his doctoral students from Georgia Tech are pursuing careers in academia.

Professor Mistree is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and, since 1995, the National Secretary-Treasurer for Pi Tau Sigma, the Mechanical Engineering Honor Society. He was the recipient of the 1993 ASME Student’s Distinguished Professor Award, and he received the 1999 Design Automation Award from the ASME.

SEMESTER HAPPENINGS

Annual Graduate School Cookout The Woodruff School Annual Cookout was held just a few days after classes started for the fall semester and continued our theme of rising to the top with our new Buzzing to the Top tee-shirts. Woodruff School graduate students, faculty, and staff attended the picnic.

Trudy Allen and Cosetta Williams, in the Graduate Office, helped organize this event, which was attended by more than 400 people.

Outstanding Seniors Dinner Each fall the Graduate Office sponsors a dinner for outstanding Woodruff School seniors who are eligible to attend graduate school based on their academic record. This dinner is the annual kick-off to the graduate student recruiting season. About 75 people attended the event and listened to faculty members explain the reasons to attend graduate school. It was also an opportunity for the seniors to meet some current graduate students and learn about their experiences. A number of students who had attended the Georgia Tech Lorraine Program in Metz, France spoke about their stay in glowing terms.

Family Weekend In October 2000 we hosted the family members of Woodruff School students who returned to campus for Family Weekend. We held two information sessions at which Dr. Ray Vito, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, gave a lively talk about the Woodruff School. Then, he and Kimberly Blue, Undergraduate Academic Advisor, fielded questions and concerns. Sterling Skinner, Coordinator of the Undergraduate Laboratories, led a tour of our facilities. The GT Motorsports and the GT Off-Road (Mini-Baja) cars were displayed in the atrium of MRDC and team members were there to answer questions. More than one hundred people attended the event.

ME 2110 Design Competition Spring semester’s ME 2110 (Creative Decisions and Design) project design competition took place on April 3, 2001. The contest was a combination of three smaller competitions in bowling, fishing, and basketball. Working in groups, students had to design, build, and test their projects. The systems had to perform each of the three tasks individually as well as simultaneously in a 6-by-6 foot enclosed area.

The objective of the competition was to build a machine that could score as many points as possible. Energy was derived from two six-volt gel cell batteries that were supplied, five mouse traps, and gravity. A set of actuators was also supplied. Each group could spend a total of $50 on the device, excluding the supplied items, mousetraps, batteries, paint, and fasteners.

Judging was based on originality, presentation, workmanship, and appearance. For all the details about the design project and ME 2110, see http://precision.me.gatech.edu/class/me2110/. Mechatronics Project Showcase Graduate students from ME 6405 (Introduction to Mechatronics) displayed their projects at the first Mechatronics Showcase in January 2001. Projects included "The Crazy J," a guitar playing machine that takes requests, and the "Ca$h-o-Matic 2000," a change machine that distributes the exact amount of dollar bills and change specified by the user. Other projects were Cycle Coach, HD11 (Hot Dog Cooker), Automatic Volume Control, Remotely Controllable HVAC System Via Telephone, and Brewer’s Assistant. More information on these projects may be found at http:// www.me.gatech.edu/mechatronics_lab.

Schlumberger@Georgia Tech The day before the Woodruff Lecture, Mr. Tom Zimmerman, a Schlumberger Fellow and Technology Center Manager, spoke to a combined ASME and Pi Tau Sigma audience on "A Mechanical Engineering Career — What I Wish I Had Known When I Started." He told the students to "get as much education in the technical areas you’re interested in as early as you can because it is difficult to go back to graduate school; work in such a way that people know you’re capable of doing a particular job before you actually have the job; all big opportunities come from change so look at change as being an opportunity; and recognize that there is a match between an individual and a job."

On Monday and Tuesday before the Woodruff Lecture, Schlumberger held an open house in the 2nd floor lobby of MRDC at which they demonstrated their technology and one of the company’s nonprofit ventures, Schlumberger Excellence in Education Development (SEED). Many students and faculty had an opportunity to discuss technology and business with the company’s representatives. Take Our Daughters to Work Day The Woodruff School participated in the annual Take Our Daughters To Work Day on April 26th. Sterling Skinner, Coordinator of the Undergraduate Laboratories, showed the girls a video from the recent ME 2110 design competition. They then visited the Robotics Lab, where Professor Imme Ebert- Uphoff had a number of robots for the girls to try. Afterwards, they toured the nuclear engineering laboratories. These sixth to eighth grade girls are all related to folks in the Woodruff School.

PROGRAMS

The Five-Year BS/MS Degree Outstanding freshmen and sophomore students in the Woodruff School were invited to attend an information session about the new Five-Year BS/MS Degree Program. We are the first school at Georgia Tech to offer this opportunity, which began in fall 2001. Students can earn two degrees in a five-year period, which will provide them a tremendous advantage when entering the job market directly upon graduation. It might also be an impetus for students to continue for the doctorate. The program is individualized with numerous opportunities for faculty and students to interact, including mentoring and undergraduate research. Graduate course work will begin in the senior year. To learn more about this opportunity, contact Dr. Tom Kurfess, Program Director.

The United Technologies Teaching Interns Program The United Technologies Teaching Intern Program is funded by the United Technologies Corporation and supports up to twelve junior and senior mechanical engineering students for two semesters (fall and spring semesters only). Students are invited into the program based on their academic achievement * a 3.5 GPA is required for participation * and recommendations by the faculty. The program is intended to give students the opportunity to work with a faculty member in teaching an undergraduate course in mechanical engineering; encourage our best students to consider going to graduate school; help develop communication and interpersonal skills; and provide a way for practicing engineers and managers at United Technologies to interact with Woodruff School students.

Academic Common Market Georgia Tech belongs to the Academic Common Market, which provides an opportunity for undergraduate students from southeastern states whose state universities do not offer a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering to go to Georgia Tech and pay in-state tuition. It may be less expensive to attend Georgia Tech as a BSNRE/ACM student, then to go to a state university in the home state. Residents from Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma may qualify for the program. LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

Woodruff School Colloquia Each semester, the endowment to the School sponsors the Woodruff School Colloquia, a series of lectures presented by national and international experts in mechanical and nuclear engineering. The Woodruff School Colloquia given during the past academic year (from September 2000 to June 2001) were:

● Dr. Alan Pierce, Boston University, Theoretical Acoustics and Vibrations in MEMS Design; ● Dr. Rosemary Smith, University of California, Davis, Microsystems for Molecular and Cellular Analysis; ● Dr. Jack Howell, University of Texas, Inverse Design of Thermal Systems with Significant Radiative Transfer; ● Dr. Costas Pozrikidis, University of California, San Diego, Numerical Simulation of the Flow of Suspensions of Particles, Drops,Capsules and Cells; ● Mr. Joseph Engleberger, Helpmate Robotics, Danbury, Connecticut, Service Robotics; ● Dr. Pat Banerjee, University of Illinois at Chicago, Using the Virtual Environment Component of IT for the Computationally Intensive Systems Realization Process: An Illustrative Application; ● Dr. Dale Klein, University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, Swords to Plowshares-The Mixed Oxide Option; ● Dr. Andres Soom, State University of New York, On Dynamic Friction: Things Your Mechanics Professor Couldn’t Tell You; ● Dr. Ben Freund, Brown University, Mechanical Effects on Formation of Small Semiconductor Structures; ● Dr. Kamlakar P. Rajurkar, NSF, Manufacturing Machines and Equipment Program-Recent Projects and Future Directions.

Women in Discovery Symposium Ms. Susan Quinn, author of Marie Curie: A Life; Dr. Ruth Lewin Sime, Biographer and Professor at Sacramento City College; and Dr. Caroline Herzenberg, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory each spoke at thpe symposium and then had an opportunity to sign their books at a reception.

Ms. Quinn spoke about Marie Curie and the Nobel Prize committee. She told how the committee would have awarded the first prize only to Marie’s husband, Pierre, if he had not intervened on her behalf.

Dr. Sime spoke about "Politics, Race, and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission." Chemists did the crucial experiments, while the physicists (like Meitner) provided the theoretical explanation for nuclear fission. When the Nobel prize was awarded it went to Otto Hahn, the chemist. Meitner was not even acknowledged by the committee.

Dr. Caroline Herzenberg’s talk was titled "Their Day in the Sun: The Women of the Manhattan Project." Although few historical accounts mention them, she noted there were more than 300 women scientists and technicians who contributed substantially to the technical research programs of the project.

The Woodruff School in Orlando In November 2000 the ASME held its International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Orlando, Florida, and for the fifth consecutive year, the Woodruff School had a booth at the exposition. In addition, we hosted a hospitality evening for our alumni and friends attending the meeting. The booth provides us with a terrific opportunity to talk about mechanical engineering education and to showcase the Woodruff School’s history and current achievements.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Undergraduate Research and Job Fairs The Woodruff School Student Advisory Committee (WSSAC) hosted two fairs at the beginning of the fall semester. The Jobs Fair and Reception was a complementary event to the Institute’s all-day Career Fair, and was a good chance for potential employers to speak with Woodruff School students in a more relaxed atmosphere. WSSAC also sponsored the annual Undergraduate Research Fair, which was attended by more than seventy students interested in working on a research project. Faculty members who had work for undergraduates made presentations about their research.

GT Motorsports Wins in England The GT Motorsports team took the Overall Winner prize at the Formula Student competition in Birmingham, England. The competition, for which the students must design, build, defend and race an open-wheel formula race car, pitted 25 university teams against each other, with six of them from the United States, one from Canada, one each from Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Ireland, and the balance from the United Kingdom.

The competition features a number of individual events, with the combined score from them used to determine the overall winner. In the static events, GT Motorsports placed 6th in presentation, 3rd in cost, and 1st in design. In the dynamic events, GT Motorsports placed 2nd in skid pad and autocross, and 4th in acceleration and the combined endurance and fuel economy event. In the dynamic events, mere tenths of seconds separated the top performing teams. As GT Motorsports had the most consistent high-placing performance across both static and dynamic events, it accumulated the most points (912 out of a possible 1000) to claim the crown.

Unlike past competitions in the U. S. and the U. K., where one team clearly dominates the events, it was uncertain to the very end who would take the Overall Winner crown. No one knew who had taken the prize until the announcement was actually made at the awards banquet.

GT Motorsports team members who participated at the Formula Student competition were Chris Richburg (team leader), Brandon Taylor, Ira Bragg, Heidi Alexa, Geoff Toon, Shamus Yandle, Mark Gibbs, Scott Flanagan, Allan Teague, J. P. McConnell, Philip Echelman, and Alper Akanser. Ken Cunefare is the faculty advisor to the group. GT Off-Road GT Off-Road (The Georgia Tech Mini- Baja Team) had a very successful and exciting year, and was one of only six teams to successfully compete in all three U.S. competitions. The SAE Mini Baja West was held in Manhattan, Kansas with 120 teams competing. This was the first competition of the year and contained the roughest terrain. The team finished 50th overall, highlighted by 15th place in engineering and design, a 19th place in cost analysis, and 21st in maneuverability.

The SAE Mini Baja East was held in Columbia, South Carolina with 50 teams competing. This event adds the extra aspect of water floatation and maneuverability. The team finished 25th overall with five top-15 event finishes, including suspension and traction, acceleration, top speed, braking, and design.

The SAE Mini Baja Midwest was held in Troy, Ohio with 127 teams competing. The team finished 50th overall with 13th place finish in design, 27th in top speed, and 33rd in acceleration.

The team’s membership grew by twenty percent. Solid design and engineering skills and continued support from sponsors, the faculty, and the administration of Georgia Tech will help the team succeed as they enter their third year of competition.

GT Robojackets Robojackets just completed its second year at Georgia Tech. The purpose of the group is to compete in robotics competitions, promote robotics at Georgia Tech, give students an added outlet for obtaining skills vital to their education, and add value to the surrounding community through community projects involving robotics. The club has about thirty members, mainly undergraduate students. Their majors range from ME to AE, CE, CS, and ISyE.

The club has five active groups that work on different robotics-related projects. For example, the Vacubots (or the 5th Annual Robot Rally) is a local competition organized by the Atlanta Hobby Robotics Club and hosted by Sci- Trek. The goal this year was to build an autonomous robot that cleans a typical household room without moving any furniture. The Georgia Tech team competed for the first time and finished in third place!

Another Robojackets group is FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a competition where high school students build remote-controlled robots for a specific task and are mentored by engineers or college students. The Georgia Tech team mentored a group of students from Carver High School in Atlanta.

In March, the FIRST team competed in the regional competition in Richmond, Virginia. They won a Judges’ Award because the judges liked the fact that all the Georgia Tech students were FIRST team members when they were in high school and now they are mentoring other students.

The team (13 Carver High School students and 7 Georgia Tech undergraduates) attended the national competition in Orlando, Florida in April. There were 335 teams, randomly divided into four divisions. The Prowling Panthers, as the Georgia Tech team was known, ranked 35th in their division and 174th overall. U.S. FIRST Other activities of the Robojackets include the design of a small walking robot, the design and construction of robots for the DragonCon competition, and the BattleBot competition.

SAE Car Show

The student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

sponsored the first Georgia Tech Car Show on March 24, 2001 in the parking lot near the MRDC building. Woodruff School undergraduates, Faris Jessa and Grady Cowardin, chaired the event to which students, staff, and faculty brought their modified imports, classics, 4’x’s, and race cars.

Plans are underway for next year’s show, which will be held sometime in late March 2002. The next show will include entries from Georgia Tech alumni. Vacubots ASME Spring Picnic

The Georgia Tech chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) had a terrific spring semester, which closed with the annual spring picnic. More than 700 students, faculty, and staff attended the event and consumed almost 850 hamburgers, 700 hot dogs, and 650 bags of chips! The picnic tee-shirts were a hot item. By filling out an application and paying dues to the ASME, students received a free shirt. As a result, chapter membership increased by more than seventy, making the organization one of the largest on campus. Representatives from Schlumberger were at the picnic; sponsorship was provided by Schlumberger, Kimberly-Clark, and ExxonMobil. Other events for the chapter during the academic year included intramural teams in flag football, software, and basketball; speakers from industry at all chapter meetings; student attendance at all the Atlanta Section ASME meetings, participation in the Old Guard Oral Competition; a plant trip; and participation in the Regional Southern Conference in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Students in the Woodruff School are excellent, as shown by the class profiles of incoming undergraduate and graduate students in fall 2001.

Freshman Class Profile

Average SAT Score (out of 1600) Mechanical Engineering 1345 Nuclear and Radiological Engineering 1345 Georgia Tech 1331 High School Grade Point Average Mechanical Engineering 3.84 Nuclear and Radiological Engineering 3.94 Georgia Tech 3.76 Freshmen 180 Mechanical Engineering 155 Nuclear and Radiological Engineering 25 Georgia Tech 2,212 Demographics (ME & NRE) Males 159 Females 21 Georgia Residents 103 Out-of-State Residents 77

Incoming Graduate Class Profile Number of Students 212 Applicants 735 Accepted (43% of applicants) 331 Matriculated (64% of those accepted) 212 Average Grade Point Average 3.56 Average Score on Graduate Record Exam (out of 2400) 1912 Demographics (ME & NRE/HP) Males 188 Females 24 Minority (U.S. Citizens) 28 International 84 Geographical Breakdown by Undergraduate School U.S. East/Northeast 36 (17%) U.S. South/Southeast 70 (33%) U.S. Midwest 27 (13%) U.S. West/Southwest 21 (10%) International 58 (27%)

Student Body Makeup In fall 2000, there were 1,042 males (83%) and 220 females (17%) for a total of 1,262 undergraduate students. Of these, 282 (23%) were minorities (note that minority includes only U. S. citizens and permanent residents: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, American Indian, and Multiracial) and 30 (3%) were internationals. On the graduate side, there were 439 males (82%) and 96 females (18%) for a total of 535 students. Of the graduate students, 85 (24%) were minorities and 119 (27%) were internationals.

Enrollment There was a total of 1262 undergraduate students in the Woodruff School in fall 2000, excluding the co-op students at work. Of these, 1,227 were in Mechanical Engineering and 35 in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering.

On the graduate side, we had a total of 535 students. Of these, 296 were Master’s students (274 in ME and 23 in HRE/HP), and 228 Doctoral students (204 in ME and 24 in NRE/HP). There were also four special students. Enrollment in the College of Engineering

Undergraduates Graduates School 1999 2000 1999 2000 Aerospace Engineering 368 445 224 260 Bioengineering ------47 53 Biomedical Engineering ------9 Chemical Engineering 662 591 106 123 Civil and Environmental Engineering 499 441 315 311 Electrical and Computer Engineering 1,786 1,867 780 792 GTREP --- 24 ------Industrial & Systems Engineering 1,072 1,062 269 335 Materials Science and Engineering 49 42 81 68 Mechanical Engineering (includes NRE/HP) 1,160 1,262 505 535 Textile & Fiber Engineering 114 114 44 45 Undeclared 364 253 ------Total 6,074 6,101 2,371 2,531

Careers The job market has remained strong for graduates of the Woodruff School. The Office of Career Services reports that more than 800 employer visits occurred on campus during the last year. These employers represent a substantial number of the Fortune 500 corporations, as well as many state and regional organizations. The number of companies visiting Georgia Tech that wish to recruit Woodruff School students is very high.

The average reported starting salary for those with a degree from the Woodruff School is shown below. The numbers reflect only those students who reported salary information to Career Services, which is not a high percentage of our graduates.

Reported Starting Annual Salary by Major and Degree

Degree 1999 2000 Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's $45,824 $46,795 Master's $52,286 $53,600 Doctoral $69,333 $58,700

Nuclear Engineering Bachelor's $27,000 N/A Doctoral $70,500 N/A Health Physics Master's N/A $49,500 College of Engineering Bachelor's $44,381 $46,513 Master's $51,920 $58,169 Doctoral $64,500 $64,679

Services for Undergraduate Students To help undergraduate students with their career choices, the following services are available.

● Georgia Tech Career Fair, which is attended by more than 400 companies; ● WSSAC sponsors a jobs fair and reception in the Woodruff School soon after the Career Fair; ● Office of Career Services offers workshops on interviewing skills and résumé preparation and career counseling; ● Help with résumé and cover letter preparation and the preparation of both graduate school and fellowship applications through the School’s communications program; ● Various Woodruff School workshops on going to graduate school; ● Plant visits arranged by student organizations, such as the ASME.

Services for Graduate Students The Woodruff School runs a number of workshops for our graduate students to obtain jobs in industry and academia. Each year we produce the Woodruff School Résumé Book, a compilation of résumés of doctoral candidates who will soon obtain their degree. In addition, the resumés are placed on our home page under Ph.D. Student Resumés. The web version, in particular, has helped a number of students get valuable summer internships.

This semester we are offering a one-hour course titled Professional Development Practicum. This course is for doctoral students in mechanical engineering/nuclear engineering, and health physics who want to pursue a career in academia. The topics include preparation of grant proposals; interaction with government agencies and industry; professional ethics; scholarship publications; and intellectual property issues.

Awards More student honors are listed in the sections on Scholarships and Fellowships.

Douglas Bakkum received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention. Melissa Bargmann won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Luis Burgos received a Henry Ford II Scholar Award. These awards are given to engineering students who have the best academic record at the end of the third year of undergraduate study. Luis also received the Briaerean Scholarship Cup, which honors the graduating senior and co-op student with the highest grade point average, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Jonathan Butcher received an NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention. Amy Clayman received a 2001 Georgia Tech Women’s Forum Scholarship. Adam Coutee received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Rebeccah Covert is a first-year ARCS Scholar. Beth Douglas won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Chad Duty is a first-year ARCS Scholar. Dawn Foley is a third-year ARCS Scholar. Craig Forest and David Frakes received an award in the Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition sponsored by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for their paper titled, "Input-Shaped Control of Gantry Cranes: Simulation and Curriculum Development." Dr. William Singhose was the faculty sponsor. Ali Gordon won an award in the Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition sponsored by SAIC. His paper was titled, "Crack Plane Influence on Non-Linear and Time-Dependent Fracture of Biomaterials." He is a student of Dr. David McDowell. Ryan Greene was named the Outstanding Georgia Tech Senior for 2001. Ryan also won the Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup, given to the engineering student who has demonstrated academic excellence, leadership, service to the field and the Institute, and who has shown potential for continuing growth. Michael Haberman received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Turner Howard won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Richard Howe won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. John Huey received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Murat Khamzin, whose Ph.D. dissertation research is in the medical imaging area, was awarded the 2001-02 Richard J. Burk, Jr. Fellowship for graduate studies in health physics from the Health Physics Society. John Valentine is the advisor. Susan Knueven received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Rahul Kulharni (and three other team members) won second place in the Business Plan Competition sponsored by Duke Energy, Morgan Stanley, Yamacraw, Alliance Technology Ventures, EDS, and ATDC. The team had the best plan in the Internet category. Thomas Meurer received a Sigma Xi (Georgia Tech Chapter) award for his M.S. thesis on "Wave Propagation in Hysteretic Media." Jianmin Qu and Laurence Jacobs (CEE) are his advisors. Andrew Perkins received an NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention. Gena Poe and Michele Sutton-Ferenci received the Best Paper Award in the Public Relations Category for their paper on the Marie Curie Exhibit at Georgia Tech at the 2001 American Nuclear Society/Health Physics Society Student Conference. James Pyland won an International Microelectronics and Packaging Society Education Foundation Grant. Carolyn Conner Seepersad was awarded a Hertz Fellowship. Approximately twenty-five fellowships in engineering and the applied sciences are awarded each year. John Slanina received an NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention. J. R. Spriggle won the George Wingfield Semmes Memorial Scholarship, given to an undergraduate engineering student who demonstrates academic achievement, outstanding leadership, a strong character, and a true love for George Tech. Michele Sutton-Ferenci (and Professor Nolan Hertel) was the session winner in the Health and Medical Physics technical session for her paper at the recent American Nuclear Society/Health Physics Society Student Conference. Mark Varady received an NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention. Jennifer Venton received a 2001 Georgia Tech Women’s Forum Scholarship. Bojan Vukasinovic won an award in the Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition, sponsored by SAIC, for a paper titled, "Transitions of a Forced Sessile Drop." Drs. Marc Smith and Ari Glezer are the faculty advisors. Zhiyong Wei won an award in the Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition, sponsored by SAIC, for his paper on "Effects of Radioactive Transfer Modeling on Transient Temperature Distribution in Melting Glass Rod." Dr. Kok- Meng Lee is his faculty advisor. Susan White won the Student Engineer of the Year award from the Atlanta Chapter of ASHRAE. Christopher Williams received an NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention. Omar Wooten won the Best Paper Award in Health and Medical Physics for his paper "Post Decontamination and Decommissioning Dose Rates at the GTRR" at the 2001 American Nuclear Society/Health Physics Society Student Conference. Nolan Hertel is his advisor.

Woodruff School Students Do It Again! Once again, Woodruff School students did extremely well in this year’s National Science Foundation graduate fellowship competition. Eight of our current students won in Mechanical Engineering (out of 41 awards given in this category) and two students won in Bioengineering. Four incoming graduate students also won. Of our ten winners, two were undergraduates. In addition, seven of the twenty-eight honorable mentions in mechanical engineering were Woodruff School students. This is the second year in a row that Woodruff School students have won ten NSF fellowships. Since 1990 our students have won 97 NSF fellowships and 117 honorable mentions. The Woodruff School has the largest number of these fellowships on the Georgia Tech campus.

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Many undergraduate students in the Woodruff School receive some type of scholarship. Half of our in-state students receive HOPE Scholarships, the program financed through the Georgia State Lottery. In addition, we list below some of the merit-based awards currently held by Woodruff School students.

Gregory Kessler, NRE Senior; Andrew Mauer, NRE Senior; DAvid Stopp, NRE Senior; William Lee, Atlanta ANS Representative; John Williams, NRE Junior; Joshua Parker, NRE Sophomore

Nuclear Engineering Scholarships for Freshmen New this past academic year was a series of scholarships for undergraduate students in the NRE program. Sponsors of these scholarships, aimed mostly at freshmen, are the Woodruff School, Southern Nuclear Operating Company, NAC International, the DOE/Industry Matching Grants Program, the American Nuclear Society, the Atlanta Section of the American Nuclear Society, and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

President’s Scholars The President’s Scholar Program, which began in 1981, identifies students who have excelled in academia and leadership. Financial awards are for four academic years, and students are expected to maintain honors-level academic performance and to be involved in campus or community activities. The program is funded entirely by endowments and annual contributions from Georgia Tech’s generous alumni, industry supporters, and other friends through the Roll Call annual giving program.

In fall 2001, seventy-six new President’s Scholars entered the Institute. Of these, two will be Woodruff School students, Matthew Prohaska and Lyndsey Heine. Woodruff School students currently enrolled as President’s Scholars are:

Saniya Akhtar Ahsan David E. Moeller Joshua Adam Bagwell Melissa Linnea Murray Emily Frances Beck Daniel John Muxie Adam Anthony Bierce Patrick Nardi Robert James Carroll Shawn Michael O’Connor Michael Allen Clements Erica Welch Onsager Michael Sebastian DeNicola Matthew Prohaska Michael Andrew Gootman Adam Brian Reich Justin Michael Hargrove Ryan Elizabeth Reynolds Lyndsey Heine Nathan Taylor Scripps Nathan David Liddell Marc Vincent Thomes Christyn Francesca Magill Jennifer Renea Watson John Philip Malek Christina Lauren Weise

Schlumberger Scholarship This is a new scholarship that is designated to a junior or senior woman mechanical engineering student who demonstrates academic excellence, leadership, and is involved in departmental research of some kind. The amount of the award is $5,000 for one academic year. This scholarship will be awarded to a female junior or senior for the next five academic years. The 2000-2001 recipient is Meridith Owensby.

Honors Day Awards Craig Forest won the School Chair’s Award, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. This award is based on outstanding scholarship and contributions to the Euan Baird and Meridith Owensby School, especially to its programs and external representation. It is given to a graduating senior in mechanical engineering who best fulfills these standards.

Adam Reich received the Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Sophomore Award, which is presented to a sophomore student in mechanical engineering who demonstrates not only outstanding scholarship, but also service to the School and to student activities.

The Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Senior Award was awarded to Brent Barkley and Mario Araya. The Woodruff School, in cooperation with the Pi Tau Sigma honorary society, selects that graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding scholastic achievements in addition to service to the School, to the Institute, and to student activities. The Samuel P. Eschenbach Memorial Award in Mechanical Engineering is given by the family of Samuel P. Eschenbach, class of 1933, and is based on academic performance, leadership capabilities as demonstrated through involvement in the campus community, and promise as a mechanical engineer. Aparna Phatak is the 2001 recipient.

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Scholar Award recognizes a graduating senior who has achieved an exception scholastic record in the mechanical engineering program. Uramela Suljuzovic is the 2001 recipient of this award.

The Richard K. Whitehead Jr. Memorial Award went to Theodoros Akiskalos. The Georgia Scientific and Technical Research Foundation has established this award in memory of its first president, Richard K. Whitehead Jr. (BME 1957). This award goes to an outstanding mechanical engineering senior who exemplifies high standards of scholarship and service.

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From July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001, Woodruff School students were awarded 2.5 million dollars in fellowships for graduate study; in 1999-2000 that amount was $2,470,984, and in the previous period, $2.22 million. The impressive quality of our graduate students is demonstrated by the presence of 112 Georgia Tech President’s Fellows and 97 winners since 1990 of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

(l to r) Luis Burgos, Richard Howe, Mary Elizabeth Douglas, John Huey, Melissa Bargman, Eric Vanderploeg, Adam Coutee, Turner Howard

ANS (American Nuclear Society Fellowship) Jeremy Sweeny

ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation Atlanta Chapter Scholars Carolyn Connor Seepersad Rebeccah Covert Stacey Dixon Chad Duty Dawn Foley Shannon Stott Michael Swinson

ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers) Grant-in-Aid Hany Al-Ansary

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Graduate Teaching Fellowship Wayne Johnson Stephanie Kladakis

ASME Marjorie Roy Rothermal Scholarship Justin McLoughlin

ALCOA/GTL Fellowship Katherine Dres Praus Cynthia Phillips

Department of Energy Fusion Fellowship Samuel Durbin

Department of Energy Health Physics Fellowship Scott Mosher Jodi Sulak

Department of Energy Integrated Manufacturing Fellowship Anh Dang Ty Dawson Chad Duty Dathan Erdahl Andrew Scholand

Department of Energy Traineeship Steven Keller Austin Rocker

Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship Gena Poe

Fulbright Fellowship Gabriel Hernandez Oscar Soto-Valdez

General Electric Faculty for the Future Doctoral Fellowship Kathryn Baxter Mary Elizabeth Douglas Laura Rowe

GEM (Graduate Education for Minorities) Fellowship Natalie Barrett (MS) Jarrett Datcher (MS) Brian Davis (MS) Charlene Demiel (MS) Taesha Diggs (MS) Mawuli Dzirasa (MS) Kwaku Eason (MS) Anthony Finch (MS) Jorge Hernandez (MS) Hernan Mercado-Corujo (MS) Hernan Pena-Diaz (MS) Erick Rios (MS) Michael Robertson (Ph.D.) Danielle Rose (MS) Ronny Versey (MS) Annica Warrick (MS)

Georgia Research Alliance Environmental Technology Chair Fellowship Julien Bassett Douglas Fenneman

Georgia Tech Congressional Internship Thomas Karastamatis

Georgia Tech Institute Fellowship Catherine Reyes Philip Voglewede

Georgia Tech President’s Fellowships Anne Marie Albanese Brent Bailey Reid Bailey Douglas Bakkum Jonathan Barletta Desiree Batth-Jangha Kathryn Baxter Brad Beadle Scott Bondi Jonathan Butcher Benjamin Byers Matthew Chamberlain Clint Chedester Matthew Christopher John Clayton Sheila Colbert-Luke Rhima Coleman Carolyn Connor Seepersad Matthew Cornwell Adam Coutee Rebeccah Covert Frederick Cowan Joseph Crawford Thomas Crittenden Anh Dang Ty Dawson Joseph DeKroon Marnico Deladisma Benjamin Dempsey Aaron Derer Mary Douglas Michael Drexel Samuel Durbin Chad Duty Brian English Dathan Erdahl Timothy Ferguson Marco Fernandez Nathan Gallant Brian Gardner Harry Garner Heather Gepford Ali Gordon Michael Haberman Phillip Harp Samuel Heffington Edward Hoffman Mark Holdhusen Andrew Honohan Mihaly Horvath Richard Howe Stacy Imler Sundiata Jangha Daniel Jean Clifford Johnson Ryan Johnson Wayne Johnson Thomas Karastamatis Stephanie Kladakis Michael Kohl Kristopher Kozak Travis Laker Jason Lawrence David Longanbach Bryan Marshall Lisa Mauck Casey McIntosh Jeff McLean Kristen Michael Mitul Modi Scott Mosher Janna Mouw Srinidhi Nagaraja James Nichols Phillip Nguyen Erika Ooten-Biediger John Pape Hernan Pena-Diaz Andrew Perkins Gene Poe Blaise Porter Zachary Priest Frank Pyrtle Anand Raghu Anthony Ridgeway Christopher Rinehart Laura Rowe Brian Schroeter Jevin Scrivens Ben Shapiro Christopher Shumway Andrew Slack John Slanina Stephen Smith Michael Still Wesley Stone Shannon Stott Dana Swalla Davin Swanson Michael Swinson David Tamburello Mathieu Thames Mark Varady Annica Warrick Brian Wayman Nathan Weiland Susan White-Stewart Christopher Williams Thomas Wilson Wesley Wolf Hasani Wooten Claudia Zettner Nicole Zirkelback

Glenn Fellowship Melissa Bargman Vincent Chan Brian Corbett Elyssa Crafton Jacob Diez Turner Howard Courtney Marrett Jordan Neysmith Christopher Rinehart Andrew Terrell Eric Vanderploeg Russell Watts Nathan Weiland

IMAPS Fellowship James Pyland

INPO (Institute for Nuclear Power Operations) Fellowship Neale Griffis (HP)

INTEL Graduate Fellowship Saghir Munir

Kilpatrick Fellowship Brian Wayman Luce Fellowship Stacy Imler

Medtronic Fellowship Christopher Conrad

NASA Graduate Fellowship Brent Bailey Frederick Cowan Andrew Honohan Wayne Johnson Nicole Zirkelback

National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship Sundiata Jangha Kristopher Kozak Michael Swinson Nathan Weiland

Neely Fellowship Joseph Root

NIH Traineeship Stephanie Kladakis Phillip Harp

NPSC (National Physical Science Consortium) Fellowship Michael Woodmansee Tracie Zoeller

NSF FACES Fellowship Cornelius Ejimofor Ali Gordon Gena Poe Jevin Scrivens Mathieu Thames Annica Warrick Brian Wayman

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Anne Marie Albanese Lisa Chiang John Clayton Carolyn Conner-Seepersad Rebeccah Covert Elyssa Crafton Timothy Ferguson Marco Fernandez Stacy Imler Clifford Johnson Angela Lin Casey McIntosh Kristen Michael Janna Mouw Erika Ooten-Biediger Annica Warrick Susan White-Stewart Hasani Wooten

Packard Fellowship Desirre Batth-Jangha Sheila Colbert-Luke

Parker Petit Fellowship Stephanie Kladakis

Proctor & Gamble Fellowship Courtney Marrett

Raytheon Fellowship Jeremy Harvey

Sloan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Ali Gordon Wayne Johnson Gena Poe

SMTA (Surface Mount Technology Association) Hutchins Award Jennifer Venton Muncy

Tau Beta Pi Fellowship John Slanina U.S. Air Force Palace Acquire Fellowship Peter Christiansen Kristina Wines

U.S. Air Force Palace Knight Fellowship Paul Hausgen Ryan Morrissey Mark Tudela

U.S. Air Force Traineeship Lynnane George

U.S. Army Traineeship Shawn Klawunder Dawson Plummer

U.S. Navy Traineeship Toby Lentz Joseph Root

Whitaker Fellowship Rhina Coleman Bryan Marshall Brian Wayman

Woodruff Fellowship Anne Marie Albanese Brent Bailey Reid Bailey Douglas Bakkum Melissa Bargman Jonathan Barletta Desiree Batth-Jangha Kathryn Baxter Brad Beadle Scott Bondi Jonathan Butcher Carl Hanna, Peter Jensen, and Andrew Meyers Benjamin Byers Peter Carnell Matthew Chamberlain Vincent Chan Clint Chedester Charles Chin Matthew Christopher Sheila Colbert-Luke Brian Corbett Matthew Cornwell Adam Coutee Elyssa Crafton Joseph Crawford Thomas Crittenden Joseph DeKroon Marnico Deladisma Benjamin Dempsey Aaron Derer Jacob Diez Michael Drexel Scott Duncan Samuel Durbin Brian English Timothy Ferguson Marco Fernandez Nathan Gallant Brian Gardner Harry Garner Heather Gepford Donavon Gerty Ali Gordon Aaron Graf Michael Haberman Neal Hall Samuel Heffington Edward Hoffman Mark Holdhusen Mihaly Horvath Turner Howard Richard Howe Ai-Ping Hu Daniel Jean Ryan Johnson Wayne Johnson Michael Kohl Susan Kneuven Travis Laker Jason Lawrence Brian Lemon Toby Lentz Angela Lin David Longanbach Courtney Marrett Lisa Mauck Jeffrey McLean Mitul Modi Srinidhi Nagaraja Jordan Neysmith Phillip Nguyen James Nichols John Pape Hernan Pena-Diaz Andrew Perkins Gene Poe Blaise Porter Zachary Priest Frank Pyrtle Anand Raghu Anthony Ridgeway Christopher Rinehart Brian Schroeter Jevin Scrivens Benjamin Shapiro Katharine Shilling Christopher Shumway Andrew Slack Stephen Smith Charlotte Song Douglas Spearot Michael Still Daniel Stinemates Wesley Stone Shannon Stott Dana Swalla David Swanson David Tamburello Andrew Terrell Mathieu Thames Eric Vanderploeg Mark Varady Jennifer Venton-Muncy Annica Warrick Russell Watts Nathan Weiland Christopher Williams Thomas Wilson Wesley Wolf Michael Woodmansee Claudia Zettner Nichole Zirkelback Tracie Zoeller

Woodruff School GTL Fellowship Julien Bassett Kati Dres Praus Douglas Fenneman Cynthia Phillips Stephen Rose John Slanina

Woodruff Teaching Internship Wayne Johnson

Woodruff School High Score on Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Carolyn Connor Seepersad Gregorio Murtagian Min Pei

Yopp Fellowship Neil Hall Angela Lin Katharine Shilling Daniel Stinemates

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Degrees Awarded in the College of Engineering from Summer 2000 to Spring 2001

Bachelor’s Master’s Doctoral Degrees Degrees Degrees

Aerospace Engineering 51 68 18 Biomedical Engineering 0 2 1 Chemical Engineering 126 3 18 Civil and Environmental Engineering 125 96 21 Electrical and Computer Engineering 328 221 56 Industrial and Systems Engineering 287 127 10 Materials Science Engineering 7 11 8 Mechanical Engineering (and NRE) 236 137 42 Textile and Fiber Engineering 20 6 5 Totals for COE 1180 681 179

Degrees Awarded in the Woodruff School by Discipline and Gender from Summer 2000 to Spring 2001

Bachelor’s Degree Master’s Degree Ph.D. Degree

Female Male Female Male Female Male ME 41 192 32 95 6 32 NRE 0 3 0 4 0 4 HP — — 2 4 — —

Totals 41 195 34 103 6 36 236 137 42

Degrees Awarded in the Woodruff School by Ethnicity from Summer 2000 to Spring 2001

B.S. M.S. Ph.D. M.E. NRE ME NRE/HP ME NRE Asians 27 0 7 1 3 0 Blacks 21 0 7 0 2 0 Hispanics 9 0 4 0 1 1 Native Americans 2 0 0 0 0 0 White 166 3 80 6 16 2 Multiracial 3 0 1 0 0 0 International 5 0 28 3 16 1 Totals 233 3 127 10 38 4

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES AWARDED

During the past academic year, 236 undergraduate degrees were awarded (41 degrees in Summer 2000, 75 degrees in Fall 2000, and 120 degrees in Spring 2001).

Summer 2000 Alimena, Eric William Barton, Charles Matthew Berdecia, Ricardo Berrell, Mathew David Bezanis, Gregory Constantin Boggs, Patrick Neil Boils, Jonathan Charles Bourque, Christopher James Corbett, Felton Conrad Culp, John Ripley Curylo, David Anthony Disney, Justin Thomas Dubert, Stephen Scot Dupree, Timothy Ernest Eley, Nathan R. Exley, Patrick Gilbert Faber, Benjamin Joseph Fordham, Benjamin Carter Fritz, Amber Joann Geyling, Alex J. Godfrey, Anthony M. Hester, Matthew Neal Hight, James Robert Hilliard, Richard Terence Knick, Joseph Edward Le, Tuan Dinh McGowan, Nathaniel Mark Meka, Hemanth Rao Molinari, Jason Emanuele Oberoi, Biren Otchy, Timothy Matthew Patrick, Charles Ashley Post, Joshua Lamar Ramay, John Anderson Reale, Philip Michael Shockley, Nicholas David Smith, Gwyneth Ye-Ren Smith, Lisa Natasha Vaughn, David Michael Wong, Kinwah Zhou, David Wen

Fall 2000 Allard, Emile Maurice Anderson, Roderick Wesley Aultman, Iverson Robert Averett, Rodney Dewayne Aycock, Charles Bayne Basnandan, Anneil Bedell, Yvonne Marie Bell, Thomas Frank Boettcher, Aaron Charles Bollinger, Christine Theresa Brimmer, Chad M. Brooks, Calvin Burns, Christopher Thomas Campbell, Timothy Robert Caratus, Aurel Andrei Caronna, Kimberlie Lynn Chastain, William E. Cintron, Norberto Rafael Cortis, Kellie Davis, Jeremy Scott Derojas, Teresa J. Didocha, Michael Robert Espiritu, Alexander Evans, Todd William Fachini, Gina Margaret Garner, John Kenneth Graham, Cory Alan Greene, Ryan Alan Han, Taesok Henry, Christopher Keith Holland, Thomas Ryan Honeycutt, Mark Edward Horton, Katherine A. Huang, Kang-Chih Jonathan Huynh, Ly Trong Jones, Steven Mark Kavanaugh, Scott Edward Kim, Edward Jino Kim, Saeyeol Kinmonth, Steven John Le, Minh Thanh Lee, Sang Myong Livingston, Rayyan Toshir Loegel, Elizabeth S. Mathieu, Patrick Joseph McKee, Sara Louise Meggs, Benjamin Robert Merzlak, Jeremy Steven Meyers, Andrew J. Miller, Richard Colt Moores, Kristina Lynn Morris, Joseph Lee Nicholson, Chad Christopher O’Rear, Leslie E. Pretzlaf, Jason Aaron Roberts, Allison E. Robey, Brian John Robinson, Kerry Brian Smith, Graham Collin Sumner, Rosemary Tang, Long Buu Tengkuadnan, Tengkurasydan Thompson, Steven Charles Untalan, Nellie Joy Utz, Hans Joseph Varga, Tara Makenzie Walker, Aric Walker, Cynthia Lea Weaver, Benjamin I. Wellington, Andre M. Wilde, Rusty Austin Wilford, William Danial Wilkes, Abbie Leon Witherspoon, William C. Woodard, Roy Linwood

Spring 2001 Acker, Daniel Michael Aguilera, Martin R. Aspinwall, Jacob Raleigh Aviles, Alejandro A. Baker, Judd William Barkley, Brent E. Barlow, Christopher Shannon Barrett, Jason Scott Barton, Jesse Ellis Bates, Gregory William Bates, Karen Rose Berger, Karlene Nicole Blair, Jeremy W. Buckhalt, Brandon Ryan Burden, Lawrence Carmany, David George Conway, William Elias Covell, Mark Steven Cowardin, Grady Alexander Davison, Jimmie L. De La Torriente, Maria Luisa Do, Khanh, Khac Edwards, Gilmer Allen Engelman, Carl Thomas Evans, Kristopher M. Everhart, Carl Elwin Fay, James E. Forest, Craig Richard Franzo, Corey Brian Gala, Michelle Visanji Garrison, Lorinda Gayle Gassett, Jonathan Gerry Graff, Michael Edward Gran, Kimberly Allison Green, Christopher Kareem Hackett, Jason Owen Hall, Floyd Jerrod Hamlett, Kenny Will Hanna, Carl Robert Hart, Beau James Buckhanon Heinen, Erich Thomas Hill, Jennifer Michelle Hipps, Jeffrey Brant Hobbs, Andrew Muirhead Hollis, Gaylon Charles Hopkins, Timothy Paul Huey, Charles Grant Huisman, Benjamin Thomas Jacobs, Kateshia Rene Jean, David Phillip Jefferson, Fred Gerard Jessa, Faris Z. Jones, Jessica L. Jumper, Matthew Wilson Justice, Lola Y. Kaiser, David August Keesee, Jessica Ann Kelling, Nicholas Jehle Kendig, Stephen M. Kim, Hyun Gyu Kokotan, Raymond John Kulik, Stephen Joseph Lance-Seghi, Nova Lassiter, Michael James Lawes, Andrew David Le, Phuoc Huu Long, Robert E. Lovett, Scott Michael Lowder, Margaret L. Lynch, Kimberly Susan Mauer, Andrew Nelson Mcrae, Phillip Holland Morton, Justin C. Moses, Emily Sommer Murdock, Patrick W. Neel, Christopher Holmes Nelson, Michael R. Nguyen, Sanh Quang Nitschke, Ivie Sarah O’Neal, Eric Thomason Odell, David Allen Olsen, Scott Robert Pabon, Martin Julio Pardo, Steven J. Pasley, Nicholas Patel, Bhavesh Ashok Pearce, Heather Laine Phatak, Aparna Ganesh Rangan, Jeffrey Santanam Rasmussen, Chad Clifford Reddy, Jayadeva Lakkireddy Rippel, John Wallace Sapp, Scott Austin Shaver, Amanda Dawn Sherer, Charles I. Shutter, Andrew Joseph Smith, David Christopher Socha, Kevin Solheim, Brady John Spengler, Kevin Andrew Starr, Paul Pitchford Steele, Matthew Brandon Stein, Jason P. Stewart, James Eric Suljuzovic, Uramela Music Swan, Stephen R. Tadros, Randy W. Talbot, Edward R. Thakker, Amish A. Tran, Kha Kinh Ulevich, Daniel S. Underwood, Damon Lee Vettukattil, Anit S. Virostko, John M. Vuong, Viet Vinh Wadlington, Charles Edward Westergreen, Amy Lynn Williams, Bobby Lee Williams, Ryan David Yi, James Chang

GRADUATE DEGREES AWARDED

In the period from summer 2000 to spring 2001, the Woodruff School awarded 179 graduate degrees: 137 master’s and 42 doctoral degrees. In summer 2000, there was a total of 57 degrees (45 master’s and 12 Ph.D.’s); in fall 2000, 53 degrees were awarded (42 master’s and 11 Ph.D.’s); and in spring 2001 we granted 69 degrees (50 master’s and 19 Ph.D.’s). The number of master’s degrees was almost a record (the record was achieved in the 1998-1999 academic year when we granted 140 M.S. degrees, just before semester conversion in fall 1999), and for the first time we granted 42 doctoral degrees, a new record for the Woodruff School.

SUMMER 2000 GRADUATES Name Degree Advisor Thesis Title Previous School Attended Arestides, Peter B. MSME Wayne Book Implementation of a PD Controller on a Remote Axis Serial Purdue University Interface Device Atmadi, Alexander L. MSME Steven Liang Cutting Fluid Aerosol from Splash in Turning: Analysis for Marquette University Environmentally Conscious Machining Bailey, Robert R. Ph.D. ME Janet Allen & Bert Input-Output Modeling of Material Flows in Industry Duke University Bras Barth, Eric J. Ph.D. ME Nader Sadegh Approximately Infinite Horizon Discrete-Time Optimal Control UC at Berkeley Using CMAC Networks Bedouet, Sylvain MSME Richard Neu Study of Damage Evolution in a Titanium Matrix Composite ENSAM-Angers, France Under Quasi-Static and Dynamic Loading Brunette, Jeffrey Joseph MSHP* C-K Wang Nonthesis University of Wisconsin Carroll, Timothy Michael MSNE Farzad Rahnema Nonthesis Georgia Tech Casey, Cody D. MSME Itzhak Green Crack Detection in a Rotor Dynamic System Texas Tech Codron, Fabien MSME Yves Berthelot Detection of Surface Waves in the Ground Using an Acoustic ENSAM-Angers, France Method Counts, William A. MSME W. S. Johnson Mechanical Behavior of Bolted Composite Joints at Elevated Georgia Tech Temperature Covert, Rebeccah J. MSME David Ku Friction and Wear Testing of a New Biomaterial for Use as an MIT Articular Cartilage Substitute Elwell, Lance C. MSME Minami Yoda Dynamics of Stationary and Obliquely Oscillating Free Plane University of Colorado Jets Etter, Christy L. MSME James Hartley Numerical Model of the Transient Behavior of a Copper-Water Virginia Tech Heat Pipe Fennell, Brett J. MSME Daniel Baldwin Simultaneous Solder Reflow and Underfill Cure in Next North Carolina A&T University Generation Flip Chip Assembly Forsythe, Kristine M. MSME Richard Neu Mechanical Behavior of Transversely-Loaded Titanium Matrix University of Illinois Composites at Elevated Temperatures Gough, John MSHP* C-K Wang Nonthesis Northwestern University Graf, Aaron J. MSME Kenneth Cunefare Active Control of Automotive Disc Brake Rotor Squeal Using Michigan State University Dither Guignard, Thibaut MSME Wayne Book Implementation of a Stable Power Assist Device ENSAM-Bordeaux, France Haemer, Joseph M. MSME Suresh Sitaraman Thermo-Mechanical Modeling and Design of Micro-Spring for Georgia Tech Microelectronic Probing and Packaging Hahn, Steven R. Ph.D. ME Aldo Ferri An Evaluation of Acoustic Response to Structural Modification Georgia Tech He, Tian Ph.D. ME Kok-Meng Lee Effects of Rotor Configurations on the Characteristic Torque of University of Science & a Variable-Reluctance Spherical Motor Technology, China Heil, Phillip J. Ph.D. ME Nader Sadegh Non-Repetitive Learning Force Controller for a Robotic Carnegie-Mellon University Manipulator James, Ashley J. Ph.D. ME Marc Smith Vibration Induced Droplet Ejection University of Florida Kataria, Alok MS David Rosen Building Around Inserts in Sterolithography: Standardization University of Pune, India and Process Planning Keohan, Melissa MSME Suresh Sitaraman Nonthesis Villanova University Koo, Donald MSME Robert Fulton A Product Data-Driven Methodology for Automating Variable Georgia Tech Topology Multi-Body Finite Element Analysis Lanz-Herrera, Ruben MSME Shreyes Melkote Machinability of Polymer Composite Materials for Rapid ITESM, Mexico Tooling Less, James L. MSME Aldo Ferri Nonthesis Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Less, Melissa K. MSME Thomas Kurfess Nonthesis Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ma, Zhiwen Ph.D. ME Said Abdel-Khalik A Combined Differential and Integral Model for High University of Akron Temperature Fuel Cells Menchaca, Jacqueline MSME Christopher Lynch Electromechanical Efficiency of Actuator Materials Loyola University, New Orleans Naekel, Glen Edward MSHP* William Wepfer Nonthesis N.J. Institute of Technology Nan, Mei MSME Ben Zinn Nonthesis Tsinghua University Nguyen, Phillip H. Ph.D. ME Jerry Ginsberg An Exploration of Parametric Excitation as a Tool for Vibration Virginia Tech Control Petriccione, Gregory J. MSME I. Charles Ume Design and Integration of a Large Area Warpage Measurement Hofstra University System Prysock, Darrius MSME Jeff Streator Nonthesis Georgia Tech Raghunathan, Rajiv MS Suresh Sitaraman Virtual Qualification Methodology for Next-Generation Area- Indian Institute of Technology, Array Devices Madras Rayner, Joshua L. MSME Thomas Kurfess A Finite Element Simulation of Thermally-Induced Residual Virginia Tech Stresses in Titanium Aluminide Rivollet, Benoit MSME Christopher Lynch Constitutive Models for Ferroelectric Materials ENSAM-Cluny, France Roberson, Joshua R. MSME Steven Danyluk Abrasive Waterjet Damage of Silicon Wafers Wartburg College Rought, Nathan W. MSHP* Nolan Hertel Nonthesis U. S. Air Force Academy Rubilar, Roberto Ph.D. Weston Stacey Neutral Particle Transport in the Plasma Edge and Divertor Brigham Young University NRE Region Sadler, Emma MSME Sam Shelton Detailed Condenser Design Optimization for a Residential Air Case Western Reserve Conditioner Schaefer, Laura A. Ph.D. ME Samuel Shelton Single Pressure Absorption Heat Pump Analysis Rice University Smith, Jacqueline H. MSME James Hartley Nonthesis Virginia Tech Snow, Bradley W. MSME Bert Bras Prototyping a Robotic Disassembly Testbed University of Dayton Swinson, Michael D. MSME Nader Sadegh Nonthesis Duke University Tsai, Wen-Kai M. MSME Daniel Baldwin Design Guidelines and Process Strategies for Flip Chip Georgia Tech Manufacturing in Surface Tucker, Thomas M. Ph.D. ME Thomas Kurfess A New Method for Parametric Surface Registration North Carolina State University Vrinceanu, Isabela D. MSME Steven Danyluk Nonthesis Polytechnic Bucharest Vukasinovic, Jelena MSME Ari Glezer Countercurrent Flow in the Gap Between Co-Axial Cylinders University of Belgrade Wallace, Jon M. MSME Richard Neu Fretting Fatigue Crack Nucleation in Ti-6AI-4V Georgia Tech Williams, Tracy D. MSME Thomas Kurfess Remote Condition Monitoring of Rolling Element Bearings with University of Kentucky Natural Crack Development Wilson, Miyako W. MSME Robert Fulton Constrained Object Representation for Engineering Analysis Arkansas State University Wright, Monifa F. MSME Samuel Shelton Plate-Fin and Tube Condenser Performance and Design for a Clemson University Refrigerant R-410a Air Conditioner Young, William M. MSME Wayne Book Implementation of an Active Haptic Display as a Research Tool Georgia Tech for Human Psychophysics Testing Zheng, Tieyu Ph.D. ME Steven Danyluk A Study of Residual Stresses in Thin Anisotropic (Silicon) Tsinghua University Plates

*This denotes a degree received through Georgia Tech’s Distance Learning Program

FALL 2000 GRADUATES

Name Degree Advisor Thesis Title Previous School Attended Barrett, Natalie C. MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis Florida State University Byers, Benjamin A. MSME Andres Garcia Nonthesis Rose-Hulman Institute Casiano, Matthew J. MSME G. Paul Neitzel The Investigation of Flow within a Polymer Scaffold Inside a Georgia Tech Perfused Bioreactor Cimtalay, Selcuk Ph.D. ME Robert Fulton Object Oriented Paradigm for Optimization Model Enhancement Anadolu University Clark, David A. MSME W. S. Johnson Durability of the Residual Stresses Surrounding Cold Expanded Michigan Tech Fastener Holes in 7050-T7451 Aluminum Collins, Justin A. MSME Minami Yoda & Velocity and Free Surface Measurements of Free Plane Jets Georgia Tech Said Abdel-Khalik Cowan, Fredrick S. MSME Farrokh Mistree Nonthesis Georgia Tech Damweber, Michael F. MSME Harvey Lipkin Model Independent Offset Tracking with Virtual Feature Points Rose-Hulman Institute Davidson, Edward MSNE* Farzad Rahnema Nonthesis University of Alabama Preston Demiel, Charlene MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis Georgia Tech Diggs, Taesha M. MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis Xavier University, New Orleans Dunne, Rajiv C. Ph.D. ME Suresh Sitaraman An Integrated Process Modeling Methodology and Module for Boston University Sequential Multilayered High-Density Substrate Fabrication for Microelectronic Packages Erdahl, Dathan S. MSME I. Charles Ume Design and Implementation of an Automated Solder Joint University of Dayton Inspection System Ferguson, Timothy P. MSME Jianmin Qu The Effect of Moisture on the Interfacial Fracture Toughness of University of Arkansas Packaging Interfaces Fuhrman, Brian T. MSME W. Jack Lackey Fabrication of Advanced Thermionic Emitters by LCVD-RP West Virginia University Gessaghi, Valeria C. MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis Galseiro Institute, Argentina Green, Johney B. Ph.D. ME Pandeli Durbetaki Application of Deterministic Chaos Theory to Cyclic Variability in Memphis State University Spark-Ignition Engines Guillot, Francois Ph.D. ME Jacek Jarzynski Investigation of the Electromechanical Properties of UTC, Compiegne Electrostrictive Polymers Hausgen, Paul Ph.D. ME James G. Hartley A Thermal Analysis of an Alkali Metal Thermal to Electric Louisiana Tech Converter with Geometrically Designed Interior Surfaces Exhibiting Directionally Dependent Radioactive Properties He, Xialong Ph.D. ME Robert Fulton A Theoretical Framework for Dynamic Response of the Printed University of Tennessee Wiring Board with Mechanical and Thermal Loading Hoffmaster, Jill E. MSME Thomas Kurfess Nonthesis Georgia Tech Hu, Ai-Ping Ph.D. ME Nader Sadegh Nonlinear Non-Minimum Phase Output Tracking via Output Cornell University Redefinition and Learning Control Joni, Jeffry H. MSME Kok-Meng Lee Quasistatic Force Analysis of an Automated Live-Bird Transfer Georgia Tech System Karamesic, Amel MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis Georgia Tech Karastamatis, Thomas MSME Christopher Lynch Mode-I Fracture Toughness Testing of Ferroelastic Materials West Virginia University Keller, Andrew MSME Min Zhou An Experimental Analysis of the Dynamic Failure Resistance of University of Cincinnati TiB2/Al2O3 Ceramic Khamzin, Murat MSNE John Valentine Nonthesis University of Cincinnati Kushari, Abhijit Ph.D. ME Ben Zinn Study of An Internally Mixed Liquid Injector for Active Control of Indian Institute of Technology, Atomization Process Kharagpur Leason, Malcolm MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis Georgia Tech Lin, Yao MSME Farrokh Mistree Robust Design Goal Formulations and Metamodeling Techniques University of Science and Technology, China Malcolm, Shannon MSME Robert S. Cargill The Role of Progesterone in Attenuating Mitochondrial Injury in Georgia Tech Neural Cells In an In Vitro Model of Traumatic Brain Injury Marston, Matthew Ph.D. ME Farrokh Mistree Game Based Design: A Game Theory Based Approach to Cornell University Engineering Design McLoughlin, Justin J. MSME Robert S. Cargill A Novel In Vitro Shear Device for High Strain Rate Injury of 3-D Georgia Tech Neural Cell Cultures Meade, Lorne MSME Steven Danyluk Effective Static Modulus of Polyurethane Asperities Relative to Rose-Hulman Institute Surface Roughness Musheno, Jason MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis Georgia Tech Neysmith, Jordan MSME Daniel Baldwin A Modular, Direct-Chip-Attach, Wafer-Level MEMS Package: Yale University Architecture and Processing Novakovic, Zoran MSME Ari Glezer Nonthesis University of Belgrade Ooten, Erika MSME William Singhose Command Generation for Flexible Systems Using Numerator Texas A & M University Dynamics and Sliding Mode Control Patterson, Rafe MSME Jonathan Colton Nonthesis Georgia Tech Reid, Patrick MSME William Wepfer The Integration of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology into Industrial Stevens Institute of Technology Power Generation Systems Renier, Mark MSME W. Jack Lackey Equipment and Process Development for Fabrication of Rhenium- Georgia Tech Based Composites by CVI Root, Joseph MSME Peter Rogers Capabilities of an Underwater Acoustic Volumetric Array Using U. S. Naval Academy Time-Reversal Focusing Rose, Danielle MSME Raymond Vito Nonthesis Georgia Tech Sellers, Sally Ph.D. ME William Z. Black Heat Transfer Resulting from the Evaporation of Liquid Droplets North Carolina State University on a Horizontal Heated Surface Shan, Lei Ph.D. ME Steven Danyluk Mechanical Interactions at the Interface of Chemical Mechanical Georgia Tech Polishing Slack, Andrew MSME Peter Rogers Nonthesis Georgia Tech Srivichit, Chatri MSME Sheldon Jeter Nonthesis Thammasast University, Thailand Terrell, Andrew MSME Peter Rogers The Effect of Hydro-Acoustic Therapy on Sputum Production in West Virginia University Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Watson, Stuart MSME W. Jack Lackey Carbon Deposition for Artificial Heart Valves Using Liquid Reagent University of Tennessee CVD White, Carla Ann MSHP* C-K Wang Design of A252 Cf-based Irradiation Facility for Fadiobiological University of Vermont Experiments for 10B-enhanced 252Cf Brachytherapy Wines, Kristina MSME G. Paul Neitzel Nonthesis Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Wood, Andrea MSME G. Paul Neitzel Steady Thermocapillary Flow Between a Noncoalescing Liquid Arkansas State University Droplet and a Solid Surface Xiao, Angran MSME Farrokh Mistree Nonthesis Huazhong University of Scinece &

* This denotes a degree received through Georgia Tech’s Distance Learning Program

SPRING 2001 GRADUATES

Name Degree Advisor Thesis Title Previous School Attended Aleong, Douglas K. MSME David McDowell 3D Finite-Element Simulation of Random & Textured Shape Georgia Tech Memory Alloys Anderson, William B. Ph.D. ME Jacek Jarzynski & Development of a Condition Monitoring System for Mechanical Tennessee Tech Richard Salant Seals Arkayin, Efe MSME Steven Liang Nonthesis Lafayette College Baynham, Grant A. MSME Daniel Baldwin Flip Chip Processing of Lead Free Solders and Halogen-Free High Georgia Tech Density Microvia Substrates Behr, Matthew MSME Robert Cargill Nonthesis University of Delaware Busch, Stephen C. MSME Daniel Baldwin Evaluation and Process Development of Wafer-Level Applied Louisiana Tech Underfill Material Systems for Flip Chip Assembly Chan, Vincent MSME Imme Ebert-Uphoff Singularity Analysis and Redundant Actuaction of Parallel Ohio State University Manipulators Chatlynne, Etan S. MSME Ari Glezer Virtual Aero Shaping of a Clark-Y Airfoil at Low Angles of Attack University of Maryland Chen, Ji MSHP John Valentine Quantitative Cardiac SPECT in the Presence of Changing Tsinghua University Radionuclide Distribution Chen, Zhong Ph.D. ME Steven Liang Cutting Fluid Aerosol Generation and Dissipation in Machining Nanjing University ofAeronautics Process: Analysis for Environmental Consciousness & Astronautics Chin-Quee, Shawn MSME David Ku Design Verification for Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts Florida International University Claudet, Andre Ph.D. ME Thomas Kurfess Analysis of Three Dimensional Measurement Data and CAD Georgia Tech Models Cox, Jennifer M. MSME William Wepfer Analysis of a Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack/Modified Wartburg College Rankine Cycle Combination Crafton, Elyssa F. MSME William Black Measurements of the Evaporation Rates of Heated Liquid Droplets Tufts University Dennis, H. Wilmot MSME Robert Fulton Nonthesis West Virginia University Diez, Jacob MSME Imme Ebert-Uphoff Design for Additive Fabrication: Building Miniature Robotic SUNY at Buffalo Mechanisms Do, Vuchuong T. MSME Robert Fulton Nonthesis Georgia Tech Drexel, Michael V. Ph.D. ME Jerry Ginsberg Modal Parameter Extraction Using Mode Isolation University of South Carolina Dumont, Cyril MSME David McDowell Simulation and Experimental Studies of Transformation Surfaces ENSAM-Metz, France of Cuznal and Niti Finch, Anthony MSME Said Abdel-Khalik & Electrohydrodynamic Enhancement of Convection and Boiling Florida A&M University Sheldon Jeter Heat Transfer in a Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger Fuente, Fabien MSME Marc Levenston Electromechanical Indentation Properties of Hydrated Biomaterials Ecole Centrale, Paris, France Fung, Pearl H. MSME Ari Glezer Flow Control Over UAV Using Synthetic Jets UC at San Diego Gerhard, Jonathan F. MSME Farrokh Mistree Towards a Decision-Based Distributed Product Realization Georgia Tech Environment for Engineering Systems Goto, Momoko MSHP Bernd Kahn Development of a Quantitative Model for the Binding of Cesium to University of Tskuba, Japan SRS Soils Griggs, David MSME Yves Berthelot Development of a Laser-Based Ultrasonic System to Monitor the Georgia Southern University Mechanical Properties of Paper Products in a Controlled Environment Gumpert, Ben A. MSME Harvey Lipkin Calibration-Free Visual-Servo Robot Control Using An Eye-in- Rice University Hand Camera Arrangement Heffington, Samuel Ph.D. ME William Black Development and Analysis of a Vibration-Induced Droplet University of Texas Atomization Module for High Heat Flux Cooling Applications Herzog, Florian MSME Imme Ebert-Uphoff Nonthesis Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Hurtado, Jose F. Ph.D. ME Shreyes Melkote A Methodology for the Design and Optimization of a Flexible Universidad Tecnologica del Machining Fixture Centro, Venezuela Ilas, Danut Ph.D. NRE Farzad Rahnema Coarse Mesh Transport Theory Model for Heterogeneous University of Bucharest Systems Imler, Stacy M. MSME Marc Levenston Nonthesis Lehigh University Kelly, Frederick Alan Ph.D. NRE Weston Stacey Tokamak Density Limits University of Cincinnati Khan, Bruno S. MSME Nader Sadegh Optimization of Efficiency in a Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicle ENSAM-Lillie, France Kimble, Kenneth B. MSME Sheldon Jeter Nonthesis U. S. Naval Academy Koeppen, Kyle MSME Wayne Book Virtual Access Hydraulics Experiment for System Dynamics and Purdue University Controls Education Kraus, Robert J. MSME* William Wepfer Nonthesis U. S. Air Force Academy Laker, Travis MSME S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan Transport of Microscopic Particles in Microchannels and Brigham Young University Microbubbles Liu, Sheng Ph.D. ME I. Charles Ume System Implementation, Modeling and Defects Pattern Chinese Academy of Sciences Recognition for Flip Chip Solder Joint Inspection Using Laser Techniques Loretz, Yves D. MSME Ari Glezer Flow Control on a NACA 4418 Airfoil Using Streamwise Synthetic Central Swiss Institute of Jet Actuators Technology Luke, Shelia C. MSME Jianmin Qu Nonthesis Norfolk State University Maqueira, Benigno Ph.D. ME Nader Sadegh Output Control of Nonlinear Systems: A Formulation Based on University of Miami State Trajectory Learning McKinley, Michael Ph.D. NRE Farzad Rahnema Higher-Order Boundary Condition Perturbation Methods in Georgia Tech Scott Transport and Diffusion Theory Mercado-Corujo, MSME Suresh Sitaraman A Study of the Thermo-Mechanical Reliability of Plated-Through- MIT Hernan Hole/Press-Pin Assemblies Milner, David W. MSME Daniel Baldwin Flip Chip Packaging Using High Melting Point Solder Interconnect University of Florida Systems and the High Throughput Flip Chip Process Mosher, Scott MSNE Farzad Rahnema Implementation of an Adaptive Importance Sampling Technique in Georgia Tech MCNP for Monoenergetic Slab Problems Munir, Mohammad S. Ph.D. ME Wayne Book Internet Based Teleoperation UC at Irvine Newcomb, Patrick J. MSME David Rosen Implications of Modularity on Product Design for the Life Cycle Georgia Tech Ottemer, Xavier MSME Jonathon Colton Effects of Processing and of Environmental Conditions on the ENSAM-Aix, France Properties of Epoxy Materials Paydenkar, Chetan MSME Daniel Baldwin Flip Chip Processing and Reliability of Polymer Stud Grid Array Calvin College Packaging Raezer, Sheryl MSME Wayne Book Nonthesis University of Pennsylvania Robertson, Michael MSME William Singhose Methods for Generating Deflection-Limiting Commands Florida A&M University J. Rouse, Matthew MSME Wayne Book Design of a Hydraulically Actuated Manipulator for a Remote Louisiana State University Access Laboratory Schroeter, Brian M. MSME David McDowell Measuring Inhomogeneous Deformation Fields in Polycrystalline UC at Santa Barbara OFHC Cu Selcher, Patricia W. Ph.D. ME Steven Johnson Development of a Power-Law Crack Growth Model for a Rocket Northwestern University Motor Propellant Exhibiting Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior Serrat, Pierre MSME Paul Neitzel Numerical Study of Stokes Flow Through a Fibrous Porious ENSAM-Aix, France Medium Sharif, Curtis S. MSME Wayne Book The Development of a Surrogate Supervisory Interface for a PC- Georgia Tech Based Robotic Controller Shi, Zhiqiang Ph.D. ME Jacek Jarzynski Studies on Quantitative Acoustic Emissions with Applications to Tennessee Tech Material Fatigue Shochet, Andrea MSME William Wepfer Nonthesis MIT Smith, Stephen R. Ph.D. ME Shreyes Melkote An Investigation into the Effects of Hard Turning Surface Integrity North Carolina State University on Component Service Life Snider, Scott M. MSME Stephen Dickerson Feed-Forward Modification for Modified Traiectories In Non-Linear University of Utah Systems Soderlund, Matthew MSME Sam Shelton Cogeneration Dedication to Heating and Cooling Georgia Tech Spearot, Douglas E. MSME David McDowell Interface Cohesion Relation Based on Molecular Dynamics University of Michigan Simulations Swint, Brian MSME-D Thomas Kurfess Nonthesis Texas A&M University Tchikanda, Serge W. Ph.D. ME Kok-Meng Lee Modeling and Optimal Control for High-Speed Hig-Strength CUNY, Staten Island Precision Optical Fiber Drawing Thames, Mathieu MSME I. Charles Ume Nonthesis Florida A&M University Venton, Jennifer L. MSME Daniel Baldwin Flip Chip on Flex for Low Cost Electronic Packaging University of Illinois Wu, Xuemei Ph.D. ME S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan Monte-Carlo Modeling of Turbulent Dispersion of Small Particles in University of Science and Channels Technology of China Xiong, Shunhe Ph.D. ME Richard Salant Numerical Model of a Rock Bit Bearing Seal Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Zhang, Cheng Ph.D. ME Steven Liang Dynamic Diagnostics and Prognostics of Rolling Element Bearing China Textile University

*This denotes a degree received through Georgia Tech’s Distance Learning Program

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The Woodruff School maintains a standard of excellence in all the core, traditional areas of mechanical engineering, and has expanded into other interdisciplinary areas and applications such as acoustics, bioengineering, materials, microelectromechanical (MEMS), nanotechnology, and tribology. The School also encompasses complete programs in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Health Physics.

DEMOGRAPHICS

The Woodruff School has 69 tenure-track faculty. In addition, six faculty members have joint appointments in the Woodruff School. Of this total, thirteen have endowed chairs or distinguished professorships. We also have eighteen research faculty, three academic professionals, and a support staff of forty nine. We average seventeen postdoctoral fellows and fourteen visiting scholars each semester.

THE FACULTY BY PRIMARY RESEARCH AREAS

ACOUSTICS AND DYNAMICS

Yves H. Berthelot, Professor Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1985 Started at GT in 1985 Acoustics, laser instrumentation in acoustics, and ultrasonics Fellow of ASA Kenneth A. Cunefare, Associate Professor Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1990 Started at GT in 1990 Active/passive control, fluid-structure interaction, and optimal acoustic design Aldo A. Ferri, Associate Professor Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985 Started at GT in 1985 Acoustics, structural dynamics, and nonlinear dynamics and control Jerry H. Ginsberg, George W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems and Professor of Mechanical Engineering E.Sc.D., Columbia University, 1970 Started at GT in 1980 Vibrations, acoustics, dynamics, and fluid-structure interaction Fellow of ASA and ASME Peter H. Rogers, Rae and Frank H. Neely Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Brown University, 1970 Started at GT in 1983 Acoustics and bioacoustics Fellow of ASA

AUTOMATION AND MECHATRONICS

Wayne J. Book, HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974 Started at GT in 1974 Robotics, automation, modeling, fluid power, and motion control Fellow of ASME and IEEE Ye-Hwa Chen, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985 Started at GT in 1988 Controls, manufacturing systems, neural networks, and fuzzy engineering Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Assistant Professor Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1997 Started at GT in 1998 Robotics, parallel platform manipulators, flight simulation, and static balancing Kok-Meng Lee, Associate Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985 Started at GT in1986 System dynamics, control, automation, and optomechatronics Harvey Lipkin, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Florida, 1985 Started at GT in 1985 Design and analysis of mechanical systems, robotics, and spatial mechanisms John G. Papastavridis, Associate Professor Ph.D., Purdue University, 1976 Started at GT in 1979 Analytical, structural and nonlinear mechanics, vibrations, and stability Nader Sadegh, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987 Started at GT in 1988 Controls, vibrations, and design William E. Singhose, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997 Started at GT in 1998 Vibration, flexible dynamics, and command generation

BIOENGINEERING

Andres J. Garcia, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996 Started at GT in 1998 Cellular and tissue engineering, cell adhesion, and biomaterials Robert E. Guldberg, Assistant Professor Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1995 Started at GT in 1996 Biomechanics, image-based FEM, and tissue engineering David N. Ku, Lawrence P. Huang Endowed Chair in Engineering and Entrepreneurship and Regents’ Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1983; M.D., Emory University, 1984 Started at GT in 1986 Thrombosis, biomaterials, and tissue engineering Fellow of AIMBE Marc E. Levenston, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1995 Started at GT in 1998 Orthopedic biomechanics, soft tissue mechanics, and tissue engineering Robert M. Nerem, Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1964 Started at GT in 1987 Biomedical engineering, cellular and tissue engineering Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, APS, ASME, and IME Member NAE and IM John P. Ranieri, Associate Professor Ph.D., Brown University, 1994 Started at GT in 2001 Tissue and cellular engineering, biomaterials, and organ replacement Raymond P. Vito, Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971 Started at GT in1974 Biomechanics, tissue mechanics, and design Fellow of ASME Timothy M. Wick, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering (Joint Appointment) Ph.D., Rice University, 1988 Started at GT in 1988 Tissue and cellular engineering, bioreactor design, cell adhesion, and blood rheology Ajit P. Yoganathan, Regents’ Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Joint Appointment) Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1978 Started at GT in 1979 Cardiovascular fluid dynamics, rheology, Doppler ultrasound, and MRI Fellow of AIMBE Cheng Zhu, Professor Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988 Started at GT in 1990 Cell and molecular mechanics and applications to immunology and tumor biology

COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING AND DESIGN

Bert A. Bras, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Houston, 1992 Started at GT in 1992 Environmentally conscious design, design for recycling, and robust design Robert E. Fulton, Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1960 Started at GT in 1985 Finite-element methods, integrated CAD/CAM, information management, and electronic commerce Fellow of ASME Farrokh Mistree, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974 Started at GT in 1992 Design of open systems, product families, and distributed design and manufacture Fellow of ASME David W. Rosen, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1992 Started at GT in 1992 Virtual and rapid prototyping and intelligent CAD/CAM/CAE Suresh Sitaraman, Associate Professor Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1989 Started at GT in 1995 CAD/CAE, electronic packaging, thermomechanics and reliability, and FEM

FLUID MECHANICS

Prateen V. Desai, Professor Ph.D., Tulane University, 1967 Started at GT in 1966 Fluid mechanics, solidification, and convection in materials processing Ari Glezer, George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems and Professor Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1981 Started at GT in 1992 Fluid mechanics, turbulent shear flows, flow control, and diagnostics Damir Juric, Assistant Professor Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1996 Started at GT in 1998 Computational methods, multiphase flows, and microscale materials processing G. Paul Neitzel, Professor Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1979 Started at GT in 1990 Hydrodynamic stability, free-surface, and rotating and bioreactor noncoalescence Fellow of APS Marc K. Smith, Associate Professor Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1982 Started at GT in 1991 Hydrodynamic stability, liquid films, and droplet atomization Minami Yoda, Associate Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993 Started at GT in 1995 Shear flows, suspension flows, flow-structure interactions, and optimal diagnostics

HEAT TRANSFER, COMBUSTION, AND ENERGY SYSTEMS Said I. Abdel-Khalik, Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor and Professor of Nuclear Engineering Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973 Started at GT in 1987 Microscale, heat transfer, reactor safety, and thermal hydraulics Fellow of ANS and IEEE J. Narl Davidson, Interim Dean of Engineering and Professor Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1969 Academic administration, engineering education, plasma physics, and power plant operation Andrei G. Fedorov, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Purdue University, 1997 Started at GT in 2000 Multiscale thermofluids, thermal radiation, adsorption, and catalysis S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983 Started at GT in 1991 Multiphase flow, aerosol and particle transport, and nuclear reactor engineering James G. Hartley, Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1977 Started at GT in 1977 Heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics Sheldon M. Jeter, Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979 Started at GT in 1978 Heat transfer and thermal hydraulics Yogendra K. Joshi, Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1984 Started at GT in 2001 Thermo-fluid issues in emerging technologies and microthermal systems Fellow of ASME Alan V. Larson, Professor and Associate Chair for Administration Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1961 Started at GT in 1974 Thermodynamics Sam V. Shelton, Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1969 Started at GT in 1969 Energy systems, HVAC systems, absorption, and refrigeration Fellow of ASHRAE Amyn S. Teja, Regents’ Professor of Chemical Engineering (Joint Appointment) Ph.D., Imperial College, London, 1972 Started at GT in 1980 Thermodynamics, fluid properties, and supercritical fluid separations William J. Wepfer, Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1979 Started at GT in 1980 Heat transfer and thermodynamics Fellow of ASHRAE and ASME Ben T. Zinn, David S. Lewis Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Regents’ Professor (Joint Appointment) Ph.D., Princeton University, 1965 Started at GT in 1965 Combustion instability, active control, microscale combustion, propulsion, and acoustics Fellow of AIAA and ASME Member NAE

MANUFACTURING

Daniel F. Baldwin, Associate Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994 Started at GT in 1995 Manufacturing systems design, electronics manufacturing and packaging, and polymer processing Jonathan S. Colton, Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986 Started at GT in 1985 Manufacturing, polymer/composites processing, rapid prototyping, and nano/microfabrication Fellow of ASME Steven Danyluk, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974 Started at GT in 1993 Semiconductor processing, lubricant-surface interaction, polishing, and sensors Thomas R. Kurfess, Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989 Started at GT in 1994 System dynamics, control, metrology, and CAD/CAM/CAE Steven Y. Liang, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987 Started at GT in 1990 Automated manufacturing, control systems, and digital signal processing Shreyes N. Melkote, Associate Professor Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, 1993 Started at GT in 1995 Machining processes, surfaces, intelligent fixturing, and CAM/CAPP Charles Ume, Professor Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1985 Started at GT in 1985 Electronic packaging, mechatronics, and laser moiré/ultrasonics

MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Iwona M. Jasiuk, Associate Professor Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1986 Started at GT in 1996 Micromechanics, fracture, damage mechanics, composite materials, and biomaterials W. Steven Johnson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (Joint Appointment) Ph.D., Duke University, 1979 Started at GT in 1994 Fatigues, fracture mechanics, and durability of materials and structures Fellow of ASTM W. Jack Lackey, Professor Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1970 Started at GT in 1986 Ceramic and metallic coatings, composites,and rapid prototyping Member of ACS Christopher S. Lynch, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992 Started at GT in 1995 Experimental mechanics, and smart materials David L. McDowell, Carter N. Paden Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing and Regents’ Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983 Started at GT in 1983 Material deformation and damage, constitutive laws, and metals processing Fellow of ASME Richard W. Neu, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991 Started at GT in 1995 Fatigue, viscoplasticity, and composite materials Jianmin Qu, Professor Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1987 Started at GT in 1989 Fracture, composite materials, wave propagation, and microelectronic packaging Min Zhou, Associate Professor Ph.D., Brown University, 1993 Started at GT in 1995 Experimental/computational mechanics, dynamic behavior, material fracture, and shear localization

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS

F. Levent Degertekin, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997 Started at GT in 2000 Micromachined sensors and actuators, ultrasonics, atomic force microscopy, and nondestructive evaluation Peter J. Hesketh, Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987 Started at GT in 2000 Microfabrication, micromachining, sensors, actuators, biosensors, and microfluids Wenjing Ye, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Cornell University, 1998 Started at GT in 1999 CAD design of MEMS, microfabrication, and numerical analysis

NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND HEALTH PHYSICS Nolan E. Hertel, Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979 Started at GT in 1993 Radiation shielding, neutron dosimetry, radiological assessment, radioactive waste management, accelerator sources and applications, high-energy particle transport, dry storage of spent fuel, and radiation skyshine Farzad Rahnema, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981 Started at GT in 1992 Reactor physics, perturbation and variational methods, reactor simulator and monitoring methods, criticality safety, and benchmark methods Weston M. Stacey, Jr., Fuller E. Callaway and Regents’ Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966 Started at GT in 1977 Fusion engineering, plasma physics, and reactor physics Fellow of ANS and APS John D. Valentine, Associate Professor Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1993 Started at GT in 1999 Radiation detection and measurements, medical imaging, environmental monitoring, nuclear waste monitoring, personnel monitoring, and scintillator and semiconductor detector characterization and development C.-K. Chris Wang, Associate Professor Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1989 Started at GT in 1991 Radiation detection, radiation dosimetry, medical and industrial applications of ionizing radiations, and spent nuclear fuel measurements

TRIBOLOGY

Itzhak Green, Professor Sc.D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1984 Started at GT in 1985 Finite element methods, rotordynamics, fluid sealing, design, and integrated design Fellow of ASME Richard F. Salant, Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967 Started at GT in 1987 Fluid mechanics and fluid sealing Fellow of ASME and STLE Jeffrey L. Streator, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990 Started at GT in 1990 Computer-disk tribology, rheology, friction-induced vibration, and capillarity Ward O. Winer, Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair of the George W. Woodruff School Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1964 and The University of Michigan, 1961 Started at GT in 1969 High-pressure rheology, lubrication, tribology, thermomechanics, and mechanical systems diagnostics Fellow of AAAS, ASME, and STLE Member NAE

Academic Professionals

Jeffrey A. Donnell Ph.D., Emory, 1990 Started at GT in 1992 Coordinator of the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communications Michael D. Stewart M.S., Wayne State College, 1983 Started at GT in 2001 Engineering design graphics, computer-aided design, advanced feature based parametric solid modeling, and rapid prototyping James Michael Wileman, Associate Director of Georgia Tech Lorraine Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994 Started at GT in 1997 Mechanical seal dynamics, tribology, rotor dynamics, and design

Adjunct Professors and Part-Time Appointments

Cyrus K. Aidun, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Paper Science and Technology (Joint Appointment) Ph.D., Clarkson University, 1985 Hydrodynamic stability, liquid coating, and suspended particle hydrodynamics L. Dennis Ballou, Instructor J.D., Law, University of Georgia , 1977 Started at GT in 1994 Elastic instability of cylindrical shells, and availability analysis Rodney D. Ice, Adjunct Professor, Neely Nuclear Research Center Ph.D., Purdue University, 1967 Radiopharmaceuticals, radioprotectants, boron neutron capture theory, radionuclide methodology, and hospital health physics Barbara McCord, Instructor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992 Started at GT in 2000 Two-phase heat transfer, and bioengineering David Sanborn, Instructor Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1969 Started at GT in 2000 Thermodynamics, design, and combustion J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., Adjunct Professor, Clark-Atlanta University Ph.D., University of Chicago

RESEARCH FACULTY

Janet Allen, Senior Research Scientist Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1973 Started at GT in 1992 Design evolution over time, modeling uncertainty, decision-based design, and design pedagogy Scott S. Bair, Principal Research Engineer Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990 Started at GT in 1985 Tribology, rheology, properties of liquids at high pressure, and machine design Van B. Biesel, Research Engineer II M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993 Started at GT in 1994 Acoustics, vibrations, noise control, numerical modeling, transducers, and piezoelectric materials John R. Bogle, Research Engineer II M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987 Started at GT in 1990 Structural acoustics, finite/boundary element modeling interaction of underwater sound and structures, and vibrations Richard S. Cowan, Research Engineer II Program Manager MultiUniversity Center for Integrated Diagnostics M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992 Started at GT in 1996 Mechanical system maintenance and modeling, technology management, and public policy John R. Culp, Research Engineer I B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000 Started at GT in 2001 Michael L. Dowling, Research Engineer II M.S., University of Illinois, 1990 Started at GT in 1990 Steam/vapor explosions, particle image velocimetry of droplet sprays, and innovative heat pump designs François M. Guillot, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000 Started at GT in 2001 Acoustic material characterization, measurement methodology, laser Doppler vibrometry, electromechanical transduction, and structural acoustics Steven R. Hahn, Research Engineer II M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988 Started at GT in 1992 Structural acoustics, vibrations and control, and finite- and boundary element techniques Haichao Han, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 1991 Started at GT in 1999 Cardiovascular biomechanics, mechanical model of heart, vascular remodeling and grafts, and tissue engineering. Sam Heffington, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001 Started at Georgia Tech in 2001 Gregg D. Larson, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996 Started at GT in 1997 Transduction, acoustics, vibrations, and piezoelectric ceramics James S. Martin, Senior Research Engineer M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994 Started at GT in 1991 Shallow water sound propagation, internal gravity waves, structural acoustics, bioacoustics/biomimetics, nondestructive testing, and nonlinear bubble dynamics Dennis L. Sadowski, Research Engineer II M.S., University of Illinois, 1986 Started at GT in 1997 Thermal sciences and design and construction of experimental equipment Dave Trivett, Principal Research Scientist Started at GT in 1999 Structural acoustics, measurement methodology, transduction mechanisms, acoustic materials, and sonar systems Guang-Fa Yao, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996 Started at GT in 1997 Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, multiphase and turbulent flows, and numerical modeling of flows with free surface or moving boundaries Xuezhen Zhang, Research Scientist II M.S. Nanjing University, 1963 Started at GT in 1994 Computational and shallow water acoustics Ji-Xun Zhou, Principal Research Scientist Ph.D., Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1967 Started at GT in 1992 Shallow water acoustics, sound propagation and reverberation, acoustic interactions with internal waves, seafloor acoustics, and acoustic remote sensing

BOOK NAMED TO HUSCO/RAMIREZ CHAIR Professor Wayne Book was named to the HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control. Dr. Book joined the Woodruff School in fall 1974 as an assistant professor. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (B.S.M.E.) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S., Ph.D.).

Dr. Book is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Georgia, holds four U. S. patents, and served as the Technical Editor of the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. He received the Georgia Tech Faculty Research Award for Outstanding Leadership in Graduate Research Assistant Development in 1987 and was the founding director of Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary program in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (1983-1987).

Dr. Book’s research in robotics and motion control improves the dynamics of intelligent machines, expanding the design space to lighter, faster, more precise motion systems. He uses advanced control, dynamic modeling, sensing, and actuation by hydraulic, electric, and nonconventional means to gain improvements in autonomous and human-operated machines.

About the Chair Agustin A. Ramirez is a graduate of Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering (B.S.A.E. 1968, M.S.A.E. 1969) and he has an MBA from Harvard University (1974). He is the Chairman and CEO of HUSCO International, a major manufacturer of hydraulic and electrohydraulic controls for mobile equipment in the construction, materials handling, agriculture, and automotive markets.

Mr. Ramirez is the past chairman of the National Fluid Power Association, a past Wisconsin Entrepreneur of the Year recipient, and he serves on numerous nonprofit and public company boards. Mr. Ramirez’s gift to Georgia Tech consists of the endowment for the chair in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and half of the funding for a state-of-the-art fluid power laboratory.

SALANT NAMED TO GEORGIA POWER CHAIR Dr. Richard F. Salant was named the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering (until his retirement, Dr. Black held this chair). Dr. Salant received all of his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. 1963, M.S. 1963, Sc.D. 1967). Before joining Georgia Tech, he was Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Assistant and Associate Professor at MIT. Later, he was Manager of the Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Department at the Borg-Warner Research Center in Chicago. From the time he came to Georgia Tech in 1987, Dr. Salant continued his work on mechanical seals and expanded his research to include lip seals.

Dr. Salant is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Georgia, and holds five U.S. patents. In 1996, he received the Henry R. Worthington Medal from the ASME, and in 2000, he won the Edmund E. Bisson Award from the STLE.

About the Chair Georgia Power (a Southern Company) and Georgia Tech have long enjoyed a positive and beneficial relationship to address electric power generation, power delivery, environmental and economic development issues and needs for the state of Georgia and its citizens. To that end, in 1972, Georgia Power established four Georgia Power Distinguished Professorships at Georgia Tech: two in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Dr. Hans B. Puttgen and Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi), and one each in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Dr. Armistead G. Russell), and the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Appointments are held for a three-year, renewable term.

The Georgia Power professors provide intellectual leadership in education and research; lend vision to the creation of academic programs that help produce engineers of exceptional quality; provide a mechanism for Georgia Power to participate and benefit from the educational activities at Georgia Tech; serve as mentors to junior faculty and counsel students regarding career opportunities in the electric utility industry; boost the success of each School’s recruiting efforts; and serve as a contact with Georgia Power.

HONORS

Said Abdel-Khalik delivered the 2001 Jack M. Zeigler (BME 1948) Outstanding Educator Lecture on March 29, 2001; his talk was titled, "The Wal-Marting of American Higher Education -What’s a University Anyway?" Scott Bair, Principal Research Engineer, received the 2001 Captain Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers for the best paper published the previous year.

Dan Baldwin was elected to the Board of Advisors for the Association for Electronics Manufacturing of the Society of Manufacturing Engineering and was named the Packaging Research Center’s Faculty Member of the Year. Yves Berthelot was appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society for ultrasonics and physical acoustics. Bert Bras was appointed as the new Director of the Institute of Sustainable Technology and Development. Kenneth Cunefare was recognized with a Georgia Tech ten-year service award. Narl Davidson was named Interim Dean for the College of Engineering. Imme Ebert-Uphoff’s photo in the Robotics Teaching Lab appeared on page 63 in the September 2000 Bert Bras issue of the IEEE Spectrum. She is the faculty advisor to the Georgia Tech Robojackets. Tom Kurfess (and former student Woncheol Choi) received the Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award from the ASME. This is given for the best paper that is concerned with or related to design and application of machine tools, gages, or dimensional instruments.

Andrés Garcia won a 2001 National Science Foundation Career Award for his project, Hybrid Surfaces to Control Cell Adhesion and Function. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan received a Georgia Tech ten-year service award. Jerry Ginsberg authored a new textbook on Mechanical and Structural Vibrations: Theory and Applications (John Wiley, New York, January 2001, 700 pages). Itzhak Green was elected a Fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). In addition, he received the Walter D. Hodson Award from the STLE for his paper titled, "Clearance Control of a Mechanical Face Seal." Robert Guldberg was featured in a story on "Neo-Organs: Scientists Use Plastics to Help the Body Make Andrés Garcia New Bone." The story was posted on the web at ccn.com/health on January 15, 2001.

Jack Lackey was selected as one of two recipients of the Women in Engineering Faculty Excellence Award at Georgia Tech. This award is given to faculty members who through their excellence in teaching, caring, and motivation have made a difference in students’ lives. Other nominees from the School were Tom Kurfess, Sam Shelton, and Minami Yoda. This year, the Woodruff School had the largest number of nominees for these awards. Kok-Meng Lee (and Harry Garner, Ph.D. ME 2001) received U. S. Patent 6,188,484 for an invention titled "Method and Apparatus for Measuring Angular Displacement of an Actuator Arm Relative to a Reference Position." Jack Lackey Marc Levenston won a CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. David McDowell won the Georgia Tech Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activity Award. Paul Neitzel was elected to the General Faculty Assembly and the Academic Senate for 2001-2004. Peter Rogers and Gary Caille (GTRI) received the Georgia Tech Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Development. Sam Shelton signed an agreement with Salt Lake City to create a new relay torch icon for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Once again, Georgia Tech will do the engineering design and production oversight for the Olympic torch. Bill Singhose is the new faculty advisor for the Student Chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Suresh Sitaraman received the 2001 Best Paper Award from the Editors of IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies for a paper he co-authored with two of his graduate students (Rajiv Raghunathan and Carlton Hanna). Marc Smith was recognized with a Georgia Tech ten-year service award. Charles Ume was appointed co-editor of the Mechatronics Journal beginning in January 2001. C. K. Chris Wang received a Georgia Tech ten-year service award. William Wepfer was named the Engineer of the Year in Education by the Atlanta Chapter of ASHRAE and received the 2001 Graduate Student Government Administrator of the Year Award.

PROMOTIONS Dan Baldwin was promoted to Associate Professor. Narl Davidson was promoted to Professor. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan was promoted to Professor. Shreyes Melkote was promoted to Associate Professor. James Martin was promoted to Senior Research Engineer Rick Neu was promoted to Associate Professor. John Valentine was granted tenure. Minami Yoda was promoted to Associate Professor. Cheng Zhu was promoted to Professor. RETIREMENTS

Professor William Black Retires William Black, Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineer, retired after a distinguished thirty-two year career at Georgia Tech. Before his retirement reception, Dr. Black gave the first Woodruff School Outstanding Educator Lecture on "Georgia Tech: Then and Now." He recalled that when he came to Georgia Tech in 1968 the labs were terrible, faculty taught four courses each quarter, and they had to adhere to a coat-and-tie dress William Black code. Dr. Black said, "I think the impression we make in the classroom is very important; we need to present a professional appearance. Having said that, this is the first time I’ve had a suit and tie on in three months." He recalled the time the School purchased five HP calculators for students to borrow; slide rules disappeared overnight. Dr. Black called his job in academia "a special one."

Jacek Jarzynski retired in May 2001, but will spend fall semester at GTL in France. He spent 15 years at Georgia Tech. Jacek Jarzynski

Prasanna Kadaba retired in December 2000 after spending 31 years at Georgia Tech.

CHANGES Robert Cargill left the Woodruff School at the end of spring semester 2001 to begin a career with Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in Philadelphia. He will be a full-time consultant in the area of injury biomechanics and will stay involved in both basic and applied research. Prasanna Kadaba Table of Contents Next Page

Name Title Date Started at GT Trudy Allen Academic Assistant II July 1998 Shauna Bennett-Boyd Administrative Assistant I January 2000 Kimberly Blue Undergraduate Academic Advisor II August 1999 Vladimir Bortkevich Electrical Engineer II August 1999 Donald F. (Butch) Cabe Manager of Facilities September 1968 Tilden E. (Gene) Clopton Director of Special Projects May 1971 Robert Cooper Mechanical Technician III April 1999 Phillip R. Coulson Financial Specialist November 1986 Carla Crippins Administrative Assistant II May 2001 Andrew G. (Drew) Davis Electronics Technician III August 1986 Judith E. Diamond Administrative Assistant II March 1994 Kenneth Dollar Director of Support and Technical Services December 1996 Richard Duplessis Computer Services Specialist III October 1992 Melody Foster Administrative Manager I November 1997 Norma L. Frank Academic Advisor I February 1973 Phyllis Frost Administrative Supervisor II August 1959 Rona A. Ginsberg Director of Communications December 1996 John W. Graham Machine Shop Manager May 1986 Rebecca Hembree Administrative Assistant I March 1994 Angela L. Hicks Financial Manager I October 1995 Nancy Hutton Accountant II August 2001 Wanda Joefield Administrative Assistant II July 1995 Glenda Johnson Senior Secretary October, 2000 Vivian Johnson Administrative Assistant I March 1992 Cecelia Jones Administrative Assistant I August 1999 Theresa S. Keita Administrative Assistant I August 2000 Mary Jo Kleine Administrative Assistant II October 1990 Lorrie Lay Web Assistant June 1995 Sherron Lazarus Administrative Manager I October 1990 Donald E. Long Mechanical Technician III March 1980 Joyce Lowe Administrative Assistant II August 1999 Lisa Manning Administrative Assistant II August 1994 John P. McCullough, II Manager of Computing, Networking & December 1995 Electronics Bill Miller Systems Analyst III November 2000 Nancy D. Moody Administrative Manager I November 1989 Jefforey Murphy Systems Analyst III January 1998 Michael L. Murphy Administrative Assistant II June 1986 Regina Neequaye Administrative Assistant I September 2000 Claudine Nickens Administrative Assistant II September 1988 Gail Payne Administrative Assistant II September 1997 Verna Phillips Administrative Assistant II August 1999 Sterling Skinner, Jr. Director of Instructional Labs September 1992 Reuben Sloan Clerk IV December 2000 David W. Stone Director of Finance February 1994 Stephanie Wheeler Administrative Assistant I February 1999 Cosetta Williams Academic Advisor I May 1995 Melinda A. Wilson Manager of Administrative Services September 1976 John Witzel Electrical Engineer II October 1996 Caroline G. Wood Director of Development March 1998

PROMOTIONS Angela Hicks is now a Financial Manager I. Verna Phillips was promoted to Administrative Assistant II.

David Stone became the Director of Finance upon the departure of Pete Dawkins.

RETIREMENTS Betty Crumbley, Administrative Assistant II in Nuclear Engineering, retired in March 2001 after eighteen years at Georgia Tech. Betty Crumbley MOVES Carla Bennett, Accountant II in the Finance Office, went to the College of Computing. Pete Dawkins, Director of Finance, moved to the Dean’s Office in the College of Engineering to assume the position of Director of Finance. Pete was with the Woodruff

School for 15 years and has been with Georgia Tech for 25 years.

Pete Dawkins THE OUTSTANDING CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD is awarded each semester and at the end of the calendar year. At the end of a semester, nominations are received for any staff person who has performed in an exceptional manner during that term. A volunteer committee (six members and one tiebreaker) of staff members selects the winner from nominations received from any employee of the Woodruff School. The 2000 yearly winner was Gail Payne, who won the award in Spring 2000. Other semester winners were: Stephanie Wheeler (Summer 2000), John Witzel (Fall 2000) and Judy Diamond (Spring 2001). The award is noted on the staff member’s web page and their name is added to the outstanding performers display in the MRDC Building.

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For fiscal year 2001 (July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001), the Woodruff School’s finances were reflected in the number of grants and contracts received from external sources, the budget of the School (state support), and the revenue generated from the Woodruff Endowment. These categories break down as given below. Detailed information on any of these categories is available from the Woodruff School’s Director of Finance, David Stone, at (404) 894-7400.

Grants and Contracts

New funds received on external/internal grants and contracts active during fiscal year 2001a (includes endowment revenue) $22,208,686 Endowment and externally funded grant and contract expenditures b $20,278,092 Internally funded grant expenditures b $553,530 Total grant, contract, and endowment expenditures $20,831,622

Number of Grants, Contracts, and Proposals

Total number of active (external/internal) grants and contracts (includes endowment accounts) 582 Number of proposals submitted to external agencies 175 Number of externally funded grants, contracts, and endowments receiving new funds 270 Number of internally funded grants receiving new funds 23

School Budget

State support $11,401,038 Total grant, contract, and endowment expenditures $20,831,622 Total budget $32,232,660

Endowments (as of July 1, 2000)

Total Woodruff School endowment (market value principal) $83,924,435 Endowment-generated revenue available for expenditure $4,540,817

______a In addition about ten million dollars was received by our faculty through the college and interdisciplinary centers. b Includes direct costs, fringe benefits, and overhead, if applicable.

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Funds from the George W. Woodruff Trust continue to provide for the enhancement of School of Mechanical Engineering. George W. Woodruff received his degree in mechanical engineering in 1917. He served as a trustee and trustee emeritus of the Georgia Tech Foundation from 1941 until his death at the age of 91 in 1987, and he received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 1963. In addition to providing a significant endowment for the School of Mechanical Engineering, his contributions to Georgia Tech provide National Merit Scholarships and scholarships for student athletes in nonrevenue producing sports and are an ongoing source of unrestricted support for the Institute.

The market value of the Mechanical Engineering Woodruff Endowment on July 1, 2001 was $66,062,344. The endowment generated $3,026,274 that was available to the Woodruff School to update and enrich our programs. The expenditures may be categorized as follows: faculty, students, facilities, lectures and seminars, staff, publications, and general projects and supplies. A breakdown of the use of these funds includes:

Faculty

● Funds from the Woodruff Trust are used to endow the George W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems. This chair has been held by Dr. Jerry H. Ginsberg, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, since 1989. ● Funds travel and equipment purchases for faculty. ● Funds the Woodruff Faculty Fellows Program, which encourages young professors to build their careers at Georgia Tech by providing seed money ($10,000 per year) for research projects and other discretionary activities. The award is given for a five-year period. In the past academic year, the faculty fellows were Steven Liang, Jianmin Qu, and Cheng Zhu. ● Partially supports the School’s participation in the Georgia Tech Lorraine Program in Metz, France. ● Partially supports the Frank Webb Communications Program and the hiring of academic professionals and part-time faculty to supplement the course offerings of the School. ● Pays for the insertion of advertisements for various faculty positions, such as for the Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems in ASME’s Mechanical Engineering magazine and ASEE Prism.

Students

● The largest single category of support is for students ($1,175,505) in the form of teaching assistantships, research assistantships and fellowships to outstanding students. Approximately 196 student-semesters of support, including 112 fellowships. See the Fellowships section of this report for a detailed list of fellowship holders. ● Provides funds, including travel, to recruit new ME, NRE, and HP graduate students to the Woodruff School. This includes four recruiting weekends in which potential graduate students are brought to campus for a full weekend of activities. ● Funds the Spring Banquet, a yearly gathering of students, staff, and faculty to recognize the accomplishments of Woodruff School students and to honor the Woodruff School’s Annual Distinguished Alumnus and the Outstanding Educator. ● Partially funds student organizations such as the ASME Student Chapter, GT Motorsports, GT Off-Road (the Mini-Baja Team), GT Robojackets (including the FIRST team), Future Truck, and WSSAC. ● Provides partial financial support for student participants in the Georgia Tech Lorraine program. ● Provides funds for the Outstanding Seniors’ Dinner held each year in September. The purpose of this dinner is to encourage Woodruff School seniors with a grade point average of 3.5 and above to go to graduate school. ● Funds luncheon meetings between Woodruff School administration and graduate students and a sampling of graduating undergraduate students to obtain students’ assessment of our programs. ● Funds for undergraduate Woodruff School scholarships, which are based on merit and grade point average. Scholarships were given to five students in the past academic year. ● Funds an Open House and other activities in the Woodruff School during Family Weekend. ● Pays for the Woodruff School Annual Cookout, held at the beginning of the fall semester, for new graduate students to meet Woodruff School faculty, staff, and returning graduate students. ● Provides plaques and funds for students who receive an award at the annual Honor’s Day Luncheon. ● Partial support for the Pi Tau Sigma National Office, the honorary mechanical engineering society that the school hosts. ● Funds recruiting efforts for undergraduate students in nuclear and radiological engineering.

Facilities

● Funds various research lab renovations, including labs in the Love Building and partial renovation of the Neely Building. ● Provides funds to improve and furnish School facilities, including computer projection equipment in three instructional rooms and the seminar room.

Lectures and Seminars

● Funds activities associated with the the Annual Woodruff Distinguished Lecture Series. ● Provides support for the Woodruff Colloquium Series. These funds allow the Woodruff School to bring in well-known scholars to present a seminar and interact with the faculty in small groups. ● Helped support the Marie Curie Exhibit. ● Pays for receptions that accompany various seminars in the Woodruff School.

Publications and Public Relations

● Funds the design, production, and distribution of all Woodruff School publications.

Miscellaneous Projects

● Provides funds for the Woodruff School Advisory Board meetings. ● Purchase of gifts for lecturers, special guests, and retirees. ● Funds various retirement receptions for faculty and staff.

Special Projects

● Funds to improve office equipment. ● Funds for the ceremony and reception to designate the Woodruff School an ASME Mechanical Engineering Heritage Site. Also funds to print the special Heritage Site brochure. ● Funded a hospitality suite and an exhibition booth at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, Florida.

Personnel Provides funds for various personnel in the Woodruff School, including the Director of Communications, the Director of Special Projects (to coordinate the move to the Love Building), and three Academic Professionals (Director of the Frank K. Webb Professional Communications Program, the instructor for ME 1770 (Engineering Graphics and Visualization), and the Associate Director of Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, France).

Training

● Funds for both off-site and on-site staff training programs.

OTHER ENDOWMENTS

In addition to the Woodruff Endowment, the Woodruff School has almost eighteen million dollars in other endowment funds. Included here are some endowed chairs, such as the Morris Bryan and the Neely Chairs, the Frank K. Webb Professional Communications Program, and the Gegenheimer Endowment for Innovation. Most of these endowments are designated funds.

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NEW CHAIR HONORS TWO GREAT ALUMS We are pleased to announce the John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair in Building Mechanical Systems. The Chair is named for two distinguished and highly respected men in the industry, both graduates of Georgia Tech. The Chair will enable the Woodruff School to provide education and training in those skills used in building construction, including heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration, piping, plumbing, fire protection, and noise control. Professionals engaged in this field work in equipment design and manufacturing, installation maintenance, operation, sales, and system design.

John M. McKenney (1908-1994) John McKenney was the son of a Baptist minister who died when John was three. He and his older brother grew up having to work to support themselves and their mother and sister. The dream of a college education was a driving motivation, and John pursued his education at the Georgia Tech Evening School of Commerce, while working full-time during the day. He graduated in 1932 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree - one of his proudest achievements.

When he graduated he was secretary to the president of Southern Railway, but his entrepreneurial instincts soon led him elsewhere. After working at several other jobs, he scraped together $500 in savings and a $5000 loan to start his own business in 1943, recapping tires for the Army.

Seeing the end of the war ahead, he began selling appliances to returning servicemen. A friend who was a general contractor asked him to sell and install floor furnaces in apartments and tract houses. By 1948, the two companies were building warehouses, production facilities, churches and multifamily housing, and air conditioning became commercially available.

In 1948 he incorporated his business as a mechanical contractor under the name of McKenney’s, Inc. Until the early sixties, the company was in a constant struggle to survive and prosper. He was rewarded with success and growth during the sixties and early seventies, and turned over the helm of a healthy company to the next generation in 1973. During these years, John became well known for his high ethical standards, his genuine concern for his employees, and his dedication to providing quality work for his clients.

These values still define the company he founded today. McKenney’s is one of the leading mechanical contractors in the nation, and employs over 35 Tech graduates in a variety of management and engineering roles, as well as being one of Tech’s leading co-op employers.

Warren Douglas Shiver (1938-1999) Warren Shiver began working in 1959 as a part-time draftsman with Oliver K. Lewis, Jr., Consulting Engineers, while studying mechanical engineering at Tech. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in 1964 and a master’s degree in 1966, when he began a 40-year association with Newcomb & Boyd.

Warren became an Associate in 1969 and a Partner in 1973. He was the lead engineer on over 1600 projects during his career. These included many Atlanta landmarks, such as Colony Square, the Richard Russell Federal Courthouse, Southern Bell’s headquarters, the Sam Nunn Federal Center, the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel, the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Buckhead, the Olympic Swimming Venue, Georgia State and University Village, and the Georgia Center for the Advanced Telecommunications Technology. Warren led the company through a period of tremendous growth and change from the 1970s into the 1990s.

Warren believed in giving back to his profession and served several technical and professional societies on a local and national level. He was a Fellow of ASHRAE as well as being selected as Engineer of the Year for Atlanta. He was a registered professional engineer in 20 states and the District of Columbia. In addition, he maintained several professional affiliations, including the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Society of American Military Engineers, the Construction Specification Institute, and the Southern Building Code Congress International.

Warren’s dedication to Tech continued throughout his career including many alumni activities and service on the Woodruff School Advisory Board.

The 1897 Apprentice Class with President Mathieson; Julien P. Benjamin (third from right) is sitting under the tree.

INSUBORDINATE SENIORS FUND (We received the following letter from Julien P. Benjamin, Jr., the son of Julien P. Benjamin, BME 1902.)

" ... it is my desire to establish a Revolving Loan Fund for students who ‘run short’ of funds and face having to drop out. This Fund should be restricted to students enrolled in the School of Mechanical Engineering ....

I would hope that the fund can be administered by your department so that when a need arises a suitable loan can be arranged without delay. Since there is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’ I suggest that interest at one-half the going rate be charged.

My Dad was a member of the Insubordinate Seniors of 1901. That episode caused a unique and strong bonding between the members. I had the pleasure of meeting many of these fine men upon the occasion of their 50th, 55th, 60th, and finally, the 65th reunion when only my Dad was able to attend. The intense love and respect between these men had a strong influence upon me...and the several sons I met over the years."

The Story In 1901, the senior class defied the administration by refusing to return to campus on December 31st. Instead they returned on January 2nd. They were called into President Hall’s office, one by one, who told them they were guilty of "insubordination." He kicked them out of the dormitory for six weeks, so they had to return for classes for six weeks in the fall in order to graduate. The photograph was taken at their special graduation exercise in November 1901.

The Insubordinate Seniors held reunions every five years; a group photograph was taken on the west side of the Academic building near where they stood for their class photo. In 1961 Julian P. Benjamin (BME 1901) returned to sit in his spot for a final picture.

Note: The ME Insubordinate Seniors Loan Fund is maintained by the Financial Aid office. There is a cap of $500 for a loan and there will be a very small interest charge on the money. Financial Aid will cut a check in 24 hours.

(l to r, back row) Dr. Ward O. Winer, Mr. Alfred Estrada, Mr. Agustin Ramirez, Dr. Randy Sheffield, (front row) Mr. Pat Epps, Mr. Tom Barrow

HONORS Thomas Barrow (BME 1948) was named to the College of Engineering Hall of Fame. Kristian E. Deaver (BME 1991) was named to the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus. Ernest P. Epps (BME 1956) was named to the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. Alfred Estrada (BME 1954) was named to the College of Engineering Hall of Fame. Harry Garner (Ph.D. ME 2001) received U. S. Patent 6,188,484 with Dr. Kok-Meng Lee for an invention titled "Method and Apparatus for Measuring Angular Displacement of an Actuator Arm Relative to a Reference Position." Agustin A. Ramirez (AE 1969) was named to the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumnus. Randy Sheffield (BME 1988, MSME 1990) was recognized as a Georgia Tech Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus. David E. Tate, Sr. (BME 1962, MS 1964) was named to the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni.

IN MEMORIUM Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. (BME 1940), who served as head of the Russell Corporation for 25 years, passed away March 9, 2000 in Florida. "Gene Gwaltney was a cornerstone of the entire textile and apparel industry for many years," said Jack Ward, current chairman, president and CEO. "He led Russell through the growth years in the 1960s and 1970s and gave more than 40 years of his life to the company. He began his career in research with Russell and his appreciation and love of that area continued throughout his career."

Gwaltney, 82, joined Russell Manufacturing Company as director of research and quality control in 1952. He was named general superintendent in 1957 and vice president in 1960. He assumed the duties of president and chief operating officer in 1968 and was named chief executive officer and president in 1972. In January 1982, Gwaltney was named chairman of the board and chief executive officer and served as chairman until he retired in 1993. Throughout his career, Gwaltney was involved in many activities ranging from the Federal Reserve Board in Birmingham to the Georgia Tech Advisory Board. He also served as president of the Alabama Textile Manufacturers Association and held numerous positions with the American Textile Manufacturers Institute.

Gwaltney is survived by his wife, the former Nancy Russell, two daughters, two sons, and nine grandchildren.

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The Woodruff School Advisory Board held its yearly meeting on October 6, 2000 in the MRDC building on the Georgia Tech campus. The meeting began when Dr. Ward Winer presented a slide show that detailed the events of the past academic year in the Woodruff School. Other items discussed at the annual meeting included the Georgia Tech Lorraine program, an introduction of new faculty in the microelectromechanical systems research area, a short video by Professor David Ku detailing the new engineering entrepreneurial program, and a talk about ME 2110 (Creative Decisions and Design) by Professor Tom Kurfess and some students. The board members then had an opportunity to discuss various issues with President Clough, Provost Thomas, and Dean of Engineering Chameau.

After lunch, the board met with undergraduate and graduate student leaders in the Woodruff School to discuss issues and concerns. The results of those discussions were then relayed to Dr. Winer. Upon adjournment, the board joined Woodruff School faculty, staff, students, and friends for the ceremony to designate the Woodruff School an ASME Mechanical Engineering Heritage Site. After the reception, a dinner was held for the board in the Renaissance Hotel.

Members are invited to join the Advisory Board so that its composition reflects the varied scope of mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, and health physics in industry, the health-related professions, and the academic community. The board recommends strategic directions for the Woodruff School, suggests broad-based curriculum revisions, and consults with the Chair and faculty on important issues.

Mr. Kerry E. Adams Executive Vice President Southern Company Services Inc. Birmingham, Alabama

Mr. T. A. Barrow, Jr. (BME 1948) Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. David B. Bogy University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Berkeley, California

Mr. James R. Borders (BME 1983) President, Novare Group Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. James D. Brock (MSME 1963, Ph.D. ME 1965) Chairman & CEO ASTEC Industries Chattanooga, Tennessee

Mr. Michael H. Camp Executive Director, General Motors Warren, Michigan

Dr. Goodman B. Espy III (BME 1957) President, OB-GYN Associates Marietta, Georgia

Dr. James E. Hill (MSME 1966, Ph.D. 1967) National Institute of Standards & Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland

Mr. Robert G. Hill (BME 1958) Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Artis Jenkins (MSME 1980, Ph.D. ME 1984) Technical Manager, Lucent Technologies Norcross, Georgia

Mr. John G. Johnson (BME 1959) Vice President, Harris Corporation Melbourne, Florida

Mr. William S. Johnson (MSCHEM 1944) Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Mr. Robert J. Millikan (BME 1959) Vice President, Georgia-Pacific Corporation Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Parker H. Petit (BME 1962, MS EM 1964) Chairman, Healthdyne Inc. Marietta, Georgia

Mr. Charles L. Ray (BME 1950) Marietta, Georgia

Mr. Dennis L. Riddle Business Manager, Milliken & Company LaGrange, Georgia

Mr. Oliver H. Sale, Jr. (BME 1956) FESCO International Norcross, Georgia

Mr. Paul Schutt C.E.O., Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. Roswell, Georgia

Dr. Nam P. Suh Department Head of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mr. Joseph K. Tannehill (BME 1955) Chairman & CEO Merrick Industries, Inc. Lynn Haven, Florida

Mr. William L. Thacker, Jr. (BME 1967) President & C.E.O., TEPPCO Houston, Texas

Mr. Donald P. Traviss (BME 1968, MSME 1969) Sewickley, Pennsylvania

Mr. Michael S. Tuckman (BEE 1965) Executive Vice President, Duke Power Company Charlotte, North Carolina

Professor J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. Department of Mathematical Science Clark Atlanta University Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Larry Ybarrondo (Ph.D. ME 1964) Idaho Falls, Idaho

ACKNOWLEDGMENT This report is written and edited by Rona Ginsberg. Craig Moonshower designed the document. Most of the photographs were taken by Gary Meek. Sue Clites took the ones of the Capital Campaign celebration; additional photos are from either the Georgia Tech or the Woodruff School Archives. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Woodruff Endowment to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

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