The Fluids Engineering Division is involved in all areas of fluid mechanics, encompassing both fundamental as well as applications

affectionately as Spring 2007 Newsletter Chair’s Message Gopal, he would James C S Meng, Editor have been Senior Chair’s Message 1 by Urmila Ghia Member of the Fluids Engineer- Editor’s Message 1 ing Division at FED Honors & Awards Dear FED Members, that time. Fluids Engineering Award 3 Greetings! I have seen many of Flowserve, a Fluids Machinery Design Award 3 you at various Conferences over the leading pump- Robert T. Knapp Award 3 years; this Newsletter is my oppor- Technology com- Lewis F. Moody Award 4 tunity to communicate with all of pany where S. Gopalakrishnan-Flowserve you at once. Gopal spent much Pump Technology Award 4 We have had a very active year, of his career, Fluid Mechanics Technical with two very successful confer- generously pro- Committee (FMTC) 5 vided financial ences. Our Summer Conference, FED Honors and Awards Nominations 6 FEDSM06, was held in Miami, support to estab- Florida, July 14–17, 2007, jointly with ASME’s Nuclear Engi- lish a Division- Executive Committee Roster 7 neering Division, and in collaboration with organizers from 5 level award, the European Mechanical Engineering Societies: Professor Jean S. Gopalakrish- Bataille, Association Française de Mécanique (AFM), France; nan-Flowserve Pump Technology Award, to commemorate Professor Dieter Mewes, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI), (continued on page 2) Germany; Professor Mike W. Reeks, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), UK; Professor Alessandro Bottaro, Associ- azione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata (AIMTA), Editor’s Message: Italy; and Professor Ariel Bieshevel, The J. M. Burgers Centre Dear Fluid Engineering members: for Fluid Mechanics (JMBCFM), Netherlands. We had a record attendance, nearly 1100, with 20 symposia and 20 I believe the value of this letter can be significantly fora, for a total of 216 symposium papers, 123 fora papers, increased if we can reach a much broader base of 17 oral presentations and 7 plenary talks. The Plenary sessions members. As we all know, we are in a global village. provided the attendees an opportunity to hear an overview We have many members from all six continents. Espe- from experts in fluids engineering. The Plenary speakers gave cially for the engineers and scientists working on the excellent overviews of topical subjects: Quality and Reliability topics of fluid engineering, there really is no bound- in CFD, Active-Feedback Control of Turbulent Flow, Prediction ary due to geographical separation. Yet, for six years of Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Development of Nano- since I have been the editor of this newsletter, I have Microtechnology and Biomedical Applications, Nanoparticles not received a single article from non-US members. In order to make this newsletter more valuable and and Nanoprocesses in Microstructures, and Microfluidics and carry more useful and timely information, I encour- Multiphase Flows. This meeting had a large emphasis on the age each Geographical Region leadership to prompt development and application of modeling and computational your members to send in articles. Topics are yours to (CFD). In addition, the program offered a choose, any related fluids engineering activities or 4-session workshop, Nuclear Industry: CFD Analysis and regional meetings or technical articles are welcome. Standard Problem Requirements, and included CFD Validation Let us try to build toward an issue that over 50% arti- and Uncertainty Requirements for Nuclear Industry. cles are provided by our overseas members. The FEDSM06 Conference also included a special session in honor of the memory of Dr. Sankaraiyer Gopalakrishnan, a Sincerely, long-time ASME FED active participant and friend who passed James C S Meng away much too prematurely on September 5, 2005. Known 2 Spring 2007

Chair’s Message (continued from page 1)

Gopal’s contributions to the pump indus- We brought back the Authors’ Break- age authors of all papers presented at try. FED very much appreciates fast, a forum for communicating last- FED meetings to submit their contribu- Flowserve’s generosity and humanism, minute program changes, instructions tions to this Journal. to honor a great colleague and friend. to presenters, and other relevant Our Summer 2007 meeting is being Dr. Paul Cooper, an illustrious expert in announcements. We brought back Ses- organized jointly with the Japanese pumping machinery, was instrumental in sion Evaluation forms to collect session- Society of Mechanical Engineers this endeavor, and we thank him for his chair feedback to determine session (JSME), and constitutes the 5th Joint very effective leadership in institutional- attendance and paper quality. This ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Confer- izing this award. The inaugural-year information is useful in planning future ence in beautiful San Diego, , award was given at FEDSM06 to Dr. symposia/fora, as well as for providing July 30-August 2, 2007. In addition to John Tuzson, a veteran consultant on initial input about award-quality papers various symposia and fora, special panel pump design to pump manufacturers. to the Honors and Awards Committee. discussions on government and industry John was also a dear friend and an early We also instituted a web-based Confer- outlooks on engineering are also mentor and associate of Gopal. As ence Survey to obtain attendees’ feed- planned. A technical panel will focus on Dr. Gopalakrishnan was dedicated to back about the conference. Micro Scale Transport in Lab-on-a-Chip educating and encouraging the next Our Division’s contribution to applications. A workshop on CFD Fun- generation of expert pump engineers. IMECE06 held in Chicago, Illinois, damentals and Developments is planned In future years, the award will be made November 5–11, 2006, consisted of for Sunday afternoon, July 29. The to promising young engineers in the 4 symposia and 5 fora, along with the reception this year will be on Sunday pump field. Young Engineers Paper (YEP) contest, evening, following the workshop. The Honors and Awards Luncheon and a Panel Session on CFD/EFD IMECE is undergoing a renaissance. speaker, Frank Marks, provided an Choice — A Dilemma for Industries. Having grown to become as large as it excellent overview of the Miami Hurri- Professor Terry Beck, of Kansas State had, the Board of Governors agreed that cane Center. A meteorologist and hurri- University, chaired the YEP contest, to change was necessary. So the new cane specialist, Frank Marks is Director select the top 3 winners and 2 Honor- Congress will be focused primarily on of Hurricane Research Division, Atlantic able Mention candidates. Each received technical sessions, and will be a 4-day Oceanographic and Meteorology Labo- a certificate, and $300 towards their meeting (Monday–Thursday). This will ratories, National Oceanic and Atmos- travel to IMECE06, in addition to the permit all divisions to have sessions in pheric Administration (NOAA). prizes: $500 (1st place), $300 (2nd parallel rather than the previous practice FEDSM06 was held jointly with the place) and $200 (3rd place). An excit- of some Divisions’ sessions being sched- ASME Nuclear Engineering Division’s ing new event was the HP Best Student uled at the start of Congress, and others Conference ICONE-14. Research and Paper contest in Micro/Nanoscale Ther- during the second half. The new plan development (R&D) in the advanced mo-Fluids. HP, via Monem Beitelmal, will enhance inter-disciplinary collabora- nuclear energy program has a major generously donated $5K for awards this tion, leading to increased Multi-discipli- focus on software development, aimed year. The first-place award ($3K) went nary activities. To further promote multi- at producing tools to analyze fluid to Xiaole Mao, of Pennsylvania State disciplinarity, IMECE07 is organized as behavior within the chosen system. University, with Jonathan C. Kao, of the Multi-Disciplinary Technical Tracks with Thus, computational fluid dynamics, State University of New York, Stony Symposia/Fora residing in these tracks. computational heat transfer, and soft- Brook, receiving the 2nd place award Thus, each Track requires participation ware validation comprise areas of com- ($2K). The awards were made at the by at least two Divisions. FED is collab- mon interest for the Fluids Engineering FED Reception. Dr. Kendra Sharp, of orating with the Heat Transfer Division, Division and the Nuclear Engineering Pennsylvania State University, chaired and is specifically organizing 6 Sym- Division. Hence, a collaborative rela- the awards committee. We hope that the posia, 4 Fora and a Panel session titled tionship appeared quite natural, as FED event can be repeated in future years. “CFD/EFD Choices — A Dilemma for has an emphasis on fundamental fluid The Freeman Scholar award winner, Industries”. behavior, whereas NED has an emphasis Dr. Promode R. Bandyopadhyay, of the FEDSM08 will be a joint meeting with on fluid systems behavior. Organizing Naval Undersea Warfare Center, New- the Divisions of Heat Transfer, Advanced this joint conference was a great experi- port, RI, presented a very interesting Energy Systems, Solar Energy, and the ence, and we hope to repeat this experi- lecture at IMECE06 on Biorobotics, and Nano Institute. This should be a very ment four years hence. Implementing Swimming and Flying in well attended meeting with an excellent We had generous sponsorship from Nature into Engineering. We are consid- mix of society interests. It will be held in CD Adapco, UGS, UC-CFDRL (University ering moving the Freeman Scholar Jacksonville, Florida, during the second of Cincinnati Computational Fluid Award Lecture in the future from the week of August (most likely, August Dynamics Research Laboratory), IMECE to our Summer Meeting, to give 10–14, 2008). Abstracts will be due AREVA, TSI Incorporated, AECL, Climax it greater prominence in the Program. about December 15, 2007, and draft Portable Machine Tools, Inc., Tokyo The Journal of Fluid Engineering manuscripts around March 1, 2008. Electric Power Company, Westinghouse, (JFE) continues to grow in the number You might recall that Ali Ogut, FED TDW Services, Hitachi America, Ltd., of submissions, number of pages and Chair 2003–2004, had initiated a project HYTEC, Idaho National Laboratory, and impact factor, under the leadership of Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. our Editor, Joe Katz. I strongly encour- (continued on page 6) Spring 2007 3

FED Honors & Awards Committee’s Report

ized the successful International Sympo- Fluids Engineering sium on Engineering Turbulence Model- Robert T. Knapp ing and Measurements held every three Award years since 1990. He served for five Award years as chairman of the Scientific Pro- his award is given for the best paper by Adiel Guinzburg, Chair gram Committee of the European Research Community on Flow, Turbu- T presented at the Fluids Engineering he Fluids Engineering Award is con- lence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC) Division sponsored sessions dealing with T ferred upon an individual for out- prior to becoming the deputy chairman analytical, numerical and laboratory standing contributions over a period of of ERCOFTAC in 1999. Rodi is a recipi- research. The 2006 Knapp Award was years to the engineering profession and ent of many awards including the 2004 awarded to Yi-Chih Chow, Joseph Katz, in particular to the field of fluids engi- DGLR (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Luft- Francesco Sorrana, and Oguz Uzol of neering through research, practice or und Raumfahrt) Lectureship Award. the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, teaching. The recipient of the 2006 MD for their paper entitled “3d Measure- Fluids Engineering Award is Wolfgang ments of the Mean Velocity and Turbu- Rodi, Professor and Director at the Insti- lence Structure Within the Near Wake of tut für Hydromechanik, Universität Karl- Fluids Machinery a Rotor Blade.” This paper is published sruhe. Rodi began his scientific career at Design Award in the Proceedings of the 2005 ASME the mechanical engineering department Fluids Engineering Summer Conference at the Imperial College, London, where (FEDSM2005-77315). he Fluid Machinery Design Award is he played a major role in the develop- Yi-Chih Chow received his B.S. and T presented biennially to recognize ment of the two-equation, Reynolds- M.S. degrees in Naval Architecture and excellence in the design of machinery stress and algebraic-stress turbulence Ocean Engineering from the National involving significant fluid mechanics models, which are now widely used in Taiwan University. He joined Professor principles, which benefits mankind as practice. In 1973, he moved to the civil Joseph Katz’s group at The Johns exemplified by product use within the engineering department at Karlsruhe Hopkins University in 1999. He studied past decade. The recipient of the 2006 University where he has been a profes- turbomachinery fluid mechanics using Fluid Machinery Design Award is Bruno sor since 1981. At Karlsruhe, he trans- advanced PIV techniques, and earned Schiavello. He has been director for fluid ferred his turbulence-model experience his Ph.D. degree in 2005. He currently dynamics at Flowserve Pump Division, to the area of hydraulics and pioneered works with Professor Katz as a postdoc- Technology Department, in Phillipsburg, the application of turbulence models in toral fellow. His research interests New Jersey, since 2000, and previously this field. Rodi laid much of the ground- include turbulence modeling, propulsion served in the same position with Inger- work for our present capabilities to pre- systems, and PIV technique advance- soll Dresser Pump Company. He started dict turbulent flow problems in hydrau- ment. in the R&D department of Worthington lics. He maintained his interest in other Joseph Katz is a graduate of Tel Aviv Nord (Italy), then joined Central R&D of areas such as building , University and the California Institute of Worthington, McGraw Edison Company, environmental flows, turbomachinery Technology. He joined The Johns and then Dresser Pump Division. Schi- and aerodynamic flows and earned Hopkins University in 1988, and has avello was co-winner of the H. Worthing- worldwide recognition through further been a professor of mechanical engi- ton European Technical Award in 1979. refinement of turbulence models and neering for over 10 years. He is current- He has written several papers and lec- their extensive testing in these areas. In ly the William F. Ward Sr. Professor of tured at seminars in the area of pump the 1990s, Rodi shifted his interests to Mechanical Engineering. In addition, recirculation, cavitation, and two-phase Large-Eddy Simulations of complex he manages the Laboratory for Experi- flow. He is a member of ASME, AIAA, flows and has established himself as a mental Fluid Dynamics and is technical Societe Hydrotechnique de France, and major expert in the field. Recently he editor of the Journal of Fluids Engineer- the International Association for has begun direct numerical simulations ing. His research is focused on experi- Hydraulic Research. He has served on of unsteady transitional flows in turbo- mental fluid mechanics and develop- the International Pump Users Sympo- machinery. His group is among the very ment of advanced diagnostics tech- sium Advisory Committee since 1983. few in the world performing such com- niques, including particle image Schiavello received a B.S. degree plex calculations. Rodi also supervised velocimetry (PIV) and holography. (mechanical engineering, 1974) from careful experiments that resulted in Other research interests include cavi- the University of Rome, and an M.S. widely used benchmark test cases for tation phenomena, multiphase flows, degree (fluid dynamics, 1975) from Von calculation methods. Rodi has some 280 complex flow structure and turbulence Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, publications, including books on turbu- within turbomachines, and flow structure Rhode St. Genese, Belgium. lence modeling and 120 journal papers. and turbulence in the bottom boundary He is associate editor of the ASCE layer of the coastal ocean. Katz is widely Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and published and is the 2004 recipient of editor of the Journal of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. He initiated and organ- (continued on page 4) 4 Spring 2007

FED Honors & Awards Committee’s Report: (continued from page 3) the ASME Fluids Engineering Award. “Vortex Dynamics and Mechanisms for The award recognizes outstanding con- Viscous Losses in the Tip-Clearance S. Gopalakrishnan- tributions over a period of years to the Flow.” This paper is published in the engineering profession and, in particular, Proceedings of the 2005 ASME Fluids Flowserve Pump the field of fluids engineering through Engineering Summer Conference Technology Award research, practice, or teaching. (FEDSM2005-77175). Francesco Soranna is a Ph.D. student Donghyun You is a research associate he Award was established in July in the mechanical engineering depart- at the Center for Turbulence Research T 2006, with funding generously pro- ment at The Johns Hopkins University. and the Center for Integrated Turbulence vided by the Flowserve Corporation, in He works in the Laboratory for Experi- Simulations, . His honor of the late Dr. Sankaraiyer mental Fluid Dynamics, under the interests are in numerical simulation of Gopalakrishnan, “Gopal”. The first recip- supervision of Professor Katz. In 2001, complex flows. He has a Ph.D. in ient of the award was a close friend and he received his Laurea degree in mechanical engineering (2004) and an associate of Dr. Gopalakrishnan. The mechanical engineering from Politecnico M.S. in scientific computing and compu- Award was given to Dr. John Tuzson at di Torino and a master’s degree in tational mathematics (2003) from Stan- the special session held on July 17, mechanical engineering from The ford University. 2006 at the Fluids Engineering Summer Catholic University of America. His Meng Wang is currently an associate Meeting, in honor of Gopal. Future current research focuses on the effects professor, Department of Aerospace and awards are in keeping with Gopal’s dedi- of wake-wake interactions and wake- Mechanical Engineering, University of cation to the education of the next gen- blade interactions on the turbulence Notre Dame. Before he joined the Notre eration of expert pump engineers. Tuz- structure within multistage turboma- Dame faculty in 2006, he worked at the son is a pump design consultant with 40 chines. He is a student-member of Stanford/NASA Center for Turbulence years industrial experience in machine ASME and AIAA. Research for 13 years as a postdoctoral design. He is past chairman and pump Oguz Uzol received his B.S. and M.S. fellow/research associate/senior symposium co-organizer of the Fluids degrees from the Department of Aero- research scientist. His interests include Machinery Committee of ASME. Tuzson nautical Engineering at the Middle East numerical simulation, modeling, and received his B.S. degree in mechanical Technical University, in Ankara Turkey, control of turbulent flows and aeroa- engineering at the Conservatoire Nation- in 1992 and 1995. He received his Ph.D. coustics. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical al des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France in in 2000 from the Department of Aero- engineering (1989) from the University 1955. From 1955 to 1956 he worked at space Engineering at Pennsylvania State of Colorado, Boulder. the NEYRPIC-SOGREAH in Grenoble, University. He joined Professor Katz’s Parviz Moin is the Franklin P. and France as an engineer. He then moved turbomachinery research group at The Caroline M. Johnson Professor of to M.I.T and conducted research on the Johns Hopkins University in 2001 as a Mechanical Engineering, director of the cyclone duct separator. He received his postdoctoral fellow, and remained there Center for Turbulence Research, director Ph.D. from M.I.T in 1959. Tuzson led until 2005. He is currently an assistant of the Center for Integrated Turbulence research programs from 1959 until 1993 professor in the Department of Aero- Simulations, and director of the Institute at a number of companies and research space Engineering at the Middle East for Computational and Mathematical institutions, including: Whirlpool Corp. in Technical University. His research inter- Engineering at Stanford University. His St. Joseph, Michigan; I.I.T. Research ests include turbomachinery fluid interests include the physics, modeling, Institute in Chicago; BorgWarner Corp. mechanics and heat transfer, propulsion and control of turbulent flows. He is Research Center in Des Plaines, Illinois; systems design, development of small also interested in developing efficient Allis Chalmers Corp., Advanced Tech- and efficient propulsion systems and tur- numerical methods for large-scale com- nology Center in Milwaukee; and Gas bulence modeling. putations and parallel computing. He Research Institute in Chicago. Tuzson has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering taught courses at the Illinois Institute of from Stanford University (1978). Technology and Michigan State Universi- Rajat Mittal is an associate professor ty. He has published many technical Lewis F. Moody at the Department of Mechanical and papers and book chapters, and authored Aerospace Engineering, George Wash- Centrifugal Pump Design, published by Award ington University. His interests are in Wiley in 2000. computational fluid dynamics, vortex he Lewis F. Moody Award is given for dominated flows, fluid structure interac- T the best paper presented at the Fluids tion, and biofluid dynamics. He has a Engineering Division sponsored sessions Ph.D. in applied mechanics from the dealing with a topic useful in mechanical University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- engineering practice. The 2006 Moody paign (1995). Award was presented to Donghyun You, Meng Wang, Parviz Moin, Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford Univer- sity, and Rajat Mittal, George Washing- ton University for their paper entitled Spring 2007 5

Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee (FMTC)

By Khaled J. Hammad FMTC Chair, and • Symposium on Flows in Manufacturing Processes Francine Battaglia FMTC Vice-Chair • International Symposium on Flow Applications in Aerospace he Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee (FMTC) is the T main platform within ASME dedicated to organizing tech- • Forum on Advances in Fluids Engineering Education nical activities in the area of fundamental fluid mechanics. • Forum on the Transport Phenomena in Mixing FMTC members organize, promote, and present symposia, • Forum on Biological Flows fora, and panel discussions on topics of importance to the • Forum on Recent Developments in High-Speed Flow fluid mechanics technical community. There are more than Research 50 active members. The business meetings of FMTC are held FMTC is also sponsoring the following symposia/for a twice a year, at the International Mechanical Engineering scheduled during the IMECE to be held in Seattle, WA, Congress and Exposition (IMECE) and the Fluids Engineer- November 11–16, 2007. ing Division (FED) Summer Meeting. Elections of FMTC • Symposium on the Fundamentals and Applications of officers were held during the 2006 2nd U.S.-European FED Sensors and Sensing in Engineering and Biology summer meeting, Miami, FL. The two-year term (2006- 2008) of the current officers began at the conclusion of the • Symposium on Rheology and Fluid Mechanics of Non- Miami meeting. The FMTC initiated an effort to re-invent linear Materials itself by attracting a new generation of volunteers and estab- • Forum on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in lishing a close working relationship with other technical com- Fluid Mechanics mittees through jointly sponsored multidisciplinary activities. We cordially invite you to assist in organizing, and/or con- FMTC organizes a symposium/forum seeking fundamental tributing to the technical sessions and other activities of research contributions to the general area of fluid mechanics FMTC. (http://divisions.asme.org/fed/call/3rdSymponFundamen- As a volunteer organization, we depend on the dedicated talIssuesandPerspectives.pdf). efforts of those interested in fundamental fluid mechanics The symposium is typically scheduled for the FED sum- issues and their communication to other researchers and mer conference while a forum version of it is planned for the practitioners. FMTC is always seeking ideas and new mem- IMECE. Each area or sub-theme attracting strong interest is bers with the capacity and interest in fulfilling our future eventually expanded to form the basis of a new, stand alone, plans. symposium/forum. Information about FMTC can be found on our website FMTC members are currently engaged in organizing the (http://divisions.asme.org/fed/committees/fmtc.html). following symposia/fora, for the 5th Joint ASME/JSME Flu- Further information can be obtained by contacting either ids Engineering Summer Conference, to be held in San the FMTC chair: Dr. Khaled J. Hammad of Dantec Dynamics Diego, CA, on July 30 to August 2, 2007. ([email protected]) or the Vice-Chair: • Symposium on Fundamental Issues and Perspectives Dr. Francine Battaglia of Iowa State University (francine@ in Fluid Mechanics iastate.edu).

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July 30–August 2, 2007 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina 1380 Harbor Island Drive San Diego, California 92101 6 Spring 2007

Fluids Engineering Division Honors and Awards

Fluids Machinery Design Award The Robert T. Knapp Award is given to the authors of the best paper presented to the Fluids Would you like to honor your colleague in the Engineering Division dealing with analytical, design of machinery? Please consider nominat- numerical and laboratory research. ing them for the 2008 Fluids Machinery Design Award. A list of recent Knapp Award recipients can be found at the following link: The Fluids Machinery Design Award http://divisions.asme.org/fed/awards/rtka.html http://divisions.asme.org/fed/awards/fmda.html is presented biennially to recognize excellence in Fluids Engineering Award the design of machinery involving significant fluid mechanics principles, which benefits mankind as Would you like to honor your most outstanding exemplified by product use within the past colleague in the fluids area? Please consider decade. nominating them for the 2008 Fluids Engineering Award. Award criteria are: 1. Fluid machine: the design must be such that The Fluids Engineering Award is the most fluid mechanics is a significant factor in its prestigious award conferred by ASME upon an operation. individual in the field. It recognizes an individual 2. Usefulness: the design must have as its objec- for his/her outstanding contributions, over a tive benefits such as increased performance period of years, to the engineering profession or improved living conditions. and in particular to the field of fluids engineering 3. Period: contemporary designs which entered through research, practice or teaching. service prior to the date of nomination for the award are applicable. The award consists of a $1,000.00 honorarium and 4. Excellence: the design must represent an a Bronze Medal Plaque improvement in the state-of-the-art. Originality and/or patentability are desirable. A list of recent Fluids Engineering Award recipients can be found at the following link: http://divisions.asme.org/fed/awards/fea.html A list of recent Fluids Machinery Design Award recipients can be found at the following link: The Division also sponsors the http://divisions.asme.org/fed/awards/fmda.html Freeman Scholar Program which selects a person of outstanding ability to review a major technical area of fluids Was there an exceptional paper presented at a engineering. recent conference? You have the opportunity to honor the presenter(s). Deadline for nominations: September 30th each year. The Lewis F. Moody Award is given to the Achievement Nomination Form and Instructions: authors of the best paper presented to the Fluids http://divisions.asme.org/fed/awards/Achieve- Engineering Division dealing with a topic useful to ment%20Nomination%20Form%20and%20Instruc- in mechanical engineering practice. tions.pdf

A list of recent Moody recipients can be Achievement Nomination Reference Form: found at the following link: http://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Governance/ http://divisions.asme.org/fed/awards/lfma.html Honors/SocietyAwards/7760.doc

E-mail your nomination to: Dr. A. Guinzburg, Chair, Honors and Awards Committee, ASME Fluids Engineering Division Phone: 310-429-3665, Email: [email protected] Spring 2007 7

Chair’s Message (continued from page 2) to document the FED history with assis- as well as encourage new members to July 30, and Tuesday, July 31, 2007. tance from Sam Martin, Professor Emeri- join us so they bring fresh ideas to our Please look for the TC meeting schedule tus, Georgia Tech, and with a long asso- Division’s activities. at the Conference, and stop by and par- ciation with FED. Sam went to great dis- The success of our Division relies on ticipate in the TC meetings. This is your tances, literally, to collect old records, the contribution of all of you, especially Division, and I want you to be proactive, and assemble valuable historical facts the numerous volunteers who devote their and involve yourself in the TC proceed- about the Division. The project is now time and energy to organize our confer- ings. Contact information for the FED awaiting addition of information from the ences and other activities. I want to TCs is available at http://divisions.asme. recent past. I plan to call upon the FED thank each one for working tirelessly for org/fed/committees/tech.html. Chairs of the past 6 years to provide that the Division. I also want to acknowledge I look forward to seeing you at the 5th information to complete the project. The the support of our current ASME person- Joint ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering goal is to place this history document on nel, especially, Stacey Cooper, Erin Conference (FEDSM07) in San Diego, the FED website, incorporate any input Dolan, Phyllis Klasky, Jacinta McComie, California, July 30–August 2, 2007, and we receive from the FED Community, Melissa Torres, and Richard Ulvila, for all then at the new IMECE07 in Seattle in and then create a print copy. that they do to help us with our activities. November 11–15, 2007. In the mean- I would like to give you an update on In closing, let us be reminded that the time, do not hesitate to contact me if you our membership numbers. Our Division technical program of our division is a pri- have thoughts/ideas/feedback that you currently has 3062 members, as com- mary activity of our 6 Technical Commit- would like the Division to consider. pared to 3135 members last year. This tees (TC). The TCs meet during our represents a drop of about 70 members, Summer and Winter Conferences. The Best Wishes, although 122 new members came TC meetings are open to all interested Urmila Ghia, FED Chair aboard. Clearly, several members let individuals. At FEDSM07 in San Diego, their membership lapse. So, I urge you to the meetings of the 6 FED Technical please renew your membership regularly, Committees are scheduled for Monday,

Executive Committee 2006–2007

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