2009-2010 Woodruff School Annual Report

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Letter from the Chair Dear Colleagues & Friends: I am pleased to present you with this year’s annual report, which showcases the many accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and students. It is no secret that we have experienced another year of transition and challenge: surging enrollments and continued budget adjustments. However, it is truly inspiring to see our community focus on teaching, learning and discovery, making both tangible and intangible contributions for the betterment of society.

Our increased enrollments speak to the attractiveness and quality of our programs, while your generous endowment support has enabled us to survive these difficult financial times.

Great organizations get ahead, even in tough times, and the Woodruff School is committed to just that. Over the past year, we have been engaged in a strategic planning process in parallel with President Peterson’s strategic planning at the Institute level. Ours is a two-pronged plan.

We envision GT IDEA, Incubator for Discovery and Engineering Advancements (previously titled Engineering Life Sustaining Transformations), as an initiative to incubate and spawn research teams comprised of faculty and students to define and explore grand challenge problems through basic and applied research. On the one hand, it has never been a better time to be in the fields of mechanical and nuclear engineering because solutions to virtually all of the grand challenges require mechanical and/or nuclear engineering contributions. The GT IDEA strategic objective challenges Woodruff School faculty, staff, and students to lead teams and seek discoveries and innovations to meet the needs of humanity.

Our second strategic objective seeks to develop pathways for a renaissance in engineering education. More than ever before, our students need to be made aware of the environment and the context and importance of engineering. We also seek to instill a belief in our students that innovative, cross-disciplinary collaboration is a Georgia Tech and a U.S. “value-add.” One specific initiative is to “Build Burdell.” The George P. Burdell Center is envisioned as a 100,000 ft2 facility dedicated to multi-disciplinary design, innovation, and creativity. The Burdell Center will enable our students to work in multi-disciplinary teams throughout their programs to design, prototype, and build products and systems. The Burdell Center will also house the many student competition teams and will assure that our graduates will have experienced the “culture of engineering and innovation.” The Burdell Center will also contribute to our students’ ability as leaders in creating engineering solutions to solve the world’s grand challenges.

We continue to be deeply grateful for your continued support. I invite you to stop in to meet our faculty, staff, and students, and to tour our facilities. You will find an exciting and creative community environment that continues to enhance Georgia Tech’s reputation.

My door is always open,

Bill Wepfer, Ph.D. Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair Atlanta, Georgia

CONTENTS A Year of Innovation and Creativity................1 Programs .......................................................5

CONTACT US

Degrees .........................................................8

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Dr. William J. Wepfer Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405

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Fellowships ..................................................15 Students ......................................................16 Faculty ........................................................18 Staff .............................................................26 Woodruff Endowment ................................28 Other Endowments .....................................29 Alumni ........................................................30 Contributors ...............................................32 Advisory Board ............................................33

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A YEAR OF INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY Innovation and creativity are very important aspects of an education at Georgia Tech, and particularly, in the Woodruff School. Georgia Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson has said, “In addition to offering Tech students top-ranked programs of study, many benefit from realworld experiences in the U.S. and abroad, as well as opportunities for innovation that better prepare them for leadership in addressing some of society’s most challenging issues.”

The Woodruff School values creativity and innovation in our faculty and students. The facilities and laboratories in the School are state of the art. Some aspects of our programs that illustrate directly these concepts are highlighted in this section. Other examples are found throughout the report.

The Harold W. Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation

The lecture on innovation was established in 1995 through an endowment from Mr. Harold W. Gegenheimer (class of 1933) to support student programs that encourage creativity, innovation, and design. Through the lecture series and support of capstone design projects, students are exposed to processes that stimulate creativity and lead to inventions and patents.

Our most recent speaker was Dr. Robin Murphy (B. ME 1980, M.S. ICS 1989, Ph.D. CS 1992), the first woman to present a Gegenheimer Lecture. Dr. Murphy is Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University. Her topic was Robots To the Rescue! She explored how robots can reduce deaths, accelerate damage assessment, and minimize economic downtime after a disaster.

The Woodruff Distinguished Lecture

The George W. Woodruff Annual Distinguished Lecture was established in 1990 to honor an engineer who has made a significant contribution to society and to provide a forum for that person to interact with the Georgia Tech community.

In April 2010, Dr. Daniel Mote, President of the University of Maryland, spoke about Innovation: What’s the Problem? He talked about innovation in an accelerating scientific and technological environment, and the challenges that need to be met as a result.

PATENTS OF THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL FACULTY

Technology licensing activities are a result of research, and include inventions, software and copyright disclosures, patent applications, and patents issued. Current Woodruff School faculty hold more than 210 U.S. patents. First-page patent plaques of each invention are prominently displayed in the lobby of the MRDC Building, outside of the School’s Administrative Office. The display is supported by the Harold Gegenheimer Endowment on Innovation and is meant to inspire students to create and invent.

Harold Gegenheimer (1910-2006) was the holder of 21 patents, including the sheet handling mechanism for the perfector press, which revolutionized color printing after WWII. For more details on all the patent holders in the Woodruff School and those of Harold Gegenheimer, see the patent web site at www.me.gatech.edu. What follows is a list of recently awarded patents: • Aidun, Cyrus, Automation of Biological Sample Aliquoting, U.S. Patent 7,745,204 B1, June 29, 2010; • Das, Suman, Solid Freeform Fabrication of Structurally Engineered Multifunctional Devices, with others, U.S. Patent 7,509,240 B2, March 24, 2009; • Degertekin, F. L. and Andrei Fedorov, Integrated Fuel Processor and Flow Delivery Infrastructure, U. S. Patent 7,714,274, May 11, 2010; • Fedorov, Andrei, Vortex Tube Refrigeration Systems and Methods, U.S. Patent 7,669,428, with others, March 2, 2010; and Scanning Ion Probe Systems and Methods of Use Thereof, U. S. Patent 7,442,927, April 27, 2010; • Fedorov, Andrei and F. L. Degertekin, Electrosonic Cell Manipulation Devices and Method of Use Thereof, (with others), U. S. Patent, 7,704,743, April 27, 2010; • Hesketh, Peter and James Gole (with S. Lewis), Porous Gas Sensors and Method of Preparation Thereof, U. S. Patent 7,838,949, November 2010; • Neitzel, G. Paul, Droplet Transport System and Methods, U. S. Patent 7,670,560, March 2, 2010; • Rahnema, Farzad and Ben Forget (Ph.D. NE 2006), Boundary Condition Adjustment Methods and Systems, U. S. Patent 7,676,015, March 9, 2010; • Ume, Charles, and Akio Kato (Ph.D. ME 2005), Ultrasound Systems and Method for Measuring Weld Penetration Depth in Real Time and Off Line, U. S. Patent 7,762,136, July 27, 2010.

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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH @ GEORGIA TECH

Georgia Tech encourages undergraduate students to participate in quality and substantive research. Several options are available in the Woodruff School for a Special Problems Course or an Undergraduate Research Course. ME/NRE 4699 is the undergraduate research course for juniors and seniors and qualifies for an elective for mechanical engineering and nuclear and radiological engineering majors. ME/NRE 4698 is a research internship course for juniors and seniors, where students are paid for working on a project either part-time or full-time. Each course requires a written final report and that the student work with a faculty member. ME/NRE 4901 and 4903 are non-research special problems courses. Each year the number of students participating in some undergraduate research continues to grow. In the past academic year, 204 (197 ME, 7 NRE) students did undergraduate research, with the largest number taking ME 4699.

the PURA Awards

Woodruff School students have been very successful in getting President’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA). PURA funds requests by a student/faculty team to support undergraduate student involvement in a faculty member’s research. The awards are for student salaries and travel expenses for the student to attend professional meetings to give a presentation. Most PURA awards are for salary. The following students and their faculty mentor won a PURA for summer 2009: Kent Bartlett (Kyriaki Kalaitizidou); Byung Kim, BME student, (Todd Sulchek); Jason Kulpe (Michael Leamy); Kavneet Sethi (Raghuram Pucha); Daniel Shenoda (Craig Forest); Ashley Stanford (Kyriaki Kalaitzidou); and Vanessa Tseng (Kyriaki Kalaitzidou).

The winners in fall 2009 were: Parth Brahmbhatt (Ken Gall); Sahil Batta (Raghuram Pucha); Phares Carroll (Paul Neitzel); Katherine Dextraze, NRE student, (Sang Hyun Choi); Douglas Hartley (Bert Bras); Jeremy Hurwitz, BME student, (David Ku); Phillip Lee, BME student, (Craig Forest); Nicole Miller (Rhett Major); Shadeah Suleiman, Biology student, (Timothy Fox MP); Harvey Tian, BME student, (Rudy Gleason); Daniel West (David Hu); and Rafeed Chaudhury, BME student, (Rudy Gleason).

Spring 2010 awardees were: Ryan Sullivan (Tim Lieuwen—AE); Thomas Wasmund (Tim Lieuwen—AE); Nadir Kabir (Donald Webster— CEE); Perry Atangcho, BME student (Karim Sabra); Matthew Karesh (Ken Gall—MSE); Alexander Caulk (Rudy Gleason); Michael Fechtmann (Tequila Harris); Douglas Hartley (Bert Bras); Jason Kulpe (Michael Leamy); Nivedh Manohar, NRE student, (Sang Hyun Cho); Kadija McAnuff, BME student, (Andrea Garcia); Caleb Mock (Seung-Kyum Choi); Andrew Murphy (Tequila Harris); Nemat Bakhsh (Yves Berthelot); Marc-Antoine Pare (Chris Paredis); Daniel West (David Hu); Michael Zhao, BME student, (Rudy Gleason); and Alec Manfre (William Ready— GTRI-EEO).

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OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF DESIGN: DR. DOUGLAS SCHUMER

Dr. Douglas Schumer, our first Director of Design Innovation and Instruction, came to the Woodruff School at the end of May. In this position, Doug will support the design sequence in the undergraduate curriculum. He will work with capstone design (ME 4182) and creative decisions and design (ME 2110) faculty to solicit industry involvement, assist with staffing, scheduling, and event planning for the undergraduate design courses, help manage facilities, and generally help the School take the undergraduate design program to the next level. He presently teaches a section in both those courses.

Doug has a Ph.D. in electrical and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with specialization in acousto-optics and surface acoustic waves. His prior degrees, M.S. (measurement and control) and B.S. (physics) are from Carnegie Mellon University. His extensive industry experience includes both technical staff and senior executive positions in R&D and general management. Most recently, he was Vice President for Research and Development at CardioMEMS, Inc., one of the most successful Georgia Tech spin-off companies.

Doug is excited about this new chapter in his career. “In the corporate world, one source of personal satisfaction has been in the mentoring of younger managers and engineers, many of whom today hold responsible senior positions in their companies. I look forward to imparting some of the broader business considerations of product development and process to our students, as an adjunct to their technical training, as that perspective will be an important component in becoming effective and valued engineers in the workplace.”

ME 2110: CREATIVE DECISIONS AND DESIGN

The ME 2110 design contest held at the end of each semester of the class is one of the largest academic events on the Georgia Tech campus. This is the first design course that many ME students take and mainly includes sophomore students. As an example, in the fall session of ME 2110 students worked on the project “Wildfire Search-andRescue AGV.” The student teams designed, prototyped and fielded autonomous machines that emulated a searchand-rescue mission scenario for an Autonomous Group Vehicle. The prototypes had to rescue trapped hikers, provide group support to advance teams of “smoke jumpers,” deploy flame retardants to protect the back path, and return behind a fire break to the safe zone. The group projects are judged and then compete against one another to determine the winner.

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In the fall, students who are interested in competing can attend the InVenture Prize School: A series of seminars and coaching sessions to help prepare for registration and the competition.

Approximately five Prototype Awards of $500 are given for making a prototype. Output and products from student course projects, campus research, and co-op projects are eligible.

The faculty organizing committee consists of Dr. Ray Vito, Vice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Merrick Furst, Professor of Computing Sciences and Systems; Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda, Professor of Biomedical Engineering; and Dr. Craig Forest, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

ME STUDENT WINS 2010 INVENTURE PRIZE

THE INVENTURE PRIZE @ GEORGIA TECH

The InVenture Prize @ Georgia Tech is a faculty-led innovation competition for undergraduate students. The objective is to create incentives, resources, and a structure for undergraduate student innovation and entrepreneurship in a fun, high-profile event.

Students can work independently or in teams to develop and present inventions which will be judged by experts. The competitors introduce their inventions in one or more preliminary rounds from which approximately ten finalists are selected to advance to a final round. In this round, two winning inventions, either individuals or teams, are selected for a cash prize of $15,000 for first place or $10,000 for second place, and a free U.S. patent filing by Georgia Tech’s Office of Technology Licensing for both the first and second place winners. A People’s Choice Award of $5,000 is selected by text voting during the event.

Patrick Whaley (BSME 2009) won the 2010 InVenture Prize. “It was a huge honor for me to win the InVenture Prize,” said Patrick, who has spent the fall preparing to launch his sports apparel line, Titin Tech. “The InVenture Prize competition gave me the contacts and the network that I needed to make my invention a reality.”

Patrick developed a weighted shirt that utilizes a form fitting gel to create comfortable sports apparel that can be used to increase intensity of workouts, gain strength, and even assist in rehabilitation efforts.

According to Patrick, the key for success was choosing the right partners, from seamstresses to machinists to business-minded people. He has completed his final prototype and is confident that his product can make a difference in people’s lives.

OUR CREATIVE SENIORS: CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPO

The Capstone Design Expo is the culmination of student projects in our ME 4182, senior design course. This event is a good chance to see what 40 design teams have done for prototyping and analysis to solve real-world problems. Some of the projects have commercialization potential and will become part of The InVenture Prize Competition. Prior to the Expo, visitors and judges are given the opportunity to visit the Invention Studio that contains fabrication tools for the students to use.

There has been a successful attempt at diversifying the capstone design experience for mechanical engineering students. First, Dr. Jon Colton teamed up with Dr. Sabir Khan (COA, Industrial Design) to create a humanitarian section of capstone design in the spring 2010 semester. In fall 2010, there was the addition of a Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering (BME/ME) section.

Even more diversity of teams is expected at future expos.

The winning projects in the fall semester were: A combined BME/ME team took first place with their project titled, AutoRhexis, a cataract surgical instrument. Second place went to Sanditation, an ME team, which developed the Voyager Vacuum, a modular, underwater vacuum and filtration system for the Georgia Aquarium. Another 2nd place team was the BME/ME team for MammoSpan, who designed a safer breast tissue expansion system for breast reconstruction. Third place went to the Small Red Tile team, made up of Industrial Design and ME students. The group designed an inexpensive and easy-to-use stove that turns rice husk into clean and safe cooking heat for use in rural Nicaragua.

Cash prizes are awarded to the winning teams.

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TEAM AlpZhi TAKES FIRST PLACE IN THE GT BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION

AlpZhi, won first place in the Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition. Judges honored AlpZhi with the $10,000 prize for its innovative manufacturing process for micro-lenses. In addition, AlpZhi also won the $10,000 Innovators Award, which recognizes a potentially disruptive technology. Their technology will enable creation of such advanced products as 3D TVs, flexible displays, compact bio-sensors, and high-efficiency solar panels.

The team includes Amit Jariwala, a Ph.D. student in ME; Brian Baum, an Emory law student; Greg Sheridan, an MBA student; and Fei Ding, a postdoctoral fellow in mechanical engineering.

Jariwala, Baum, and Sheridan participate in TI:GER, a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Emory Law School that brings together science and engineering students to work on commercializing technologies.

A YELLOW JERSEY FOR THE VIA CYCLE

A group of Georgia Tech (ME) students created the Via Cycle, an on-demand bike sharing program developed for the Emory University campus. The system uses wireless communications networks, GPS, and text messages to track the location of the bikes. Users can lock or unlock a bike by sending a text message. The student-led project received a $50,000 Ford College Community Challenge Grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund. The Ford Challenge is a national competition that recognizes colleges that utilize a school’s resources and capacity to address an urgent, unmet social need or problem in the local community.

Via Cycle was also a finalist in the MIT Clean Energy Prize, a national competition to determine the best clean energy business venture. Their startup company was a semifinalist in the California CleanTech Open.

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Georgia Tech’s Sustainable and Manufacturing Program is helping Ford determine the right manufacturing processes to use as its base expands into water-scarce areas like China, South Africa, and Mexico. Dr. Burt Bras, professor, directs the program.

Pneumonia Check, a device created

by Dr. David Ku and ME/BME graduate students to detect the lung pathogens that cause pneumonia, provides a solution to the problem of diagnosing the illness that kills more than two million people each year.

Todd Sulchek, assistant professor, received a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Innovative Global Health Research. The purpose of these grants is to help scientists around the world explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. Todd and his partner will design multi-functional microparticles that can fight infectious diseases.

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THE FUTURE: WOODRUFF SCHOOL STRATEGIC PLAN

[This report was provided by Dr. David McDowell, Carter Paden Chair in Metals Processing and Chair of the School’s Strategic Planning Committee.]

In parallel with Institute planning efforts, the Woodruff School initiated a strategic planning process in August 2009, with extensive involvement of faculty (surveys, October faculty retreat, November strategy planning retreat, December feedback, spring 2010 retreat), staff, alumni and undergraduate and graduate students.

Dean Don Giddens and President Bud Peterson provided valuable feedback in January 2010 that evolved the plan. Finally, the plan was crosslinked with the emerging Institute Strategic Plan in summer 2010. Many people from the Woodruff School and across campus participated in the development of this strategic plan.

This plan charts a course that will elevate the Woodruff School to new levels of leadership in education, research and service. Consistent with our core values of excellence, scholarship, innovation, service and collegiality, and building on the pillars of Georgia Tech as a leading research institution; effective education; a culture of collegiality and collaboration; and the city of Atlanta as a global crossroads, the Woodruff School plan boldly commits to two major transformational initiatives.

Georgia Tech Incubator for Discovery and Engineering Advancements (GT IDEA): GT IDEA is an initiative to establish a campus-wide collaborative effort led by the Woodruff School of

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Mechanical Engineering that will incubate and spawn scholarly communities and research teams composed of faculty and students, with various visiting researchers and policymakers to define and explore grand challenge problems through basic and advanced research. Each center would target the recruitment of an eminent scholar with an endowed chair to create and lead the center.

Renaissance in Engineering Education: Develop pathways for a renaissance in engineering education by pioneering technology and concepts of mass customization, promoting self-paced discovery in flexible degree programs, and emphasizing ELST themes that address grand challenges in the curriculum, entrepreneurial experiences, and capstone design projects.

The concept of Engineering Life-Sustaining Transformations is by design succinct yet powerful. It means that we cultivate an atmosphere for basic and applied research that addresses technological “pinch points” that limit sustenance of quality of life within the USA and globally, and we will direct the practice of engineering to enhance the prospects for transformational advances, whether achieved through evolution of existing approaches or by serendipitous leaps in capability – advances that punctuate equilibrium and serve to completely redefine challenges.

How will we do this? The second half of the 20th century witnessed the development of an engineering education approach with strong focus on traditional disciplines. We will re-design our programs of study and leverage technology to establish an environment that fosters education of mechanical engineers who innovate by defining strategies to address 21st century grand challenges that lie in the critical path of human development. As arguably the most diverse engineering unit on campus, the Woodruff School is well-poised to lead the transdisciplinary, transformational engineering basis for ELST. Teams of faculty and students are being assembled in the coming year to begin framing these initiatives in light of a series of tactics spelled out in the strategic plan.

BUILD BURDELL!

The George P. Burdell Center for Design and Innovation is envisioned as a $55 million, 100,000 square foot facility. It will provide a highly interdisciplinary environment for education in the area of design, creativity, innovation, and invention. It will include studio learning space and tooling for a wide range of design activities from introductory engineering design to multidisciplinary two-semester capstone and multiyear VIP projects. It will also house Georgia Tech’s many student competition teams in a state-ofthe-art facility and be a sign that engineering and its sister disciplines are attractive professions committed to the betterment of humanity.

PROGRAMS ACCREDITATION

Georgia Tech has institutional accreditation from the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The undergraduate programs for the bachelor of science in mechanical engineering (BSME), (BSME-RME), and the bachelor of science in nuclear and radiological engineering (BSNRE) are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org. The Georgia Tech Cooperative Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM REVIEW

[This review was prepared by Dr. Al Ferri, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies.]

It has been quite an experience taking over as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies from Dr. David Sanborn. As I quickly learned, there are many different aspects of this job, and David did such an exceptional job that hardly anyone was aware of what it takes to keep the undergraduate program running smoothly.

The School of Mechanical Engineering continues to enjoy an outstanding national reputation. For example, U.S. News & World Report ranked ME among the top 10 and in August of 2010, recruiters ranked Georgia Tech first among all engineering programs. Despite a sluggish economy, our students have had good success in getting jobs. Furthermore, freshmen are drawn to mechanical engineering because it is arguably the most “broad” of the engineering disciplines, and because mechanical engineers are able to work in a remarkable number of companies, industries, and research labs. As a result, enrollment in mechanical engineering continues to grow. Year-over-year, enrollment in Atlanta and Savannah grew by about 5 percent. Commensurate with the increase in enrollment, the numbers of BSME degrees grew to 414 for the year ending Spring 2010. The quality of the incoming freshman also rose as measured by average SAT scores and high school GPA’s.

The increased enrollment affirms the fact that we are doing a great job in educating the next generation of mechanical engineers.

But it also causes some “growing pains” in the form of higher class sizes and the need to offer more sections of courses than in years past.

Fortunately, the faculty continue to provide our students with highquality instruction in the basics, as well as a variety of other enriching experiences. Many ME undergraduates participate in undergraduate research in which they either receive course credit or pay to work on cutting-edge research with a faculty member. Over 200 students participated in undergraduate research activities last year.

The InVenture Prize is another activity that attracts the attention of ME undergraduates.

Described elsewhere in this report, the InVenture Prize is a great way for students to combine their creativity, entrepreneurship, and engineering skills to the development of a marketable product or concept. We are also happy to see so many of our undergraduate students participate in competition groups, where they often reinforce their engineering knowledge and learn skills beyond what is typically taught in the classroom.

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THE GRADUATE PROGRAM

[This information was provided by Dr. G. Paul Neitzel, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies.]

The Woodruff School Graduate Program continued the growth experienced in recent years. The Fall 2010 population now contains 312 Ph.D. students and 513 M.S. students; 213 of the M.S. students are studying in distance-learning environments.

Our program, ranked 6th among graduate mechanical engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report, continues to be the largest in the country. A total of 40 Ph.D. degrees and 179 M.S. degrees were awarded to Woodruff School students last academic year.

There were 1,154 applicants to our program for the current academic year, a number more than 20% larger than that of the previous year. There is no doubt that some of this increase is due to the poor economy, causing some students to consider staying in school rather than venturing into the job market. Regardless of the reason, the applicant pool is very strong, permitting us to admit topflight students.

Perhaps the biggest change to the program has been the resumption of active, face-to-face recruiting at other universities.

Presentations about our program were made at a total of 20 campuses across the United States, focusing on schools that produce outstanding graduates. The goal of these visits is to attract the very best students interested in graduate study to the Woodruff School, more so than increasing the number of students. In addition, several outstanding European universities were visited, in part to publicize our program to prospective students and also to explore opportunities for collaboration in graduate education.

There are several institutions that have expressed an interest in such partnerships and these are being pursued; we hope to have agreements in-place with a couple of these schools shortly. Given that global outreach is a central element in Georgia Tech’s strategic plan, the Woodruff School is well-positioned to take advantage of these opportunities.

THE NRE AND MP PROGRAMS

[This summary was supplied by Dr. Farzad Rahnema, Chair of the NRE/MP Programs in the Woodruff School.]

The NRE/MP programs relocated in December 2009 to a new location on campus that is beautifully renovated to our faculty specifications with significantly larger useable space and laboratories. As part of this relocation, construction of a new “Radiological Science Laboratory” began on August 1, 2010. The laboratory will consist of four major parts: Southern Nuclear Radiation Physics Laboratory, a high intensity Neutron Generator Laboratory, a Medical Linear Accelerator Laboratory, and a future Nuclear Materials Laboratory. The construction project is expected to be completed in mid-summer 2011.

The NRE/MP faculty completed a 25-year strategic plan with which they aspire “to be at the forefront of nuclear and radiological engineering (NRE) and medical physics (MP) education and research, with an internationally recognized faculty that leads in 6

defining the future of these fields.” To realize this vision the faculty is working on two new initiatives, the Sustainable Nuclear Power Center (SNPC) and the Radiological Imaging and Science Center (RISC) that are intended to support the development of sustainable nuclear power and safe and sustainable expansion of radiation therapy technology for this and coming centuries.

As originally planned, the medical physics program applied for accreditation in its fifth year of existence in November 2009. The M.S. in Medical Physics and the Ph.D. in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering-Medical Physics Option programs were accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Educational Programs (CAMPEP) in fall 2010.

Finally, the faculty created and offered two graduate courses in medical physics (Imaging Principles in Medical Physics and Contemporary Issues in Medical Physics) and two NRE undergraduate courses (Georgia Tech Freshman Seminar and Nuclear Safeguards, with a one-week laboratory component at Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

Georgia Tech Lorraine

[This report was provided by Dr. Yves Berthelot, President of GTL and Professor.]

Georgia Tech Lorraine celebrated its 20th anniversary with a series of events in Metz and Paris, France, June 14-17. President Peterson lead a U.S. delegation which included John Brock, Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Chris Young, Governor’s liaison for international affairs, and Pascal LeDeunff, French Consul General in Atlanta. The ceremonies were attended by several French dignitaries, including members of Parliament, and by the current mayor of Metz. The 220 students registered for the summer program at GTL were part of the celebration; they accompanied Dr. and Mrs. Peterson to the historical site of St Avold, near Metz, which is the largest U.S. World War II cemetery in Europe. The students also had the opportunity to get a private tour of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, during a live session, with MP Mme. Griesbeck. The 20th anniversary of GTL was also celebrated in Paris with a gathering of over 260 alumni and friends of Georgia Tech. The guest speaker was Dr. Peterson, who shared some of his vision for the importance of international activities for a U.S. university like Georgia Tech.

In January 2010, Dr. Laurent Capolungo joined the faculty of the Woodruff School as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering assigned to the Metz campus.

Dr. Capolungo’s expertise lies in new types of nanostructured materials for the automotive, aerospace, and nuclear industry. He joins the GT-CNRS UMI laboratory at GTL.

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Dr. Hertel (NRE) spent the Fall 2009 semester at GTL and used his stay to explore joint research and educational opportunities with France, a world leader in nuclear technology.

Dr. Maria Carnasciali spent a full year in Metz, primarily teaching undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. Her students had the opportunity to take a guided tour of Catenom, one of the largest nuclear plants in France, located near Metz.

STUDY-ABROAD PROGRAMS

If you ask Tech grads who studied abroad their most memorable college experience, they would say their study abroad program. If you ask Tech grads who didn’t study abroad their greatest college regret, they would say it was not studying abroad.

Alison Skala (BSME 2008) Georgia Tech strongly believes in the importance of an international experience for both undergraduate and graduate students. With this in mind, the Office of International Education was established in 1999, whose purpose is to provide leadership in advocating, supporting, and pursuing Georgia Tech’s goals for international education and exchange. Success toward this goal can be measured by the increasing number of program choices and participants in the programs; 1279 Georgia Tech students participated in international programs last year.

According to the Office of International Education, “200910 was a successful year in study abroad! GT sent abroad a record number of students. Of the students who studied abroad, more than ten percent were ME majors. The trend is definitely showing an increase in participation. For 2010-11, we have added more programs for GT students (more than 120 options), and we already have a record number of applications.”

In 2009-2010, 146 ME students and seven NRE students took part in various study-abroad and exchange programs. The programs of choice were: Arabic LBAT, Barcelona Summer Program, China Summer Program, German LBAT, GT Lorraine Undergraduate Program, HKUST Exchange Program, Korean LBAT, Lund Exchange Program, Oxford Summer Program, Pacific Study Abroad Program, Spanish LBAT, Sussex Exchange Program, TU Munich Exchange/Work Abroad Program, UC Dublin Exchange Program, UCL Exchange Program, UNSW Exchange Program, UPV Exchange/Work Abroad Program, and Yonsei Exchange Program.

France is the most popular country for engineering students studying and working abroad, followed by England. Students in the College of Engineering participated in more programs (51), in more countries (4l), than any other college at Georgia Tech. The most popular program for Woodruff School students continues to be the GT Lorraine Undergraduate Program in Metz, France, followed by the Oxford (England) Summer Program.

All Georgia Tech study-abroad and exchange programs offer credit that students can use toward graduation and that count as credit in residence. Most programs charge in-state tuition, plus an additional fee for out-of-state students, for each term abroad. In

most cases, if students are eligible for financial aid, loans, or scholarships, including HOPE, these can be applied toward the expenses associated with participating in these Georgia Tech programs.

According to Dr. Al Ferri, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, “The experience of studying engineering abroad is very valuable.

Although the fundamentals are the same, the emphasis that different cultures place on engineering and its relation to society is invaluable in being able to work as an engineer in a global world.”

THE INTERNATIONAL PLAN: A GLOBAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE

For students who are more committed to a global learning experience, Georgia Tech offers the International Plan (IP), which is a designated degree option. This program allows students to develop global competence within the context of a student’s major. The IP degree requires a minimum of 26 weeks abroad in either work or study or some combination of the two. In addition, students must complete several “global courses” including a capstone course that ties the experience together. For ME students, the capstone course usually involves design and/or product development for an international market. The program also requires proficiency in a second language.

Participation in the IP is growing: In 2009, 39 students participated and in 2010, 63 Woodruff School students participated in the IP program. To date, eight Woodruff School students have graduated with this degree option. The top countries for Woodruff School students, listed in order of participation, are Germany, France, Spain, Mexico, China and Japan.

THE BS/MS DEGREE PROGRAM

Outstanding sophomores and early juniors in the Woodruff School are invited to apply to the BS/MS Degree Program. Students can earn two degrees in a five-year period, which provides a tremendous advantage when entering the job market. Students can earn undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering or nuclear engineering and the master’s degree in mechanical engineering, nuclear and radiological engineering, medical physics, bioengineering, or paper science and engineering. The program is individualized with numerous opportunities for faculty and students to interact, including undergraduate research. Graduate course work begins in the senior year. Most of the master’s students do a course work only program (nonthesis option). There are approximately fifty Woodruff School students in the program.

Dr. Christine Valle advises BS/MS students once they have matriculated into the graduate program. “The BS/MS Program is an intensive, rigorous plan of study that allows meritorious students to receive both BS and MS degrees within less time than it would take to apply to these programs separately. Many employers seek such students and consider this combination to be invaluable,” said Dr. Valle.

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DEGREES

Michael Shannon, Ph.D. NE. The Dosimetry of a HighlyCollimated Bremsstrahlung Source in Air. Nolan Hertel, advisor.

In 1888, when Georgia Tech opened, Mechanical Engineering was the only decree-granting program; it remained that way for eight years.

The first graduation was in 1890. Today, the Woodruff School offers two undergraduate degrees (BSME, BSNRE) and seven graduate degrees (MS, MSME, MSNE, MSMP, MSBioE, MSPSE, Ph.D.). In addition, the master’s degree can be completed off-campus through the distance-learning program.

In the past academic year, 633 degrees were awarded to students in the Woodruff School. Of these, there were 414 bachelor’s degrees (387 ME, 27 NRE). Of the 179 master’s degrees, there were: 152 MSME, 17 MSMP, 4 MSNE, 1 MS, 3 MSBioE, and 1 MSPSE. Of the 40 doctoral degrees, there were 31 in ME, 7 in NE, 1 in BioE, and 1 in PSE.

Fall 2009

Dinesh Bansal, Ph.D. ME. Tribological Investigation of Electrical Contacts. Jeffrey Streator, advisor.

Soumyadipta Basu, Ph.D. ME. Near-Field Radiative EnergyTransfer at Nanometer Distances. Zhuomin Zhang, advisor.

Adam Christensen, Ph.D. ME. Multiscale Lattice Boltzmann of the Thermal Response in Gallium Nitride Microelectronics.

Samuel Graham, advisor.

Sung Joo, Ph.D. ME. Adhesion Mechanism of Nano-Particle Silver to Electronics Packaging Materials. Daniel Baldwin, advisor.

Nam Kim, Ph.D. ME. Fabrication and Characterization, of Thin-Film Encapsulation for Organic Electronics.

Samuel Graham, advisor.

George Nelson, Ph.D. ME. Computational Characterization of Diffusive Mass Transfer in Porous Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Components. William Wepfer and Comas Haynes, advisors.

Michael Nichols, Ph.D. NE. Quantitative Basis for Component Factors of Gas Flow Proportional Counter Efficiencies.

Bernd Kahn, advisor.

Rajesh Prasannavenkatesan, Ph.D. ME. MicrostructureSensitive Fatigue Modeling of Heat Treated and Shot Peened Martensitic Gear Steels. David McDowell, advisor.

John Reap, Ph.D. ME. Holistic Biomimicry: A Biologically Inspired Approach to Environmentally Benign Engineering.

Bert Bras, advisor.

Matthew Rogge, Ph.D. ME. In-Process Sensing of Weld Penetration Using Non-Contact Laser Ultrasound System.

Charles Ume, advisor.

Konrad Rykaczewski, Ph.D. ME. Electron Bean Induced Deposition (EBID) of Carbon Interface Between Carbon Nanotube Interconnect and Metal Electrode. Andrei Fedorov, advisor.

Emad Samadiani, Ph.D. ME. Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers via Open Multi-Scale Design.

Yogendra Joshi, advisor.

Temsiri Sapsaman, Ph.D. ME. An Energy Landscaping Approach to the Protein Folding Problem. Harvey Lipkin, advisor.

Angela Sodemann, Ph.D. ME. A Study of Productivity Enhancement in High-Speed, High- Precision Micromilling Processes. J. Rhett Mayor, advisor.

Benjamin Waghorn, Ph.D. NE. Assessing Alterations in Mycardial Mn2+ Fluxes Following Myocardial Infarction in a Murine Model using T1-Mapping Manganese-Enhanced MRI. Tom Hu, advisor.

Degrees Awarded by Colleges (Summer 2009 through Spring 2010) College Bachelor’s Master’s Doctoral Total Architecture 148 186 10 344 Computing 179 218 40 437 Engineering 1644 948 263 2855 Management 388 223 6 617 Sciences 242 120 82 444 Ivan Allen 241 74 15 330 TOTAL 2842 1769 416 5027 Degrees Awarded in the College of Engineering (Summer 2009 through Spring 2010) School Bachelor’s Master’s Doctoral Total AE 139 127 29 295 BME 143 2 29 174 ChBe 100 15 31 146 CEE 208 97 21 326 ECE 295 307 75 677 IsyE 302 214 22 538 MSE 23 5 10 38 ME (NRE/MP) 414 179 40 633 PTFE 20 2 6 28 TOTAL 1644 948 263 2855

DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED

Summer 2009 Megan Blackburn, Ph.D. NE. Numerical Benchmarking of the Coarse-Mesh Transport (COMET) Method for Medical Physics Applications. Farzad Rahnema, advisor.

Kimberly Burns, Ph.D. NE. Coupled Multi-Group Neutron Photon Transport for the Simulation of High-Resolution GammaRay Spectroscopy Applications. Nolan Hertel, advisor.

Peter Cameron, Ph.D. ME. An Acoustic Countermeasure to Supercavitating Torpedoes. Peter Rogers, advisor.

Woong-Sik Choi, Ph.D. ME. Flame Stabilization by a Plasma Driven Radical Jet in a High Speed Flow. Ben Zinn, advisor.

Roderick Jackson, Ph.D. ME. Development of New Transparent Conductive Electrodes for Organic Electronics.

Samuel Graham, advisor.

Sang Lee Il, Ph.D. ME. Fundamental Study of Underfill Void Formation in Flip-Chip Assembly. Daniel Baldwin, advisor.

Timothy Petrie, Ph.D. ME. Biomemetic Intergrim-Specific Surfaces to Direct Osteoblastic Function and Tissue Healing. Andres Garcia, advisor.

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Spring 2010 Siddharth Athreya, Ph.D. ME. Processing and Characterization of Carbon Black-Filled Electrically Conductive Nylon-12 Nanocomposites Produced by Selective Laser Sintering.

Suman Das, advisor.

Eric Burgett, Ph.D. NE. Novel Neutron Detectors.

Nolan Hertel, advisor.

Radu Cazan, Ph.D. ME. Dynamics of Swirling Flows Induced

by Twisted Tapes in Circular Pipes. Cyrus Aidun, advisor.

Kenneth Dupont, Ph.D. ME. Human Stem Cell Delivery and Programming for Functional Regeneration of Large Segmental Bone Defects. Robert Guldberg, advisor.

Thomas Forbes, Ph.D. ME. Eletrohydrodynamics and Ionization in the Array of Micromachined Ultrasonic Electrospray (AMUSE) Ion Source. Andrei Fedorov, advisor.

Zachary Friis, Ph.D. NE. An Examination of the Effects of Neutral Particles on the Edge Plasma in Tokamaks.

William Stacey, advisor.

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Janine Johnson, Ph.D. ME. Thermomechanical Modeling of Porous Ceramic-Metal Composites Accounting for the Stochastic Nature of Their Microstructure. Jianmin Qu, advisor.

Mela Johnson, Ph.D. BioE. Delivery of BMP-2 for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications. Robert Guldberg, advisor.

Chih-Hsing Liu, Ph.D. ME. A Finite Element Based Dynamic Modeling Method for Design Analysis of Flexible Multibody Systems. Kok-Meng Lee, advisor.

Darby Luscher, Ph.D. ME. A Hierarchical Framework for the Multiscale Modeling of Microstructure Evolution in Heterogeneous Materials. David McDowell, advisor.

Frederic Pons, Ph.D. ME. Electrical Contact Material ARC Erosion: Experiments and Modeling Towards the Design of An AgCdO Substitute. Mohammed Cherkaoui, advisor.

Justin Pounders, Ph.D. NE. A Time Dependent Coarse Mesh Neutron Transport Method. Farzad Rahnema, advisor.

Michael Psimas, Ph.D. PSE. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Heat and Mass Transfer due to Pulse Combustor Jet Impingement. Cyrus Aidun, advisor.

Audric Saillard, Ph.D. ME. Modeling and Simulation of Stress-Induced Non-Uniform Oxide Scale Growth during High-Temperature Oxidation of Metallic Alloys.

Mohammed Cherkaoui, advisor

David Scarborough, Ph.D. ME. An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Fuel System Tuner for the Suppression of Combustion Driven Oscillations. Ben Zinn, advisor.

Hong Sun, Ph.D. ME. The Effect of Hydrodynamic Stress on Plant Embryo Development. Cyrus Aidun, advisor.

Jingshu Wu, Ph.D. ME. Direct Simulation of Flexible Particle Suspensions using Lattice-Boltzmann Equation with External Boundary Force. Cyrus Aidun and Ajit Yoganathan, advisors.

MASTER’S DEGREES WITH THESIS

A total of 59 master’s degrees were awarded to students who completed a master’s thesis.

Summer 2009 Trevor Bright, MSME. Non-Fourier Heat Equations in Solids Analyzed from Phonon Statistics. Zhoumin Zhang, advisor.

Chen Chu, MSME. Design Synthesis for Morphing 3D MesoScale Structure. David Rosen, advisor.

Mark Gleva, MSME. Enhanced Active Cooling of High Power LED Light Sources by Utilizing Shrouds and Radial Fins.

Samuel Graham, advisor.

Cody Hellstern, MSME. Investigation of Interlayer Burr Formation in the Drilling of Stacked Aluminum Sheets.

Shreyes Melkote, advisor.

Ryan Hopman, MSME. Arbitrary Geometry Cellular Automata for Elastodynamics. Michael Leamy, advisor.

Bernard Jones, MSMP. Monte Carlo Calculations of Microscopic Dose Enhancement for Gold Nanoparticle-Aided Radiation Therapy. Sang Hyun Cho, advisor.

Justin Ketterer, MSME. Fatigue Crack Initiation in Cross-Ply Carbon Fiber Laminates. Steven Johnson, advisor.

Dooroo Kim, MSME. Dyanmic Modeling of Flat Belt Drives using the Elastic Perfectly Plastic Friction Law. Michael Leamy and Aldo Ferri, advisors.

Michael McNary, MSME. Implementation of the Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) in the Abaqus Software Package.

Mohammed Cherkaoui, advisor.

Prem Midha, MSBioE. Long Term Patency of Polymer Vein Valve. Rudy Gleason, advisor.

Joel Neff, MSME. Investigation of the Effects of Process Parameters on Performance of Gravure Printed ITO on Flexible Substrates. Steven Danyluk and Shreyes Melkote, advisors.

Suzanne Price, MSME. A Consideration of Cycle Selection for Meso-Scale Distributed Solar Thermal Power. Rhett Mayor, advisor.

Tyler Randolph, MSME. Development of Automated Method of Optimizing Strength of Signal Received by Laster Interferometer.

Charles Ume, advisor.

Shawn Shields, MSME. Dynamic Thermal Response of the Data Center to Cooling Loss During Facility Power Failure.

Yogendra Joshi, advisor.

Arsalan Siddiqi, MSMP. Development of Tissue-Equivalent Heat-Sensitive Gel for the Experimental Verification of Near Infared (NIR) Laser- Mediated Cancer Detection and Therapy.

Sang Hyun Cho, advisor.

Jeffrey Stellman, MSME. Development, Production, and Characterization of Plastic Hypodermic Needles.

Jonathan Colton, advisor.

Carl Tompson, MSME. Radiographic Determination of the Layup Dependence of Fatigue Damage Development under Bearing/ By-Pass Conditions. Steven Johnson, advisor.

Abel Valdes, MSME. Development of Laser Ultrasonic and Interferometric Inspection System for High Volume Online Inspection of Micro-Electronic Devices. Charles Ume, advisor.

James Wilson, MSME. Development and Validation of a Laminate Flooring System Sound Quality Test Method.

Kenneth Cunefare, advisor.

Fall 2009

Philip Abramson, MSME. Fluidic Control of Aerodynamic Forces and Moments on an Axisymmetric Body. Ari Glezer, advisor.

Thibaut Autrusson, MSME. Nonlinear Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Quantitative Life Prediction of Structures with Complex Geometries. Karim Sabra, advisor.

Ashlie Brown, MSME. Improved Thermal Energy Utilization through Coupled and Cascaded Cooling Cycles.

Srinivas Garimella, advisor.

Austin Cobert, MSME. Environmental Comparison of Micheline Tweel and Pneumatic Tire Using Life Cycle Analysis.

Bert Bras, advisor.

Eric Deutsch, MSME. The Use of Stem Cell Synthesized Extracellular Matrix for Bone Repair. Robert Guldberg, advisor.

Sead Dzebo, MSME. Investigation of Methods to Improve Process Performance in Centerless Grinding of Incond 718 and Ti-6A1-4V Superalloys. Shreyes Melkote, advisor.

Seth Gazes, MSBIOE. Novel Device to Produce Physiological and Disease Flow Conditions for Mouse Vessel Culture.

Rudy Gleason, advisor.

Min Ha, MSME. Thermal Analysis of High Power LED Arrays.

Samuel Graham, advisor.

Rameen Hadizadeh, MSME. Novel Probe Structures for HighSpeed Atomic Force Microscopy. Levent Degertekin, advisor.

Robert Hayward, MSMP. A Coarse Mesh Transport Method with General Source Treatment for Medical Physics.

Farzad Rahnema, advisor.

Dimitri Hughes, MSME. Facilitated Characterization of a Catalytic Partial Oxidation Fuel Reformer using Institu Measurements.

William Wepfer and Comas Haynes, advisors.

Mohammad Jeelani, MSME.. Intergration and Characterization of Micromachined Optical Microphones. Levent Degertekin, advisor.

Jay Johnson, MSME. Design of a Roll-Deed Imaging System to Fabricate Thin Film Using in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells. Tequila Harris, advisor.

Kiran Kambly, MSME. Characterization of Curing Kinetics and Polymerization Chrinkage in Photocurable Ceramic-Loaded Resins for Large Area Maskless Photopolymerization. Suman Das, advisor.

Heidi Khalil, MSME. Changes in the Mechanical Behavior of Nitinol Following Variations of Heat Treatment Duration and Temperature. Ken Gall, advisor.

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Jordan McKillop, MSNE. Reducing the Activation of the IRIS Reactor Building using the Scale/Macric Methodology.

Bojan Petrovic, advisor.

David Murphy, MSME. The Application of Passive Flow Control to Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Leakage Jets.

Ajit Yoganathan, advisor.

Premkumar Nagarathnam, MSME. Novel Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interfaces for Microelectronics. Samuel Graham, advisor.

Cheng Ngoo, MSME. Admittance and Impedance Haptic Control for Realization of Digital Clay as an Effective Human Machine (HMI) Interface Device. Wayne Book, advisor.

Jonathan Olander, MSPSE. Comparison of the Hybrid and Thermal Lattice-Boltzmann Methods. Cyrus Aidun, advisor.

Jiten Patel, MSME. Optimal Design of Mesostructured Materials Under Uncertainty. Seung-Kyum Choi, advisor.

Chen-Chih Peng, MSME. Interfaces and Control Systems for Intuitive Crane Control. William Singhose, advisor.

Jordan Rader, MSNE. Loss of Normal Feedwater ATWS for Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Using RETRAN-02. Said AbdelKhalik, advisor.

Markus Rippel, MSME. Improved Robustness Formulations and a Simulation-Based Robust Concept Exploration Method.

Janet Allen, advisor.

Daniel Rogers, MSME. Molecular Level Simulation of the Thermal Contact Resistance of CNT/Si and CNT/Cu Interfaces.

Jianmin Qu, advisor.

Alexander Ruderman, MSME. A Framework for Mult-Attribute Optimum Design via Improved Conjoint Analysis.

Seung-Kyum Choi, advisor.

Spring 2010 Elizabeth Bannon, MSMP. Dosimetric Characterization of Elongated Brachytherapy Sources using Monte Carlo Methods.

Farzad Rahnema, advisor.

Timothy Dietz, MSME. Conceptual Design of Multi-Domain Systems: Products and Materials. Farrokh Mistree, advisor.

Rajat Ghosh, MSME. Designing Oscillating Cilia for Regulating Particle Motion in Microfluidic Devices. Alexander Alexeev, advisor.

Erin Hayward, MSNE. Atomistic Studies on Irradiation Damage in Iron. Chaitanya Deo, advisor.

William Hobbs, MSME. Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Vortex Induced Vibrations in Plants, Soaps, Films and Arrays of Cylinders. Tom Hu, advisor.

Steven Huston, MSME. Structural Health Monitoring of a High Speed Naval Vessel Using Ambient Vibration. Karim Sabra, advisor.

Andrew Hyder, MSME. Design and Implementation of Remotely Controlled Laboratory Experiments.

Dirk Schaefer, advisor.

Koji Intlekofer, MSME. Environmental Implications of Leasing.

Bert Bras, advisor.

Jane Kang, MSME. Pump Design for a Portable Renal Placement System. David Rosen, advisor.

Benjamin Lee, MSME. An Investigation of Prescribed Risk Management Practices in Engineering Design.

Christiaan Paredis, advisor.

Thomas Mulcahey, MSME. Autonomous Cricket Biosensors for Acoustic Localization. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan, advisor.

Aditya Shah, MSME. Combining Mathematical Programming and SysML for Component Sizing as Applied to Hydraulic Systems.

Christiaan Paredis, advisor.

Joseph Steele, MSME. Optimizing Mixing in the Dilution System of a Paper Machine. Cyrus Aidun, advisor.

Kory Swope, MSME. Prediction of Electromagnetic Launcher Behavior with Lubricant Injection Through Armature-Rail Interface Modeling. Richard Salant, advisor.

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MASTER’S DEGREES (NONTHESIS)

Of the 179 master’s degrees awarded, 120 are coursework-only degrees. Of these degrees, there are: 103 MSME, 13 MSMP, 1 MSNE, 2 MSBioE, and 1 MS. Summer 2009 Dale Apgar Jason Bach Arianne Brooks Seanna Gittler William Hall Magnus Hoelle Li-Yun Huang Spencer Kareff Theunis Louw Shelley Nation Bradley Napier Pfaff Vladimir Popov Colleen Powers Maria Query Matthew Ryerkerk Derek Schmidt Syed Shah Todd Sifleet Shruti Vellore Benjamin Wilde Brian Woodworth Paul Woolard

MSME MSBioE MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MSME MS MSME MSME MSMP MSME MSME MSME

Fall 2009 Binti Abraham MSME Kokou Adokou MSME Pranjal Adurkar MSMP Amine Aquesbi MSME Kun Bai MSME Larry Baldree MSME Julie Bankston MSME Jed Belgaroui MSME Ludivine Boche-Sauvan MSME Joel Boerckel MSME Fred-Eric Bouquin MSME Jonathan Chaumeil MSME James Cornacchio MSME David Creasy MSME Florent Dailly MSME Andrew Dawson MSME Lou Delegue MSME Ryan Demars MSME Benjamin Durand-Sala MSME Nicholas Earnhart MSME Paul Evans MSMP Jeremy Favier MSME Tommaso Gomez MSME Joseph Hartmann MSME Ismael Henchi MSME Stephen Hom MSME Daniel Iduate MSME Mohammad Kapacee MSME Mahmoud Ketari MSME Matthew Laderer MSME Robin Laverentz MSME Derrick Ma MSME Kelly Mannella MSMP Andrew Marshall MSME Regis Martin MSME James Masso MSME Jean-Baptiste Mercier MSME Nicola Mitaritonna MSME

Victoria Murawski Joshua Navikonis Jeremiah Nyaribo Raphael Okereke Jean Pechambert Pascal Pham Thomas Philippe Quentin Prestreau Sara Rahnema Callie Reis Dominique Rowe Vianney Rubio Galien Ruiz Berrit Runge Jennifer Scharfe Teal Shoop Danish Siddiqui Eric Slocombe Anderson Smith Jason Stewart Julien Toniolo Matthew Van Arx Tyler Vigh Pierre-Marie Wasmer John Zhao

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Spring 2010 Marcus Allegood MSMP Andrew Baines MSME Bradley Bloomquist MSME Michael Burnett MSME Alice Cheung MSMP Scott Ducey MSME Phillip Duckworth MSME Konstantin Froelich MSME Jeffrey Fuller MSME Andrew Gibson MSME Benjamin Haefner MSME Woongsik Ham MSME Jason Horne MSME Moiz Hyderabadwala MSME Amirh Johnson MSMP Victor Kane MSME Jesse Kendrick MSME Ta Kim MSME Parichit Kumar MSME Timothy Laster MSMP Anthony Maxey MSME Joseph Miller MSME Heon Oh MSME Zubin Padia MSME Jean-Victor Panzani MSME Matthew Ryan MSME Eric Sabelhaus MSME Buddy Sessoms MSME Charles Simons MSME Rebecca Stark MSMP Joseph Storey MSME Christina Tabor MSNE Thomas Vito MSME Jiuguang Wang MSME Chung-Fu Yang MSBioE

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UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

The Woodruff School awarded 414 (387 ME, 27 NRE) degrees in the past academic year, summer 2009 through spring 2010.

Summer 2009 Chandler Alford Ron Alsheimer Daniel Barclay Antonio Bermudez (RME) Mark Brandau Michael Brightwell Justin Cheng John Cole Brett Davenport Jacob Erbe Philip Estrada Brandon Fierro Michael Gilsdorf Joshua Haar Adnan Hannan Gregory Harding Clifford Hibbs Tauhira Hoossainy Shaun Houlihan Ryan Hurtt Justtyn Hutcheson Prathyusha Kantheti Matthew Land Jessie Martin Thomas Martinez Jessica Mason Michael Matia Patrick McDowell Corey Myers Nathaniel Overall John Payne Bradford Petrick Nancy Pham Joshua Pike Luis Ramos Travis Reed James Rosema Tejuan Rowe Alexander Schwartz Daniel Smith Christopher Steinbach Joseph Storey Rheza Sudali Jesse Teffeau Nicholas Ward Jennifer Wells Avery Wood Jordan Ziegenbein (RME) Fall 2009 Solomon Adera Daniel Agius Jose Antezana John Arata Kyle Barbour Jason Barfield Saeed Beituni Nathan Bessette Carlos Betancourt Robert Boozer Lindsay Brandino Brandon Brilliant Felicia Brown (RME) Valeria Campodonico Carlos Cano William Caporellie Andrew Cass

George Caverlee Stephen Cazayoux Sing Chau Wye-Chi Chok Bhaskar Chopra Joseph Clark Brian Dail Sean Dehart Nathan Denison Dannie Devol Limamoulaye Diallo Andrew Dickerson Ryan Hung-Wai Dieter Miguel Donate (RME) Brian Elder (NRE) Benjamin Elliott Carl Feather Andrew Fida Stephen Fleming Julianne Flowers Thomas Fowler Amy Gall (RME) Robert Gillan Sarah Gorday Kyle Gress Thomas Hall David Hallett Michael Hamrock Ross Hanson Brant Harrell (RME) Simon Hart (RME) Maximilian Hertanto William Hester Denise Hewes Andrew Hughes Tyler Jackson Andreas Janko (RME) Andrew Jones Kristiana Jorgenson (RME) Scott Jorgenson (RME) Matthew Kamp James Kaveney Aaron Khorran Matthew Kiepura Matthew Kinsel Joel Kitchens Andrew Kollmeyer Ryan Kraft Justin Krohe (RME) Steven Kuehnle David Lai Jacob Lange David Lavery Constantin Lazar Jae Lee Yuk Lee (RME) Ian Lehn Ryan Levins Alexandre Mariuzza Anna Marmann Stephen May Andrew Mazzillo Daniel McCarter Timothy McClanahan Scott McGraw Jacob McHenry Jose Mena Daniel Mikle

Nicole Miller Shweta Natarajan Yuki Nozoe Rebecca Orme David Owen Yaminou Oyeossi Patrick Pabilona Neil Panchal Hemanshu Patel Merritt Pearson Zane Piper Donald Pittman Matthew Poelking Constantine Polizos Charles Puch Gautam Puri Christopher Radomile Nathan Raines Jackson Renegar (NRE) William Rice Andres Rodriguez Dane Roemer Michael Ronan Jeffrey Ryan Zeeshanali Saiyed Handoko Santoso William Satterfield Justin Scruggs Michael Sewell Gregg Shanley Brandon Smith (RME) Melvin Smith Brandon Stanley Joshua Steele Glen Stewart Evan Stone Gary Strysick (RME) Daniel Sweeney Craig Tabinowski Jeffrey Taylor Jonathan Taylor Sean Taylor Jason Tomlin Diego Torres Vanessa Jiuan Tseng Minh Vo Scott Von Kaenel Brandon Watford-Mair Dorian Watford-Mair Daniel Weinman Geoffrey Williams Richard Wu Travis Zipperer (NRE) Spring 2010 Christopher Adams Oladele Adedeji Jeffrey Aguilar Kyle A’Hearn Khurram Ali Jessica Allen Juan Amador Sarah Anglin (NRE) Jacob Avitabile Ariel Baek Daniel Barnhart Parker Baxter Carl Belshause

Justin Benson Chad Berdon (RME) Blake Bernard Rahul Bhatia Beth Blauvelt (NRE) Alex Boardman Andrew Bopp (NRE) Chasen Born (RME) David Bourbon Justin Branley (NRE) Ashley Brown (RME) James Brunone Thomas Bunbury Spencer Burch (RME) Timothy Cahill (NRE) Chet Campbell Dieter Carreon-heras Phares Carroll Alexander Caulk Xue Chen Stefan Chiczewski David Chittam Daniel Chowdhury Michael Christie Hoa Chu Aaron Clare (NRE) Matthew Coghill (NRE) Joshua Colbert Cameron Cole David Coleman Lauren Coleman (RME) Mark Commerford Timothy Crabtree Anthony Crenshaw Charles Cruze Kirk Dahlberg Matthew Dalton (RME) Jonathan Daniel Daniel DeBruler Michael Dergance Phillip Douglas (RME) Sara Downey Thomas Drane Aaron Dukes Zakaria Elahmadi William Elkins William Ellis Matthew Emerick John Faulkner Michael Fechtmann Sergey Feingold Timothy Flaspoehler (NRE) Charles Forsyth Eric Gagnon Ryan Gentes Mohamed Ghanem Shikha Ghulati David Giles (RME) Arthur Gilliam Michael Goodman David Green Kevin Grogan Joseph Groveman Craig Groves Kevin Grum Megan Gunther Cameron Hagan (RME) Brant Hamsley Jungmin Han Dustin Hane John Harris Jonathan Harrison (RME)

Douglas Hartley Miles Henslee Kristian Hernandez Heath Hester Parker Hewitt Matthew Hickey Kimberly Hill James Hilson (RME) Justin.Hingle Maha Hosain Westleigh House Lloyd Huang (NRE) Ross Huels Brian Hunt Michael Hurst Henry Hutaff Michael James David Johnson (RME) Nadir Kabir Ignatius Kassanis David Koch (NRE) David Krauss Jason Kulpe Arjun Kumar Samuel Lafountain (NRE) Quinn Lai Robert Lee Shaun Lee Michael Lennard Hibisca Liaw Peter Ligeiro Daniel Lin Hu Lin Hugh Linton Salvatore Lizzio Jonathan Lota Nivedh Manohar (NRE) Thomas Mark Alejandro Marquez Matthew Mason Pearce Mathews Charles Mathis Mathis- David s Aaron May David McArdle Dustin McDuffie Leondus McIver Leigh McMillan Gilles Mepossi Noutcha Travis Middleton Anthony Minarik (NRE) Melissa Minneci John Mitchell Kimberly Moncus Todd Moody Christopher Morris (NRE) Daniel Morrison Andrew Murphy Elaine Murphy Matthew Mustard Evan Myers Daniel Nalecz Rajesh Namjoshi Nicholas Natale (RME) Yasaman Bakhsh Christi Nesmith Timothy No Jason Ogle Nikita Pak Thomas Parise Michael Park Robert Parrish

Bhavesh Darshan Neerav Patel William Patton Matthew Pearse Austin Perkins Nicholas Peterka (NRE) Zachary Peters Ryan Phelps Vanessa Pogue Nimit Prabhakar Douglas Prechter Pawena Puthaprasert Sagar Raut Nicholas Reagan Luke Richards Alexander Roan Clifton Robinson (NRE) Paul Robinson Gwendolyn Rodgers Wesley Ryan Jennifer Ryu Nevin Samuel Stephen Savage Min-hee Sayer Min-hee Sayer (NRE) Karen Scarbrough (NRE) John Schacht (NRE) Michael Schulman Joseph Seymour Emad Shahid John Shannon Aaron Shaw Kyle Shelton Daniel Shenoda Kevin Shepherd (RME) Scott Sherman Puneet Shroff Carlos Sierra Alan Sifford Yulani Smith Garad Soderman Michael Spear William Stanford (RME) Shane Stimpson (NRE) Thomas Stone Hsiao Sun Christopher Swartz (NRE) Daniel Sykes Travis Tagoorpersaud Anshuman Tantia Vincent Thiele Devon Thompson (NRE) Drew Thorp Chau Tran Aaron Tubb (NRE) Ryan Turk Andrew Turner Benjamin Turner Christopher Turner Christian Van Asch Daryoush Vaqar Hanna Wagner Thomas Walker John Ward Amanda Werner Matthew Whatley Clay Willoughby Emily Woods Albert Yu (NRE) Mengxi Zhao Johnathon Zullo 11

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SCHOLARSHIPS Many awards recognize academic achievements, leadership, and outstanding service to the Woodruff School, the College of Engineering, and the Institute. Many undergraduate students in the Woodruff School receive some type of scholarship and many of our graduate students have fellowship funds. Almost all of our incoming, in-state students receive HOPE scholarships, the tuition program financed through the Georgia State Lottery.

PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Georgia Tech’s President’s Scholarship Program identifies students who have excelled in academic and leadership positions in high school. 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. These are 262 scholars enrolled in fall 2010. Tech scholars have an overall grade point average (GPA) of 3.64. Enrolled Woodruff School President’s Scholars have a 3.68 GPA. A total of 1,409 President’s Scholars have graduated since the program began in 1981.

There are 66 new scholars who started in fall 2010; an asterisk is for a new scholar. Current President’s Scholars in ME are: Joshua Adair; Rachel Andrews; Carson Banov; Tanner Blumer*; Kyle Bogdal*; Laura Carpenter; Chris Carscallen*; Douglas Cox*; Noa Davidson*; Benton Ferguson*; Matt Hoffman; Andrew Hsu; Parul Kapur; Ryra Key; Andrey Kossev*; Charles Lu; Alec Manfre; Daniel Murphy; Katie Ong; Alexander Rudat; Thevuthasan Senthuran; Meatro Shoun; Brian Smith; Nicolas Sondej; Liz Tans; Michael Valente; and Dustin Watts. NRE scholars are: Michael Baldwin*; Colin Bowers; Billy Pate*; and Amy Varallo.

According to Randy McDow. Director of the President’s Scholarship Program (PSP), “This year saw a large increase in the number of applicants. We had almost 7,000 people apply, quite an increase compared to 5,491 last year. We had PSs accepted and enrolling at Harvard for law school, med school, and business school this year!”

INSTITUTE HONORS

Each April, awards are announced at Georgia Tech’s Student Honors Program. Woodruff School winners are selected by the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies and the Undergraduate Academic Advisor with the approval of the Woodruff School Chair. The 2010 recipients were: Christopher Adams won the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Scholar Award. This award recognizes a graduating senior who has achieved an exceptional scholastic record in mechanical engineering.

Lokesh Asnani and Anastassia Laskey each received a James G. and Mary G. Wohlford Scholarship. This award was named in honor of the late director emeritus of the division of Professional Practice and is sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology Tech Co-op Club. These scholarships recognize outstanding senior co-ops who have excelled both academically and on their co-op jobs, and who have made significant contributions to the community.

Carl Belshause received the Samuel P. Eschenbach Memorial Award in Mechanical Engineering. This award is given by the family of Samuel P. Eschenbach (ME 1933) and is based on academic performance, leadership capabilities as demonstrated through involvement in the campus community, and promise as a mechanical engineer.

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Richard Brooks received the Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Junior Award and Hanna Wagner won the Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Senior Award. These awards are for outstanding scholastic achievements in addition to service to the School, to the Institute, and to student activities. Their names will be displayed on the Pi Tau Sigma plaque in the MRDC Building atrium.

Phares Carroll, Robert Parrish, and Pawena “June” Puthaprasert each won a Richard K. Whitehead Jr. Memorial Award.

This prize was established by the Georgia Scientific and Technical Research Foundation in memory of its first president, Richard K. Whitehead Jr. (ME 1957). The awards are presented to outstanding Mechanical Engineering seniors who exemplify high standards of scholarship and service. Their names will be added to the display in the atrium of the MRDC Building.

Alice Cheung won the Tau Beta Pi Scholarship for Georgia Alpha Chapter, which is awarded to a student for outstanding leadership and service to the Georgia Tech chapter of the national engineering honor society and the resulting positive impact on the Georgia Tech campus and community.

Justin Dunnahoo received one of the five Georgia Tech Faculty Women’s Club Scholarships. These awards are granted to Georgia Tech students, who are sons or daughters of Georgia Tech employees.

The student must be an undergraduate, already enrolled, and in good standing. The awards are based on academic achievement and financial need.

Ryan Hon (NRE) and Daniel Murphy (ME) each won one of the Henry Ford II Scholar Awards in the College of Engineering.

These awards are made annually to the engineering students with the best academic records at the end of the third year of undergraduate study. These awards consist of cash and a plaque provided through income from a restricted endowment fund provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund.

Victoria Lewis received the CETL/Frank Bogle Nontraditional Student Award, which is presented each year to an outstanding nontraditional junior or senior. This award honors the memory of Frank Bogle, who graduated from Tech in 1925 and later served on the faculty in the School of Mechanical Engineering for nearly thirty years.

Yasaman Nematbakhsh won the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering School Chair’s Award, which is given to the graduating senior in Mechanical Engineering who best exemplifies outstanding scholarship and contributions to the School, especially to its programs and external representation.

Nivedh Manohar won the Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award in the Woodruff School’s Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program. This award recognizes a graduating senior who has achieved an exceptional scholastic record in the nuclear engineering program.

Melissa Minneci received the Helen E. Grenga Outstanding Woman Engineer Award, which was created in honor of the late Helen Grenga, the first woman faculty member in the College of Engineering. It celebrates the accomplishments of women in engineering and is presented annually to a woman engineering student who has demonstrated outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service in her field and in the Tech community.

ARCS SCHOLARS

The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation helps meet our country’s need for scientists and engineers by providing scholarships to academically outstanding students to help them complete their doctoral degrees. The Atlanta Chapter, which was chartered in 1992, gives scholarships to students from Emory

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University, Georgia Tech, Morehouse College, and the University of Georgia. At Georgia Tech, recipients come from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; the College of Computing; the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering; the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences; the School of Aerospace Engineering; and the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

ARCS provides a $7,500 supplement to the student’s current graduate research assistantship. Scholarships are awarded to senior doctoral students in recognition of high scholastic achievement, including a GPA of 3.5 or higher, good progress toward their degree, an expressed goal of making a contribution to their community and society in general, and are U.S. citizens.

Woodruff School scholars for the 2010-2011 academic year are: Robert Amaro (Rick Neu, advisor); Ryan Austin (Dave McDowell, advisor); Joel Boerckel (Robert Guldberg, advisor); and Alex Williams (Rhett Mayor, advisor).

The Woodruff School has 32 alumni ARCS scholars. New alumni are: Aaron Enes (Ph.D. ME 2010); Jonathan Clausen (Ph.D. ME 2009); Janine Johnson (Ph.D. ME 2010), and Stephanie Thompson (Ph.D. ME 2009). The first person to receive an ARCS scholarship in the Woodruff School was Deborah Kilpatrick (Ph.D. ME 1996).

Boeing

Haliburton: Jaclyn Branscomb and Casandra Hadad;

John Deere: Christine Chinea, Lindsay Hubbard, Yasaman Nemat Bakhsh, Melissa Orr, Shannon O’Shea, and Jayme Walton; Lockheed-Martin: Amy Cheben, Anna Harter, and Victoria Lewis; Raytheon: Jennifer Ryu; Rockwell: Kelly Kloster; Schlumberger: Mun Lun Karen Ho, Katherine Hornbostel, and Katherine Polhemus; Shell: Sandra Manges.

Melissa Menneci (ME) was one of two recipients of the PhilobosArmanios Pay It Forward Scholarship.

PI TAU SIGMA

Membership in the Georgia Tech Nu Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, the national mechanical engineering honor society is based on scholastic standing and faculty rating.

Dr. Wayne Whiteman is faculty advisor to the group.

Thirty-five students were inducted into Pi Tau Sigma in November 2009. They are: Solomone Adera, Lokesh Asnani, Mohammad Awais, Daniel Barnhart, Sahil Batta, Andrea Bordonal, Jaclyn Branscomb, Alvin Chen, Bryan Cochran ,Gregory Daniels, Siddharth Gangopadhyay, Shikha Ghulat, Megan Gunther, Chad Hendley, Justin Holley, Praachi Jan, Kyle Koonce, Jason Kulpe, Andrew Ligott, Devin McDuffie, Rohan Namjoshi ,Yaminou Oyeossi, Aaron Pavone, Robert Reagan, Douglas Rhodes, Geoffrey Russell, Grant Sadowski, Michael Schulman, Patrick Smith, Leah Strohsnitter, Owen Sullivan, Mark Swea, Ivan Tibavinskey, Gregory Trulear, and Owen Wang.

Thirty students were inducted into Pi Tau Sigma in fall 2010.

They are: Laura Anfinson, James Baunchalk, Fernando Bazerghi, Darren Benson, Isabelle Bouchard, Russell Boone, Lee Bouldin, Alex Buchanan, Lucas Castro, Clarisa Chavarria, Adam Fraser, Scott Goodson, Lauren Gross, Eliot Gruber, Thomas Home, Parul Kapur, Nathan Knight, Jason Lee, Brennan Loffert, Carl Lyles, Robert Powell, Patrick McHugh, Kurt Scheffran, James Smith, Daniel Suarez, Daniel Toler, Chris Tzanavaris, Vivek Vishwanathan, Dustin Watts, and Simeon Wooten.

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS John Deere

WOMEN IN ENGINEERING (WIE) AWARDS

There were 621 female Georgia Tech students who were 2010 WIE Scholars, with an overall GPA of 3.35 or higher. This number represented 37 percent of all undergraduate female students in the College of Engineering. A total of 74 Woodruff School women qualified to attend the banquet: 61 in ME and 12 in NRE. More than $140,000 in scholarships were awarded to 120 students. The average GPA of ME and NRE students receiving scholarships was 3.68. The following Woodruff School students received corporate scholarships: Alcoa: Kalen Terry (NRE); Boeing: Stephanie Camstra, Mary Elizabeth Kownack (NRE), Danielle Martin, and Meghan McCandless; Eaton: Rachel Devine; Ford: Andrea Bordonali and Clarissa Chavarria;

Georgia Power: Sara Drozdowski;

Ashley Bernal won a Graduate Teaching Fellowship from the ASME. This program began in 1991, with only one or two awards being made each year. To date, 13 Woodruff School students have received the fellowship. Dr. Nazanin BassiriGharb is her advisor.

Jonathan Clausen, Jingshu Wu, and Daniel Reasor were recognized at the International Multiphase Flow Conference as one of the two best video entries in the ICMF Gallery of Fluid Motions for their entry titled, “DNS of Deformable Capsules, Fibers, and Particles Suspended in Flow.” Dr. Cyrus Aidun is their advisor.

Shaheen Dewji, Ph.D. student, was one of only 20 people accepted into the 2011 Nuclear Scholars Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Dr. Nolan Hertel is her advisor.

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Andrew Ogden, Ph.D. student, won the Best Paper Award at the 3rd International Forum on Multidisciplinary Education and Research for Energy Science in Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan. Dr. Andrei Fedorov and Dr. James Gole are his advisors.

Raphael Okereke, Ph.D. student, won the First Place Award from the Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division for his poster on “Parallel-Path Compliant Structures as Electrical Interconnects.”

Dr. Suresh Sitaraman is his advisor.

Gregory Ostrowicki, Ph.D. student, won the Second Place Award from the Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division for his poster titled “Magnetically Actuated Peel Test for Interfacial Fracture and Fatigue Characterization.” This was presented at the ASME IMECE meeting. Dr. Suresh Sitaraman is his advisor.

Brantley H. Mills, Ph.D. Student, won the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the American Nuclear Society at the 19th Optical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy. His advisors are Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik and Dr. Minami Yoda.

SAIC-GEORGIA TECH STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION

Each fall, SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) sponsors an Annual SAIC-Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition.

This marked the 21st year of the collaboration between Georgia Tech and SAIC. Fifteen awards were presented at the dinner. This year’s winners in the Woodruff School are:

John Arata, undergraduate student, won 1st Place in the BS Student Category for his paper, “Designing Microfluidic Channel That Separates Elastic Particles Upon Stiffness.” Dr. Alexander Alexeev is his advisor.

Ryan Austin, a graduate student, was the Runner-Up in the Doctoral Student Category for “A Viscoplastic Constitutive Model for Polycrystalline fcc Metals at Very High Rates of Deformation.” Dr. David Post McDowell is his advisor.

Andrew Hyder and Brian Post, graduate students, won Runner Up in the Master’s Student Category for their paper, “A Framework for Developing a Cohesive Set of Remote Laboratories for Distributed Distance Learning Settings.” Dr. Dirk Schaefer is their advisor.

Kelvin Chen Chih Peng, graduate student, won 1st Place in the Master’s Student Category, for “Crane Peng Operation Using Hand-Motion and Machine Vision.”

Dr. William Singhose is his advisor.

DOE NUCLEAR ENERGY UNIVERSITY PROGRAM

The following students were awarded a 2010 Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) scholarship or fellowship. The purpose of these awards is to help recruit and train the next generation of nuclear scientists and engineers. The scholarships are for $4,000 for one year and the fellowships are $50,000 a year for three years. Scholarship winners are: Benjamin Bowers, Sheree Tamaklo and David Zwick.

The fellowships went to Erin (Hayward) Gillilan and Christopher Stewart.

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WHERE WE STAND: RANKINGS

Georgia Tech is one of the world’s premier research universities and this is seen through the various rankings in which Georgia Tech appears. “The continued excellence and improvement in the U.S. News & World Report rankings is a testament to Georgia Tech’s commitment to providing our students with a world-class education,” said Georgia Tech President, G. P. “Bud” Peterson. In addition to Georgia Tech being number one with corporate recruiters, this is where we stand:

U.S. News & World Report • 4th Best Undergraduate Engineering Program where the Ph.D. is the top degree (tied with Cal Tech); • 3rd Best Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program (a move up one place from last year); • 6th Best Graduate Mechanical Engineering Program; • 8th Best Graduate Nuclear Engineering Program; • 7th Best Public University (GT has been in the top ten for more than a decade.); • 2nd Best Public University according to the poll of high school guidance counselors; • 22nd Best University (both public & private) according to the poll of high school guidance counselors (tied with Boston College, Emory University, Rice University, University of North Carolina, University of Southern California, University of Michigan, and Washington University); • Highlighted in Programs to look for (co-op, study abroad, undergraduate research, internships); • 8th Best in Top Engineering & IT Universities in the World.

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FELLOWSHIPS Woodruff School students have always been successful in winning fellowships, garnering millions of dollars from sources outside the Woodruff School. In addition, the Woodruff School Endowment pays topping fellowships.

ARCS Ryan Austin COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Bobby Watkins

COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT Amit Jariwala

DOD NDSEG Ryan Austin John Bustamante Sukwon Choi Heather Humphreys Christine Taylor

DOD SMART Daniel Reasor

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Kevin Connolly Justin Pounders Brice Pridgen

FACES Ivana Kennedy Bobby Watkins

FULBRIGHT Naveed Ahmed Arnoldo Castro Daniel Gempesaw Patricia Pacheco Muhammad Salman Haitham Al-Barbary

GEM Elizabeth Canogan Marcella Gomez Mihir Patek Dominique Rowe Mark Simpson Steven Walker GOIZUETA Marcella Gomez Casey Holliday David Sotto

GTRI William Musinski

GEORGIA TECH Ivana Kennedy

IBB David Dumbauld

IPST Michael Psimas Ashok Rajendar

MSE Benjamin Adair NANT David Hartmangruber

NASA Akibi Archer Nduka Enemchukwu

NIH Julia Henkels Marcus Parker Lin Wan

NRC Kevin Connolly NSF Kim Dooroo Kenneth Dupont Laura Hansen Casey Holliday Jeffrey Lloyd Hasan Oral Christopher Phaneuf Daniel Potter Rachel Whitmire Jaime Zahorian ONR Lin Wan

PRESIDENT’S Benjamin Adair Akibi Archer Jeffrey Bingham James Black Joel Boerckl Thomas Boziuk John Bustamante Sukwon Choi Ted Conrad Kevin Davies Jared Delahanty

David Dumbauld Kenneth Dupont Michael Earnhart Brett Ellis Nkuda Enemchukwu Aaron Enes Thomas Forbes Konstantin Froelich Daniel Gempesaw Daniel Golden Stephen Goldman Benjamin Good Mitchell Hageman Casey Holliday Laura Hansen Roderick Jackson Mela Johnson Ted Lee Krzysztof Lesnicki Jeffrey Lloyd Ehsan Maleki Robert Matthews Andrew McNamara Prem Midha Jeffrey Milkie Roxanne Moore Hasan Oral Marcus Parker Chen-Chih Peng Christopher Phenauf Daniel Potter Justin Pounders Brice Pridgen Alexander Rattner David Reasor Tomas Robbins David Torello Brent Uhrig Adan Vela Benjamin Wilde Ryder Winck Tak Woo Jaime Zahorian SANDIA Todd Bandhauer UNCF Aaron Enes

WORLD STUDENT FUND Nico Hempel Benjamin Naefner Berrit Gundale Runje

WOODRUFF Benjamin Adair Akibi Archer Kyle Azevedo Todd Bandhauer Jeffrey Bingham

James Black Joel Boerckel Thomas Boziuk John Bustamante Suswon Choi Ted Conrad Kevin Davies Jared Delahanty Steven Douglass (NE) David Dumbauld John Dykes Nicholas Earnhart Brett Ellis Nkuda Enemchukwu Aaron Enes Konstantin Froelich Thomas Forbes Daniel Gempesaw Daniel Golden Stephen Goldman Benjamin Good (NE) Mitchell Hageman Michael Hochman Heather Humphreys Roderick Jackson Mela Johnson Kyle Karlson Mark Killpack Krzysztof Lasnicki Drew Looney Ehsan Maleki Kenneth Marek Robert Matthews Andrew McNamara Jeffrey Milkie Prem Midha Roxanne Moore Jonknum Munnae William Musinski Barbara Nsiah Gregory Ostrowicki Marcus Parker Chen-Chih Peng Christopher Phaneuf Daniel Potter Justin Pounders Brice Pridgen Ashok Rajendar Daniel Reasor Alexander Rattner Thomas Robbins Konrad Rykaczewski Joshua Sharp Mark Simpson David Torello Brent Uhrig Adan Vela Benjamin Wilde Ryder Winck Tak Woo

Maleki Adair

Midha Azevedo

Moore Bustamante

Oral Castro

Phaneuf Gempesaw

Pridgen Humphreys

Reasor Jariwalla

Rowe Kennedy

Taylor Loney

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STUDENTS STUDENT GROUPS IN THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL

There are a number of organizations for Woodruff School students to join.

These groups offer a unique opportunity to learn about the many facets of mechanical engineering or nuclear engineering, provide an opportunity to meet practicing professionals, and provide valuable service to the School, the community, and the Institute. More information may be found at: www. me.gatech.edu/me/studentorganizations.

ENROLLMENT IN GEORGIA TECH BY COLLEGE IN 2009 AND 2010 College Undergraduates Graduates Totals

2009 2010 2009 2010 2009 2010 Architecture 651 574 539 523 1190 1097 Computing 905 990 774 722 1679 1762 Engineering 7902 8076 3756 3835 11,658 11,911 Ivan Allen 951 872 288 311 1239 1183 Management 1356 1325 638 735 1984 2060 Sciences 1177 1323 790 794 1967 2117 Registrar 573 590 -- -- 573 590 Totals 13,515 13,750 6,775 6,970 20,290 20,720

COMPETITION GROUPS

gt motorsports (Formula SAE) conceives, designs, builds, and tests a single seat formula race car.

Dr. Ken Cunefare, advisor GT Off-Road (SAE Baja) designs and builds a single seat vehicle from scratch that they race on a dirt track.

Dr. Ken Cunefare, advisor GT Robojackets participates in robotics competitions, promotes robotics at Georgia Tech, and helps students learn skills to build robots.

Dr. Wayne Book, FIRST advisor Dr. Jun Ueda, advisor

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Wreck Racing purchases, repairs, and modifies a car to compete in the Grassroots Motorsports Challenge.

Dr. Ken Cunefare, advisor CanSat Club provides students with hands-on experience in the design, construction and launch of space systems.

Dr. Bill Singhose, advisor Georgia Tech’s Wreck Racing Team took 1st place in the Grassroots Motorsports $2010 Challenge.

Fifty-four teams from the United States and Canada participated in the event in Florida.

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ENROLLMENT IN THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL FALL 2010

Undergraduate Students

ME Atlanta 1598

ME Savannah 62 NRE 197 Graduate Students ME 704 NRE/MP 70 Bioengineering 45

Robotics/Paper Science 6

Ph.D. 312

M.S. 513 * Total 2682

Other Demographics

Georgia Residents

UG Women

Graduate Women UG Internationals

Graduate Internationals

1094 (58%) 230 (12%) 114 (14%) 107 ( 6%) 212 (27%)

2010 NEW GRADUATE CLASS PROFILE

Applicants 1120

Admitted (42% of applicants) 469

Matriculated (55% of admitted) 245 Average Undergraduate Grade Point Average (GPA) 3.56 Average Score on the Graduate Record Exam

Verbal (out of 800) 508

Quantitative (out of 800) 752

Writing (out of 6.0) 4.1 Class Demographics Males 208 Females 37

Minorities (U.S. Citizens) 24 Internationals 61 Geographical Breakdown by Undergraduate School Attended

East/Northeast 59 (24%)

South/Southeast Midwest West/Southwest Internationals

76 (31%) 29 (12%) 20 (8%) 61 (25%)

*Of the 513 master’s students, 213 are distance learning students.

NOTE: The entering freshman class consisted of 318 freshmen (270 ME, 48 NRE) and 96 transfer students (60 ME, 10 NRE, 26 GTS). Of the Atlanta students, 140 were from Georgia and 178 (including 38 NRE) were from out of state.

GENERAL GROUPS

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Students Association (MEGA)

Dr. G. Paul Neitzel, advisor NRE Student Advisory Committee

Dr. Farzad Rahnema, advisor Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW)

Dr. G. Paul Neitzel, advisor Woodruff School Student Advisory Committee (WSSAC) advises the faculty and administration on issues that directly affect students.

Ms. Kristi Mehaffey, advisor

HONOR SOCIETY

Pi Tau Sigma (Nu Chapter) is the national honor society of mechanical engineers.

Dr. Wayne Whiteman, advisor

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is a scientific society dedicated to increasing and diffusing knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications.

Drs. Erica Ryherd & Karim Sabra, advisors American Nuclear Society (ANS) is the link for prospective nuclear engineers with their chosen profession.

Dr. Chaitanya Deo, advisor American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) promotes the art and science of heating, refrigerating, air conditioning, ventilation, and allied technologies.

Dr. Sheldon Jeter, advisor American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is the link for prospective mechanical engineers with their chosen profession.

Dr. Al Ferri, advisor Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International furthers research, development, design, manufacture, and utilization of vehicles.

Dr. Ken Cunefare, advisor Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) advances professionalism, knowledge and learning of the manufacturing environment.

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FACULTY WOODRUFF SCHOOL DEMOGRAPHICS

Tenure-Track Faculty

Chaired or Endowed Professors Professors Associate Professors Assistant Professors Adjunct Faculty Research Faculty Academic Professionals Emeritus Faculty Staff

Number of Female Faculty Number of UR Minority Faculty

16 32 13 27 *

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13 23 6 19 56 8 6

*Does not include 3 faculty who will begin as assistant professors in 2011-2012.

Acoustics and Dynamics

Yves H. Berthelot, Professor and President of Georgia Tech Lorraine Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1985 Fellow of ASA Kenneth A. Cunefare, Professor Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1990 Fellow of ASA Nico F. Declercq, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Ghent University, Belgium, 2005 Aldo A. Ferri, Associate Professor & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985 Fellow of ASME Mardi C. Hastings, Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987 Fellow of ASA Michael J. Leamy, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998 Peter H. Rogers, Rae and Frank H. Neely Chair in Mechanical Engineering & Professor Ph.D., Brown University, 1970 Fellow of ASA Massimo Ruzzene, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Adjunct Associate Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, 1999 Erica E. Ryherd, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 2006 Karim Sabra, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003 Fellow of ASA

Automation and Mechatronics

Wayne J. Book, HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control & Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974 Fellow of ASME and IEEE Ye-Hwa Chen, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985 18

Kok-Meng Lee, Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985 Fellow of ASME and IEEE Harvey Lipkin, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Florida, 1985 John G. Papastavridis, Associate Professor Ph.D., Purdue University, 1976 Nader Sadegh, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987 William E. Singhose, Associate Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997 Jun Ueda, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Kyoto University, Japan, 2002

Bioengineering

Gang Bao, Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1987 Fellow of ASME Brandon Dixon, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2006 Andres J. Garcia, Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996 Fellow of AIMBE Rudolph L. Gleason, Assistant Professor & Joint Appointment in the School of Biomedical Engineering Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2004 Robert E. Guldberg, Professor & Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995 Fellow of AIMBE David N. Ku, Lawrence P. Huang Endowed Chair in Engineering and Entrepreneurship & Regents’ Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1983 M.D., Emory University, 1984 Fellow of AIMBE Lisa Ting, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Adjunct Associate Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998 Raymond P. Vito, Vice Provost for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies & Professor Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971 Fellow of AIMBE and ASME Ajit P. Yoganathan, The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Engineering, Regents’ Professor, & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1978 Fellow of AIMBE Evan Zamir, Assistant Professor D.Sc., Washington University, 2003 Cheng Zhu, Regents’ Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988 Fellow of AIMBE and ASME

Computer-Aided Engineering and Design Bert Bras, Professor Ph.D., University of Houston, 1992 Seung-Kyum Choi, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Wright State University, 2006

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Roger Jiao, Associate Professor Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1998 Chris Paredis, Associate Professor Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1996 David W. Rosen, Associate Chair for Administration & Professor Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1992 Fellow of ASME Dirk Schaefer, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2003

Fellow of Higher Education (UK) Suresh Sitaraman, Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1989 Fellow of ASME Yan Wang, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2003

Fluid Mechanics

Cyrus Aidun, Professor Ph.D., Clarkson University, 1985 Alexander Alexeev, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 2003 Ari Glezer, George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems & Professor Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1981 Fellow of APS, ASME, & Associate Fellow of AIAA David Hu, Assistant Professor & Joint Appointment in the School of Biology Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005 G. Paul Neitzel, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies & Professor Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1979 Fellow of APS, ASME & Associate Fellow of AIAA Marc K. Smith, Professor Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1982 Minami Yoda, Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993 Fellow of ASME

Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems Baratunde A. Cola, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Purdue University, 2008 Andrei G. Fedorov, Professor Ph.D., Purdue University, 1997 Srinivas Garimella, Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1990 Fellow of ASME Caroline Genzale, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2008 S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983 Fellow of ASME Sheldon M. Jeter, Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979 Yogendra K. Joshi, John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair in Building Mechanical Systems & Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1984 Fellow of AAAS and ASME Satish Kumar, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Purdue University, 2007 Timothy Lieuwen, Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999

G. P. “Bud� Peterson, President of Georgia Tech & Professor Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1985 Fellow of AIAA and ASME William J. Wepfer, Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair & Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1979 Fellow of ASHRAE and ASME Zhuomin Zhang, Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992 Fellow of AAAS and ASME

Manufacturing

Laurent Capolungo, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007 Jonathan S. Colton, Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986 Fellow of ASME and SPE Steven Danyluk, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems & Professor Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974 Fellow of ASME, ASMI, and STLE Suman Das, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Texas, 1998 Craig R. Forest, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007 Tequila A. L. Harris, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006 Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2005 Steven Y. Liang, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professorship in Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987 Fellow of ASME J. Rhett Mayor, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2001 Leon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Professor of Manufacturing Systems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1975

Fellow of IIE Shreyes N. Melkote, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professorship in Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, 1993 I. Charles Ume, Professor Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1985 Fellow of ASME and IEEE

Mechanics of Materials

Stephen Antolovich, Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1966

Fellow of ASME and ASM International Antonia Antoniou, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2006 Mohammed Cherkaoui, Professor Ph.D., University of Metz (France), 1995 Kenneth Gall, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & Joint Appointment in the Woodruff School Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1998 Karl I. Jacob, Professor of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1985 19

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Laurence J. Jacobs, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School, & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ph.D., Columbia University, 1987 W. Steve Johnson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Duke University, 1979

Fellow of ASME, ASTM, & NIA David L. McDowell, Carter N. Paden Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing, Regents’ Professor, & Joint Appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1983 Fellow of AIM International, ASME and SES Richard W. Neu, Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1991 Olivier Pierron, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2005 Naresh N. Thadhani, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1984

Fellow of APS and ASM International Min Zhou, Professor Ph.D., Brown University, 1993

Fellow of ASME Ting Zhu, Associate Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

MEMS

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2005 F. Levent Degertekin, George W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems & Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997 James Gole, Professor of Physics & Adjunct Professor in the Woodruff School Ph.D., Rice University, 1971

Fellow of AAAS Samuel Graham, Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999 Peter J. Hesketh, Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987 Fellow of AAAS and ECS Todd Sulchek, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002

Tribology

Itzhak Green, Professor Sc.D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1984 Fellow of ASME and STLE Richard F. Salant, Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967 Fellow of ASME and STLE Jeffrey L. Streator, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990 Fellow of ASME and STLE

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Nuclear and Radiological Engineering & Medical Physics

Said I. Abdel-Khalik, Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973 Fellow of ANS and ASME Sang H. Cho, Associate Professor Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1997 Chaitanya Deo, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003 Nolan E. Hertel, Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1979 Fellow of HPS Bojan Petrovic, Professor Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995 Farzad Rahnema, Chair of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs & Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981 Fellow of ANS Glenn E. Sjoden, Professor Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1997 Weston M. Stacey, Jr., Fuller E. Callaway Professor in Nuclear Engineering & Regents’ Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966 Fellow of ANS and APS C.-K. Chris Wang, Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1989 Lei Zhu, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007

RESEARCH FACULTY

Scott S. Bair, Regents’ Researcher Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990 Fellow of ASME Van B. Biesel, Research Engineer II M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993 Dwayne Blaylock, Research Engineer II & Interim Manager of the NRE/MP Laboratories M.S.N.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997 John R. Bogle, Research Engineering II M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987 Jayme Caspall, Research Engineer II M.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988 Tom Crittenden, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003 John Culp, Research Engineer II B.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000 John Doane, Research Engineer II M.S.M.E, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001 Michael Gray, Senior Research Engineering & Co-Director, Acoustics and Vibrations Research Laboratory M.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992 Francois M. Guillot, Senior Research Engineer Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000 James Huggins, Research Engineer II M.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988 Peter A. Kottke, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004 Gregg D. Larson, Senior Research Engineer Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996 Angela Lin, Research Engineer II MS, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002

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James S. Martin, Senior Research Engineer M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994 Raghuram V. Pucha, Senior Research Engineer Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, 1995 Dennis L. Sadowski, Research Engineer II M.S., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986 Hazel Stevens, Research Scientist I B.Sc., University of Durham, United Kingdom Dave Trivett, Principal Research Scientist M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1976 Bojan Vukasinovic, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002 Jelena Vukasinovic, Research Engineer II M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000 Dingkang Zhang, Research Engineer II Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005 Ji-Xun Zhou, Principal Research Scientist Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School (Ocean Acoustics), 1963-1967 Fellow of ASA

Academic Professionals

Jeffrey A. Donnell, Frank K. Webb Academic Professional Chair in Communications Skills & Senior Academic Professional

Ph.D. English, Emory University, 1990 Kristi Mehaffey, Undergraduate Academic Advisor & Academic Professional M.S., Clemson University, 2000 Douglas B. Schumer, Director of Design Innovation and Instruction & Academic Professional Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1977 Michael D. Stewart, Academic Professional M.S., Wayne State College, 1983 Christine Valle, Academic Professional & Advisor to BS/MS Students Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999 Wayne Whiteman, Director of the Office of Student Services & Senior Academic Professional Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996

Emeritus Faculty

Janet Allen, started in 1992, retired in 2009 Samuel C. Barnett, started in 1946, retired in 1980 William Z. Black, started in 1967, retired in 2000 Joseph D. Clement, started in 1965, retired in 1991 Gene T. Colwell, started in 1966, retired in 1995 J. Narl Davidson, started in 1973, retired in 2006 Monte V. Davis, started in 1973, retired in 1987 Prateen V. Desai, started in 1966, retired in 2002 Stephen L. Dickerson, started in 1965, retired in 1996 Pandeli Durbetaki, started in 1964, retired in 1995 Geoffrey G. Eichholz, started in 1963, retired in 1988 Jerry H. Ginsberg, started in 1980, retired in 2008 Bernd Kahn, started in 1974, retired in 1996 Ratib Karam, started in 1972, retired in 1997 Jack Lackey, started in 1986, retired in 2005 Farrokh Mistree, started in 1992, retired in 2009 Robert M. Nerem, started in 1987, retired in 2010 Alfred Schneider, started in 1975, retired in 1990 Ward O. Winer, started in 1969, retired in 2007 Ben Zinn, started in 1965, retired in 2010

FACULTY HONORS AND AWARDS Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik, Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor, was elected chairman of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, effective January 1, 2010.

Dr. Steven Danyluk, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems, received The Public Services (Friends of Singapore) Medal at the Investiture Ceremony of the 2010 National Day Awards, presided over by S. R. Nathan, the President of Singapore. He was nominated for his 14 years of service on the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) and his Chairmanship of the board for the past five years.

Dr. Suman Das, associate professor, was recognized by CETL with a Thank a Teacher Program certificate. This program began in 2005 and gives students the opportunity to give feedback about their classroom teachers.

Dr. Andrei Fedorov, professor, won the 2010 Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award from Pi Tau Sigma/ASME. This medal is awarded for outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering to a young engineer within ten to twenty years following graduation.

Dr. Fedorov also received the 2010 Invention and Contribution Board Award from NASA for development of catalytic reactor technologies, cited “among technical contributions to NASA, which have significant value in the conduct of aeronautical and space activities.”

Dr. Craig Forest, assistant professor, won the 2010 IBB Interdisciplinary Research and Educational Pre-Tenure Faculty Award for his work on Georgia Tech’s InVenture Prize.

Dr. Srinivas Garimella, professor, was nominated as a panel member to the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Review of UK Energy Research. The purpose of this panel is to review the energy research policies in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Jerry Ginsberg, professor emeritus, won the 2010 Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education from the Acoustical Society of America. The Rossing Prize was established in 2003 from a grant made to the Acoustical Society Foundation by Thomas D. Rossing to recognize an individual who has made significant contributions toward furthering acoustics education through distinguished teaching, creation of educational materials, textbook writing, and other activities.

Dr. Robert Guldberg, professor, was named Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.

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Dr. Tequila Harris, assistant professor, has been awarded a 2010 NSF Faculty Early Career Award for a project on “Understanding Mechanisms That Generate Defects in the Fabrication of Functional Materials for Energy.”

Dr. Mardi Hastings, professor, is the president-elect of the Acoustical Society of America. She will serve as President-Elect for 2010-2011 and then as President in 2011-2012.

Dr. Asegun Henry, who will join the Woodruff School in spring 2012, was selected Henry as an ARPA-E Fellow (Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy) for 2011. The fellows program began at the end of 2009 with the purpose to help create the strategic direction and vision of the country’s first agency devoted exclusively to transformational energy technology R&D. Dr. Nolan Hertel, professor, was selected to chair the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) Hertel Report Committee on Operational Radiation Protection Quantities for External Radiation.

They will produce a new ICRU report that will generally form the basis for how things are done by radiation professionals, particularly in radiation protection of individuals.

Dr. Peter Hesketh, professor, was elected to the grade of Fellow in the ASME. Dr. Yogendra Joshi, McKenney-Shiver Chair in Building Mechanical Systems, Hesketh received the 2010-2011 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. This is the highest honor given by the Institute to its alumni in recognition of their achievements of exceptional merit.

Dr. Timothy Lieuwen, professor of Aerospace Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering, won the George Westinghouse Silver Medal from the ASME. Dr. Robert Nerem, professor emeritus, Joshi was named one of Georgia Trend’s Notable Georgians.

Dr. Rick Neu, professor, received the 2010 Best Paper Award at the 6thAnnual Symposium on Fretting Fatigue.

Dr. G. P. “Bud” Peterson, president of Georgia Tech and professor, was named one of the 100 most influential Atlantans by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He also made the list in the 12th edition of Georgia Trend’s Neu 100 Most Influential Georgians. He was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke.

Dr. Karim Sabra, assistant professor, won the R. Bruce Lindsay Award from the Acoustical Society of America for his work on time-reversal acoustics and ambient noise 22

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cross-correlations. This award is presented in the spring to a member of the Society who is under 35 years of age and who, during a period of two or more years immediately preceding the award, has been active in the affairs of the Society and has contributed substantially, through published papers, to the advancement of theoretical or applied acoustics, or both. Past recipients of the award in the Woodruff School are Peter Rogers and Yves Berthelot.

Dr. Dirk Schaefer, assistant professor, was one of 49 young engineering educators to be selected as part of the 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Education program at the National Academy of Engineering. In addition, he earned the title of International Engineering Educator from the International Society of Engineering Education. Only three people in the United States hold this designation, and Dr. Schaefer is the only Streator person at Georgia Tech to have this title.

Dr. Jeffrey Streator, associate professor, was elected to the grade of Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and in the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.

Dr. Bill Stacey, Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Nuclear Engineering, received a Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates. This award recognizes his Stacey decades of outstanding career contributions to future research and development, including the pioneering contributions to power producing fusion reactor design, to the INTOR design which was a forerunner for ITER, and to conceptual designs of fusionfission systems.

Dr. Charles Ume, professor, received the 2010 Excellence in Mechanics Award from the Electronic & Photonic Packaging Zhu Division of the ASME. This award, which was established in 1994, is given for outstanding contributions to the applications of engineering mechanics in the field of electronic and/or photonic packaging.

Dr. Ting Zhu was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure.

Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, professor, was elected to the grade of Fellow by the Zhang American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “for advancing thermal radiation research and its applications in temperature measurement, promoting education in nano- and micro-scale heat transfer, and serving professional societies.”

INSTITUTE HONORS

The following faculty members were recognized at the 2010 Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon: Ten-Year Service Awards: Levent Degertekin; Andrei Fedorov; Francois Guillot; Peter Hesketh; and Raghuram Pucha.

Twenty-Five Year Service Awards: Yves Berthelot; Jonathan Colton; Aldo Ferri; Itzhak Green; Kok-Meng Lee; Harvey Lipkin; and Charles Ume. CETL Undergraduate Education Award: Christine Valle.

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DR. AL FERRI: ASSOCIATE CHAIR FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES & THE 2010 ZEIGLER OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR

Dr. Al Ferri assumed the position of Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at the start of 2010. He has been a faculty member in the Woodruff School since 1985 and has served multiple terms as Chair of the School’s Undergraduate Committee and a member of the Institute’s Undergraduate Committee. On announcing this appointment, School Chair Bill Wepfer, said, “Al brings a passion for teaching and learning as well as extensive knowledge and experience as an engineering educator to this position.”

He looks forward to interacting with the students and to help shape the undergraduate curriculum to meet the needs of our future students.

In addition, Dr. Ferri won the 2010 Jack M. Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award in the Woodruff School. According to the citation for this award, Dr. Ferri was selected based on his superlative teaching skills, as evidenced by his ability to clearly communicate difficult concepts and theories. His extensive preparation allows him to lecture enthusiastically, thereby engaging and stimulating interest of generations of undergraduate and graduate students in dynamics and numerical methods. Professor Ferri has had a broader impact on the educational efforts through his leadership of the Woodruff School Undergraduate Committee and now as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. At the Institute level, he served three terms as an elected member of the Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Dr. Ferri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. He has been a Woodruff School Faculty Fellow, and he received the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Dr. Ferri received his bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University, and both his master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University.

His research has been primarily in the area of structural vibrations and on the interface of vibrations and other areas such as nonlinear dynamics, controls, acoustics, and tribology. Much of his work has involved the role and use of friction to enhance damping in vibrating structures.

About the Zeigler Award The Jack M. Zeigler (B ME 1948) Outstanding Educator Award was created in 1999 to honor members of the School’s academic faculty who epitomize outstanding educators. The winner is announced at a Woodruff School spring event, and receives $5,000 in discretionary funds to use for professional development such as travel, computers, and support of students.

The winner, who can only receive this award one time, is invited to deliver the Zeigler Outstanding Educator Lecture to an assembly of the Woodruff School.

DR. SHREYES MELKOTE RECEIVES ME PROFESSORSHIP

Dr. Shreyes Melkote was appointed to the Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professorship in Mechanical Engineering. In this position, Dr. Melkote will provide leadership in the development of an internationally recognized effort at Georgia Tech in the field of manufacturing.

Dr. Melkote is Professor and Woodruff Faculty Fellow in the Woodruff School, and Associate Director of the Manufacturing Research Center, where he directs the Graduate Manufacturing Certificate Program. He is currently serving as Interim Director of MARC.

Dr. Melkote obtained his B. Tech. degree in Manufacturing Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1987, his M. S. from Washington State University in 1989, and his Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University in 1993, both in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1995, he did postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Melkote’s research activities are in hybrid micromanufacturing processes, photovoltaic manufacturing, fluid jet based surface integrity enhancements, and process monitoring using thin film wireless sensors.

Dr. Melkote is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is the recipient of several other honors including the Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award from the ASME, the Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and several Best Paper Awards from the ASME and SME. About the Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair and Professorships The Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering was created in 1985 following the death of Morris M. Bryan, Jr., a 1941 graduate of the A. French School of Textiles at Georgia Tech. Mr. Bryan had headed Jefferson Mills in Jefferson, Georgia, beginning in 1948, and was recognized as a distinguished citizen, industrialist, and public servant. Mr. Bryan enjoyed a long relationship with Georgia Tech and in 1976 was the recipient of the Georgia Tech Alumni Distinguished Service Award. The Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair, which is held by Professor Steven Danyluk, parallels Mr. Bryan’s efforts to automate and advance textile processes by concentrating on advanced manufacturing systems.

In late 2004, the success of the endowment led to the creation of two Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professorships in Mechanical Engineering. These are held by Dr. Steven Liang and Dr. Melkote.

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FACULTY HONORED BY LOCKHEED-MARTIN

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Dr. Michael Leamy, assistant professor, received the Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award for his work at developing and teaching a new undergraduate course in hybrid electric vehicle powertrains, for teaching a special problems section for undergraduate students to design and fabricate components necessary to equip a classic Japanese 4-cylinder motorcycle, and for being a highly effective teacher, documented by student evaluations.

Dr. Olivier Pierron, assistant professor, also received a Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award for being an outstanding classroom teacher in large sections of required undergraduate courses in Statics and Thermodynamics. In spite of these challenging assignments, his teaching effectiveness according to student evaluation scores are among the very best at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Tequila Harris, assistant professor, received the Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award. The award is based upon contributions that inspire, recruit, develop and uplift students to excel. Dr. Harris inspired students with her work in many capacities, including countless hours as a K-l2 tutor, to encourage students from underrepresented groups to consider careers in engineering.

JEFFREY DONNELL NAMED TO FRANK K. WEBB COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR

Dr. Jeffrey Donnell was appointed to the Frank K. Webb Academic Professional Chair in Communications Skills in the Woodruff School, where he is a Senior Academic Professional and Coordinator of the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication. This endowment will enable Dr. Donnell to maintain leadership in the teaching of written and verbal communications skills in the Woodruff School.

Dr. Donnell joined the Woodruff School in 1990, when he began to develop and coordinate communication instruction across the School’s existing curriculum. He formalized and coordinated report writing and instruction in the Woodruff School’s design and laboratory sequences, and provided ongoing guidance to faculty and teaching assistants in grading student documents according to a consistent and real-world approach.

He has created instructional materials tailored to particular courses and projects, and delivered associated lectures on these materials to explain and integrate these standardized approaches into the course framework.

In connection with the Office of Graduate Studies, he helped Georgia Tech students to successfully apply for graduate fellowships, laying the groundwork for what is now the Fellowship Communication Program. Working with CETL, he developed seminars to show Georgia Tech’s teaching assistants how to be better writers and better writing instructors in laboratory and design courses. This series of seminars became the launching point for CETL’s credit course on Academic Writing for Graduate Students.

Dr. Donnell received a B.A. (1979) from Washington University in St. Louis. He has both a master’s degree (1986) and a Ph.D. (1990) in English, both from Emory University.

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SCOTT BAIR NAMED REGENTS’ RESEARCHER

Dr. Scott Bair has had an outstanding career at Georgia Tech. In recognition of this achievement, he was named the first Regents’ Researcher in the history of the College of Engineering.

Scott received his degrees from Georgia Tech: A bachelor’s degree in 1972, a master’s degree in 1974, and his Ph.D. in 1990, all in mechanical engineering. His area of expertise is tribology with a focus on rheology, properties of liquids at high pressure and machine design.

In 1974, Scott began his professional career at Georgia Tech as a Research Engineer I in the Woodruff School. He was promoted to Research Engineer II in 1984, to Senior Research Engineer in 1985, and to Principal Research Engineer in 1992.

Scott is a Fellow of the ASME. He received the International Award, the highest technical honor, in 2009 and the Captain Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Award in 2001, both from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers. In 2006 and 2009, he received the Alan Berman Award—Basic Research Category from the Chemistry Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, and in 1983 and 1991, he received the Best Paper of the Year from the Tribology Division of the ASME. He holds 11 U.S. patents.

About Frank K. Webb Frank K. Webb received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1938. He worked in the oil industry, where he quickly advanced into management. He retired from Amoco Oil Company in 1981 and began a second career as vice president of Brooks Erection and Construction Company. As a dedicated Tech alumnus, he established the Frank K. Webb Webb Endowment Fund in 1992; served as a volunteer for the 39th Georgia Tech Roll Call; and was named the 1992 Woodruff School Distinguished Alumnus.

During a career that spanned more than three decades in the oil industry, Mr. Webb became convinced that engineers could not advance in their careers on the strength of technical skills alone. In order to thrive and realize their full potential, he found that engineers needed to have excellent communication skills. He found proof of this when his employer, Amoco Oil Company, provided training classes in communication skills for its own engineering professionals. Mr. Webb acted on his commitment to communication instruction for engineers when he saw the Spring 1991 issue of mega tech, the Woodruff School’s alumni newsletter, which described an engineering communication program that the School had just created. Mr. Webb quickly contacted the School with an offer to fund this program, which was named in his honor.

Since the creation of the Woodruff School’s Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication, communication programs have been created at Georgia Tech’s Schools of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Materials Science and Engineering.

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NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

In the continuing effort to improve the student/faculty ratio, which has remained high for a number of years, some additional faculty members have been added to the Woodruff School. Both our undergraduate and graduate enrollment continue to grow. The “popularity” of mechanical engineering as a major has resulted in record enrollments in almost every undergraduate and graduate course in the School. Even in this period of shrinking budgets, the Woodruff School continues to seek out and interview potential faculty to be ready when the economy recovers and hiring can begin in a substantial way. New tenure-track faculty members and adjunct appointments are presented below.

Dr. Stephen Antolovich joined the Woodruff School in fall 2010 as an Adjunct Antolovich Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on damage detection via CT, high-temperature materials, fracture mechanics, fatigue, fracture and failure analysis, and basics of deformation in metals and intermetallics.

Dr. Alper Erturk will come to Georgia Tech in May 2011 as an Assistant Professor.

He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2009, and since that time he has worked as a Erturk Research Scientist in the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures at Virginia Tech. At Georgia Tech, his main areas of research will be Acoustics/Dynamics and Mechanics of Materials.

Dr. Caroline L. Genzale joined the Woodruff School faculty in December 2010 as an Assistant Professor. Her research focus is internal combustion engines, physics and chemistry of spray combustion, pollution Genzale formation and migration, sustainable fuels, optical diagnostics and computational fluid dynamics. Before coming to Georgia Tech, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories.

Dr. Mardi Hastings returned to the Woodruff School in January 2010 as a Professor. Her research focuses on marine bioacoustics. The last time she was at Georgia Hastings Tech was as a graduate student. In 1987, she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Glenn Sjoden joined the Woodruff School faculty in late November 2010 as a Professor. Prior to joining the faculty, he was at the University of Florida. His research centers on particle transport and numerical methods, nuclear systems analysis with parallel computing power generation, defense Sjoden programs, nondestructive testing, detection and medical applications.

Dr. Lena Ting, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, accepted an adjunct appointment in the Woodruff School. Prior to becoming an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, she was a postdoc at the Neurological Sciences Institute at the Oregon Health and Science University. The focus of her research is neuromechanics of muscle coordination for locomotion and balance.

Dr. P. K. Yeung, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, joined the Woodruff School faculty as an adjunct professor. His research focuses on turbulence structure, mixing and dispersion and advanced computing and cyber infrastructures.

Dr. Shunan Xia will join the Woodruff School faculty as an Assistant Professor in August 2011. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at CalTech. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2008. His research areas will be Mechanics of Materials and MEMS.

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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Phil Coulson retired from Georgia Tech after 24 years of service at Georgia Tech, four in Georgia Tech payroll and 20 in Mechanical Coulson Engineering as a Financial Specialist. He worked to hire and pay graduate and undergraduate students with assistantships, fellowships, and grader positions.

Dr. Robert Nerem retired in July 2010 and is now a Professor Emeritus in the Woodruff School and Director of the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.

Dr. Nerem began at Georgia Tech in 1987.

Dr. David Sanborn retired from Georgia Tech at the start of 2010 from his position as Senior Academic Professional and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. Dave was instrumental in guiding the School through the recent and successful ABET re-accreditation.

Dr. Ben Zinn retired from Georgia Tech in August 2010. Dr. Zinn began his tenure at Georgia Tech in 1965 as an assistant professor and, until his retirement, had the distinction of being the longest serving faculty member at Georgia Tech. In 2006, the Combustion Lab in the Guggenheim Building was named in his honor.

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STAFF Of the 56 staff members, 17 are male and 39 are female.

Larry Adkins Clerk IV Segried Allen Administrative Assistant II Trudy Allen Academic Advisor I Bruce Barkley Building Coordinator Antonette Benford Administrative Assistant I Shauna Bennett-Boyd Administrative Manager I Vladimir Bortkevich Electrical Engineer III Louis Boulanger Mechanical Technician III William Cheesborough Director of Fin Svs & Administration Judy Diamond Administrative Coordinator Dimetra Diggs-Butler Program Coordinator II Dana Foster Administrative Assistant II Melody Foster Administrative Manager II Marlena Frank System Analyst III Norma Frank Academic Advisor I Kyle French Electrical Engineer II Rona Ginsberg Director of Communications John Graham Machine Shop Manager Cheryl Griffin Administrative Assistant I Camellia Henry Academic Assistant I Angela Hicks Financial Manager II Phyllis Hinton Project Coordinator II Nancy Hutton Financial Specialist Evron Irving IT Support Professional II Samantha James Administrative Assistant II Deidra Johnson Administrative Assistant I Glenda Johnson Academic Advisor I Vivian Johnson Administrative Coordinator Cecelia Jones Administrative Coordinator Mark Juliano Director of Information Technology Theresa Keita Academic Assistant II Tom Lawley Director of Development Christy Layton Accountant II Phu Le IT Support Professional III Joyce Lowe Administrative Assistant II Dorothy McDuffie-Alexander Program Coordinator II Stephanie Merrick Administrative Assistant II Regina Neequaye Administrative Assistant II Anh Nguyen Electrician Technician III Cary Ogletree Facilities Project Manager Asu Ogork IT Support Professional Senior Joi Outlaw Administrative Assistant I Rekha Patel Accountant III Cynthia Pickett Director of Human Resources Michael Proctor IT Support Professional Melissa Raine Administrative Coordinator Kysten Raleigh Administrative Assistant I Clint Rinehart Mechanical Specialist Christopher Ruffin Academic Advisor II Amina Sadiq Accountant III Garrett Sears IT Support Professional II Glenda Skinner Accountant III Sterling Skinner Director of Instructions Labs Valarie Spradling Administrative Assistant II Kellie Templeman Research Technician IV Millie Wan Financial Manager I Melinda Wilson Administrative Coordinator Note: On March 1, 2011, Georgia Tech will have a new job classification system wherein some job titles might change.

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HONORS AND PROMOTIONS

Bruce Barkley won the Woodruff School Outstanding Classified Staff Achievement Award for summer semester 2010.

Antonette Benford was promoted to Administrative Assistant II.

Shauna Bennett-Boyd was promoted to Administrative Manager I in NRE.

Dana Foster was promoted to Administrative Assistant II.

Angela Hicks was promoted to Financial Manager II. She leads the budget and accounting functions in the Woodruff School, including the daily management of the Finance Office. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech and has been a Woodruff School employee since 1995.

Nancy Hutton was promoted to Financial Specialist upon the retirement of Phil Coulson. She oversees and provides personnel support to faculty, staff, and students for the entire employment process. She assists in administering financial support and maintaining salary accounting records for students, and works with PIs in all personnel actions related to sponsored programs.

Deidra Johnson was promoted to Administrative Assistant II.

Vivian Johnson was promoted to Administrative Coordinator; she works for Dr. Robert Guldberg, Director of IBB.

Cecelia Jones, administrative coordinator, received the Woodruff School’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Classified Employees for 2009.

Christy Layton is an Accountant II in the Woodruff School. She received a bachelor’s degree in finance from North Carolina A&T in 2008, and has been a Georgia Tech employee as a Tech Temp in the Woodruff School since 2009.

Anh Nguyen is an Electronics Technician III in the Woodruff School’s Electronics Lab.

Melissa Raine, administrator coordinator, won the Woodruff School Outstanding Achievement Award for Classified Employees for spring semester 2010.

Kysten Raleigh was promoted to Administrative Assistant II.

Clint Rinehart began in fall 2010 as a Mechanical Specialist. Clint supports ME design and instructional laboratory courses.

Chris Ruffin, academic advisor II, transferred to the Woodruff School in fall 2009, working with the Woodruff School graduate students who are in the bioengineering program.

Glenda Skinner is now an Accountant III.

Valarie Spradling was promoted to Administrative Assistant II.

Kellie (Burns) Templeman won the Woodruff School Outstanding Achievement Award for Classified Employees for fall semester 2009.

Millie Wan is the new Finance Manager I in the Woodruff School, assuming the position previously held by Angela Hicks. Millie began in May 2010. She performs the full range of accounting functions in support of the School, and she works closely with faculty on sponsored research projects and in the management of GT Foundation accounts.

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STAFF TRAINING AWARDS

The following awards were presented at the 2010 Staff Training Awards Luncheon.

Segried Allen, Dana Foster, Samantha James, and Regina Neequaye, all Administrative Assistant II’s; and Melissa Raine, Administrative Coordinator, each received an Office Professional Certificate.

Dimetra Diggs-Butler, Program Coordinator II, and Stephanie Merrick, Administrative Assistant II, each received an Emerging Leaders Program Award.

Cecelia Jones, Administrative Coordinator, and Joyce Lowe, Administrative Assistant II, each received a Course Leader Certificate.

Glenda Skinner, Accountant III, received a Georgia Tech Financial Fundamentals Certificate and a Financial Specialist Certificate.

INSTITUTE HONORS

The following staff members in the Woodruff School received a recognition at the 2010 Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon: Ten-Year Service Awards: Shauna BennettBoyd; Louis Boulanger; Glenda Johnson; Teri Keita; and Regina Neequaye.

Twenty-Five Year Service Awards: Phyllis Hinton.

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MEET THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL’S NEW DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES: CYNTHIA PICKETT Cynthia Pickett, or Cindy as she is commonly known, began as the Woodruff School’s Director of Human Resources in April 2010, replacing Amy Bondurant, who moved to GTRI. Cindy brings extensive human resources experience as a consultant with Delta, Toyota, and Lectra. In the Woodruff School, Cynthia is responsible for all staff and faculty human resources issues, including recruiting and hiring, immigration, and employee relations. She handles the hiring of postdoctoral fellows and temporary researchers, the hiring packages for academic and research faculty, and she coordinates the visiting scholar process.

Cindy received a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Relations from Fresno State University in 1986. She is a member of SHRM Atlanta. Cindy and her family are native Californians.

She is married with three boys and a dog. She enjoys family time, volunteering and supporting the extracurricular activities of her sons, who are involved in the high school marching band and boy scouts.

When asked about what skills she brings to the academic environment that she now finds herself in, she said, “I bring over 20 years of human resources expertise to the position. My experience as a consultant in various industries will be an asset.

I look forward to working with the faculty, staff, and scholars. I enjoy learning new things and streamlining processes to improve the business flow.”

THE REORGANIZATION OF IT SERVICES

More than a year ago, School Chair Bill Wepfer announced a reorganization of the IT services in the Woodruff School with this statement: “In today’s environment, all of the services that we provide to our faculty, students, and staff depend upon information technology in some form.

Furthermore, we have invested, and will continue to invest, significant resources to make sure that the Woodruff School remains at the cutting edge of all that we do. It is critical that our IT support team is able to provide the highest level of service and support Juliano to all of our constituents.”

Mark Juliano, Director of IT, along with faculty members and the IT advisory committee determined how better support could be provided. As a result, the IT team was reorganized so that the focus shifted from strictly desktop support to individual consultative services focused on the research and academic needs of the Woodruff School faculty. The IT group has the Frank following staff: Mark Juliano is the Director of Information Technology, and oversees the computing infrastructure in the Woodruff School.

Marlena Frank is a Systems Analyst III, maintaining the School’s servers. She also develops internal web applications, writes technical and user documentation, and assists in troubleshooting various Le technical tasks.

Phu Le is an IT Support Professional III, performing computer and network support as a part of the Help Desk; he also works on other computerrelated projects.

Evron Irving started in the Woodruff School in May 2010 and is an Information Technology Support Professional II. He focuses on the direct Irving support of the faculty and staff, and on systems in the instructional and student access labs. Prior to Georgia Tech, he worked at SI Corporation, where he supported a large user base of software developers, and before that he was part of the IT support organization at the White House in Washington, D.C. Asu Ogork started in the Woodruff School Ogork in May 2010 as an Information Technology Support Professional III. As a systems administrator, he focuses on back-end servers, networks and databases that make the School run, and helps build HPC capacity in the Woodruff School. He comes to Georgia Tech from Autotrader.com, where he spent several years at their help desk and large-scale server support organizations.

Michael Proctor is an IT Support Professional II. Proctor He is primarily responsible for the systems in the student access and instructional labs in addition to supporting a broad range of services for the School’s faculty and staff.

Garrett Sears is an IT Support Professional II, supporting a broad range of IT needs for the School’s faculty and staff; his primary focus is on network and security issues.

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FINANCES

THE WOODRUFF ENDOWMENT Ga Tech Foundation, $5,175,483

Grants & Contracts, $19,941,822

Ga Tech Research Corp, $236,192

State $18,307,362

Fiscal Year 2010 Expenditures and Sources

The primary sources of Woodruff School funding are the state, sponsored research projects, and GT Foundation funds. As 90 percent of state funds must pay faculty and staff salaries, the School is heavily dependent on the other sources of revenue to support operations in a manner conductive to maintaining a leadership role in engineering.

The Woodruff School faculty has continued to win sponsored awards at an impressive pace, significantly improving the School’s financial position. Sponsored research awards have grown to over $24 million annually, a 66% revenue growth in just the past three three years.

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ENDOWMENTS

The market value of all the endowments in the Woodruff School at the beginning of the fiscal year was $74,545,257, which generated $2.7 million available to the School for FY10.

Funds from the George W. Woodruff Trust continue to provide for the enhancement of the School of Mechanical Engineering.

George Woodruff (class of 1917) served as a trustee and trustee emeritus of the Georgia Tech Foundation from 1941 until his death at the age of 91 in 1987. 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 importance of the Woodruff Endowment was quite apparent in FY10, with the School using 53 percent of the endowment expenditures for investment type activities, and 47 percent for operational activities.

While the School would prefer to return to using a higher percentage of endowment monies for investment activities, the economic times dictate otherwise for now.

The market value of the Mechanical Engineering Woodruff Endowment on July 1, 2009 was $52,201,787. That principle amount generated $2,687,745 for use in FY10. The expenditures fall into the following categories:

Faculty

• Funds from the Woodruff Trust are used to endow the George W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems and the George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems held by Dr. F. Levent Degertekin and Dr. Ari Glezer, respectively.

• 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 for research projects and other discretionary activities. Drs. Suman Das, F. Levent Degertekin, Andrei Fedorov, Shreyes Melkote, and Minami Yoda are the current faculty fellows.

• Partially supports the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication and the hiring of academic professionals and part-time faculty to supplement the course offerings of the School.

• Funds faculty recruiting and a faculty retreat.

• Provides nuclear and radiological engineering students with graduate research assistantships to support teaching.

• Provides development funds for Woodruff School Associate Chairs.

• Partially supports the Joseph H. Anderer Faculty Fellow, which is held by Dr. Sam Graham.

• Helps fund faculty development activities, including new faculty orientation, faculty socials, and retirement receptions.

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Students

• Graduate students comprise the Woodruff Endowment’s largest category of support, with 212 students receiving $2,095,456 for graduate research assistants, teaching assistants, fellowships and fees.

• Provides funds, including travel, to recruit new ME, NRE, and MP graduate students to the Woodruff School. This includes three recruiting weekends in which potential graduate students are brought to campus for a weekend of activities.

• Partially funds student organizations such as the ASME Student Chapter, gt motorsports, GT Off-Road, GT Robojackets, Solar Jackets, and WSSAC. • Provides partial financial support for student participants in the Georgia Tech Lorraine program.

• Provides funds for the Annual Outstanding Seniors event.

• Funds luncheon meetings between the Woodruff School administration and graduate students at which graduating students are asked to assess our programs.

• Funds an Open House and other activities in the Woodruff School during Family Weekend.

• Provides plaques and funds for students who receive an award at the annual Student Honors Day Luncheon.

• Helps fund recruiting efforts for undergraduate students in nuclear and radiological engineering.

Facilities

• Helps fund the operation of the Student Competition Center.

• Provides funds to improve and furnish School facilities, including computer cluster and networking equipment.

• Provides funds to upgrade Woodruff School security equipment.

• Provides funds to renovate laboratory and office space.

• Funds to establish a 512 square foot MEMS lab in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building basement.

• Funds to support the move of the NRE/MP programs into the top floor of the Boggs Building and the ongoing renovation of the basement for instructional and laboratory space.

(The Neely Building will be used for lab space until the building is demolished.)

• Provided funds for the student competition teams to move out of the “Tin Building” (ME Research Building) in December, and relocate to larger renovated spaces in the IPST 14th Street location. (The “Tin Building” is being razed in conjunction with campus master planning projects. It is hoped that the competition teams will move back on campus eventually to occupy the Burdell Center, a proposed interdisciplinary complex.)

• Funds for the decommissioning of the Love Building Clean Room, moving those activities to the new Clean Room space in the Marcus Nano Technology Building.

Lectures and Seminars

• Underwrites the Annual Woodruff Distinguished Lecture.

• Provides support for the Woodruff Colloquium Series.

Publications and Public Relations

• Funds the design, production, and distribution of all Woodruff School publications, such as this annual report.

• Funds for the Digital Display (TV) screen in the MRDC Atrium.

Other Endowments In addition to the Woodruff Endowment, the Woodruff School has a number of other endowments with a total value of more than $32 million. Most of these endowments are designated funds and can be categorized into mechanical engineering endowments, endowed scholarship programs for undergraduate students, and endowed fellowships for graduate students.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ENDOWMENTS Arnold Goldberg Endowment Fund Augustin A. Ramirez/HUSCO International

Distinguished Chair Fund Carter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair Fund

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Centennial-Mechanical Engineering Fund Dean Lennard Endowment Fund Edward A. Eppinger Endowment Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair in Manufacturing Fund Frank K. Webb, Jr. Endowment Fund Harold W. Gegenheimer Fund Henry Ward Endowment Ike Murray Endowment Fund J. Erskine Love, Jr. Family Endowment Fund Jack M. Zeigler Endowment Fund Jack M. Zeigler Outstanding Educator in the School of

Mechanical Engineering Award Endowment Fund James Charles Leathers Endowment Fund John G. Johnson Mechanical Engineering Fund John M. McKenney & Warren D. Shiver Distinguished

Chair in Building Mechanical Systems Fund Joseph H. Anderer Faculty Fellow Endowment Fund Kilpatrick and Fitzpatrick Endowment Lindsey D. Thornhill Endowment Mark Morelli Endowment Mary B. and Henry L. Pruitt Endowment Fund ME-BioEngineering Research and Education Fund Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Advanced Manufacturing

Systems Fund Morris M. Bryan Professorships Neely Professorship Fund Parker H. Petit Chair Fund Phillip F. L’Engle and Williams B. Hardin Endowment Fund Robert L. Walker Endowment Ward O. Winer Professional Development Fund Warren K. Wells Endowment for Mechanical

Engineering Fund William B. Crane, Sr. Endowment Fund

SCHOLARSHIPS

Alan F. Sides Scholarship Endowment Fund Arthur Dean Brook Scholarship Fund Carl F. Phillips Endowment Fund Danyluk ME Scholarship Endowment Fund David V. Carswell Memorial Scholarship Fund Donald H. Jones Scholarship Fund Francis R. Hammack Scholarship Endowment Fund James C. Leathers Scholarship Endowment Fund John S. Webb and Julian C. Stanley, Sr. Scholarship

Endowment Fund Joseph H. Dean Memorial Endowment Fund Leslie U. Hammack and Ola Ryle Hammack

Memorial Fund Louis B. Long Endowment Fund Paden-Cheves Scholarship Fund Procter & Gamble Technical Scholarship Fund Richard A. Trotter Memorial Scholarship Fund Richard K. Whitehead, Jr. Fund

FELLOWSHIPS

Henry Fisher Jr. Fellowship Endowment (NRE) James E. Pruitt, Jr. Fellowship John Harris Maddox Fellowship Endowment Fund Paul R. Yopp Memorial Fellowship Fund William H. Glenn Fellowship Fund 30

ALUMNI HONORS

Soumyadipta Basu (Ph.D. ME 2009) received a 2010 Sigma Xi Georgia Tech Chapter Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.

Anthony Belvin (BSME 2001) and Annica Wayman (Ph.D. ME 2006) were named AAAS Policy Fellows for 20102011. Anthony, who holds a Ph.D. from Florida A&M, is working at the Department of Energy and Annica is at USAID.

Mickey Bly (B ME 1990), Executive Director, Hybrid, Electric and Battery Engineering at General Motors, was one of the leaders who helped launch GM’s Chevy Volt, which was named 2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year.

Matt Casiano (BSME 1998, MSME 2000), an Du engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, received a Silver Snoopy Award.

The prestigious award, which is presented by NASA astronauts, recognizes outstanding contributions to human space flight mission safety and success.

Adam Christensen (Ph.D. ME 2009) is an ASME Congressional Fellow in the U. S. House of Representatives Office of U. S. Congressman Jay Inslee from the state of Washington. Adam pays particular attention to issues involving energy policy. He is also on the Educational Board of Engineers Without Fan Borders and he is involved with the ASME Center for Public Awareness focusing on raising awareness of the engineering problems in the developing world.

Winncy Du (Ph.D. ME 1989), Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at San Jose State University in California, was named a Fellow of the ASME.

Tai-Hsi Fan (Ph.D. ME 2003) received a 2010 Faculty Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation for work in the area of biomedical microfluidics.

Lewis

Kamper Lewis (MSME 1994, Ph.D. ME 1996) received the 2010 Fred Merryfield Design Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. Kemper is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The award was created in 1981 by CH2M Hill in memory of Fred Merryfield and recognizes excellence in teaching of engineering design and acknowledges other significant contributions related to engineering design teaching.

McDaniel

J. Gregory McDaniel (MSME 1990, Ph.D. ME 1992) won Boston University’s highest teaching award, the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Greg is the 38th recipient of this prize and only the 2nd engineering faculty member at Boston University to be so recognized.

Carolyn Meyers (MSME 1979, Ph.D. ChE 1984) was named President of Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. Prior, she had been President of Norfolk State University in Virginia.

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Joseph Levert (Ph.D. ME 1997) was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Maritime College of the Sate University of New York.

Jed Lyons (BME 1984, MSME 1987, Ph.D. ME 1999) was elected to the grade of Fellow in the American Society for Engineering Education. He is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Seepersad South Carolina.

Jitesh Panchal (Ph.D. ME 2005) won a 2010 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. Jitesh is currently an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.

Christina Rodriguez (BME 1995) has worked at Ford Motor Company for 12 years. She is the Vehicle Dynamics Development Engineer of the 2010 Ford Spearot Taurus. In a May 2009 story, CNN referred to her as “Ford’s wonder woman.”

Carolyn Seepersad (MSME 2001, Ph.D. ME 2004), Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, received the 2009 International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award.

Tim Simpson (MSME 1995, Ph.D. ME 1998) is now a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Simpson Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and a Fellow of the ASME.

Douglas Spearot (MSME 2001, Ph.D. ME 2005), Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, is a 2010 recipient of an Early Faculty Career Award from the NSF.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AWARDS

The annual Alumni Awards Induction Ceremony was held in March 2010 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. Woodruff School inductees were: The Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves through professional practice and/or service to the Institute, profession, or society at large. They are on the “fast track,” have made rapid advancement within their organizations, and are recognized for early professional achievements. They are considered future leaders in their profession: Elizabeth Boltz (ME 1991) is the Senior Director for Regulatory Compliance and Quality Systems for Abbott Diagnostics.

The Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni recognizes alumni who have made significant contributions to the profession, field, Institute, or society at-large. Candidates are highly placed executives and are actively involved in engineering or management, industry, academia, or government.

Michael Burnside (ME 1974) is the President and CEO of Catchlight Energy LLC, a 50-50 joint venture between Chevron and Weyerhaeuser.

David A. Dullum (ME 1970) is President of Gladstone Investment Corporation, a publicly traded business development corporation.

David Phelps (ME 1981) is President and CEO of CreoSalus, the world’s most comprehensive peptide science company.

David is also the founder and managing partner of Pollen Venture, which focuses on early stage life science technologies. In Phelps 2009, he gave the Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation, the first alumnus to do so.

THE FIRST CO-OP STUDENT

The first graduates of Georgia Tech’s Cooperative Program in 1917 were mechanical engineers. There were four graduates in that year, two in ME and two in ECE, but Samuel Elias Levy was listed first so he became the first co-op graduate of Georgia Tech. Tom Akins, who retired from Georgia Tech but returned to work on the Co-op Centennial, which will begin in 2012, sent the following details about Samuel Elias Levy (BME 1917): Samuel Levy actually entered the Georgia School of Technology in the fall of 1911, a year before the co-op program was established by President Matheson. Ironically, he was born in the birthplace of the co-op program, Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 7, 1894. According to the 1917 Blueprint, he prepped at Boys High School in Atlanta. He earned his degree in mechanical engineering, was a charter member of the Co-op Club, participated in the freshman Oratorical Contest, and was a member of the Mason’s Club.

The quote attributed to Mr. Levy in the yearbook is appropriately, “Co-op 1917 or Bust.”

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CONTRIBUTORS This list includes donors who have designated gifts to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. If you would like to contribute to the Woodruff School or if you have questions about establishing an endowment, please contact Tom Lawley, Director of Development, at 404-894-6345 or by email to tom.lawley@me.gatech.edu.

Alumni, Friends & Students Armand E. Breard, ME 1959 Travis T. Breard, Friend Arthur D. Brook, ME 1956 Debra J. Brook, Friend Michael W. Burnette, EE 1998 Michael H. Burnside, ME 1974 Sydnor H. Byrne, ME 1967 Paul A. Charp, HP, 1988 Danny M. Collier, ME 1971 Joel D. Davis, CE 1998 Donna J. Dean, Friend James Denosky, Friend Daniel W. Duffy, Friend Benedict A. Eazzerra, NE 1986 Melissa Eazzetta, Friend Patrick Epps, ME 1956 Kathleen C. Fitzpatrick, Friend Scott Flanagan, ME 2004 Paul E. Forsyth, Parent Sharon Perry Galloway, Friend George F. Head, ME 1951 Roy P. Herring, III, IM 1964 Jane H. Jeter, Past Parent Sheldon M. Jeter, ME 1979 Eric W. Johnson, BC 2003 Jenneth W. Johnson, Friend Bruce A Jones, CE 1974 Donald H. Jones, ME 1947 Michael F. Kemp, Friend Sherri L. Kent, Friend Deborah Kilpatrick, ESM 1989 James C. Leathers, ME 1955 Anthony Lee, ME 1993 Louis B. Long, PHYS 1966 Gay M. Love, Honorary Alumni William R. McCollum, EE 1973 Mark D. Morelli, ME 1987 Isaac E. Murray, Jr., ME 1949 Kathleen Neitzel, Friend James M. Nelson, Friend Marilyn R. Nerem, Friend G. Allen Potter, Friend Susan Potter, Friend Mahnaz Rahnema, Parent Philip L. Saffer, Friend Samuel V. Shelton, ME 1951 Alan Slide, Past Parent Weston M. Stacey, PHYS 1959

Stephen J. Taylor, CHE 1980 William L. Thacker, Jr., ME 1967 Lindsey D. Thornhill, ME 1984 Kyle H. Turner, Jr., EE 1968 E. Charles Vickery, ME 1966 Lelah M. Walker, Friend David I. J. Wang, ME 1953 Henry B. Ward, III, ME 1993 Frank K. Webb, ME 1938 Lynne M. Wepfer, Friend Wendell M. Williams, Jr., ME 1955 Charles H. Willis, Friend Calvin L. Wilson, ME 1981 James E. Winer, ARCH 1982 Mary Jo Winer, Friend John P. Zimmerlee, BC 1972 Corporations, Foundations and Organizations Air Products Foundation Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. American Heart Association Anonymous ARCS Foundation, Inc. AREVA NP, Inc ASME BD Medical Bechtel Corporation Bechtel Group Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Boeing Company BP America, Inc. Caterpillar Foundation CBE Services, Inc CC Jump Start Services, LLC Chevron ConocoPhillips Corporation Cooper Industries Foundation The Dow Chemical Company Foundation Eaton Corporation Eli Lilly and Company Engent, Inc Epps Aviation Essi Corporation ExxonMobil Company

E-Z-Go E-Z-Go / Textron The Fluor Foundation Ford Motor Company Gay and Erskine Love Foundation, Inc Gay M. Love Charitable Trust General Electric Company GE Foundation General Motors Foundation Georgia Power Company Global Imports BMW Greater Houston Community Fdn. HDR E2M, Inc Herbert and Marion Haley Foundation Hewlett Packard Company Intel Corporation International Diversified Products John Deere Foundation Johnson Built Johnson Controls Foundation Johnson Research & Development Co., Inc J.P.G. & Associates Kennesaw State University Foundation, Inc Korean Institute of Manufacturing and Materials KWJ Engineering, Inc Levenson Foundation, Inc. Lockheed Martin Corporation Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation Maestro Strategies, LLC Metalforming, Inc Michelin North America Morgan Stanley Smith Barney GIFT, Inc MTConnect Institute Nacoochee Valley Lodge National Corporate College Consultants, Inc National Insturments Newell Rubbermaid Inc Norfolk Southern Foundation Northrop Grumman OSI Software, Inc Radiant Systems, Inc

Raytheon Rehig Pacific Company Rockefeller Foundation Rockwell Automation Rolls-Royce Corporation Schlumberger Shell Oil Company Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc Springer-Verlag BerlinHeidelberg The Timken Company Uni FIl;ter, Inc United Technologies Corporation USEC Wheego Electric Cars, Inc Whirlpool Corporation Wool Family Foundation Faculty and Staff Janet K. Allen William J. Book Gene T. Colwell, Retired Faculty Royal F. Dawkins Stephen L. Dickerson, Honorary Faculty Geoffrey G. Eicholz Nolan E. Hertel Bernd Kahn, Retired Faculty Alan V. Larson, Retired Faculty Thomas L. Maier David L. McDowell Alan Larson, Retired Faculty Farrokh Mistree G. Paul Neitzel Robert M. Nerem Jianmin Qu Farzad Rahnema Peter H. Rogers Richard F. Salant William J. Wepfer Ward O. Winer, Retired Faculty Caroline G. Wood Zhuomin Zhang

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This report is produced and edited by Rona Ginsberg, Director of Communications for the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Many people supplied information or worked on the manuscript. Without their help this report would not have been possible. Craig Moonshower designed the document. The photographs were taken by Gary Meek and Melinda Wilson. Additional photos are from the Georgia Tech or the Woodruff School Archives. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Woodruff Endowment to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

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THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARD The role of the Woodruff School Advisory Board is to recommend strategic directions for the Woodruff School , suggest broad-based curriculum changes, and consult with the School chair and the faculty on important issues. Mr. Henry Ward is the current chair of the advisory board. The agenda for the all-day fall meeting consisted of a state-of-the-School report, and discussions of the School’s budget, organizational changes, and fundraising efforts. The group broke into committees that later reported on curriculum, finance, and advocacy.

Also, the members met with faculty, staff, and students in the Woodruff School.

Mr. Thomas G. Arlotto (BME 1982) Vice President Maestro Strategies LLC Roswell, Georgia Dr. Dennis Assanis Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor of Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Mr. Michael J. Bly (BME 1990) Executive Director Electrical Systems, Hybrids General Motors Warren, Michigan Mr. Lou Cerone General Electric Energy Systems Greenville, South Carolina

Mr. Jeffrey Gasser (BME 1983) Executive Vice President/ Chief Nuclear Officer Southern Nuclear Operating Company Birmingham, Alabama Mr. Manuel Junco, Jr. (BME 1975) Principal Vice President, Downstream Bechtel Corporation Houston, Texas Mr. John Kluber Vice President Kluber Skahan & Assoc.

Batavia, Illinois Mr. Thomas Kopanski Vice President Power Distribution/Control Division Siemens Norcross, Georgia

Mr. Thomas A. Coleman (BSPhys 1971, MSNE 1973) Vice President of Federal Services Mr. Bryan LaBrecque Framatome-ANP (BSMS 1981) Lynchburg, Virginia Instructor Clayton State University Mr. Joseph P. DeRoy Morrow, Georgia Vice President, Operations Support Entergy Jackson, Michigan

Dr. William R. McCollum Jr. (BSEE 1973, MSNE 1974) Chief Operating Office Tennessee Valley Authority Chattanooga, Tennessee Dr. Matthew P. Miller (MSME 1990, Ph.D. ME 1993) Professor Cornell University Ithaca, New York Mr. Blake Moret (ME 1985) Vice President, Customer Support & Maintenance Rockwell Automation Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mr. Mark D. Morelli (ME 1987) President & CEO Energy Conversion Devices Rochester Hills, Michigan Dr. Johne’ M. Parker (BME 1995, MSME 1992, Ph.D. ME 1997) Associate Professor University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky

Ms. Lisa A. Schott (BME 1990) President & Principal Acoustical Consultant Quietly Making Noise, LLC Oviedo, Florida Mr. Randy Sheffield (BME 1988, MSME 1990, Ph.D. ME 1994) Schlumberger Beaumont, Alberta, Canada Dr. Joseph L. Smith Jr (BME 1952, MSME 1953) Retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Ms. Stella M. Sudderth (BME 1980) MRU, Inc. Knoxville Tennessee Dr. Lindsey Thornhill (ME 1984, MSME 1986, Ph.D. ME 1996) Assistant Vice President and Division Manager Science Applications International Corporation Marietta, Georgia

Mr. Michael Tinskey (MSEE 1991) Director, Business Development Ford Motor Company Dearborn, Michigan Mr. Henry B. Ward III (BME 1993) Partner Moore & Van Allen PLLC Charlotte, North Carolina Dr. Lawrence J. Ybarrondo (Ph.D. ME 1964) Jackson Hole, Wyoming Dr. John F. Zino (Ph.D. NE 1999) Manager, Stability & Radiological Nuclear Analysis GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC Wilmington, North Carolina

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