2008-2009 Woodruff School Annual Report

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The Annual Report of the

George W. Woodruff School ofMechanical Engineering

2008-2009

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G E O R G I A I N S T I T U T E O F T E C H N O L O G Y

A LETTER FROMTHE CHAIR: WEWANT YOURBIG IDEAS!Dear Colleagues and Friends:This is clearly an era of transition.Every one of us has been affected bythe changing economy and its conse-quences for both day-to-day financialdecisions and on longer term programand strategic issues. We face thechallenge of the evolving nature of

both the mechanical and nuclear engineering professions and its impacton engineering education. To provide leadership in this new era,Georgia Tech is fortunate to have attracted Bud Peterson away from theUniversity of Colorado to be our 11th President. A distinguished scholarin the area of phase change heat transfer, we are extremely proud tohave Bud as a member of our own Woodruff School faculty.

Much of my first year and a half as Chair was devoted to listening,learning, and implementing changes in our administrative structure.These changes put us in a better position to address future challenges.Our focus in 2009-2010 will be on developing a new strategic plan forthe School. President Peterson has embarked upon a similar effort forthe Institute and we expect to be the first unit to develop a strategicplan concurrent with the Institute plan.

We are privileged to have Professor David McDowell chair theWoodruff School’s Strategic Steering Committee, which includes YvesBerthelot, Amy Bondurant, Wayne Book, Bert Bras, Bill Cheesborough,Chaitanya Deo, Srinivas Garimella, Rudy Gleason, Sam Graham,Roger Jiao, Rhett Mayor, Wayne Whiteman, and Minami Yoda. Thistalented and well-balanced group aims to engage the larger WoodruffSchool community to create a vision based on shared values that fosteran environment for creativity and innovation. The strategic planningprocess will address many questions such as:

CONTENTSGeorgia Tech’s New President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Special Events and Lectures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Careers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Scholarships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Faculty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28The Woodruff Endowment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Other Endowments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The annual report of the George W. Woodruff School of MechanicalEngineering at Georgia Tech is published in the fall. For more detailedinformation about Woodruff School undergraduate programs inmechanical engineering and nuclear and radiological engineering andour graduate programs in mechanical engineering, nuclear and radio-logical engineering, medical physics, bioengineering, paper science andengineer, and robotics, please contact us by any of the followingmethods:

Letter: Dr. William J. WepferEugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School ChairGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0405

Phone: (404) 894-3200Fax: (404) 894-1658E-mail: [email protected]

[email protected]: www.me.gatech.edu

• What challenges will our current ME/NRE graduates face in the nexttwenty-five years?

• How will the ME and NRE disciplines change in the next few years?• How can we innovate both what we teach and how we teach?• What does it mean to be a thought leader in engineering research

and education?• What is the Woodruff School’s role within Georgia Tech, the State of

Georgia, the United States, and the world?• How does the Woodruff School maintain and build upon its research

pre-eminence as well as foster translational research that will contribute to the betterment of society?

Your input on these questions is important to this process. Wewant to know your BIG ideas! We want you to challenge us to reachthat next level. Your insights provide a critical and constructive point ofview that we sometimes overlook in our academic setting.

The draft strategic planning document will appear on our websitein early 2010. Please review this document and share your comments,opinions, and thoughts with us. The final document with strategicobjectives and metrics for progress toward our goals will be finished byJuly 2010. The Woodruff School community prides itself on thinking bigand making the impossible possible. Please help us move forward.

Finally, I want to thank all of you for your generous and enthusi-astic support during my first full year as Chair of the George W.Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. As you will learn byreading this annual report, in the midst of great economic stress ourfaculty, staff, and students continued their pursuit of excellence asevidenced by the numerous accomplishments of its faculty, staff, andstudents. Congratulations to all for their outstanding efforts!

William J. WepferEugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School ChairAtlanta, October 2009

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This report is planned and edited by Rona Ginsberg, Director of Communications for the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Many people provided informationor worked on the manuscript. Without their help this report would not have been possible. Craig Moonshower designed the document. The majority of the photographs were taken by Gary Meek.Others are attributed to Rob Felt, Melinda Wilson, or the Georgia Tech and Woodruff School Archives. Special thanks to: Tom Akins, Janet Allen, Trudy Allen, Yves Berthelot, Dwayne Blaylock,Amy Bondurant, Dimetra Diggs-Butler, Bill Cheesborough, Rick Clark, Ken Cunefare, Levent Degertekin, Kelley Folkening, Norma Frank, Debbie Gulick, Craig Forest, Melody Foster, Amy Henry,Glenda Johnson, Mark Juliano, Tom Lawley, Sherron Lazarus, Kristi Mehaffey, Ralph Mobley, Paul Neitzel, Farzad Rahnema, David Rosen, Dave Sanborn, John Schuman, Sterling Skinner, WayneWhiteman, Bill Wepfer, Melinda Wilson, and Dingkang Zhang for providing information for this report. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Woodruff Endowment to the George W.Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. © Copyright 2009, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, GWW/RG102009

G E O R G E W . W O O D R U F F S C H O O L O F M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G

INTODUCING GEORGIA TECH’S 11TH PRESIDENT:G. P. “BUD” PETERSON G. P. “Bud” Peterson was selected by the Board of Regents of theUniversity System of Georgia to become the eleventh president ofGeorgia Tech, effective April 1, 2009. The Woodruff School is also veryproud that President Peterson has accepted an academic appointmentas a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Before coming to GeorgiaTech, Dr. Peterson was the Chancellor of the University of Colorado atBoulder. Prior to that, he served for six years as Provost and Officer of the Institute at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

From 1993-1994, he was Program Director at the National Science Foundation for the Thermal Transport and Thermal ProcessingPrograms. He held various positions at Texas A&M University, beginningin 1981 as an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, toProfessor of Mechanical Engineering (1990), Halliburton Professor ofMechanical Engineering (1990), the College of Engineering’s TennecoProfessor, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (1993-1996), Executive Associate Dean of Engineering (1996-2000), andAssociate Vice-Chancellor for Engineering for the Texas A&M UniversitySystems (1996-2000).

Prior to Texas A&M, he was aVisiting Research Scientist at NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston,Associate Professor at KansasTechnical Institute in Salina, Kansas,(1979-1981), a Mathematics Teacherin Shawnee Mission South HighSchool in Overland Park, Kansas(1978-1979), and a Math, Physics,and Chemistry Teacher atWabaunsee County High School in Alma, Kansas (1977-1978).

Dr. Peterson earned abachelor’s degree in mechanicalengineering in 1975, a bachelor’sdegree in mathematics in 1977, anda master’s degree in mechanicalengineering in 1980, all fromKansas State University. He alsoearned a doctorate in mechanicalengineering from Texas A&MUniversity in 1985.

A distinguished scientist, President Peterson was selected in 2008by President George W. Bush to serve on the National Science Boardthough 2014. The Board oversees the National Science Foundation and advises the President and Congress on national policy related toscience and engineering research and education. Throughout hiscareer, Peterson has played an active role in helping to establish thenational education and research agendas, serving on numerousindustry, government, and academic task forces and committees. He also served as a member of a number of congressional task forces,research councils, and advisory boards, including the Office of NavalResearch, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, theDepartment of Energy, the National Research Council, and the NationalAcademy of Engineering. More recently, he served as a member ofthe Board of Directors and Vice President for Education for theAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is currentlyserving on a number of national accreditation agencies including theAmerican Association of Colleges and Universities, the Middle StatesCommission on Higher Education, and the New England Association ofSchools and Colleges, with a focus on improving and assessingoutcomes for higher education.

President Peterson is a fellow ofboth the American Society of MechanicalEngineers, and the American Institute ofAeronautics and Astronautics. He is theauthor or co-author of 14 books or bookchapters, 165 referred journal articles,and more than 140 conference publica-tions. He also holds eight patents.He has served as editor or associateeditor for eight different journals, and is currently serving on the editorialadvisory board of two others. He is amember of Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta Pi,Sigma Xi, and Phil Kappa Phi.Professional society awards include theRalph James and the O. L. Andy Lewis Award from the ASME, the DowOutstanding Young Faculty Award from the American Society forEngineering Education, the Pi Tau Sigma Gustus L. Larson MemorialAward from the ASME, the AIAA Thermophysics Award, the ASME

Memorial Award, and the Frank J. Malina Award from theInternational Astronautical Society.In the Woodruff School, he will beassociated with the Heat Transferresearch group. His researchinterests are: phase change heattransfer, thermal control ofelectronic components andspacecraft systems, andconduction and thermal contactresistance. President Petersonand Professor Zhuomin Zhangdirect the Microscale and HeatTransfer Laboratory in theWoodruff School.

President Peterson was bornSeptember 1, 1952 in SanFrancisco, and raised in PrairieVillage, a suburb of Kansas City,Kansas. He and his wife, Val,have four adult children.

President Peterson’s PatentsIn addition to the patents listed below, President Peterson has fiveInvention Disclosures, some pending patent applications, and a filedinvention disclosure.

Coupled, Flux Transformer Heat Pipes, U. S. Patent 5,647,429, with S. Oktay (IBM Corporation), July 15, 1997Treatment Method Using a Micro Heat Pipe Catheter, U.S. Patent5,591,162, with L. S. Fletcher, January 7, 1997Micro Heat Pipe Panels and Method for Producing Same, U. S. Patent5,527,588, with C. Camarda, June 18, 1996Temperature Control Mechanisms for a Micro Heat Pipe Catheter, U. S. Patent 5,417,686, with L. S. Fletcher, May 23, 1995A Micro Heat Pipe Catheter for Local Tumor Hyperthermia, U. S. Patent 5,190,539, with L. S. Fletcher, March 2, 1993Vapor Deposited Micro Heat Pipe, U. S. Patent 5,179,043, with M. H. Weichold, January 12, 1993Heat Transfer Cylinder Dryer, U. S. Patent 5,119,886, with L. S. Fletcher, June 9, 1992Bellows Heat Pipe for the Thermal Control of Electronic Devices, U. S. Patent 4,961,740, with S. Oktay (IBM Corporation), August 28, 1990

THE PRESIDENTS OF GEORGIA TECHIsaac S. Hopkins, 1888-1896Lyman Hall, 1896-1905Kenneth G. Matheson, 1906-1922Marion L. Brittain, 1922-1944Colonel Blake R. Van Leer, 1944-1956(Paul Weber, Acting President, 1956-1957)Edwin D. Harrison, 1957-1969(Vernon Crawford, Acting President, 1969)Arthur G. Hansen, 1969-1971(James E. Boyd, Acting President, 1971-1972)Joseph M. Pettit, 1972-1986(Henry C. Bourne, Jr., Acting President, 1986-1987)John Patrick Crecine, 1987-1994(Michael E. Thomas, Acting President, 1994)G. Wayne Clough, 1994-2008(Gary Schuster, Interim President, 2008-2009)G. P. “Bud” Peterson, 2009- 1

THE JACK M. ZEIGLEROUTSTANDING EDUCATOR The Jack M. Zeigler (ME 1948)Outstanding Educator Award wascreated in 1999 to honor members ofthe School’s academic faculty whoepitomize outstanding educators. Thewinner is announced at a WoodruffSchool spring event, and receivesdiscretionary funds to use for profes-sional development, such as travel,computers, and support of students.The winner is invited to deliver theZeigler Outstanding Educator Lecture at

an assembly of the Woodruff School. The Jack M. Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award for 2009 was

given to David N. Ku for his contributions to education at Georgia Techat the personal and programmatic levels. Dr. Ku was an early and keyplayer in the development and implementation of the biomedicalengineering program at Georgia Tech, and he was a leader in thedevelopment of the entrepreneurship program, which sparked a realinterest among students and faculty. Dr. Ku has also been stronglyinvolved in the development of the undergraduate Technology andManagement minor, which teams management and engineeringstudents, sensitizing and educating both groups for their future careers.Finally, he has mentored a multitude of undergraduate researchers overhis career at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Ku began his career at Georgia Tech in 1986 as an AssistantProfessor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and toProfessor in 1995. He was named a Regents’ Professor in 1998 and tothe Lawrence P. Huang Endowed Chair for EngineeringEntrepreneurship in 2000. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University

THE CLASS OF 2009 RECOGNITION RECEPTIONAll the hard work of our graduating students was celebrated at theClass of 2009 Recognition Reception held on Friday, May 1st at theFerst Center for the Arts. The program honored those students whoreceived a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree from the WoodruffSchool in the spring and summer terms. There were brief talks by theWoodruff School’s Distinguished Alumnus and the Zeigler OutstandingEducator to inspire the graduates as they leave Georgia Tech to makean impact on and better our society. There was also an opportunity tomeet the School Chair and some of the people in the Woodruff Schoolwho helped the students along the way to graduation. Brandon Kearse(BSME 2009) was the undergraduate student speaker and MatthewRogge (Ph.D. ME 2009) was the graduate student speaker. Dr. DavidRosen and Dr. Dave Sanborn, associate chairs for graduate andundergraduates studies, respectively, highlighted the achievements ofthe graduates.

Family and friends of the graduates were invited to the celebrationand reception. They joined us from many states, including California,Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, SouthCarolina, and Tennessee, and countries such as Columbia, DominicanRepublic, and France.

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SPECIAL EVENTS AND LECTURES

THE GEGENHEIMER LECTURE ON INNOVATION Dr. Jim West, Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University inBaltimore, gave the Harold W. Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation inDecember 2008. His lecture: Noise in Hospitals: Effects and Cures,was about the significant problem of noise, even in new construction.High noise levels in hospitals can potentially contribute to stress andburnout in hospital staff, reduced speed of patient wound healing, andthere is concern that hospital noise can negatively affect speechcommunication and cause an increased number of medical errors.Conventional acoustical treatments are used in hospitals; these facegreat noise abatement challenges and hygienic standards. Dr. West’swork is a collaboration with industry to develop new materials to solveor mitigate the noise problems in hospitals.

Prior to coming to his current position, Dr. West was a BellLaboratories Fellow at Lucent Technologies. He holds more than 50U.S. and about 200 foreign patents on various microphones andtechniques for making polymer electrets and transducers. He wasinducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1999 for theinvention of the electret microphone. He is a member of theNational Academy of Engineering; a Fellow, past President, and pastmember of the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society ofAmerica; and a Fellow of the IEEE. Dr. West is the recipient ofnumerous awards, including the Gold Medal (2006) and the SilverMedal in Engineering Acoustics (1995) both from the AcousticalSociety of America, and the Audio Engineering Society Richard C.Heyser Memorial Lecturer in 2002.

To listen to Dr. West’s lecture go to our home page atwww.me.gatech.edu and click on the 2008 Gegenheimer Lecture.

Announcement: The WoodruffDistinguished Lecture was established in1990 to honor an engineer who has made asignificant contribution to society and to

provide a forum for that person to interact withthe Georgia Tech community. So, we are

pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Mote,President of the University of Maryland at College

Park, will deliver the 2010 Woodruff Distinguished Lecture on April13th. To listen to or read the transcripts of some past lectures,go to http://www.me.gatech.edu/news/gwwlectures.shtml.


gt motorsports (Formula SAE)and GT Off-Road (SAE Baja)displayed their new cars, althoughunfinished at the time of the jointevent. The teams were able to doa practice run of their marketingpresentations before participating inteam competitions.

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THE WOODRUFF SCHOOLDISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS The Woodruff School DistinguishedAlumnus Award was inaugurated in1989 to recognize an outstandingalumnus of the Woodruff School.The names of the winners are onpermanent display in the lobby of the MRDC Building at Georgia Tech.The 2009 winner is Mr. Bill Thacker (ME 1967). He is the Chairman andCEO of TEPPCO Partners, L.P, a fourbillion dollar publicly traded pipeline,petroleum storage and crude oilmarketing company located inHouston. He started his 40-plus year

career in the energy sector in 1967 with Unocal Corporation as arefinery engineer in Beaumont, Texas. He served the energy industryin numerous positions including Chairman of the Executive Committeeof the Association of Oil Pipelines and as a Director of the AmericanPetroleum Institute. After retiring from full-time responsibilities in 2002,he continued his industry involvement by becoming a corporatedirector for two energy companies in Houston and a merchantelectrical power producer in Atlanta. He is also President ofMontgomery County, Texas Habitat for Humanity.

A sixth generation Georgian from Cherokee County, he spent hisyouth in the Atlanta area before graduating from Georgia Tech in 1967with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He went on to earnhis MBA from Lamar University and is a graduate of the ExecutiveDevelopment Program at The Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.

A supporter of Georgia Tech since graduation, Bill Thacker hasbeen a member of the Roll Call for 42 consecutive years. He served tenyears on the Woodruff School Advisory Board and isa member of the College of Engineering Academy ofDistinguished Engineering Alumni and the GeorgiaTech Founders’ Council. He was on the Houston areasteering committee for The Campaign for GeorgiaTech and he and his wife Susan have fundedPresidential Scholarships for minority students in theCollege of Engineering.

(1978), an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech (1982, 1983), and anM.D. from Emory University (1984).

Dr. Ku is interested in cardiovascular pathophysiology, unsteadythree-dimensional fluid mechanics, medical implants, and commerciali-zation of university research. His basic research focuses on acutecoronary syndrome from plaque rupture due to collapse and plateletssticking under high shear stress. His projects span device design anddevelopment of bench tests to predict clinical performance. Dr. Kuteaches entrepreneurship and product development to bring techno-logical solutions to the bedside.

Dr. Ku is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical andBiological Engineering, a licensed physician in Georgia, and the holderof five U.S. patents. He won the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Awardand the Y. C. Fung Young Investigator Award (Bioengineering Division),both from the ASME, received a National Science FoundationPresidential Young Investigator Award, and was a Woodruff SchoolFaculty Fellow.

Past winners of this award are: Bill Black (1999), Said Abdel-Khalik (2000), Farrokh Mistree (2001), Bob Fulton (2002),Jim Hartley (2003), Dave McDowell (2004), Bob Nerem (2006), and Jon Colton (2007).

At the beginning of the fall term, we helda Woodruff School Welcome Socialfor our undergraduate and graduatestudents, faculty, and staff. Mayfield icecream was served by faculty membersto about 1500 attendees.

Family Weekend Open House inthe Woodruff School is a chancefor the families of our under-graduate students to learn aboutwhat their students are beingtaught, meet the undergraduateadvisors, tour our facilities, seewhat the student competition teamsare working on, and talk with somestudent leaders.

The ASME Spring PicnicToward the end of thespring term, the studentchapter of the AmericanSociety of MechanicalEngineers (ASME), one ofthe largest organizationson campus, held itsannual spring picnic.Lunch and tee-shirts wereprovided by the chapter.

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UNDERGRADUATEPROGRAM REVIEW[This review was prepared by Dr.David Sanborn, Associate Chair forUndergraduate Studies.]The undergraduate program inmechanical engineering continues toexperience enrollment growth at boththe Atlanta and Savannah campuses.The enrollment this August was 1629(up 2%) in Atlanta and 63 (up 26%)in Savannah. Mechanical engineeringprograms across the country areseeing large enrollments as studentsrealize that the program is veryimportant in solving the nation’scurrent and future challenges. Theundergraduate program in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech is,by far, the largest in the country. To meet the demands that this placeson our program, additional faculty members have been hired and wehave increased class sizes. Laboratory and design studio classes havebeen kept small, but more sections have been added.

The mechanical engineering degree program (BSME) in Atlantareceived an extension of its ABET accreditation. The degree ofBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Regional EngineeringProgram (BSME – RME) in Savannah received its initial ABETaccreditation. The RME program was accredited retroactively toinclude degrees awarded after October 1, 2006. Both degrees areaccredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 – telephone(410) 347-7700.

An increasing number of students at both campuses are choosingto do a research project as a way to satisfy one of their requiredmechanical engineering electives. This has resulted in the School nowreceiving 14 percent of all the President’s Undergraduate ResearchAwards (PURA) given at the Institute. Well over one-hundred projectsare now undertaken each year.

Improvements are being made to the capstone design experience.In addition to more faculty involvement, a prototyping lab (the InventionStudio) has been created and includes both basic tools and an abrasivewater jet machine. Additional companies have been recruited to provideboth funding of the projects and applicable design projects for thestudent teams. Dr. Craig Forest has taken the lead in upgrading boththe facilities and the course content. After a successful start last year,we have continued to have the Capstone Design Expo for the designprojects at the end of fall and spring terms. The Savannah studentsalso participate in the event held in Atlanta. Representatives fromcompanies participating in projects at either campus are invited to comeand be one of the project judges. More than 70 different design projectswere presented last year.

RANKINGS AND SURVEYS: HOW DO WE COMPARE?According to the 2009 annual rankings by U. S. News & WorldReport of the best graduate schools in the United States,Georgia Tech made another strong showing. The graduateprogram in mechanical engineering rose to number six (up fromnumber 7 the previous year), nuclear engineering rose tonumber 8 (it was 9th last year), and the College of Engineeringwas ranked number four for the fifth consecutive year.Woodruff School Chair Bill Wepfer said, “This nationalrecognition is especially gratifying as it comes at the end of avery difficult and challenging year which has seen recordenrollments, large class sizes, and decreased budgets. Thededication of our faculty, staff, and students to the success ofour School is both awesome and inspiring.”

Other Rankings

• The Woodruff School’s undergraduate program in mechanicalengineering is tied for 4th and the College of Engineering istied for 5th for its undergraduate programs according to U.S. News & World Report.

• Georgia Tech is tied for 7th among Top Public Schools and is35th among National Universities in U.S. News & World Report.

• Georgia Tech is ranked number 8 in the U.S. News & WorldReport Top Engineering and IT Universities in the World. (Sixof the top ten universities are in the United States.)

• According to The Princeton Review listing of Green Colleges,Georgia Tech is on The Green Honor Roll.

• Georgia Tech ranks 4th on the list of public schools in termsof the payback that a degree from a college gives whentuition and future salaries are included, according to SmartMoney Magazine.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education Survey on Top Schools ToWork For: Among the top-five schools in the 2009 list of four-year colleges to work for, Georgia Tech was 5th in GoodRelations between Faculty and Administration (large schools),2nd in Good Teaching Environment (large schools), and 5thin General Honor Roll (large schools).

PROGRAMSACCREDITATIONGeorgia Tech has institutional accreditation from the Commission onColleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)to award bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The under-graduate programs for the bachelor of science in mechanicalengineering (BSME), (BSME-RME) and the bachelor of science innuclear and radiological engineering (BSNRE) are accredited by theEngineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, Maryland, telephone: (410) 347-7770. For more information about our undergraduate programs, go towww.me.gatech.edu; see, in particular, the sections on accreditationand undergraduate programs. The Georgia Tech Cooperative Programis accredited by the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education.


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THE INVENTION STUDIOOn March 13th, the ribbon was cut to officiallyopen The Invention Studio in the WoodruffSchool of Mechanical Engineering. This is arenovated 600 square foot facility in the MRDCBuilding, where our senior and other interestedundergraduates, faculty, and graduate students cancreate and build inventions. Although the space isprimarily for the Capstone Design course (ME 4182), usersget their hands dirty using big machine tools (e.g., water jet, drill press),power tools, hand tools, and electronics to create working prototypes.

This new facility was madepossible with the generoussupport of individualsponsors (Schlumberger,Ford Motor Company, AirProducts and Chemicals,Inc., Rolls-Royce Limited,

Deere & Company, Caterpillar Inc.,Radiant Systems, Whirlpool Corporation,and Steam Dancer), a partnershipbetween ME 2110 (Creative Decisionsand Design) and ME 4182 (Capstone Design), and support from theSchool Chair to many faculty in the Woodruff School. If you areinterested in helping to support The Invention Studio and fostercreativity and invention in the Woodruff School, please contact Dr. Craig Forest at [email protected].

THE INVENTURE PRIZE COMPETITIONNew this year was The InVenture Prize. Dr. Ray Vito, ViceProvost for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies andProfessor of Mechanical Engineering, Drs. Craig Forest(ME), Merrick Furst (COC), and Ravi Balamkonda (BME)met to discuss creativity and innovation among students.As a result, the InVenture Prize was born. The objective ofthe competition is to create incentives, resources, and astructure of undergraduate student innovation and entrepre-neurship in a fun, high-profile event. The goal of the eventis to encourage an interest in invention, innovation, andentrepreneurial lifestyle amongst GT students and create aninfrastructure, culture, and focus that galvanizes, captures,and highlights student inventiveness.

The competition began with 62 students submittingproposals for 28 products. After several rounds of judging,eight inventions advanced to the final round of thecompetition in March. After faculty judges, Terry Blum(COM), Merrick Furst (COC), David Ku (ME) and Joy Laskar(ECE) whittled the field down to four inventions, thestudents then had five minutes each to discuss theirproducts and business plans with a group of distinguished Georgiaentrepreneurs: Steve Dickerson, professor emeritus in ME and founderand chief technical officer of CAMotion, Inc., Chris Klaus (CS 1996), thefounder and CEO of Kaneva Inc., and Parker H. Pete Petit (BME 1962,MSESM 1964), entrepreneur. In addition to the team prize of $10,000and the individual prize of $5,000, students received a paid internshipto work on their ideas and free business services.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Georgia Tech encourages undergraduate students to participate inquality and substantive research. Several options are available in theWoodruff School for a Special Problems course or an UndergraduateResearch course. ME/NRE 4699 is the undergraduate research coursefor juniors and seniors and qualifies as an elective for mechanicalengineering and nuclear and radiological engineering majors. ME/NRE4698 is for research internships for juniors and seniors, where studentsare paid for working on a project either part-time or full-time. Eachcourse requires a written final report and that the student work with afaculty member. ME/NRE 4901 and 4903 are non-research specialproblems classes. Each year the number of students participating insome undergraduate research continues to grow. In the past academicyear (summer 2008 through spring 2009) 130 projects were done in theWoodruff School (118 ME, 12 NRE).

The PURA AwardsWoodruff School students have beenvery successful in getting President’sUndergraduate Research Awards(PURA). PURA funds requests by astudent/faculty team to supportundergraduate student involvementin faculty research. The awards arefor student salaries and travelexpenses for the student to attendprofessional meetings to give apresentation. The following studentsand their faculty mentor won a PURAfor summer 2008: Chun Chu(Kyriaki Kalaitzidou) and AndersonSmith (Bill Singhose). In Fall 2008,

the awards: went to: Susie Cha (Christine Valle), Chun Chu (KyriakiKalaitzidou), Aayush Daftari (Bill Singhose), Will Hardin (RichardNeu), Adrit Lath (Bill Singhose), Michael Lennard (Chris Paredis), andRobert Parrish (Raghuram Pucha).

In Spring 2009, the winners were: Roan Alexander (Tim Lieuwen),Jose Antezana (Tim Lieuwen), Justin Branley (NRE student)(Chaitanya Deo), Haley Carney (Tequila Harris), Michael Hurst (MEmajor/ECE project), Jeremy Hurwitz (David Ku), Nivedh Manohar(NRE student) (Sang-Hyun Cho), Kadija McAnuff (BME student)(Andres Garcia), Bajin Mehnet (ChB student) (Robert Guldberg),Melissa Minneci (Ken Gall), Shweta Natarajan, (Tim Lieuwen),Yasaman Nemat bakhsh (Raghuram Pucha), Munir Pathak (ISyEstudent) (Todd Sulchek), John Semmens (Raghuram Pucha), ShaneStimpson (NRE student) (Chaitanya Deo), Amy Varallo (NRE student)(Ken Gall), Joel Weber (Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb), and Michael Wildes (BME major) (David Ku).

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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PROGRAMSThe Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) at Georgia Tech offers fourunique programs: the Undergraduate Cooperative Program, the GeorgiaTech Internship Program (GTIP), the Graduate Cooperative Program, and Work-Abroad Programs. More than 3,000 Georgia Tech studentscurrently participate in the four programs, all of which are voluntary. Co-op students and interns are employed by more than 1,000 businessesand organizations, worldwide. According to Tom Akins, Executive Directorof the Division of Professional Practice, “Students tend to choosemechanical engineering because of its flexibility and the ability to work inalmost any industry with that degree. Many of them are looking at theautomotive field, but are very open to experience other areas. Demandfrom employers still remains good, in spite of the economy, partly due tothe overall appeal that mechanical engineering students from GeorgiaTech have.”

The Undergraduate Cooperative ProgramSince 1912, Georgia Tech has offered a five-year undergraduatecooperative program to those students who wish to combine career-relatedexperience with classroom studies. The program is the fourth oldest of itskind in the world, and the largest optional co-op program in the country.Students alternate between industrial assignments and classroom studiesuntil they complete four or five semesters of work. Students who participatein the program have the opportunity to develop career interests, becomemore confident in their career choices, and develop human relations skillsthrough their work experience. Mechanical engineering students are thelargest group in the co-op program. In the past academic year, 82students received a bachelor’s degree with a Cooperative Plan designation.

The enrollment in the program was 430 co-ops (422 ME, 8 NRE) insummer 2008; 597 co-ops (572 ME, 25 NRE) in fall 2008; and 603 co-ops(579 ME, 24 NRE) in spring 2009. In that period, the students earned anaverage starting salary of $14 per hour. The largest employers ofmechanical engineering students were: McKenney’s, Newcomb & Boyd,Southern Company, GE Power Systems, HESM & Associates, SlingshotProduct Development, Gulfstream, Deere & Co., General Motors, and GE Aviation. The largest employers of NRE students were SouthernCompany, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), GE Power, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Enercon.

The Graduate Cooperative ProgramThe Georgia Tech Graduate Cooperative Program wasestablished in December 1983 and is the largest such programin the United States for science and engineering. Graduatestudent co-ops can work and attend classes at the same time;they do not get a co-op designation on their degree. Fourteenmechanical engineering graduate students participated in theprogram in the past academic year, working for Continental AG,Intel, IBM, Kimberly Clark, Georgia Tech, and AFB. AlthoughME’s are the largest group in the undergraduate co-op program,they are usually around 9th or 10th in the graduate co-opprogram. Tom Akins attributes this to the fact that so manyWoodruff School graduate students are fully funded and do notseek out additional funding.

The Georgia Tech Internship Program (GTIP)The Georgia Tech Internship Program, previously referred to asthe Undergraduate Professional Internship Program, is gearedtoward students who do not participate in the CooperativeProgram, but want some career-related experience beforegraduation, typically juniors and seniors. In the past academicyear, 92 students (85 ME, 7 NRE) participated in the program(64 in summer 2008, 19 in fall 2008, and 9 in spring 2009). Studentsgenerally work for one semester with an option for more work later on.Employers of these students were: Brasfield & Gorrie, CH2M Hill, BellHelicopter, Harley Davidson, Siemens, Pratt & Whitney, Norfolk Southern,Georgia Tech, Deere & Co., Toyota, GE, and GM, just a few of the sixty different employers this year.

The Work-Abroad ProgramAs part of the International Plan which began at Georgia Tech in 2005,the Work-Abroad Program was established to provide students opportu-nities to practice their respective professions outside the United States,and be immersed into a different culture. The program is designed tocomplement a student’s formal education with paid practical internationalwork experience directly related to the student’s major. Juniors, seniors,and graduate students are all eligible for this program, which includes co-op, internship, and graduate and undergraduate work experiences.The international work assignments are designed to include practicaltraining, cross-cultural exposure and learning, and acquisition of the skillsthat will set apart the participating students from their peers. In the pastyear, more than 100 students worked abroad on five continents.Countries ofemploymentinclude: Germany,France, India, andChina. From fall2008 throughsummer 2009,twelve ME studentsparticipated in theprogram. ME is the3rd largestparticipant in thisprogram, behindISyE and BME.

THE BS/MS PROGRAMOutstanding sophomores and early juniors in the Woodruff School areinvited to apply to the BS/MS Degree Program. Students can earn twodegrees, usually in a five-year period: An undergraduate degree inmechanical engineering or nuclear and radiological engineering and themaster’s degree in mechanical engineering, nuclear and radiologicalengineering, medical physics, bioengineering, or paper science andengineering. Graduate course work begins in the senior year. Mostmaster’s students do a course work only program (nonthesis option).

According to Dr. Christine Valle, who advises mechanicalengineering BS/MS students once they have matriculated intothe graduate program, “The BS/MS Program is an intensive,rigorous plan of study that allows meritorious students toreceive both BS and MS degrees within less time than it wouldtake to apply to these programs separately. Many employersseek such students and consider thiscombination to be invaluable.”

There are 146 students in the BS/MSProgram: 119 ME, 18 NRE, 7 MP, and 2 BioE.In the past academic year, fourteen studentsreceived their bachelor’s degrees and matricu-lated into the graduate program: Alice Cheung(NRE), Kevin Connolly (NRE), David Creasy(ME), Scott Ducey (ME), Benjamin Good(NRE), Benjamin Lee (ME), Robin Laverentz(ME), Victoria Murawski (ME), Jaeho Oh (ME),Jordan Rader (NRE), Sara Rahnema (NRE),Callie Reis (ME), Fernando Reiter (ME), andMatthew Von Arx (ME), One indicator of the success of the program is that some

students have decided to pursue the Ph.D. They are:Alice Cheung, Kevin Connolly, Benjamin Good, andJustin Pounders, all in nuclear engineering, and Phuc Dao, Shaohui Foong, Jacob Kunz, and Jin Song, all in mechanical engineering In the past academic year,one student received an MSME degree: Ryan Stewart.

Cheung

Good

Kunz

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INTRODUCING THE NEWASSOCIATE CHAIRFOR GRADUATE STUDIESProfessor Paul Neitzel recently assumed theposition of Associate Chair for GraduateStudies in the Woodruff School. He has thirtyyears of experience in university teaching andresearch and has been on the Woodruff Schoolfaculty since 1990. Prior to coming to GeorgiaTech he was a faculty member at Arizona StateUniversity. His research interests are in the field of fluid mechanics, ingeneral, focusing attention in recent years on flows with interfacialeffects and flows within bioreactors used for tissue engineering.

Dr. Neitzel received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins Universityin 1979. He is a Fellow of the American Society of MechanicalEngineers and the American Physical Society, and an Associate Fellowof the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

In his role as Associate Chair, one of Dr. Neitzel’s emphases willbe to expand recruiting efforts, both domestically and abroad. “Wewould like to convince some of the students we typically lose to institu-tions like MIT, Berkeley and Stanford to come to Georgia Tech for theirPh.D.s and face-to-face interactions can assist in this endeavor.” Dr.Neitzel has significant connections in Europe, having spent time as avisiting professor in Germany, France and England, so he will belooking to recruit from those places, too. Some of the partnerships thatresult may also provide opportunities for U.S. students to do a portionof their research abroad, providing a more global perspective to theirgraduate education.

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FRANK K. WEBB PROGRAM INPROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONThe Frank K. Webb Program in ProfessionalCommunication was established in 1990 to teachstudents verbal and written communication skills.The Woodruff School has made the teaching ofthese skills an integral part of the undergraduateengineering curriculum. Program Coordinator Dr. Jeffrey Donnell (Ph.D .in English from EmoryUniversity) provides formal instruction to studentsin four required laboratory and design courses:Creative Decisions and Design (ME 2110);Experimental Methodology Lab (ME 3057); Mechanical Systems Lab(ME 4053); and Capstone Design (ME 4182). In support, he trains andoversees teaching assistants as they edit and grade written and oralreports. Donnell instructs the students on how to prepare reports andpresentations, reviews project reports, and provides written feedback tothe students on their projects, reports, and presentations. He alsoprovides guides to writing skills, sample reports, and lectures oncommunications skills specific to engineers.

Graduate students receive help with graduate school andfellowship applications. In addition, they receive instruction in commu-nications early in their graduate careers when they are preparing theirfirst manuscript, be it a proposal, a journal article, or a conferencepresentation. Each fall and spring semester, Dr. Donnell and theAssociate Chair for Graduate Studies present a How to Prepare aFellowship Application Workshop for first-year graduate students andseniors who want to go to graduate school.

Sadly, Mr. Webb passed away at the end of 2008. The Woodruff School isvery grateful to Mr. Webb for his endowment and continued support of thisprogram. For more information about Mr. Webb, see p. 32 of this report.

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NRE/MP PROGRAMS SUMMARY[This program summary was provided by Dr. FarzadRahnema, Associate Chair of the Woodruff Schooland Chair of the NRE and MP Programs.]The Nuclear and Radiological Engineering andMedical Physics (NRE/MP) programs continued tocreate and offer new courses and completed theoffering of the first year of the expanded MSMPcurriculum. New graduate courses offered for thefirst time were Radiological Anatomy, Medical HealthPhysics, Radiation Dosimetry, Monte Carlo inMedical Physics, Radiation Shielding, Fast Reactor Physics, and Radioanalytical Chemistry.

The growth of the academic and research laboratories has continuedduring the past year. A new neutron generator and associated electronicswere added to the Radiation Physics Laboratory for implementation ofadditional experiments in this course. The first experiment that wasintroduced in spring 2009 was the measurement of the alpha eigenvaluefor a natural uranium and graphite subcritical assembly. We are thankfulto Southern Nuclear Operating Company for providing funds to make thisenhancement possible.

A new faculty member, Dr. Lei Zhu joined the NRE/MP programs as assistant professor in August 2009. Dr. Zhu obtained his Ph.D. inelectrical engineering from Stanford University and spent three years as apostdoctoral fellow in the radiology department. At Georgia Tech, he hasbegun creating an Advanced X-Ray Imaging and Therapy OptimizationLaboratory with a multi-functionality platform designed for development ofadvanced imaging technologies to provide improved treatment guidancein modern radiation therapy. The system has the full functionality of an x-ray cone-beam CT commonly used in the current image-guided andadaptive radiation therapy. It can also perform PET imaging, which playsan important role in biology-guided radiation therapy.

THE GRADUATE PROGRAM[This material was provided by Dr. DavidRosen, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies inthe past academic year.]In the past year, the Woodruff School GraduateProgram has continued the momentum builtover recent years. The School graduated 43Ph.D. students and a record 213 master’sstudents. With the combined M.S. and Ph.D.enrollment for Fall 2009 of 773, our graduateprogram continues to be the largest in the country. At the same time,the quality of our program keeps increasing, moving up to 6th place inthe U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Our graduate programs continue to be in high demand with arecord number - 950- of applicants this past academic year. Of theseapplicants, 224 matriculated in Fall 2009. Much of the increase in appli-cations came from overseas. Of these incoming students, 75 received aGRA/GTA offer, indicating that they have outstanding academic records.The areas of energy, sustainability, and biotechnology, as well as othermultidisciplinary areas, were of strong interest to the many applicants.

During the past year, the Graduate Committee tested a new policythat allows undesignated GRA/GTA offers to international students,which increases our ability to attract top international applicants. Facultyproposed new courses in the mechatronics area and in architecturalacoustics. Joint Ph.D. programs are under development with the topItalian universities of Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano.

Upon graduation, our students continue to enjoy excellentemployment prospects, in spite of the economic downturn. Theenergy, defense, and electronics sectors have had strong hiring needs,and our students are pursued aggressively by companies in theseareas. Even companies in more traditional manufacturing areas havebeen hiring. Additionally, we continue to place significant numbers ofgraduates in academia and government laboratories. Students andemployers continue to value the top quality education available in theWoodruff School.

STUDY-ABROADPROGRAMS AT GEORGIA TECH Georgia Tech strongly believes inthe importance of an internationalexperience for both under-graduate and graduate students.Student interest in theseprograms has been growingsteadily for several years. During the past academic year, almost 1200Georgia Tech students participated; 667 were from schools in theCollege of Engineering. Also, 143 (134 ME, 9 NRE) Woodruff Schoolstudents participated in various study-abroad programs. The mostpopular programs for Woodruff School undergraduate students were:Georgia Tech Lorraine (France) Undergraduate Program, the Oxford(England) Summer Program, and the Shanghai Summer Program.

Other students participated in:

According to Amy Henry, Executive Director ofInternational Education, “While many of Georgia Tech’scounterparts across the country saw study-abroadnumbers decline in 2008-2009, Georgia Tech’s overallstudy abroad numbers increased. Georgia Tech movedcloser to its goal of sending fifty percent of students abroadprior to graduation, with the undergraduate percentagenow at 40 percent up from 38 percent last year.”

LEARNING FROM A DISTANCE PROGRAMThe Woodruff School offers two graduate degrees as part of itsdistance-learning program: the master’s degree in mechanicalengineering and the master’s degree in medical physics. Theadmission and course requirements, and the degree received are thesame as for on-campus students. In fall 2009, 185 students areenrolled (172 ME, 12 MP), and 33 students matriculated into theprogram (31 ME, 2 MP). Of the 156 nonthesis master’s degreesawarded, sixty-two were awarded in the past academic year: 30 insummer 2008, 11 in fall 2008, and 21 in spring 2009. This is a recordnumber of degrees awarded through the distance program.

Graduate-level courses are available online, or by video-on-demand downloads, videoconferencing, and DV/CD’s. Studentsreceive class handouts and materials electronically or by mail. In thepast academic year, the Woodruff School offered 41 courses for thedistance program. Of these, ten were courses in NRE/MP. There are afew courses where the enrollment is almost equally divided betweenon-campus and distance. In summer 2008, Dr. Sheldon Jeter taught ME 8813QJE, Principles of Energy Systems Modeling, which had 43enrolled, all distance-learning students.

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GEORGIA TECH LORRAINE[This report was provided by Dr. Yves Berthelot, Vice Provost andPresident of Georgia Tech Lorraine and Professor.]Georgia Tech expanded it global footprint into Europe in 1990 and since1997, the Woodruff School has a strong presence at Georgia TechLorraine (GTL). GTL’s mission is to enable innovative collaborationswith academic, industrial, and funding agencies in France, theEuropean Union, and the United States. The past academic year wasa significant year for growth at GTL, highlighted by:• Mr. John Schuman joined the GTL staff on the Atlanta campus asMarketing Manager. • GTL achieved record enrollment in the summer program, increasingapplications by 168 percent from the previous academic year. Twohundred students (41 from the Woodruff School) participated in the GTLsummer 2009 program, an increase of 59 percent from the previous

year. In addition to their classroom education, studentsparticipated in various off-campus events, such asvisiting the European Parliament and some historicalsites of World War II.• In Fall 2009, GTL has 214 students (88 ME) enrolled,representing 18 countries. Of these students, 137 (17BS, 62 MS, 18 Ph.D.s) are enrolled in Metz, 41European students will be finishing their MS in Atlanta,

and 36 students are interning in Europe and the U.S. • The past academic year was, once again, marked by rapid growth inresearch. The GT-CNRS UMI laboratory, a joint laboratory between GTand the largest research organization in Europe, the French CentreNational de la Recherche Scientifique, expanded its relationship byopening the Atlanta arm of the international laboratory, UMI 2958. InME, the main research area of the UMI is advanced materials.• Research contracts have been obtained from the Agence Nationalede la Recherche, the European Union, and four contracts with privatecompanies (Leach-Esterline, Thalès, France Telecom, andSchlumberger). In addition, significant equipment grants from theNational Government and the Region of Lorraine have been used toequip the laboratories. Currently, 23 Ph.D. students (12 ME) and ninepostdocs (4 ME) are doing research at GTL.

• Thanks to the growing strength of itsindustrial partnerships several recentgraduates joined the High Potential programsof large European companies. In particular,Audric Saillard (Ph.D. ME candidate) atEADS and John Van der Weide (MSME2006) at AREVA. The High Potentialprograms represent extremely selectivehiring processes (typical selection rate is 1-3%), and have a large list of candidatesselected, clearly indicating that its industrialpartners recognize GTL as an elite institutionfor developing global technological leaders.

Shanghai

Students in the Undergraduate Summer Program at GTL.

• American University in Cairo(Egypt) Exchange Program

• Barcelona Summer Program• Chinese LBAT• East Asia Summer Program• Georgia Tech Lorraine

Graduate Program• German LBAT• Hong Kong University of

Science and TechnologyExchange Program

• Korea Advanced Institute ofScience Technology Study/WorkAbroad Program

• National University of SingaporeExchange Program

• Non-GT Program

• Pacific Spring Study AbroadProgram (Australia)

• Technical University of Munich(Germany) International Study and Internship Program

• University of Leeds (England)Semester Academic Year Program

• University of New South Wales (Australia) SummerExchange Program

• University of Technology inCompiegne (France) Study/WorkAbroad Program

• Victoria University Wellington(New Zealand) Exchange Program

• Yonsei (South Korea) SummerExchange Program

Metz, France


CAREERSThe number of employers visiting Georgia Tech to recruit WoodruffSchool students remained high, although down from the previousyear. Fewer BSME students found employment at the time ofgraduation. In spring 2009, the percentage finding employment haddropped to 61 percent, down from 79 percent the year before.According to Ralph Mobley, Director of Career Services, “This ispretty much in line with engineering in general. For the entirecollege, the percentage finding employment dropped to 59.8 percentdown from 71.5 percent. So, as it stands, ME did slightly better thanthe College of Engineering as a whole.”

SCHOLARSHIPSMany awards recognize academic achievement, leadership, andoutstanding service to the Woodruff School, the College of Engineering,and the Institute. Many undergraduate students in the Woodruff Schoolreceive some type of scholarship and many of our graduate studentshave fellowship funds.

HOPE SCHOLARSHIPSAlmost all of our incoming, in-state students receive HOPE scholar-ships, the tuition program financed through the Georgia State Lottery.After completing the first year at Georgia Tech, approximately fiftypercent of the freshman class retains their scholarships. Studentsneed to maintain a 3.0 grade point average each term to keep theHOPE scholarship.

PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMThe President’s Scholarship Program identifies students who haveexcelled in academia and leadership in high school. Financial awardsare for four academic years, and students are expected to maintainhonors-level academic performance and be involved in campus orcommunity activities. These Tech scholars have an overall grade pointaverage (GPA) of 3.68; enrolled Woodruff School President’s Scholarshave a 3.71 GPA. A total of 1,347 President’s Scholars havegraduated since the program began in 1981.

There are currently 261 President’s Scholars enrolled at GeorgiaTech in fall 2009, the same number as last fall. There are 67 newscholars who started this fall, the same number as last year, and four ofthese are ME/NRE students. Current President’s Scholars in ME are:Joshua Adair, Rachel Andrews, Blake Bernard, Laura Carpenter(new), Matt Hoffman, Katie Hornbostel, Andrew Hsu (new), TylerJackson, Parul Kapur, Kyra Key, Alec Manfre, Daniel Murphy,Rob Parrish, Alexander Rudat, Thevuthasan Senthuran (new),Meatro Shoun, Brian Smith, Liz Tans, Michael Valente, DustinWatts, and Emily Woods. Students with an NRE major are: Colin Bowers, Alex DeFreese (new), and Amy Varallo.

When asked if any of this year’s budget issues impacted theprogram, Randy McDow, Director of the President’s Scholarship (PS)Program said “Because the PS Program is privately funded by alumniand other donors, the PS Program has not been substantially impactedby the budgetary situation, unlike many of our peer universities.”

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A SAMPLING OF THE PLACES THAT HIREWOODRUFF SCHOOL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTSAll types of employers, representing every industry hire WoodruffSchool students. A sample of some of the larger employers:

Babcock & WilcoxBell HelicopterBPCaterpillarDeere & Co.Duke Energy Eastman Chemical Co.Ernst & YoungExxonMobilFluor CorporationFord Motor CompanyGeneral MillsGE Power SystemsGE AviationGeneral MotorsGulfstream AerospaceHewlett-PackardHonda ManufacturingHoneywellInternational Paper

Kimberly ClarkKubota TractorLockheed MartinMcKenney’s Inc. MechanicalContractors/EngineersMichelin North AmericaMilliken & CompanyNASANational InstrumentsNewcomb & BoydNorthrop GrummanProcter & GambleRockwell AutomationSavannah River Nuclear SolutionsSchlumbergerSiemensSouthern CompanyTraneUnited Technologies

SALARY DATA FOR THE COLLEGE OF ENGINERING (COE)

AND THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL IN SPRING 2009

Degree Median Salary Median Bonus

COE BS $60,000 $5,000BSME 58,666 4,000

COE MS 71,000 5,000MSME 70,500 5,000MSMP N/A N/AMSNE 52,086* 4,000

COE Ph.D. 95,400 10,000Ph.D. ME 108,000* 10,000Ph.D. NE N/A

*The number of students reporting is very low.

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WOMEN IN ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AWARDSEach year the Excellence Awards Banquet is held to celebrate theacademic excellence and leadership achievements of femaleengineering students in the College of Engineering. This event brings

together students,alumni, corporatepartners and Instituteleaders to recognizethe accomplishmentsof female engineeringstudents who haveachieved “highhonors” status byearning a cumulativegrade point averageof 3.35 and above.As a testimony to the

excellence of COE’s female undergraduate students, last year, morethan 609 female engineering students, representing nearly forty percentof COE’s female engineering students, qualified for this event. Inaddition to the Women in Engineering Excellence Awards, the eventalso recognizes students and faculty leaders through Student MentoringAwards, Faculty Mentoring Awards, and Teaching Excellence Awards,which are given annually. The corporate sponsors are committed toincreasing the number of women in the technical, engineering, andscientific fields. In 2009, 109 scholarships, totaling $122,000 weregiven. Seventy-two Woodruff School students qualified to attend thebanquet, and twenty-six of those (24 ME, 2 NRE) received scholarshipstotaling $30,000. The names of the winners and the corporatesponsors of their scholarships are:Alcoa Scholarship: Hibisca Liaw; Boeing Scholarship: Lindsay Brandino, Elizabeth Cadogan,

and Kristine CarnavoEaton Scholarship: Elisabeth Byrd;Ford Scholarship: Sarah Chapman and Melissa Minneci;John Deere Scholarship: Clarissa Chavarria, Amy Cheben,

and Jennifer Gordon;Kimberly Clark Scholarship: Lauren Gross and Casandra Hadad;Pay It Forward Scholarship: Aida Sefic;Rockwell Scholarship: Rachel Andrews, Caitlin Chapin,

Victoria Lewis, Meghan McCandless, and Melissa Orr;Schlumberger Scholarship: Yasaman Nemat Bakksh,

Gwendolyn Rodgers, and Amanda Swanson; Shell Scholarship: Phares Carroll and Katherine Hornbostel;United Technologies Scholarship: Peri Levy-Faigen, Emily Woods

(NRE), and Lisa Worthington (NRE).

ARCS SCHOLARSThe Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundationhelps meet our country’s need for scientists and engineers by providingscholarships to academically outstanding students to help them completetheir higher education. The Atlanta Chapter gives scholarships tostudents from Emory University, Georgia Tech, Morehouse College, andthe University of Georgia. At Georgia Tech, recipients come from theWoodruff School, the College of Computing, and the Stewart School ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering.

Ryan Austin (Dave McDowell, advisor), Aaron Enes (Wayne Book,advisor), and Jonathan Clausen (Cyrus Aidun, advisor) are the newARCS Scholars in the Woodruff School for the 2009-2010 academic year.Janine Johnson (Jianmin Qu, advisor) is a returning ARCS Scholar.ARCS provides a $6,000 supplement to the student’s current graduateresearch assistantship stipend. Scholarships are awarded to seniordoctoral students in recognition of high scholastic achievement, including a GPA of 3.5 or higher, good progress toward their degree, and are U.S. citizens.

The Woodruff School has 29 alumni scholars. New alumni areShelby Highsmith (Ph.D. ME 2009) and Scott Kasparzk (Ph.D. ME2009). Stephanie Thompson (Ph.D. candidate) will complete herdoctoral studies in late 2009. The first alumni scholar was DeborahKilpatrick who finished in 1996.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPSIn early 2009 NSF announced the winners of the awards.Terry Caston (Tequila Harris, advisor), Patrick Chang(David Rosen, advisor), Matthew Eicholtz (BS/MSstudent), Ben Lee (Chris Paredis,advisor), Mihir Pathak (MostafaGhiaasiaan, advisor), Chris Phaneuf(Craig Forest, advisor), and DavidSotto (Gang Bao, advisor) eachreceived an Honorable Mention in theNational Science Foundation GraduateResearch Fellowship competition.

Three BMED students who areadvised by Woodruff School facultymembers won awards or anhonorable mention: ChimdimmaEsimai (Andres Garcia, advisor),Laura Hansen (Rudy Gleason,advisor) and an honorable mention toJason Weaver (David Ku, advisor).

This year NSF awarded 1237fellowships, up from 914 in 2008, butonly 42 went to Mechanical Engineering, down from last year and only four awards were made in NuclearEngineering, up from one in 2008. For comparison, BioEhad 84 awards, EE had 34 awards, and there were 49 awards in Ecology.A total of 301 awards were made in the area of Life Sciences and a totalof 314 were awarded in Engineering. According to Dr. David Rosen, Itlooks like it is getting much harder for ME students to win these awards.”

Ryan Austin, Janine Johnson, and Jonathan Clausen.

Caston

Eicholtz

Chang

Pathak

Phaneuf

The Boeing Scholarship winners.

The John Deere Scholarship winners.


INPO FellowshipFranklin Hope

Institute FellowshipAmit Jariwala (COM)Akibi ArcherNduka EnemchukuRoderick JacksonMela JohnsonDaniel Reasor

Malaysia FellowshipCheng Shu Ngoo

NANT FellowshipSharon Chandler

NASA Harriet JenkinsNkuda Enemchukwu

NASA UNCFBryon Johns

NSDEGRyan AustinChristine Taylor

National Institutes of HealthMela Johnson

National ScienceFoundationMegan BlackburnAdele DoyleKenneth DupontJames FordCasey HollidayHeather HumphreysDooroo KimJeffrey LloydBarbara NsiahGregory OstrowickiStephanie ThompsonRachel WhitmireJaime Zahorian

Office of Naval Research FellowshipLin Wan

Sandia FellowshipJeffrey CallicoatTodd Bandhauer

STEP FellowshipAkibi ArcherBrian Post

United Negro College FundAkibi Archer

Woodruff FellowshipAkibi ArcherKyle AzevedoTodd BandhauerThomas BeechamJeffrey BinghamJames BlackJoel BoerckelJohn BustamanteKenway ChenWei ChenSukwon ChoiJonathan ClausenTed ConradKevin DaviesJared DelahantySteven DouglassDavid DumbauldNichlas EarnhartAaron EnesThomas ForbesDonavan GertyMark GlevaStephen GoldmanDaniel GempesawBenjamin GoodMitchell HagemanCody HellsternMichael Hochman

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Achievement Rewards forCollege Scientists(ARCS)Shelby HighsmithMela JohnsonScott KasprzakCharlotte KotasStephanie Thompson

American Heart AssociationKenway ChenWei Chen

Argentina FellowshipGustavo Castelluccio

College of EngineeringKyle Bandhauer

Department of DefenseRoderick JacksonDaniel ReasorChristine Taylor

DOD/NDSEG/ASEERoderick Jackson

Department of EnergyJustin PoundersAshok Rajendar

FACES FellowshipMathieu DavisNduka EmenchukwuEgbe EniJoshua GarvinMark SimpsonChristine Taylor

Fulbright FellowshipNaveed AhmedMichael BudnitzkiCasey HollidayAndreas RauchGabriel RamirezMuhammad Salman

Georgia Tech FellowshipBobby WatkinsChristone Taylor

Georgia Tech President’sFellowshipAkibi ArcherThomas BeechamJeffrey Bingham

James BlackJoel BoerckelJohn BustamanteSukwon ChoiJonathan ClausenKevin DaviesDavid DumbauldKenneth DupontNichlas EarnhartAaron EnesThomas ForbesDaniel GempesawStephen GoldmanBenjamin GoodMitchell HagemanCody HellsternMichael HochmanRoderick JacksonAmit JariwalaMela JohnsonJeffrey LloydEhsan MalekiRobert MatthewsLogan McLeodAndrew McNamaraRoxanne MoorePrem MidhaJeffrey MilkieChen-Chih PengEdward PhelpsThomas RobbinsChristine TaylorBrent UhrigAdam VelaRyder WinckJaime Zahorian

Graduate Degrees for MinoritiesIn Engineering(GEMS)Nduka EnemchukuDominique RoweSteven Walker

Goizueta FellowshipJustin Fernandez

Graduate ResearchAssistant (Faculty)Kenway ChenWei ChenKevin ConnollyDaniel GoldenMichael PsimasTyler Sumner

FELLOWSHIPSWoodruff School graduate students are supported through Graduate ResearchAssistantships from their faculty advisor or Graduate Teaching Assistantships forteaching duties, mainly in undergraduate laboratories. In addition, many studentsreceive fellowship funds from the Woodruff School, the Institute, and from off-campusorganizations, societies, and industry. Below is a list of the major fellowships receivedin the past academic year (summer 2008 though spring 2009).

Moore Ramirez Rauch

Simpson Taylor Witkop

Choi Humphries Kotas

Magnus HoelleRoderick JacksonAmit JariwakuMarc KillpackJeffrey MilkieEhsan MalekiKenneth MarekRobert MatthewsLogan McLeodAndrew McNamaraRobert McNamaraPrem MidhaRoxanne MooreWilliam MusinskiBarbara NsiahChen-Chih PengEdward PhelpsAshok RajendarGabriel RamirezThomas RobbinsKonrad RykaczewskiJoshua SharpMark SimpsonChristine TaylorBrent UhrigAdam VelaBenjamin WildeRyder WinckAdam WitkopTak Woo

World Student FundMarkus KoegelDaniel ReasorAndreas RauchBerrit Runge

Just a few of our graduate fellowship winners.

DEGREESThe Woodruff School awarded a total of 635 degrees in the past academicyear: 43 doctoral degrees, 213 master’s degrees (a record number), and379 bachelor’s degrees. The charts below show some breakdowns ofdegrees in the Woodruff School and for Georgia Tech. Since 1890 whenthe first two degrees were awarded in mechanical engineering, the Institutehas granted (through spring 2009) 96,331 bachelor’s degrees, 37,481master’s degrees, and 7,282 doctoral degrees.

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DEGREES AWARDED INTHE WOODRUFF SCHOOL

Summer 2008 – Spring 2009

Degree Number Awarded

BSME 347BSNRE 32

Total Bachelor’s 379

MS 5MSME 180MSMP 15MSNE 7MSPSE 2MSBioE 3

Total Master's 213

Ph.D. ME 40Ph.D. NE 1Ph.D. MSBioE 1Ph.D. PSE 1

Total Ph.D.'s 43

Total Undergraduate Degrees 379Total Graduate Degrees 256

Total Degrees 635

DEGREES AWARDED IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING BY SCHOOL

Summer 2008 – Spring 2009

School Bachelor’s Master’s Ph.D. Total

Aerospace Engineering 112 121 44 277Biomedical Engineering 134 10 40 184

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering 98 19 37 154

Civil & Environmental Engineering 227 100 18 345

Electrical & Computer Engineering 268 342 95 705

Industrial & Systems Engineering 281 217 23 521

Materials Science & Engineering 26 12 17 55

Mechanical Engineering (NRE/MP) 379 213 43 635

Polymer, Textile & Fiber Engineering 18 1 15 34Total 1543 1035 332 2910

DEGREES AWARDED AT GEORGIA TECH BY COLLEGESummer 2008 – Spring 2009

College Bachelor’s Master’s Ph.D. Total

Architecture 165 158 7 330Computing 187 298 31 516Engineering 1543 1035 332 2910Management 361 190 7 558Sciences 256 113 102 471Ivan Allen 283 83 11 277

Total 2695 2877 490 5062

DEGREES AWARDED IN THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL BY GENDER AND ETHNICITYSummer 2008 – Spring 2009

Degree American Indian/ Asian Black or Hispanic or Multi Unknown White Male Female TotalAlaskan Native African American Latino

BS 4 59 20 20 11 1 264 323 56 379MS 0 38 5 7 2 0 161 186 27 213Ph.D. 0 19 2 0 0 0 22 38 5 43TOTALS 4 116 27 27 12 1 447 547 88 635


DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED

From summer 2008 through spring 2009, the Woodruff School awarded43 doctoral degrees: ten in summer 2008, 22 in fall 1008, and 11 inspring 2009.

Summer 2008

Lorenzo Crosatti, Ph.D. ME. Experimental and NumericalInvestigation of the Thermal Performance of Gas-Cooled DivertorModules. Minami Yoda and Said Abdel-Khalik, advisors

David Damm, Ph.D. ME. Batch Reactors for Scalable HydrogenProduction. Andrei Fedorov, advisor

Matthew Determan, Ph.D. ME. Thermally Activated MiniaturizedCooling System. Srinivas Garimella, advisor

Abraham Greenstein, Ph.D. ME. Analysis of ThermalConductivity Models with an Extension to Complex CrystallineMaterials. Samuel Graham, advisor

Surajit Kumar, Ph.D. ME. Fluidic and DielectrophoreticManipulation of Tin Oxide Nanobelts. Peter Hesketh, advisor

Sheila Rezak, Ph.D. PSE. Analysis of Flexible Fiber SuspensionsUsing the Lattice Boltzmann Method. Cyrus Aidun, advisor

Khalid Sorensen, Ph.D. ME. Operational PerformanceEnhancement of Human Operated Flexible Systems. William Singhose, advisor

Krishna Tunga, Ph.D. ME. Study of SnAgCu Alloy ReliabilityThrough Material Microstructure Evolution and Laser MoireInterferometry. Suresh Sitaraman, advisor

Joshua Vaughan, Ph.D. ME. Dynamics and Control of MobileCranes. William Singhose, advisor

Dong Yang, Ph.D. ME. Factors Affecting Stress AssistedCorrosion Cracking of Carbon Steel Under Industrial Boiler Conditions.Richard Neu, advisor

Fall 2008

Manas Bajaj, Ph.D. ME. Knowledge Composition Methodology forEffective Analysis Problem Formulation in Simulation-Based Design.Chris Paredis, advisor

Thomas Beechem, Ph.D. ME. Metrology of GaN ElectronicsUsing Micro-Raman Spectroscopy. Samuel Graham, advisor

Thomas Bradley, Ph.D. ME. Modeling, Design and EnergyManagement of Fuel Cell Systems for Aircraft. David Parekh, advisor

Xavier Brun, Ph.D. ME. Analysis of Handling Stresses andBreakage of Thin Crystalline Silicon Wafers. Shreyes Melkote, advisor

Kwaku Eason, Ph.D. ME. Numerical Investigation of Micro/MacroCoupling in Magneto-Impedance Sensors for Weak FieldMeasurements. Kok-Meng Lee, advisor

Donavon Gerty, Ph.D. ME. Fluidic-Driven Cooling of ElectronicHardware Part I: Channel Integrated Vibrating Reed. Ari Glezer, advisor

Rasim Guldiken, Ph.D. ME. Dual-Electrode CapacitiveMicromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for Medical UltrasoundApplications. Levent Degertekin, advisor

Houri Johari, Ph.D. ME. Micromachined Capacitive Silicon BulkAcoustic Wave Gyroscopes. Levent Degertekin, advisor

Karan Kacker, Ph.D. ME. Design and Fabrication of Free-Standing Structures as Off-Chip Interconnects for MicrosystemsPackaging. Suresh Sitaraman, advisor

Fang Kong, Ph.D. ME. Integer in a 5b1 and FibronectionInteraction Under Force. Cheng Zhu, advisor

Charlotte Kotas, Ph.D. ME. Acoustically Induced Fluid Flows in aModel Fish Ear. Peter Rogers and Minami Yoda, advisors

Anne-Marie Lerner, Ph.D. ME. Tunability and SensitivityInvestigation of MRE’s in Longitudinal Vibration Absorbers. Kenneth Cunefare, advisor

Haifeng Li, Ph.D. ME. An Evanescent-Wave Based Particle ImageVelocimetry Technique. Minami Yoda, advisor

Richard Malak, Ph.D. ME. Using Parameterized Efficient Sets toModel Alternatives in Systems Design Decisions. Chris Paredis, advisor

Logan McLeod, Ph.D. ME. Hydrogen Permeation ThroughMicrofabricated Pd-Ag Membranes. Sam Shelton, advisor

Qihong Nie, Ph.D. ME. Experimentally Validated Multi-ScaleThermal Models of Electronic Cabinets. Yogendra Joshi, advisor

Vishwanath Subramaniam, Ph.D. ME. Computational Analysis ofBinary-Fluid Heat and Mass Transfer in Falling Films and Droplets.Srinivas Garimella, advisor

Lei Wang, Ph.D. ME. Modeling of the Amature-Rail Interface in anElectromagnetic Launcher with Lubricant Injection. Richard Salant, advisor

Jamal Wilson, Ph.D. ME. A Systemic Approach to Bio-InspiredConceptual Design. David Rosen, advisor

Tao Wu, Ph.D. BIOE. Structure-Function Analysis of VascularTethering Molecules Using Atomic Force Microscope. Cheng Zhu, advisor

Jin Yang, Ph.D. ME. Quality Inspection and Reliability Study ofSolder Bumps in Packaged Electronic Devices: Using Laser Ultrasound.Charles Ume, advisor

Jiantao Zheng, Ph.D. ME. Interfacial Fracture of Micro Thin FilmInterconnects Under Monotonic and Cylic Loading. Suresh Sitaraman, advisor

Spring 2009

Erick Alley, Ph.D. ME. Influence of Microstructure in RollingContact Fatigue of Bearing Steels with Inclusions. Richard Neu, advisor

Adam Cardi, Ph.D. ME. On the Development of a DynamicCutting Force Model with Application to Regenative Chatter. Steven Liang, advisor

Wei Chen, Ph.D. ME. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Binding,Unfolding, and Global Conformational Changes of Signaling andAdhesion. Cheng Zhu, advisor

Wei Chen, Ph.D. BIOE. The Force Regulation on Binding Kineticsand Conformations of Integrin and Selections. Cheng Zhu, advisor

Shelby Highsmith, Ph.D. ME. Crack Path Determination for Non-Proportional Mixed-Mode Fatigue. Steven Johnson, advisor

Chih-Chieh Hu, Ph.D. NE. Mechanistic Modeling of EvaporatingThin Liquid Film Instability on a BWR Fuel Rod with Parallel and CrossVapor. Said Abdel-Khalik, advisor

Omkar Karhade, Ph.D. ME. Scanning Micro Interferometer withTunable Diffraction Grating for Low Noise Parallel Operation. Levent Degertekin, advisor

Scott Kasprzak, Ph.D. ME. Small-Scale Polymer StructuresEnabled by Thiolene Copolymer Systems. Ken Gall, advisor

Stacey Schutte, Ph.D. ME. Effects of Incorporating Décor into a Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel Substitute. Robert Nerem, advisor

Narasimhan Swaminathan, Ph.D. ME. Stress-Defect TransportInteractions in Ionic Solids. Jianmin Qu, advisor

Thomas Wilson, Ph.D. ME. A Multi-Coil Magnetostrictive Actuator:Design, Analysis, and Experiment. Ben Zinn, advisor

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MASTER’S DEGREES WITH THESIS

From summer 2008 through spring 2009, the Woodruff School awarded213 master’s degrees: 68 in summer 2008, 74 in fall 2008, and 71 inspring 2009. Of these, 57 students prepared a thesis and 156students did a course work only (nonthesis) degree. Of the nonthesisdegrees, 94 were completed on the Atlanta campus and 62 were donethrough the distance-learning program.

Summer 2008

Cyril Babinet, MSME. Next Generation of Current Sensors forAeronautics: Preliminary Designs. Jianmin Qu, advisor

Patrick Cross, MSME. System Modeling and EnergyManagement Strategy Development for Series Hybrid Vehicles. Nader Sadegh, advisor

Jon Danielson, MSME. Mobile Boom Cranes and Advanced InputShaping Control. William Singhose, advisor

Jeremy Dawkins, MSME. Influence of CrystallographicOrientation in Normal and Sliding Contacts. Richard Neu, advisor

Alexander Serrato, MSPSE. Investigation of Wet Paper CohesiveProperties. Tim Patterson, advisor

Brian Guerriero, MSME. Haptic Control and Operator-GuidedGait Coordination of a Pneumatic Hexapedal Rescue Robot. Wayne Book, advisor

Caroline Guidry, MSME. Modified Comparative Life CycleAssessment of End-of-Life Options for Post-Consumer Products inUrban Regions. Bert Bras, advisor

Michael Hirsch, MSME. Fretting Behavior of AISI 301 StainlessSteel Sheet in Full Hard Condition. Richard Neu, advisor

Jonathan Jobe, MSME. Multi-Aspect Component Models:Enabling the Reuse of Engineering Analysis Models in SysML. Chris Paredis, advisor

Thomas Johnson, MSME. Integrating Models and Simulation of Continuous Dynamic System Behavior into SysML. Chris Paredis, advisor

Anubhav Kumar, MSME. Use of Air Side Economizer for Data Center Thermal Management. Wayne Whiteman, advisor

Ryan Manger, MSNE. Assessing the Dose Received by theVictims of a Radiological Dispersal Device with Geiger-MuellerDetectors. Nolan Hertel, advisor

Lucas McCaslin, MSME. Methodology for PredictingMicroelectronic Substrate Warpage Incorporating Copper Trace PatternCharacteristics. Suresh Sitaraman, advisor

Zachary Moore, MSME. Life Modeling of Notched CM247LC DSNickel-Base Superalloy. Richard Neu, advisor

Laura Raibeck, MSME. Environmental Analysis of BiologicallyInspired Self-Cleaning Surfaces. Bert Bras, advisor

Christopher Sommer, MSNE. Fuel Cycle Design and Analysis ofa Subcritical Advanced Burner Reactor. Weston Stacey, advisor

Tyler Sumner, MSNE. A Safety and Dynamics Analysis of the Subcritical Advanced Burner Reactor: SABR. Mostaffa Ghiaasiaan, advisor

Robert Thiets, MSME. A Method for Developing a Triple-Bottom-Line Business Case for the Implantation of Alternative Fuels. Bert Bras, advisor

Nathan Young, MSME. A Co-evolutionary Multi-agent Approachfor Designing the Architecture of Reconfigurable ManufacturingMachines. Mervyn Fathianathan, advisor

Fall 2008

Travis Blackburn, MSME. Electro-Kinetically EnhancedNanometric Material Removal. Steven Danyluk, advisor

Christopher Blandin, MSME. Production of Dielectric Materials.Jonathan Colton, advisor

Michael Budnitzki, MSME. Influence of the Environment andAlumina Coatings on the Fatigue Degradation of Polycrystalline SiliconFilms. Olivier Pierron, advisor

Eric Busillo, MSME. Characterization of Plastic HypodermicNeedles. Jonathan Colton, advisor

Kenway Chen, MSME. MCAD-ECAD Integration: ConstraintModeling and Propagation. Dirk Schaefer, advisor

Robert Cross, MSME. Processing of Vertically Aligned CarbonNanotubes for Heat Transfer Applications. Samuel Graham, advisor

Zachary Dominguez, MSNE. Development of a Novel OrganCulture System Allowing Control of Local Mechanical Variables and ItsImplementation in. Raymond Vito, advisor

Elisabeth Gayton, MSME. Experimental and NumericalInvestigation of the Thermal Performance of the Gas-Coded Divert orPlate Concept. Said Abdel-Khalik and Minami Yoda, advisors

Hoda Hamedani, MSME. Investigation of Deposition Parametersin Ultrasonic Spray Pryolysis for Fabrication of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell.Jianmin Qu, advisor

Thomas Harman, MSME. Waste Heat Recovery in Data Centers:Ejector Heat Pump Analysis. Yogendra Joshi, advisor

Guillaume Rannou, MSPSE. Lattice Bolztmann Method andImmiscible Two-Phase Flow. Cyrus Aidun, advisor

Andreas Rauch, MSME. Stability Analysis of Mobile BoomCranes. William Singhose, advisor

George Shoukry, MSME. State-Space Realization for NonlinearSystems. Nader Sadegh, advisor

Ankit Somani, MSME. Advanced Thermal ManagementStrategies for Energy-Efficient Data Centers. Yogendra Joshi, advisor

Spring 2009

Shaheen Dewji, MSNE. Assessing Internal Contamination After aRadiological Dispersion Device Event Using a 2x2 in Inch Sodium-Iodide. Nolan Hertel, advisor

Adelaide Duroux, MSME. Estimation of Guided Waves fromCross-Correlations of Diffuse Wave Fields for Passive Structural HealthMonitoring. Karim Sabra, advisor

Mark Elton, MSME. An Efficient Haptic Interface for a VariableDisplacement Pump Controlled Excavator. Wayne Book, advisor

Sarah Engelbrecht, MSME. Design of Meso-Scale CellularStructure for Rapid Manufacturing. David Rosen, advisor

Gregory Graf, MSME. Development of Specialized BasePrimitives for Meso-Scale Conforming Truss Structures. David Rosen, advisor

Hanif Hunter, MSME. Formation and Breakdown of MicroscaleLiquid Jets. Ari Glezer, advisor

Robert Kelm, MSNE. In-Water Neutron and Gamma DoseDetermination of a New Cf-252 Brachytherapy Source. Chris Wang, advisor

Aleksandr Kerzhner, MSME. Using Domain Specific Languagesto Capture Design Knowledge for Model-Based Systems Engineering.Chris Paredis, advisor

Robert Kupkovits, MSME. Thermomechanical Fatigue Behaviorof the Directionally-Solidified Nickel Base Superalloy CM247LC.Richard Neu, advisor

Evan Landrum, MSME. Anistropic Parameters of Mesh FillersRelevant to Miniature Cryocoolers. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan, advisor

Paul Langston, MSME. Implementation and Evaluation of a 2DLaser Doppler Vibrometer System Non-Contact Monitoring. Karim Sabra, advisor

Fang Liu, MSM. Monte Carlo Modeling of an X-Ray FluorescenceDetection System by MCNP Code. Tom Hu, advisor


Sylvain Laugier MSMEAli Lazzem MSMEAaron Lee MSMEErik Lee MSMEPaolo Manenti MSMELoic Marquet MSMEAlexandre Maury MSMEBrian McKay MSMEJohn Mills MSMEVictor Morgan MSMEJesse Moss MSMEVijay Nagaraj MSMEMarybeth Nored MSMEChristopher Nygren MSMESai Padala MSMENicolas Paolantonacci MSMEThomas Pellissier MSMEXavier Denis Pons MSMELauren Ray MSMEJesse Ross MSMEWilliam Ross MSMEVivek Sahu MSMEAaron Scott MSMEJames Seaton MSMEArnaud Seninge MSMESungmin Suh MSMESujay Tawde MSMEPin Tsai MSMEChristopher Weir MSMELisa Wichmann MSMEShawn Wick MSMEAndy Wolf MSMP

Spring 2009

Josh Allen MSMEDavid Alvord MSMEBrandon Borm MSMEWillem Browne MSMEChristopher Clarke MSEthan Coffey MSME

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MASTER’S DEGREES (NONTHESIS)

Summer 2008

James Antalek MSMEPrasad Bhave MSMEEric Bonini MSMEThomas Brunt MSMEKrystina Chin MSMEBryce Clark MSMERyan Close MSMEJason Cook MSMEJonathan Crim MSMEGregory Diantonio MSMECarol Dudney MSMPRobert Dunton MSMEAndrew Fairchild MSMEMatthew Ferslew MSMEMurray Fisher MSMEShaohui Foong MSMEBrent Friesen MSMPAndres Garcia MSMEAshley Gerbode MSNicholas Ginga MSMEPhilip Grzemkowski MSMEMark Hoogwerf MSMESun Hsieh MSMPWilliam Hughes MSBIOEXiaojun Jiang MSMPPatrick Lazatin MSMEJoshua League MSMETrayvon Leslie MSMEChristopher Mast MSMEGeorge Mathai MSMEChristopher McCall MSMEThomas Mowery MSMEChristopher Myers MSMPAndrew Ogden MSMEGregory Ostrowicki MSMEBrian Petruzzello MSMPMatthew Piersall MSMEKatherine Rudell MSMEMuhammad Salman MSME

Robert Sayers MSMEAshish Sinha MSMECharles Smith MSMEEric Smith MSMERyan Smith MSMEErick Swe MSMPKristen Sydlowsk MSMPAmit Toprani MSMEKelly Tucker MSJohn Yantis MSME

Fall 2008

Mohammad Ali MSMEAlberto Amato MSMEA. Avgoustopoulos MSMEKathleen Barron MSMEChristopher Bentley MSMPJohn Berger MSMESebastien Borie MSMEYann Bougaux MSMEDavid Brandenburg MSNicolas Broche MSMENathan Brown MSMESebastien Calais MSMECaleb Cross MSMEMichael Cuddy MSMPMatthew Daly MSMEPhuc Dao MSMEKenneth Dupont MSMEAhmed Elkalliny MSBIOECharles Frago MSMPThomas Furlotti MSMEBrice Grandjean MSMEJean Guillermin MSMEWilliam Heim MSMEAdam Hilton MSMECedric Jungmann MSMEDouglas Jury MSMEMarc Killpack MSMEMichael Kim MSME

Emily Colvin MSNEKristina Cruden MSMEJennifer Daly MSMEHolly Davis MSMEAudrey Descuns MSMEWilliam Doolan MSMERashid Enahora MSMENduka Enemchukwu MSBIOEJustin Fernandez MSMEEric Harte Fitz MSMEMatthew Groves MSMEJiajie Guo MSMEXiang Guo MSMEAdenan Hussain MSMEAaron Janicz MSMEKyle Jernigan MSMEMark Kajdos MSMEDavid Korim MSMEYong Kwon MSMPDaniel Lajiness MSMEBoon Lee MSMEBenjamin Mancuso MSMEShamgar McDowell MSMEYannick Methot MSMETravis Nunnally MSMEMark Passino MSMEPaul Plummer MSMECynthia Polizzi MSMEGabriel Ramirez MSMEHoracio Repetto MSMEMuhammad Sadiq MSMEKevin Scarborough MSMEVeasna Sok MSMEZachary Sosebee MSMERyan Stewart MSMENorman Trammell MSMEJean-Rene Tremblay MSMETravis Vatter MSMEDavid Voss MSMEAdam Witko MSMEYue Wu MSMP

Christopher Miller, MSME. Set-Up and Evaluation of Laser-Driven Miniflyer System. William Wepfer, advisor

Roxanne Moore, MSME. Variable Fidelity Modeling as Applied toTrajectory Optimization for a Hydraulic Backhoe. Chris Paredis, advisor

Jeffrey Olson, MSME. Design and Modeling of a PortableHemodialysis System. David Rosen, advisor

Joshua Rast, MSME. Characterizing the Fatigue Damage in Non-Traditional Laminates of Carbon Fiber Composites Using Radiography.Steven Johnson, advisor

Pierre Theillet, MSME. Influence of Frequency and Environmenton the Fatigue Behavior of Monocrystalline Silicon Thin Films. Olivier Pierron, advisor

Rachel Valade, MSME. Development and Verification of aSimplified Building Energy Model. Sheldon Jeter, advisor

Benjamin Waghorn, MSMP. Monitoring Dynamic CalciumHomeostasis Alterations byT1-Weighted and T1-Mapping Manganese-Enhanced MRI. Tom Hu, advisor

Chenjie Wang, MSME. The Design Exploration Method for AdaptiveDesign System. Janet Allen, advisor

Daxue Wang, MSME. Dynamic Analysis of Constrained ObjectMotion for Mechanical Transfer of Live Objects. Kok-Meng Lee, advisor

Ryder Winck, MSME. Fabric Control for Feeding into an AutomatedSewing Machine. Wayne Book and Steve Dickerson, advisors

Yidong Yang, MSMP. Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging to TrackInflammatory Cells in a Murine Myocardial Infarction Model. Tom Hu, advisor

Zhao Xiayun, MSME. Process Planning for Thick-Film MaskProjection Stereolithography. David Rosen, advisor

Spring 2009Juan AguilarNathaniel Aligood (NRE)Simon AwadallaRik BanerjeeKendra Barbour (NRE)Evan BarkerDiane BasiricoJonathan BerggrenSteven Bradl (RME)Brian BrayMatthew BurnamMichael BurnettGeorge ByramElisabeth ByrdElizabeth CadoganT Everett ChamblissAlexander Chao (NRE)Chun ChuChristine ClaytonStephen Condon (NRE)Benjamin ConeybearJoseph ConklinBryson CookKatrina CorleyGregorio CortezApril Covington (RME)Jesse Coyle (NRE)Jonathan CrosbyDavid CrossAayush DaftariBrendan DaleyCody DavidMatthew De IulioKavi DotsonChristopher Druhot (RME)Huan DuAlden EavensonMatthew EicholtzEric EldredDavid EvansDavid EvansEmily Flora (NRE)Angel FloresJohn ForrestMichael FoxEmily Freibert (NRE)Matthew FrichtlCarlos GaleanoMichael GastonWilliam GattungJefferson GeeRyan GerickeSarah Gibboney (NRE)Andrew Gibson (RME)Eduardo GilIrshaad GoedarJames GoldsmithJessica GoldstaynNathaniel GredlerMathew GrishamChristopher HaileBrian Hales (NRE)Ryan Hall (NRE)Bryan HarrisStephen Harris (RME)David Hartmangruber (NRE)Ryan Henderson

Zachary HerndonAndrew HessBenjamin HillerGregory HippMark Iobst (NRE)Christopher IoghaNathan Jackson (NRE)Lina JensenBrian JohnsonKyle Johnson (NRE)Christopher JonasonThomas JoyceRaymond JurekMasato KanBokyung KangJason KapelinaBrandon KearseBrittany KellerJi-Sang KimNathan KincaidBenjamin KirkMichael KrawietzMark KulikImmanuel LeeJoseph LeoneJohn LoeselAdam LordAlexander Lynn (NRE)Jordan MackLeonard ManningJeremy MasonDaniel MathisGeorge MatthewsNancy McCauleyKieran McMahon (NRE)Brandon McLartyLarry McWilliamsJose MedinaAndrew MerkCrystian Merrill (NRE)Kelly MichaudLouis MieszkowskiCameron MillerBrian NaborsBrian NaughtonMilad NavaeiDuong NguyenHeon OhMiral PatelViral PatelCharles PaulJason Payne (NRE)Aris PerezPedro PerezRiley PerszykJames Peters (NRE)

Julia BarryJustin BeardenStephen BendaDaniel Bernal (NRE)Emmett BlombergStewart BolingThomas Brooks (RME)Patrick Brunick (NRE)Wesley Bryan (RME)Erin BurdickJared BurdineJeffrey BurtonAndrew BushJonathan ByrdGregory CarterGrant CassidyBrandon ChaffinsAndrew ChangJustin ChowAlaina ClayMarshall CohoonKevin Connolly (NRE)David CreasyMark DeatonPeter DoblarRonald DowdyScott DuceyMichael Eels (RME)Allison EhleMeladee EvansDerrick Faunce (NRE)Jonathan FonsecaChristopher FrederickJed GayBarry GivensMatthew GuidryJon IturriagaThomas HadawayJamie HallKirk HeathGibb HerronMichael HildrethAndrew HoffmanMatthew HollandStephen HomMeredith HoppsNazim HuddaKwan HuiChat HuynhDaniel IduateRolando IglesiasCherian JacobChris JacobsJared JaffarEvan JohnsonBryson JonesPhilip KangMichael KayeKelly KeevanMuneeb KhadeerAtikuzzaman KhanJeremy KingJoshua KnappTravis KnightonJonathan LangstonAdrit LathRobin LaverentzWilliam Lavery

Matthew LeClairBenjamin LeeBenson LeeMark LemonsAndrew LeungKuok LimBrandon LittleDavid LongChristopher MalcolmJames MasologitesWilliam Mays (NRE)Allison McInteerPaul MinWilliam MooreAshley MorozJason MorrisKenneth MoteBrad MoultonVictoria MurawskiJason NakaiJonathan NearDavid Nesbitt (NRE)Stephanie NewtonPhillip NicholsDamien NogaBrian O’ConnorJaeho OhAmanda O’RourkeBrian OzmentDong PakMihir PathakLee PeacockThomas PenningtonBenjamin PerkinsRobert PlattGraham PriceSimon RadomskiAdam RamersCallie ReisFernando ReiterDavid RossiArthur RozierMatthew RuizChristopher SauerJeremy SeagerRaj ShahCainesha SillsBenjamin SmithSheldan SmithMichael SopkoPhillip SouMatthew SovitskiMichael SullivanHemang SutharPatrick SwelginBhrugeshkumar TalatiMark Thigpen (NRE)William TidwellVu TranHubert TsaiMatthew TurkMatthew Von ArxPaul WebberAndrew WrenYuan YaoDarin YawnDavid Yoo

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Summer 2008Jieun AhnMichael ApplebyAmy BollingColin BulkleyCourtney CannonGeorge CarstensBoaz ChaiAlice Cheung (NRE)Minhong ChoiJames ClarkGeorge CollinsDavid CurryRyan DemarsEdward FleissJoshua GlassRoss GortneyThomas HarrisonNathan HeigleMichael HolmesGrant HouLaura IvesterJoshua KinneyJohn KowalchukRobert LandersMichael LindseyJames LovenburyBrian LuceJoshua MarcyTimothy McCraryColin McMahonBrett Mitchell (RME)Shelley NationErica O’NealJeffrey OstrowTravis PalladinoMichael PendleyStefanie PresleySara Rahnema (NRE)Timothy RyanBrian SenkoMichael SilbersteinAlison SkalaMichael SkrifvarsAnderson SmithMegan SmithStephen StegallTyson Taylor (RME)Endalkachew TegegneMehtab WasiChiheim WeyAndrew WilliamsRobert Williams (NRE)Kyle WrightAika YanoMark Zoller

Fall 2008Animesh AgaAlejandrino Aguda (RME)Matthew AlbertsJohn AndrewsBrian AntkowiakTony ArgoteCaleb BadleyDarryl BakerScott BandyAbhishek Banerjee

Kevin Phillips (RME)John PittmanEric PointelSteven PowersCarly QueenAlvaro del VillarNoah RandolphVivek ReddyJames RichesonWilliam RigsbyAlexander RivasAndrew RobertsMark RobertsonMatthew RyanAlex SandersByron Sawyer (RME)Aida SeficShubham SharmaChristopher ShawKayla Shepherd (RME)Larry ShoreyKevin SkenesElizabeth SpragueShaun St JohnPhillip StanfordJesse StarkClarisse SteansBrandon StewartTrevor StittleburgCaroline Stratton (NRE)Laura StumpNathanael SumnerJoseph TamerSean TankoJohn ThomasThomas Thompson (RME)Lauren UnbehaunJoseph VandegriftAaron Vanhorn (RME)Benjamin VannahMichael VaronJordan Vaughan (NRE) Lisandro Vazquez (NRE)Brent VokesScott WallaceJames WaringBrian WatsonJoel WeberYu WeiPerry WilliamsJoshua WilsonEric WinsletteMichael WondrasekJustin YooMolly ZajchowskiKyle Zimmerman

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES AWARDEDThe Woodruff School awarded 379 (347 ME, 32 NRE) degrees in the past academic year, summer 2008 through spring 2009. Of these, twelvedegrees were awarded at Georgia Tech Savannah (RME) and 82 students graduated with the Cooperative Plan designation on their degree.

ENROLLMENT IN THE WOODRUFF SCHOOLThe Woodruff School gets excellent students, as shown by the class profiles of the new undergraduate and graduate students for fall 2009. Our totalenrollment as of September 1, 2009, was 2,665 students. We are the largest School on campus with regard to undergraduate enrollment, which totals1882 (including co-ops at work). Of these, 1692 are in mechanical engineering and 190 are in the nuclear and radiological engineering program.Sixty-three of the mechanical engineering students are at Georgia Tech Savannah. Of Georgia Tech’s new freshman class, there are 233 internationalstudents, primarily from Korea, China, and India.

According to Rick Clark, Director of UndergraduateAdmission, “Overall, we saw more applications this year thanwe had ever received before at Tech, 11,510 for the 2650 seats.That’s 2000 more than just two years ago. We were surprisedto see a big increase in applications from out of state – up 14percent from last year. We also enrolled more women this yearthan ever before, 900 total.”


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WOODRUFF SCHOOL ENROLLMENT BY MAJOR AND GENDER IN FALL 2009

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Mechanical Engineering (Atlanta)Freshmen 303Sophomores 343Juniors 441Seniors 542Females (12.5%) 190Males 1439

Total ME (Atlanta) 1629

Regional ME (Savannah)Sophomores 1Juniors 24Seniors 38Females (16%) 10Males 53

Total RME 63

Total ME 1692 Females (12%) 200Males 1492

NRE (Atlanta)Freshmen 61Sophomores 43Juniors 37Seniors 49Females (19%) 36Males 154Total NRE 190

TOTAL Undergraduates 1882 (ME + NRE)236 Females / 1646 Males 236

TOTAL School Enrollment 2655345 Females (13%) / 2310 Males

ENROLLMENT AT GEORGIA TECH BY COLLEGE IN 2008 AND 2009

College Undergraduates Graduates Totals2008 2009 2008 2009 2008 2009

Architecture 690 651 515 539 1205 1190Computing 874 905 775 774 1649 1679Engineering 7503 7902 3574 3756 11,077 11,658Ivan Allen 961 951 283 288 1245 1239Management 1347 1356 501 628 1848 1984Sciences 1151 1177 790 790 1941 1967Registrar 439 573 -- -- 439 573

Totals 12,966 13,515 6438 6775 19,404 20,290

2009 FRESHMAN CLASS PROFILE

GEORGIA TECHApplicants 11,510

Accepted 6,100Enrolled 2,650

HS GPA (Mid 50%) 3.67-4.04SAT (Mid 50%) 1920-2160 (out of 2400)Demographics

Out of State 42%Minority Students 31%

Number of FreshmenSummer 253Fall 2409Summer Transfers 68Fall Transfers 503

WOODRUFF SCHOOLNumber of Incoming Freshmen (Fall)

Mechanical Engineering 246Nuclear Engineering 57Transfers 61 (54 ME, 7 NE)RME 23

Total 387Demographics

Georgia Residents 200 (51.7%)Out-of-State Residents 187Atlanta Campus 364Savannah 23Females 30 ME / 13 NREMales 216 ME / 44 NRE

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Mechanical EngineeringMaster’s 438Ph.D. 218Females (12%) 81Males 575

Total 656NREMaster’s 14Ph.D. 29Females (14%) 6Males 37

Total 43Medical PhysicsMaster’s 27Females (37%) 10Males 17

Total 27BioengineeringMaster’s 6Ph.D. 30Females (33%) 12Males 24

Total 36Paper ScienceMaster’s 1Ph.D. 3Males 4

Total 4RoboticsPh.D. 7Males 7

TOTAL Master’s 48668 Females / 418 Males

TOTAL Ph.D. 28741 Females / 246 Males

TOTAL Graduate Enrollment 773109 Females (14%) / 664 Males

2009 NEW GRADUATE CLASS PROFILE

Applicants 985Admitted (42% of applicants) 410Matriculated (55% of those accepted) 224

Average Undergraduate Grade Point Average (GPA) 3.52Average Score on the Graduate Record Exam

Verbal (out of 800) 528Quantitative (out of 800) 765Writing (out of 6.0) 4.0

Class DemographicsMales 199Females 25Minorities (U.S. Citizens) 21Internationals 79

Geographical Breakdown by Undergraduate School AttendedEast/Northeast 44 (20%)South/Southeast 64 (28%)Midwest 24 (11%)West/Southwest 13 (6%)International 79 (35%)

FACULTYAs of October 1, 2009, there are 82 academic (tenure-track) facultymembers with primary appointments in the Woodruff School, and 13 courtesy joint appointments from other Schools on campus. By title,there are 18 endowed or distinguished faculty, 37 full professors, 14 associate professors, and 26 assistant professors. This distributionincludes only faculty members currently on campus. By gender, thereare six female academic faculty members (1 professor, 5 assistantprofessors). (Another female professor will begin in January 2010.)There are also 23 research faculty members (3 females, 20 males), six academic professionals (2 females, 4 males), and 18 emeritusfaculty (1 female, 17 males).

With regard to longevity on the faculty, one faculty member beganin the 1960’s, seven faculty members began in the 1970’s, 18 facultymembers began in the 1980’s, 26 came to Georgia Tech in the 1990’s,and 43 started at Georgia Tech in this decade (two more will begin inspring 2010 and another in spring 2011). All Woodruff Schoolacademic faculty members have a Ph.D.

Acoustics and DynamicsYves H. Berthelot, Professor and President of Georgia Tech LorrainePh.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1985

• Fellow of ASAKenneth A. Cunefare, ProfessorPh.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1990

• Fellow of ASANico F. Declercq, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Ghent University, Belgium, 2005Aldo A. Ferri, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Princeton University, 1985

• Fellow of ASMEMardi Hastings, Professor(Will come to Georgia Tech in January 2010)Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987

• Fellow of ASAMichael J. Leamy, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of Michigan, 1998Peter H. Rogers, Rae and Frank H. Neely Chair in MechanicalEngineering and ProfessorPh.D., Brown University, 1970

• Fellow of ASAMassimo Ruzzene, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering(Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino, Torino, ItalyErica E. Ryherd, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of Nebraska, 2006Karim Sabra, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of Michigan, 2003

• Fellow of ASA

Automation and MechatronicsWayne J. Book, HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Powerand Motion Control and Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974

• Fellow of ASME and IEEEYe-Hwa Chen, ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985Kok-Meng Lee, ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985

• Fellow of ASME and IEEEHarvey Lipkin, Associate ProfessorPh.D., University of Florida, 1985John G. Papastavridis, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Purdue University, 197618


Nader Sadegh, Associate ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987William E. Singhose, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997Jun Ueda, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Kyoto University, Japan, 2002

BioengineeringGang Bao, Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering(Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1987

• Fellow of ASMEBrandon Dixon, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Texas A&M University, 2006Andres J. Garcia, ProfessorPh.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996

• Fellow of AIMBERudolph L. Gleason, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Texas A&M University, 2004Robert E. Guldberg, ProfessorPh.D., University of Michigan, 1995

• Fellow of AIMBEDavid N. Ku, Lawrence P. Huang Endowed Chair in Engineering andEntrepreneurship and Regents’ ProfessorPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1983 M.D., Emory University, 1984

• Fellow of AIMBERobert M. Nerem, Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute ProfessorPh.D., Ohio State University, 1964

• Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, APS, and ASME • Member of NAE and IOM

Raymond P. Vito, Vice Provost for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies and ProfessorPh.D., Cornell University, 1971

• Fellow of AIMBE and ASMEAjit P. Yoganathan, The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished FacultyChair in Engineering and Regents’ Professor (Joint Appointment)Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1978

• Fellow of AIMBEEvan Zamir, Assistant ProfessorD.Sc., Washington University, 2003Cheng Zhu, Regents’ Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988

• Fellow of AIMBE and ASME

Computer-Aided Engineering and DesignBert Bras, ProfessorPh.D., University of Houston, 1992Seung-Kyum Choi, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Wright State University, 2006Roger Jiao, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1998Chris Paredis, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1996David W. Rosen, Associate Chair for Administration and Professor Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1992

• Fellow of ASMEDirk Schaefer, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2003Suresh Sitaraman, ProfessorPh.D., Ohio State University, 1989

• Fellow of ASMEYan Wang, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2003


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Fluid MechanicsCyrus Aidun, ProfessorPh.D., Clarkson University, 1985Alexander Alexeev, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 2003Ari Glezer, George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems and ProfessorPh.D., California Institute of Technology, 1981

• Associate Fellow of AIAADavid Hu, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005G. Paul Neitzel, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and ProfessorPh.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1979

• Fellow of APS, ASME and Associate Fellow of AIAAMarc K. Smith, ProfessorPh.D., Northwestern University, 1982Minami Yoda, ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 1993

• Fellow of ASME

Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy SystemsBaratunde A. Cola, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Purdue University, 2008Andrei G. Fedorov, ProfessorPh.D., Purdue University, 1997Srinivas Garimella, ProfessorPh.D., Ohio State University, 1990

• Fellow of ASMES. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan, ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983

• Fellow of ASMEAsegun Henry, Assistant Professor(Will come to Georgia Tech in spring 2011)Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009Sheldon M. Jeter, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979Yogendra K. Joshi, John M. McKenney and Warren D. ShiverDistinguished Chair in Building Mechanical Systems and ProfessorPh.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1984

• Fellow of AAAS and ASMESatish Kumar, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Purdue University, 2007Timothy Lieuwen, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering(Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999G. P. “Bud” Peterson, President of Georgia Tech and ProfessorPh.D., Texas A&M University, 1985

• Fellow of AIAA and ASMEWilliam J. Wepfer, Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair and ProfessorPh.D., University of Wisconsin, 1979

• Fellow of ASHRAE and ASMEZhuomin Zhang, ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

• Fellow of ASMEBen T. Zinn, David S. Lewis Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Regents’ Professor (Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Princeton University, 1965

• Fellow of AIAA and ASME• Member of NAE

ManufacturingJonathan S. Colton, ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986

• Fellow of ASME and SPE

Steven Danyluk, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineeringfor Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Professor Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974

• Fellow of ASME, ASMI, and STLESuran Das, Associate ProfessorPh.D., University of Texas, 1998Craig Forest, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007Tequila A. L. Harris, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Michigan State University, 2005Steven Y. Liang, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professorship in Mechanical EngineeringPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987

• Fellow of ASMEJ. Rhett Mayor, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2001Leon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney Professor of ManufacturingSystems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering(Joint Appointment)Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1975Shreyes N. Melkote, ProfessorPh.D., Michigan Technological University, 1993I. Charles Ume, ProfessorPh.D., University of South Carolina, 1985

• Fellow of ASME and IEEE

Mechanics of MaterialsAntonia Antoniou, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Iowa State University, 2006Laurent Capolungo, Assistant Professor(Will start at Georgia Tech in Spring 2010)Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007Mohammed Cherkaoui, ProfessorPh.D., University of Metz (France), 1995Ken Gall, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering(Joint Appointment) Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1998Karl I. Jacob, Professor of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering(Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1985Laurence J. Jacobs, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Joint Appointment) and Associate Dean for Academic AffairsPh.D., Columbia University, 1987W. Steve Johnson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering(Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Duke University, 1979David L. McDowell, Carter N. Paden Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing and Regents’ ProfessorPh.D., University of Illinois, 1983

• Fellow of AIM International, ASME and SESRichard W. Neu, ProfessorPh.D., University of Illinois, 1991Olivier Pierron, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2005Naresh N. Thadhani, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering(Joint Appointment) Ph.D., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1984

• Fellow of APS and ASMIMin Zhou, ProfessorPh.D., Brown University, 1993Ting Zhu, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

Microelectromechanical SystemsNazanin Bassiri-Gharb, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2005F. Levent Degertekin, George W. Woodruff Chair in MechanicalSystems and ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 1997James Gole, Professor of Physics (Joint Appointment)Ph.D., Rice University, 1971

• Fellow of AAASSamuel Graham, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999Peter J. Hesketh, ProfessorPh.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987

• Fellow of AAAS and ECSTodd Sulchek, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 2002

TribologyItzhak Green, ProfessorSc.D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1984

• Fellow of ASME and STLERichard F. Salant, Georgia Power Distinguished Professor inMechanical EngineeringSc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967

• Fellow of ASME and STLEJeffrey L. Streator, Associate ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990

Nuclear and Radiological Engineering/Medical PhysicsSaid I. Abdel-Khalik, Southern Nuclear Distinguished ProfessorPh.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973

• Fellow of ANS and ASMESang H. Cho, Associate ProfessorPh.D., Texas A&M University, 1997Chaitanya Deo, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of Michigan, 2003Nolan E. Hertel, ProfessorPh.D., University of Illinois, 1979

• Fellow of HPSBojan Petrovic, ProfessorPh.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995Farzad Rahnema, Chair of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering &Medical Physics Programs and ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981

• Fellow of ANSWeston M. Stacey, Jr., Fuller E. Callaway Professor in NuclearEngineering and Regents’ ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966

• Fellow of ANS and APSC.-K. Chris Wang, ProfessorPh.D., Ohio State University, 1989Lei Zhu, Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 2007

Academic ProfessionalsJeffrey A. Donnell, Coordinator of the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication and Senior Academic ProfessionalPh.D. English, Emory University, 1990Kristi Mehaffey, Undergraduate Academic Advisor and Academic ProfessionalM.S., Clemson University, 2000

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David Sanborn, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies and Senior Academic ProfessionalPh.D., University of Michigan, 1969

• Fellow of ASMEMichael D. Stewart, Academic ProfessionalM.S., Wayne State College, 1983Christine Valle, Academic Professional & Advisor to BS/MS StudentsPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999Wayne Whiteman, Director of the Office of Student Services andSenior Academic ProfessionalPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996

RESEARCH FACULTY Scott S. Bair, Principal Research EngineerPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990

• Fellow of ASMEVan B. Biesel, Research Engineer IIM.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993Dwayne Blaylock, Research Engineer II and Interim Manager of theNRE/MP LaboratoriesM.S.N.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997John R. Bogle, Research Engineering IIM.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987Jayme Caspall, Research Engineer IIM.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988Tom Crittenden, Research Engineer IIPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003John Culp, Research Engineer IIB.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000John Doane, Research Engineer IIM.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001Michael Gray, Senior Research Engineering andCo-Director, Acoustics and Vibrations Research LaboratoryM.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992Francois M. Guillot, Senior Research EngineerPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000James Huggins, Research Engineer IIM.S.M.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988Peter A. Kottke, Research Engineer IIPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004Gregg D. Larson, Senior Research EngineerPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996Angela Lin, Research Engineer IIM.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002 James S. Martin, Senior Research EngineerM.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994Raghuram V. Pucha, Senior Research EngineerPh.D., Indian Institute of Science, 1995Dennis L. Sadowski, Research Engineer IIM.S., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986Hazel Stevens, Research Scientist IB.Sc., University of Durham, United KingdomDave Trivett, Principal Research ScientistM.S., University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1976 Bojan Vukasinovic, Research Engineer IIPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002Jelena Vukasinovic, Research Engineer IIM.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000Dingkang Zhang, Research Engineer IIPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005Ji-Xun Zhou, Principal Research ScientistChinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School (Ocean Acoustics),1963-1967

• Fellow of ASA


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

DAVE ROSEN IS THE NEW ASSOCIATE CHAIR FOR ADMINISTRATIONUpon the departure of Dr. Jianmin Qu from theWoodruff School, Dr. Dave Rosen became theAssociate Chair for Administration. Of his newposition, Dr. Rosen says: “The previousAssociate Chairs for Administration have donean outstanding job of streamlining processes,formalizing procedures, and ensuring thatmany of the School’s internal operations run smoothly. I hope tocontinue their good efforts. With both the Institute and the Schoolembarking on strategic planning exercises, we will have the opportunityto make appropriate adjustments in our organization, researchprograms, curricula, etc. to enable us to achieve the long-termobjectives that are defined. Although we have some challenges in theshort term, the long-term prospects for Mechanical Engineering ingeneral and the Woodruff School in particular are excellent. I lookforward to working with Dr. Wepfer and the faculty, staff, students, andother stakeholders of the Woodruff School over the next year. Pleasecontact me at [email protected] with your suggestions onimproving our School.”

After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in1992, Dr. Rosen joined the Woodruff School faculty as an assistantprofessor. He was promoted to associate professor in1998 and to full professor in 2004. His research interestslie at the intersection of design, computer-aided design,and manufacturing. His design research includesproduct family and configuration design and his researchin CAD and manufacturing is focused on rapid prototypingtechnologies and their applications. He has been amember of the Systems Realization Laboratory since itsformation in 1992. He established the Rapid Prototypingand Manufacturing Institute (RPMI) and was appointed itsAcademic Director in 1995, where he is responsible fordeveloping educational and research programs in rapidprototyping. He was appointed Director of the RPMI in1998. Dr. Rosen is a Fellow the ASME, was a WoodruffSchool Faculty Fellow from 2002-2007, and was theSociety of Professional Engineers (Metro Atlanta Section)Engineer of the Year in Education in 1997.

Upon appointing Dr. Rosen to this position, Dr. BillWepfer said, “David has done an outstanding job guidingthe graduate program and I look forward to working withhim in his new role.”

MEET OUR NEW FACULTY MEMBERSIn a continuing effort to improve the student/faculty ratio, which hasremained very high for a number of years, some new faculty membershave been added to the Woodruff School. Our undergraduateenrollment continues to grow and our graduate enrollment remainsconsistently high. The “popularity” of the Woodruff School has resultedin record enrollments in almost all our undergraduateand graduate-level courses. The Woodruff School willcontinue to seek out and interview potential facultymembers to be ready when the economy recovers andnew hiring can begin again in a sustained way.

Laurent Capolungo (Ph.D. ME 2007) hasaccepted a position as assistant professor and willbegin in January 2010 at Georgia Tech Lorraine. Herecently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at LosAlamos National Laboratories in New Mexico. Hisprimary area of research is mechanics of materials.

Brandon Dixon began as an assistantprofessor in fall 2009. His area of research isbioengineering, focusing on lymphatics, lipidmetabolism, biomechanics, biomedical optics, imageprocessing, and tissue engineering. He directs theLab for Lymphatic Biology and Bioengineering. Priorto coming to Georgia Tech he was a post-doc atEPFL in Switzerland.

Asegun Henry has accepted a position as anassistant professor starting in spring term 2011 afterhe completes a post-doc at Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2009.His work is in the area of computational heat transferand energy systems.

Leon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr.Professor of Manufacturing Systems in the School ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering, has received acourtesy joint appointment in the Woodruff School. Heis the Associate Director of the Manufacturing ResearchCenter and the Director of the Product-SystemsLifecycle Management Center. His research centers onrapid prototyping, environmental issues in manufacturing, systemmodeling and design, and sustainable manufacturing.

Massimo Ruzzene, Associate Professor of AerospaceEngineering, has accepted a courtesy joint appointment in the WoodruffSchool. Before coming to Georgia Tech in 2002, he was a member ofthe faculty at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

His research interests focus around wave propagation in periodicmaterials and systems.

Yan Wang came to Georgia Tech for the fall 2009 term as anassistant professor. Prior he was an assistant professor at the

University of Central Florida. He is theholder of a prestigious National ScienceFoundation Early Faculty Career Award.His research focuses on modeling andsimulation nanoscale CAD/CAM/CAE,and product lifecycle management.

Lei Zhu came to Georgia Tech forthe fall 2008 semester as an assistantprofessor. He received his Ph.D. inelectrical engineering from StanfordUniversity in 2007 and then spent several

years as a postdoctoral fellow in the radiology department. Hisresearch focuses on X-ray imaging system development,algorithm design for tomographic reconstruction, imaging appli-cations in radiation therapy, and advanced radiation therapyplanning. At Georgia Tech he is developing the Advanced X-RayImaging and Therapy Optimization Laboratory.

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McGinnis

Ruzzene

Wang

Zhu

FACULTY HONORS Said Abdel-Khalik, Southern Nuclear Professor, was appointed by

the United State Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a 2nd term on theAdvisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS). This is aprestigious appointment to a national committee.

Scott Bair, Principal Research Engineer, received the 2009International Award from the Society of Tribologists and LubricationEngineers. This is the Society’s highest technical honor, recognizingoutstanding contributions to tribology. lubrication engineering, orallied fields.

Gang Bao and Dave Trivett were recognized with a Georgia Techten-year service award at the 2009 Faculty/Staff Luncheon. Bao waselected to the grade of Fellow in the ASME.

Baratunde Cola, Assistant Professor,received a DARPA Young Faculty Award for his proposal titled, “Photothermal EnhancedCarbon Nanotube Antenna Arrays for SolarEnergy Conversion.”

Andrei Fedorov, Professor, was named tothe International Advisory Board, Tokyo Instituteof Technology’s (Japan) Global Center ofExcellence in Energy Science. Also he receivedthe Semiconductor Research Corporation

Inventory Recognition Award for 2009. Andres Garcia, Professor, received the Class

of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activity Awardat the 2009 Georgia Tech faculty/staff luncheon.

Srinivas Garimella, Professor, wasappointed Associate Editor of the ASME Journalof Heat Transfer. Also, he was nominated as apanel member to the UK Research CouncilReview of UK Energy Research.

Itzhak Green,Professor, is the recipientof the 2009 Captain Alfred E. Hunt Memorial Award from the Society of Tribologistsand Lubrication Engineers for his paper, “The Thermo-elasticBehavior of Thrust WasherBearings ConsideringMixed Lubrication.”

Robert Guldberg,Professor, was appointed a member of theMusculosketetal Tissue Engineering Study Section,Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutesof Health

Peter Hesketh, Professor, was elected tothe grade of Fellow in the Electrochemical Society.

Yogendra Joshi, McKenney/Shiver Chair, received the 2009 IEEESemi-Thermal Significant Contributor Award and a 2008 IBM FacultyAward that recognizes “the quality of your program and its importanceto our industry.”

G. P. “Bud” Peterson, President of GeorgiaTech, was named one of the 100 most influentialAtlantans by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Raghun Pucha, Senior Research Engineer,and Christine Valle, Academic Professional,were selected to participate in the inaugural groupof the Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars Programby the Center for Teaching and Learning. Theprogram is designed for untenured assistantprofessors who want to develop their full teaching potential.

Karim Sabra, Assistant Professor, won the 2009 A. B. WoodMedal from the Institute of Acoustics of Great Britain for “distinguishedcontributions to the application of underwater acoustics.” The prize was22


named after Albert Beaumont Wood, and is presented in alternativeyears to European and North American scientists. Dr. Peter Rogers,Rae and Frank Neely Chair in Mechanical Engineering, was therecipient of the award in 1979.

Richard Salant, Georgia PowerDistinguished Professor, won the 2009 Mayo D. Hersey Award. This award was established in 1965 to recognize distinguished andcontinued contributions over a substantial period of time to the advancement of lubricationscience and engineering.

Minami Yoda wasappointed a consultant tothe Air Force ScientificAdvisory Board.

Jun Ueda is the co-recipient of the 2009Early Academic CareerAward in Robotics andAutomation from theIEEE Robotics andAutomation Society.

WOODRUFF SCHOOL FACULTY MEMBER WINS THE GEORGIA TECH DISTINGUISHEDPROFESSOR AWARDProfessor Bob Nerem won the 2009 Georgia Tech Class of 1934Distinguished Professor Award, the highest award given by theInstitute. In 2006 he received the Jack M. Zeigler OutstandingEducator Award in the Woodruff School in recognition of hispioneering achievements in establishing thediscipline of biomedical engineering atGeorgia Tech and for having a profoundinfluence on its development in the UnitedStates. Dr. Nerem, who earned his Ph.D.in 1964 from the Ohio State University,spent the initial part of his career involvedin research and education in aerospaceengineering. He anticipated the comingtide of biomedical education, studiedmolecular biology in the mid-1980s, andwas hired in 1987 as the Parker H. PetitDistinguished Chair for Engineering inMedicine within the Woodruff School. Since 1995 has served asDirector of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering andBioscience (IBB) at Georgia Tech, and since 1998 as director of theGeorgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Tissues. Dr.Nerem established an Undergraduate Research Scholars Programin IBB. He paved the way for graduate students to interact directlywith industry partners, which led to the establishment of the coursecalled LIFE, Learning About Industry From Experts.

Dr. Nerem is a member of the National Academy ofEngineering and this year he received their Founders Award. He isan elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, arecipient of the ASEE Theo Pilkington Outstanding Educator Awardin Biomedical Engineering, and a recipient of an honorary doctoratefrom the University of Paris, among other awards.

Only three other Woodruff School faculty members havereceived this prestigious award: Emeritus Professors Jerry H.Ginsberg and Ward O. Winer in 1994 and 1987, respectively, andDr. Ben Zinn (joint appointment in the Woodruff School) in 1990.

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NEW PATENTS IN THE WOODRUFF SCHOOLThe following patents were granted during the past academic year:

Andrei Fedorov: U.S. Patent 7,411182,dated August 12, 2008, for Reverse-Taylor-ConeIonization Systems and Methods of UseThereof; U.S. Patent 7,442,927, dated October28, 2008, for Scanning Ion Probe Systems andMethod of Use Thereof; U.S. Patent 7,557,342,issued July 7, 2009 (with co-inventor LeventDegertekin) for Electrospray Systems andMethods; U.S. Patent 7,532,467, issued May 12,2009 (with co-inventors S. Launay and Y. K.Joshi), Thermal Management Devices, Systems, and Methods; andU.S. Patent 7,545,644, dated June 9, 2009, Nano-Patch ThermalManagement Devices, Methods & Systems.

Robert Guldberg (and co-inventorChristopher V. Gemmiti), Bioreactor andMethods for Tissue Growth and Conditioning,U.S. Patent 7,416,884 B2, issued August 26, 2008.

Charles Ume received U.S. Patent7,492,449, issued February 17, 2009 (with co-inventor Lizheng Zhang, MSME 2003, Ph.D. ME2006) for Inspection Systems and Methods.

MEET THE NEW GEORGE W. WOODRUFFCHAIR IN MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

F. Levent Degertekin wasappointed to the George W.Woodruff Chair in MechanicalSystems, effective August 2009.He came to Georgia Tech in 2000as an Assistant Professor. Hewas promoted to AssociateProfessor in 2005 and toProfessor in 2008. Beforecoming to Georgia Tech, he wasan Engineering ResearchAssociate at the E. L. GinztonLaboratory at Stanford University.He received his B.S. from Middle East Technical University(Turkey) in 1989, his M.S. from Bilkent University (Turkey) in1991, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1997.

Dr. Degertekin’s research focuses on understandingphysical phenomena in acoustics and optics, and utilizing thisknowledge creatively in the form of microbabricated devices.His research spans several fields including atomic forcemicroscopy, micromachine opto-acoustic devices, ultrasoundimaging, bioanalytical instrumentation, and optical metrology.Dr. Degertekin and his research collaborators have developedinnovative devices for various applications, which has resultedin twenty-nine U.S. patents. Applications include hearing aidmicrophones, intravascular imaging arrays for cardiology, bioanalytical mass spectrometry, material characterization atnanoscale, and parallel interferometers for MEMS metrology.

Professor Degertekin is a Woodruff School FacultyFellow (2008-2012). He received a Sigma Xi Young FacultyAward (2005), a Whitaker Foundation BiomedicalEngineering Research Grant Award (2001), and the IEEEUltrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control SocietyOutstanding Paper Award (2004). Recently, he was aNational Academy of Engineering Frontiers of EngineeringSymposium Invited Participant and was named AssociateEditor of the IEEE’s Transactions on Ultrasonics,Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.

About the Mechanical Systems ChairGeorge W. Woodruff (1895-1987) was an alumnus (Class of1917) and influential Atlanta businessman, civic leader, andphilanthropist, who believed that education was the key to anindividual’s success. In September 1985, at the age of 90, Mr.Woodruff attended the ceremonies to rename the School ofMechanical Engineering in his honor. Today, the Woodruffbenevolence continues to benefit Georgia Tech through thesupport of two major scholarship funds and a significant,unrestricted endowment. The Woodruff bequest to the Schoolof Mechanical Engineering underwrites two faculty chairs—onein Mechanical Systems and one in Thermal Systems—andactivities such as the Woodruff Faculty Fellows Program, theWoodruff Graduate Fellowship Program, the Woodruff TeachingIntern Program, and research and teaching assistantships forgraduate students. The chair in mechanical systems wasestablished in 1989. In that year, Dr. Jerry H. Ginsberg wasnamed to the chair and held the position for nineteen years,until his retirement in 2008. Dr. Ari Glezer is the current holderof the Thermal Systems Chair.

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WOODRUFF SCHOOL FACULTYFELLOWS PROGRAMDr. Suman Das, Associate Professor, was appointed a Woodruff School FacultyFellow from 2009 to 2013. This awardsupports the scholarly activities of mid-career faculty, and provides discretionaryfunds. His research is in the areas ofmanufacturing, mechanics of materials andbioengineering, specifically advancedmanufacturing and materials processing ofmetallic, polymeric, ceramic, andcomposite material for applications in the sciences, propulsion, andenergy. He directs the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory. Dr.Das began at Georgia Tech in fall 2007 as an Associate Professor.Prior, he was an Associate Professor and an Assistant Professor atthe University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from theUniversity of Texas at Austin, and in 2008 he received theOutstanding Young Mechanical Engineer from the University of Texas Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni.

Other Woodruff School Faculty Fellows are Levent Degertekin(2008-2012), Andrei Fedorov (2008-2012), Andres Garcia (2006-2010),Shreyes Melkote (2006-2010), and Minami Yoda (2006-2010). SamGraham is the current holder of the Anderer Fellow position.

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CHANGES IN THEWOODRUFF SCHOOL

Dr. Janet Allen, Professor in theWoodruff School, was named the John andMary Moore Chair and Professor in theSchool of Industrial Engineering at theUniversity of Oklahoma. At Georgia Tech,she was a director of the Systems RealizationLaboratory and served as faculty advisor formany years to Pi Tau Sigma, the ME nationalhonor society. Her research area iscomputer-aided engineering and design,especially the simulation-based design ofcomplex engineering systems. Dr. Allen willremain an adjunct professor in the WoodruffSchool until all her students have graduated.

Dr. Farrokh Mistree, Professor in theWoodruff School, was named the L.A. CompChair and Director in the School of Aerospaceand Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. At Georgia Tech, he was anAssociate Chair of the Woodruff School forGeorgia Tech Savannah, having helped to establish the mechanical engineeringprogram in that facility and worked towardABET accreditation. His area of research iscomputer-aided engineering and design. Hewas a founder of the Systems RealizationLaboratory and served as the national secretary-treasurer for the Pi Tau Sigma ME honor societyfor 13 years. Dr. Mistree will be an adjunctprofessor until all his Georgia Tech studentsreceive their degrees.

Dr. Jianmin Qu left Georgia Tech toaccept the position of Walter P. MurphyProfessor of Civil and MechanicalEngineering and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering atNorthwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.In the Woodruff School, he was a Professorof Mechanical Engineering and had been theAssociate Chair for Administration for the pasttwo years. He will remain an adjunctprofessor until all his Georgia Tech studentshave graduated.

Jianmin earned his doctoral degree from Northwestern in 1987, and joined theWoodruff School in 1989 as an assistantprofessor. He established and sustainedan impressive and well-funded researchgroup of outstanding graduate studentsand post-docs in the area of mechanics ofmaterials. He has been a role model forcollaborative research in the College ofEngineering. According to Bill Wepfer, “Iwant to thank Jianmin Qu for his serviceto the Woodruff School as the AssociateChair for Administration during the pasttwo years. I am especially grateful to himsince he really helped ‘break me in’ as thenew school chair last year.”

Hazel Stevens came to the WoodruffSchool as a Research Scientist I, workingin the bioengineering research group withBob Guldberg.

STUDENTSSTUDENT 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 ofmechanical engineering or nuclear engineering, provide an opportunity tomeet 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.

COMPETITION GROUPSgt motorsports (Formula SAE) conceives, designs, builds, and tests asingle seat formula race car

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

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

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

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

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HONORS DAY AWARDSEach April, awards are announced at Georgia Tech’s Student Honors Dayluncheon. Winners are selected by the Associate Chair for UndergraduateStudies and the Undergraduate Academic Advisor with the approval of theWoodruff School Chair. The recipients in 2009 were:

Christopher Adams received one of the ten (one for each engineeringschool) Henry Ford II Scholar Awards, given to the engineering students withthe best academic records at the end of the third year of undergraduate study.

Phares Carroll received the J. E. McDaniel Award. This award is givenby the Briaerean Honor Society and recognizes the graduating senior co-opwith the highest grade point average.

Huan Du received the Joe T. LaBoon (ME 1948) OutstandingGraduating Senior Co-op Award. It is presented to the outstandinggraduating co-op who has excelled in the classroom and on the job, andwho has made exemplary contributions to the co-op program. Huan alsoreceived the Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup, which is presented tothe engineering student having demonstrated academic excellence,leadership, and service to the Institute, as well as having shown potentialfor continuing growth.

Matthew Eicholtz, Jefferson Gee, Lina Jensen, Cameron Miller,Noah Randolph and Joel Weber each received a Richard K. WhiteheadJr. Memorial Award. This award is presented to outstanding mechanicalengineering seniors who exemplify high standards of scholarships and service.

Joshua Haar, Prathyusha Kantheti, Ryan Kraft and Yulani Smitheach won a James G. and Mary G. Wohlford Scholarship. These scholar-ships recognize outstanding senior co-op students who have excelled bothacademically and on their co-op jobs, and who have made significant contributions to the community.

Brandon Kearse won the Woodruff School ofMechanical Engineering School Chair’s Award, which is given on the basis of outstanding scholarship and contri-butions to the School, especially to its programs and external representation.

Adam Lord received the Woodruff School ofMechanical Engineering Outstanding Scholar Award.This award recognizes a graduating senior who hasachieved an exceptional scholastic record in themechanical engineering program.

Jose Medina received the Samuel P. EschenbachMemorial Award in Mechanical Engineering. This award,given by the family of Samuel P. Eschenbach (ME 1933),is based on academic performance, leadership capabilitiesas demonstrated through involvement in the campuscommunity, and promise as a mechanical engineer.

Nicole Miller received the Pi Tau Sigma OutstandingSenior Award, Hanna Wagner received the Pi Tau SigmaOutstanding Junior Award, and Kevin Wright received thePi Tau Sigma Outstanding Sophomore Award. Theseawards are presented to the students who have demon-strated outstanding scholastic achievements and service tothe School, to the Institute, and to student activities.

Matthew Rogge received a CETL/BP GraduateTeaching Assistant Award. This Institute-wide award isgiven to the TA acting as instructor of record foroutstanding contributions and excellence in undergraduateinstruction. He also received the Woodruff School Outstanding TeachingAssistant Award for excellent instruction in undergraduate laboratory courses.He assisted his advisor, Dr. Charles Ume, in mechatronics courses for thepast four years.

Yulani Smith won the Georgia Tech Society of Black Engineers FacultyAdvisor Excellence Award, which is presented to an NSBE student withoutstanding scholarship and leadership qualities that best typify the mission ofNSBE and who has exhibited excellence in the best Georgia Tech tradition.

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GENERAL GROUPSMechanical EngineeringGraduate Students Association (MEGA) fosters ME identify, facilitatesservice opportunities, and fun.

Dr. G. Paul Neitzel, advisorNRE Student Advisory Committee advises the NRE/MP faculty andadministration on issues that affect NRE/MP students.

Dr. Farzad Rahnema, advisorWoodruff School Student Advisory Committee (WSSAC) advises thefaculty and administration on issues that directly affect students.

Ms. Kristi Mehaffey, advisorWoodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW) serves the academic,social, and career needs of female graduate students in the Woodruff School.

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

Dr. Wayne Whiteman, advisor

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIESAcoustical 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, advisorsAmerican Nuclear Society (ANS) is the link for prospective nuclearengineers with their chosen profession.

Dr. Chaitanya Deo, advisorAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air ConditioningEngineers (ASHRAE) promotes the art and science of heating, refriger-ating, air conditioning, ventilation, and allied technologies.

Dr. Sheldon Jeter, advisorAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is the link forprospective mechanical engineers with their chosen profession.

Dr. Bill Singhose, advisorSociety of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International furthers research,development, design, manufacture, and utilization of vehicles.

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

Dr. Rhett Mayor, advisor

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MORE STUDENT AWARDSDinesh Bansal, graduate student, received the

Peter J. Kemmy Memorial Student Scholarship atthe 14th International Symposium onElectromagnetic Launch (EML) Technology.

Adam Christensen, graduate student, won aCongressional Fellowship from the ASME. He willgo to Washington, D.C. next January to work onenergy policy.

Shaheen Dewji, doctoral student in NRE, wasselected as an SAIC Fellow to support their partici-pation in the Sam Nunn Security Program. Thisprogram allows a select set of students to study thepolicy aspects of their technical discipline as theyrelate to international security.

Sergey Doudy and Christopher Broughton,undergraduate students, each received an ME co-op scholarship from John Deere.

Roderick Jackson, graduate student, won a Congressional Fellowship from the Materials Research Society to work on energy policy.

Nivedh Manohar won a 2009 AAPM Summer UndergraduateFellowship. Dr. Sang Cho is participating in the program as his mentor.

Chris Paneuf received a 2009 Department of Homeland Security Fellowship.

Marc Pare (ME) teamed with Kathy Pham (CS) at GTL, andwere selected as finalists in the 2009 Imagine Cup sponsored byMicrosoft and the UN. Only one US team made the finals.

James Potter, Heather Humphreys, Yang Xie, and RaphaelOkereke won first place with customized golf clubs with integratedsensors at the 2009 Design for Direct Digital Manufacturing StudentCompetition at the RAPID Conference & Exposition.

Ben Waghorn won the prestigious John R. Cameron YoungInvestigator Award for his graduate research presented at the 2009AAPM Young Investigators Symposium Competition. There were tenfinalists in the competition.

THE PI TAU SIGMA HONOR SOCIETYPi Tau Sigma is the national honor society for mechanical engineering.The Georgia Tech Nu Chapter was chartered on November 29, 1932.During the past academic year, the chapter’s goal was to inform theirmembers about opportunities for graduate school. In addition, thechapter participated in Team Buzz Service Day, the Atlanta Food Bank,a voter registration drive, and the Tech Beautification Day. In thespring term, they hosted the Engineering Academic Challenge which isopen to all undergraduate students at Georgia Tech, ran the concessionstand at the Georgia Tech Auto Show, and participated in intramuralsports and homecoming activities. There were two inductionceremonies with 52 new initiates.

Inductees in fall 2008 were: Justin Benson, James Brunone,Spencer Burch, Andrew Cass, Wye-Chi Chok, Christopher Druhot,Sergey Doudy, William Elkins, Andrew Gibson, MaximillianHertanto, Justin Hingle, Tyler Jackson, Andreas Janko, MatthewKamp, Michael Kaye, Ryan Kraft, Michael Lennard, Isaac Lockman,Timothy No, Zachary Peters, Alexander Roan, Paul Robinson,Jennifer Ryu, Aaron Anderson-Shaw, Jennifer Thiel-Perry, HannaWagner and Daniel West.

Inductees in spring 2009 were: Khurram Ali, David Black,Jonathan Buck, Caitlin Chapin, Xue Chen, Bryson Cook, JeffreyCroxall, Aayush Daftari, Sarah Gorday, David Hickman, MahaHosain, Se Kang, Victoria Lewis, Russell Martin, Andrea Mayne,Patrick McPherson, Timothy McPherson, Matthew O’Rourke,Neerav Patel, Justin Scruggs, John Semmens, Scott Sherman,Richard Trimm, Trevor Wolf, and Jonathan Zullo.

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STAFFLarry Adkins Clerk IVSegried Allen Administrative Assistant IITrudy Allen Academic Advisor IBruce Barkley Building CoordinatorAntonette Benford Administrative Assistant IShauna Bennett-Boyd Administrative CoordinatorAmy Bondurant Director of Human ResourcesVladimir Bortkevich Electrical Engineer IIILouis Boulanger Mechanical Technician IIIWilliam Cheesborough Director of Financial Services & Admin. Robert Cooper Mechanical Technician IIIPhillip Coulson Financial SpecialistAndrew Davis Electronics SpecialistJudy Diamond Administrative CoordinatorDimetra Diggs-Butler Program Coordinator IIRichard Duplessis System Analyst III Dana Foster Administrative Assistant IMelody Foster Administrative Manager IIMarlena Frank System Analyst IIINorma Frank Academic Advisor IKyle French Electrical Engineer IIRona Ginsberg Director of CommunicationsJohn Graham Machine Shop ManagerCheryl Griffin Administrative Assistant ICamellia Henry Academic Assistant IAngela Hicks Financial Manager IPhyllis Hinton Project Coordinator IINancy Hutton Accountant IIISamantha James Administrative Assistant IIDeidra Johnson Administrative Assistant IGlenda Johnson Academic Advisor IVivian Johnson Administrative Assistant IICecelia Jones Administrative CoordinatorMark Juliano Director of Information TechnologyTheresa Keita Academic Assistant IITom Lawley Director of DevelopmentPhu Le System Analyst IIIJoyce Lowe Administrative Assistant IIDorothy McDuffie-Alexander Program Coordinator IIStephanie Merrick Administrative Assistant IIRegina Neequaye Administrative Assistant IICary Ogletree Facilities Project ManagerJoi Outlaw Administrative Assistant IRekha Patel Accountant IIIMichael Proctor Computer Services Specialist IIMelissa Raine Administrative CoordinatorKysten Raleigh Administrative Assistant IAmina Sadiq Accountant IIIGlenda Skinner Program Coordinator ISterling Skinner Director of Instructional LabsValarie Spradling Administrative Assistant IKellie Templeman Research Technician IVMelinda Wilson Administrative Coordinator


THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF IS REORGANIZEDIn October 2008 the Woodruff School implemented a reorganizationplan that was developed by Georgia Tech Consulting Services withinput from the School’s Faculty Advisory Committee. The goals of thereorganization plan were to improve our customer service by closeralignment of available services to faculty and student needs; tostreamline layers of management and improve the workload distri-bution; to upgrade IT services by building better research computingsupport for faculty and improved basic IT support for the entire school;to improve financial services by providing more timely and clearinformation on current projects and by developing a strategic financialplanning capability; and to develop collaborative space managementsolutions. Some positions were changed to create the Director ofFinancial Services and Administration, the Director of InformationTechnology, and Project Manager for Facilities. Search committeeswere formed that resulted in the hiring of outstanding candidates forthese positions. According to Dr. Wepfer, “The test of any such reorgan-ization is our ability to adapt to future needs while providing both ourfaculty and staff with outstanding and timely support.”

THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL HAS A DIRECTOR OFINFORMATION TECHNOLOGYMark Juliano began in April as the WoodruffSchool’s Director of Information Technology.Prior, he was Manager at Autotrader.com;Systems and Database Manager at theGeorgia Tech Foundation; and he designedembedded software for Tracor. In this new job,Mark oversees the computing infrastructureand daily computer support in the Woodruff School, including thesupport of High Performance Computing (HPC), student accessclusters, and next-generation web services that enable the WoodruffSchool community to meet its academic and research goals. Mark seeshis immediate goals as improving basic services and support as well asbuilding partnerships with other IT organizations at Tech. He believesthat leveraging common resources at Tech will free his team to focusmore on the unique needs of the Woodruff School, and providesolutions for those needs. As an example, the increased use ofsimulation and modeling as a research method is driving demand forHPC. So the Woodruff School is working to provide a common HPCresource which will help us to remain competitive in attracting researchfunding and new faculty. Mark earned his B.S. from the University ofCentral Florida and an MBA from Kennesaw State University inGeorgia. As an aside, he is interested in observational astronomy,especially double and multiple stars, the history of science andtechnology, automobile racing, and whatever his eight-year old son isfascinated with at the moment.

MEET THE DIRECTOR OFFINANCIAL SERVICESAND ADMINISTRATIONBill Cheesborough began as Director ofFinancial Services and Administration in lateFebruary. This is a new position in theWoodruff School. Prior, Bill directed thefinancial and planning affairs of a smallbusiness and a national security field site, and served as an Army aviation officer. Hereceived his B.S. from West Point and an M.B.A. from SyracuseUniversity. Bill is now responsible for fiscal, logistical, and administrativesupport of the Woodruff School. This includes providing strategicvision while directing the Finance, Facilities, and Administrative Supportteams to promote an atmosphere of fiscal responsibility; provide aworking environment commensurate with a leading engineering school;

and facilitate the efforts of faculty and students engaged in learning andresearch. Some objectives that are already in process are: implementpredictable and sustainable budgets; increase interaction between theadministrative and financial support functions; and instill a proactiveapproach to planning. Bill’s personal interests have migrated from flyinghelicopters to more grounded activities such as hiking, triathlon, oldmovies, and all sports.

HONORS AND AWARDSTrudy Allen, Academic

Advisor I, won the Woodruff SchoolOutstanding Achievement Awardfor Classified Employees for springsemester 2009.

Vladimir Bortkevich, RobertCooper, Joyce Lowe, andStephanie Merrick each receiveda Georgia Tech ten-year serviceaward at the 2009 faculty/staff luncheon.

Dimetra Diggs-Butler,Program Coordinator II, received aGeorgia Tech Outstanding StaffPerformance Award at the 2009faculty/staff luncheon. PreviousWoodruff School winners of thisaward are Norma Frank, Academic Advisor I, in 1995and Rona Ginsberg, Director of Communications, in 1999.

Cecelia Jones and Melissa Raine were promoted to Administrative Coordinator.

Joi Outlaw received the Woodruff School Outstanding AchievementAward for Classified Employees for summer 2008. In addition, she waspromoted to Administrative Assistant I in the MARC Building.

Michael Proctor, Computer Services Specialist II, won the fall semester 2008 Woodruff School Achievement Award for Classified Employees.

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THE WOODRUFF SCHOOLOUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSterling Skinner, Director of the UndergraduateInstructional Laboratories, received the WoodruffSchool Outstanding Achievement Award forClassified Employees for 2008. He was nominatedby a number of faculty members and some GTA’sfor his instrumental role in the upgrades androutine activities in the labs; for his support of theremote lab facilities at GT Savannah; and for anextraordinary level of performance on multiple,complex tasks and daily emergencies. In addition to his activitiesfor ME 2110 (Creative Decisions/Design), ME 3057 (ExperimentalMethods Lab), ME 4053 (ME Systems Lab), ME 4182 (CapstoneDesign), and ME 4447 (Microprocessor Control of Manufacturing),he oversees the Student Competition Center, is the advisor to theWreck Racing competition team, and is the founder in 2004 andhost for the Georgia Tech Auto Show.

Sterling, who is from Statesboro, Georgia, came to Tech in1986 to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering; he receivedhis B.S. degree in 1991. While a student at Tech, he was a teamleader of gt motorosports for four years contributing to the 2ndplace overall finish in 1990 and the 6th place overall finish in 1991.He was a GM Scholar, worked for General Motors for threesummers, and was the first recipient of the Richard K. WhiteheadMemorial Award in 1991. Off-campus, Sterling builds and collectshot rods such as his 1973 Porsche 914 with a transplanted LexusLS400 4.0 liter V8 engine.

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FINANCES

The Woodruff School’s finances are built on a triad of funds from the state,sponsored research projects, and GT Foundation funds. As 90 percent of state funds must pay faculty and staff salaries, the School relies heavilyon the other sources of revenue to provide the flexibility necessary tomaintain our leadership role in engineering. Detailed financial informationis available from the Woodruff School Finance Office.

The talents of a motivated and aggressive faculty have addedsignificantly to the School’s financial position, as sponsored researchawards have grown to over $20 million annually, a 41 percent revenuegrowth in just two years.

ENDOWMENTThe market value of all endowments in the Woodruff School at thebeginning of the Fiscal Year was $103,222,578, which generated $4million available to the School for FY09.

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CHANGES IN THEWOODRUFF SCHOOLLarry Adkins’s temporary position is now permanent as a Clerk IV in the Woodruff School.Bruce Barkley is the new Building Coordinatorin the Woodruff School, coordinating the dailybuilding support and maintenance. Prior, he waswith Zone 1 Facilities at Georgia Tech.Louis Boulanger isworking as a MechanicalTechnician III in the MEMachine Shop sinceOctober, when theSchool of Electrical andComputer Engineeringclosed their shop. Louisspends part of his timeon ECE projects.Ken Dollar, Director of Support and Technical Services, retired from theWoodruff School in December 2008.Marlena Frank’s temporary position as aSystems Analyst III was made permanent.She received her B.S. inComputer Science (CooperativePlan—Honors) in May 2008. Herco-op work was done in theWoodruff School.Wanda Joefield, administrativecoordinator, retired from theWoodruff School in May after 14years in the Woodruff School.Michael Murphy, Senior FacilitiesManager, retired from Georgia Tech in October 2009.Cary Ogletree returned to the Woodruff School in the new position of ProgramManager—Facilities.David Stone, Financial Manager II, left theWoodruff School for a finance position in theCollege of Computing. David received hisbachelor’s degree in management (accounting)from Georgia Tech in 1988. He has worked on campus for fifteen years, twelve in the Woodruff School.Sheila Williams, AdministrativeAssistant II for the Medical Physicsprogram, left the Woodruff Schoolto become an Academic Advisor Iin the Computational Science andEngineering Department in theCollege of Computing.

THE GEORGIA TECH STAFF TRAINING AWARDSThe following Woodruff School staff members were recognized at theGeorgia Tech Staff Training Awards Ceremony: Dimetra Diggs-Butler(Course Leader, Emerging Leaders); Cheryl Griffin (OfficeProfessional); Vivian Johnson (Office Professional); Joyce Lowe(Defining Customer Service); Stephanie Merrick (Defining CustomerService); Amina Sadiq (Departmental Financial Management); andGlenda Skinner (Emerging Leaders).

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462 Active Grants240 Proposals Submitted144 Proposals Awarded

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Ga TechFoundation,$4,377,679 Ga Tech Research

Corp, $329,823

State$19,055,884

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THE WOODRUFF ENDOWMENTFunds from the George W.Woodruff Trust continue to providefor the enhancement of the Schoolof Mechanical Engineering. GeorgeWoodruff (class of 1917) served asa trustee and trustee emeritus ofthe Georgia Tech Foundation from1941 until his death at the age of91 in 1987. He received the AlumniDistinguished Service Award in1963. In addition to providing asignificant endowment for theSchool of Mechanical Engineering,his contributions to Georgia Techprovide National Merit Scholarships

and scholarships for student athletes in nonrevenue producing sportsand are an ongoing source of unrestricted support for the Institute. InFY09, 64 percent of the School’s endowment expenditures were forinvestment type activities, while 36 percent funded operationalactivities. This split highlights the ever increasing importance of theWoodruff Endowment in an era of State budget deficits.

The market value of the Mechanical Engineering WoodruffEndowment on July 1, 2008 was $71,698,449. That principle amountgenerated $2,820,864. The expenditures fall into the following categories:

Faculty• Endows the George W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems and

the George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems with funds fromthe Woodruff Trust. Dr. F. Levent Degertekin was named to theMechanical Systems Chair as of August 17, 2009. Dr. Jerry H.Ginsberg, held the Mechanical Systems Chair from 1989 until hisretirement in May 2008. Dr. Ari Glezer, Professor of MechanicalEngineering, was appointed to the Thermal Systems Chair in 2002.

• 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 providingseed money for research projects and other discretionary activities.The award is given for a five-year period. Drs. Suman Das, F. LeventDegertekin, Andrei Fedorov, Andres Garcia, Shreyes Melkote, andMinami Yoda are the current faculty fellows.

• Partially supports the Frank K. Webb Program in ProfessionalCommunication 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 the Associate Chairs of

the Woodruff School.• Partially supports the Joseph H. Anderer Faculty Fellow, currently

Dr. Sam Graham.• Funds faculty development activities, including new faculty

orientation, faculty socials, and retirement receptions.

Students• Graduate students comprise the Woodruff Endowment’s largest

category of support, with 229 students receiving $1,189,433 forgraduate research assistantships, teaching assistantships,fellowships, and fees.

• Funds the Woodruff School Welcome Social, a fall event to welcomeall Woodruff School undergraduate and graduate students, faculty,and staff back to campus.

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• Funds the Class Recognition Reception to recognize those receivingtheir bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree from the WoodruffSchool and their families, and to honor the Woodruff School’sDistinguished Alumnus and the Zeigler Outstanding Educator. Thisevent was held in place of the Annual Spring Banquet.

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

• Partially funds student organizations such as the ASME StudentChapter, gt motorsports, GT Off-Road, GT Robojackets, SolarJackets, and WSSAC.

• Provides partial financial support for student participants in theGeorgia Tech Lorraine program.

• Provides funds for the Annual Outstanding Seniors Dinner. Thepurpose of this dinner is to encourage Woodruff School seniors with agrade point average of 3.5 and above to go to graduate school.

• Funds luncheon meetings between the Woodruff School adminis-tration and graduate students at which graduating students are askedto assess our programs.

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

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

• Partially supports the Pi Tau Sigma National Office, the honorarymechanical engineering society that the school hosts.

• Helps fund recruiting efforts for undergraduate students in nuclearand 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.

Lectures and Seminars• Underwrites the Annual Woodruff Distinguished Lecture.• Provides support for the Woodruff Colloquium Series. These funds

allow the Woodruff School to bring in well-known scholars to campusto present a seminar and interact with the faculty in small groups.

Publications and Public Relations• Funds the design, production, and distribution of all Woodruff School

publications, such as this annual report.

FACILITIES Georgia Tech has 228 buildings, totaling 14,408,652 square feet.For its programs in mechanical engineering, nuclear and radio-logical engineering, and medical physics, the Woodruff Schoolhas the use of the following buildings: the J. Erskine Love Jr.Manufacturing Building (shared with MSE); the ManufacturingRelated Disciplines Complex (MRDC) (shared with PTFE); theFuller E. Callaway, Jr. Manufacturing Research Center (MARC)(interdisciplinary space); the Parker H. Petit BiotechnologyBuilding (interdisciplinary space); IPST Centennial EngineeringBuilding (faculty in Paper Science); the Student CompetitionCenter (officially the ME Research Building); and the NARA TechWay Building (faculty labs). The NRE/MP Programs will remainin the Frank H. Neely Research Center until the renovation ofthe Boggs Building is completed at the end of the fall semester.

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OTHER ENDOWMENTSIn addition to the Woodruff Endowment, the Woodruff School has anumber of other endowments with a total value of more than $32million. Most of these endowments are designated funds and can becategorized into mechanical engineering endowments, endowedscholarship programs for undergraduate students, and endowedfellowships for graduate students.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ENDOWMENTSArnold Goldberg Endowment FundAugustin A. Ramirez/HUSCO International Distinguished Chair FundCarter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair FundCentennial-Mechanical Engineering FundDean Lennard Endowment FundEdward A. Eppinger EndowmentEugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair in Manufacturing FundFrank K. Webb, Jr. Endowment FundHarold W. Gegenheimer FundHenry Ward EndowmentIke Murray Endowment FundJ. Erskine Love, Jr. Family Endowment FundJack M. Zeigler Endowment FundJack M. Zeigler Outstanding Educator in the School of Mechanical

Engineering Award Endowment FundJames Charles Leathers Endowment FundJohn G. Johnson Mechanical Engineering FundJohn M. McKenney & Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair in Building

Mechanical Systems FundJoseph H. Anderer Faculty Fellow Endowment FundKilpatrick and Fitzpatrick EndowmentMark Morelli EndowmentMary B. and Henry L. Pruitt Endowment Fund

ME-BioEngineering Research and Education FundMorris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Advanced Manufacturing Systems FundNeely Professorship FundParker H. Petit Chair FundPhillip F. L’Engle and Williams B. Hardin Endowment FundWard O. Winer Professional Development FundWarren K. Wells Endowment for Mechanical Engineering FundWilliam B. Crane, Sr. Endowment Fund

SCHOLARSHIPSAlan F. Sides Scholarship Endowment FundArthur Dean Brook Scholarship FundCarl F. Phillips Endowment FundDanyluk ME Scholarship Endowment FundDavid V. Carswell Memorial Scholarship FundFrancis R. Hammack Scholarship Endowment FundJames C. Leathers Scholarship Endowment FundJohn S. Webb and Julian C. Stanley, Sr. Scholarship Endowment FundJoseph H. Dean Memorial Endowment FundLeslie U. Hammack and Ola Ryle Hammack Memorial FundLouis B. Long Endowment FundPaden-Cheves Scholarship FundProcter & Gamble Technical Scholarship FundRichard A. Trotter Memorial Scholarship FundRichard K. Whitehead, Jr. Fund

FELLOWSHIPSJames E. Pruitt, Jr. FellowshipJohn Harris Maddox Fellowship Endowment FundPaul R. Yopp Memorial Fellowship FundWilliam H. Glenn Fellowship FundHenry Fisher Jr. Fellowship

Endowment (NRE)


Corporations and FoundationsAgilent Technologies FoundationAir Products FoundationAmerican Chemical SocietyAmerican Heart AssociationARCS Foundation, Inc.AREVA NP Inc.Association for Manufacturing TechnologyBoeing CompanyCaterpillar FoundationCaterpillar, Inc.CB&I Constructors, Inc.ChevronCisco Systems, Inc.Cooper Industries FoundationCummins Business ServicesDeere & CompanyDenso Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc.Duke Energy FoundationE2M, Inc.Eaton CorporationElectrochemical SocietyEric Johnson Inc.ExxonMobil CorporationFIRSTThe Fluor FoundationFord Motor CompanyGay and Erskine Love Foundation, Inc.Gay M. Love Charitable TrustGeorgia Power CompanyGreater Houston Community Foundation.Herbert and Marion Haley FoundationIBM CorporationIntel CorporationJim Ellis Atlanta, Inc.John Deere FoundationJohnson Research & Development Inc.Jon Kaase Racing, Inc.Kimberly-ClarkKorean Institute of Machinery and MaterialsLevenson Foundation Inc.Liebert CorporationLockheed-Martin Corporation FoundationMcKenney’s Management Corp.MedShape Solutions, Inc.Metalforming, Inc.Milliken & Company, Inc.MSC Software CorporationNational Corporate College Consultants, Inc.National Fluid Power Assoc. (NFPA)National InstrumentsNorfolk Southern FoundationOsha Llang LLP

PAX StreamlinePipeline MicroRobert Bosch LLCRockwell AutomationRockwell CollinsRolls-Royce North America Tech. Inc.Sample IT! Promotions, LLCSchlumbergerShell Oil CompanyShell People Services Div SocSiemens Energy & Automation, Inc.Southern Nuclear Operating Co.Springer-Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg-NStress Engineering Services, Inc.The Timken CompanyToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing,

North America Inc.UnboundaryUnited Technologies CorporationWeyerhaeuser Company Foundation

Faculty and StaffCyrus K. AidunJanet K. AllenWayne J. BookSteven DanylukStephen L. Dickerson, Retired FacultyKenneth DollarAri GlezerNolan E. HertelSheldon M. JeterBernd Kahn, Retired FacultyAlan V. Larson, Retired FacultyFarrokh MistreeRobert M. NeremJianmin QuFarzad RahnemaPeter H. RogersRichard F. SalantSuresh K. SitaramanWeston M. Stacey, PHYS, 1959William J. WepferWayne E. WhitemanWard O. Winer, Retired FacultyCaroline G. Wood

Alumni and FriendsRoger Sherman Banks, EE, 1987Arthur D. Brook, ME, 1956Debra J. Brook, FriendPamela S. Bullock, ARCH, 1979Michael W. Burnette, EE, 1998Chaz Cone, Jr., IM, 1961Eric Cummins, FriendJoel D. Davis, CE, 1998Jane W. Dickerson, FriendJames R. Downing, IM, 1966Kathleen C. Fitzpatrick, FriendMichael L. Fuller, ESM 1980Vicki Fuller, Previous ParentSharon Perry Galloway, FriendFrank E. Genovese, Past ParentArnold I. Goldberg, ME, 1950Tina L. Heil, ME, 1996Jane H. Jeter, FriendRonald D. Jobe, CE, 1978Eric W. Johnson, BC, 2003Bruce A. Jones, CE, 1974David M. Jordan, FriendMichael F. Kemp, FriendDeborah Kilpatrick, ESM, 1989Douglas Kirk, ParentJames C. Leathers, ME, 1955Marcia Lee, FriendLouis B. Long, PHYS, 1966Gay M. Love, FriendJames J. Mercure, CHE, 1978Mark D. Morelli, ME, 1987Isaac E. Murray, Jr., ME, 1949Marilyn R. Nerem, FriendJerome Pentaleri, FriendJames Pernikoff, FriendMichael A. Pusateri, ECON, 1983Mahnaz Rahnema, FriendMikel L. Sawyer, ME, 1993Lisa A. Schott, ME, 1990Alan F. Sides, ME, 1983Ronda R. Sides, FriendJoseph R. Stetter, FriendDavid L. Sullivan, ARCH, 1976William L. Thacker, Jr., ME, 1967David I. J. Wang, ME, 1953Henry B. Ward III, ME, 1993Jeremy Webber, Past ParentLynne M. Wepfer, FriendWendell M. Williams, Jr., ME, 1955Charles H. Willis, FriendMary Jo Winer, Friend

CONTRIBUTORSThis list includes donors who have designated gifts to the George W. Woodruff Schoolof Mechanical Engineering between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. If you would liketo contribute to the Woodruff School or if you have questions about establishing anendowment, contact Tom Lawley, director of development, at (404) 385-6345 or by e-mail to [email protected].

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ALUMNI THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ALUMNI AWARDSIn his welcome statement to the 2008 Induction Ceremony, Don Giddens,Dean of Engineering, said, “The members of these prominent groupsprovide unquestionable proof that Georgia Tech continues to be amongthe preeminent engineering programs in the world. Those honoredtonight, as well as those who have been honored in the past, are truerole models for future generations of engineers.” The new inductees are:

ACADEMY OF DISTINGUISHED ENGINEERING ALUMNIBenedict A. Eazzetta (BNE 1986, MSME 1987) is President of

International Operations of Rolta India Limited, a leadingmultinational technology services provider serving NorthAmerica, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.

Ravi Rangan (Ph.D. ME 1990) is Chief TechnicalOfficer at Centric Software, Inc.

Robert C. Traylor (BME 1958) is a Partner at Bull Moose Energy, LLC, a developer of biomass-basedpower plants.

Juan C. Valdes (BME 1981) is President and CEOof Alliance Medical Products, Inc., a pharmaceuticalcontract manufacturing company that he co-founded.

PASSINGSJerry A. Davis, Jr. (BSME 1938) passed away on March 23, 2009

in Perry, Georgia. At Georgia Tech he was a member of the Skull andBones Fraternity. After graduation he helped build Robins Air ForceBase. After service in the marines in the Pacific during WWII, he was a

founder and first President of First NationalBank of Houston County.

Paul A. Duke (BME 1945) died on March24th in Atlanta from the effects of Alzheimer’s.He was the 1991 Woodruff School DistinguishedAlumnus and a member of the Woodruff Schooladvisory board for many years. He was active inGeorgia Tech alumni affairs, and received theInstitute’s Distinguished Service Award in 1982and the President’s Award in 1987. He was thefounder and chairman of Peachtree Corners,Inc. in Norcross, Georgia.

Vice Admiral Eart B. Fowler Jr. (BME 1946), a resident ofSarasota, Florida, died on February 9, 2008.

Morris Harrison was a three-time letterman at GT, where heplayed fullback and linebacker for Bobby Dodd. He earned twodegrees—ME and EE. His firm, Morris E. Harrison & Associatesworked on projects with Atlanta architect John Portman. Mr. Harrisondied on June 11th in Atlanta.

Jerry Tom Hinson (BME 1965) died on December5th in his home in Atlanta after battling a rare blooddisease, amyloidosis. In addition to his degree fromGeorgia Tech he held a law degree from EmoryUniversity. He worked as a real estate developer andlater he was president of the National AutomobileAssociation, a position he held until his death. He was an avid Georgia Tech fan.

Dean Lennard (BME 1953) passed away on May3, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Frank K. Webb (BME 1938) died on November24, 2008 at his home in Texas City. He received the1992 Woodruff School Distinguished Alumnus Award, in 1994 he wasinducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame, and was amember of the Georgia Tech Hill Society. Mr. Webb funded the

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Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communications, whosepurpose is to help students improve their oral and written communica-tions skills. At Georgia Tech he was active in Tau Beta Pi, Kappa KappaPi, ASME, the Georgia Tech band and the Delta Tau Delta socialfraternity. Upon graduation, he went towork for Amoco Oil in Texas City. Hebecame manager of several refineriesand later assumed overall charge ofrefineries across the country.

Randolph Whitfield (BME 1932,MSME 1934) died on August 1st inAtlanta, at age 100. He was a native ofTallahassee, Florida, but a devotedalumnus of Georgia Tech, where hegraduated with honor. At Tech, he wasPresident of his Class and President ofODK, the Tech Cotillion Club, Pi DeltaEpsilon, and Co-op Club. He was a member of the ANAK Society, PhiKappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Later, hewas President of the Great Atlanta Georgia Tech Club, Trustee of theGeorgia Tech National Alumni Association, and State chairman of theTech-Georgia Development Fund. In 1995, he received the GeorgiaTech Distinguished Alumni Service Award. A suite of offices at Georgia

Tech is named in his honor. His family endowed a President’sScholarship at GT in his name.

Mr. Whitfield pioneered the world’s first air-conditioned citybusses when Georgia Power owned the Atlanta transit system.He was a strong environmentalist, and was a charter member,and trustee of the Georgia Conservancy, Chairman of theEnvironment Legislation Committee of the Atlanta Chamber ofCommerce, and a member of the Isaac Walton League. Heserved as a member of Governor Jimmy Carter’s StateReorganization Study Group and as Chairman of the SouthernStates Energy Board Engineering Task Force on NuclearEnergy Planning.

He served as Chairman of the Atlanta Section of the Society ofAutomotive Engineers, and was a member of the ASME and the ANS.

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COUNCIL OF YOUNG ENGINEERING ALUMNIErika Geist (BME 1996) is Engineering Manager for Marine

Gensets at Caterpillar Inc., where she is responsible for new product development, design-to-order engineering support, and product maintenance.

Anthony Lee (BME 1993, MSME 1995) is Vice President ofResearch and Development at Cellular Bioengineering Inc., a venture-backed start-up seeking to develop a cure for corneal blindness.

Dror Seliktar (MSME 1998) is a Senior Lecturer on the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

DISTINGUISHED ENGINEERING ALUMNIDavid F. Montague (BNE 1977) is Senior

Vice President of ABSG Consulting Inc., a riskassessment and reliability engineering firm.

HALL OF FAMEJean A. Mori (BME 1958) is CEO of Mori

Luggage & Gifts, a retail specialty store chainbased in Atlanta with 30 stores throughout the Southeast. He was the Woodruff School’sDistinguished Alumnus in 2007.

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THE WOODRUFF SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARDThe role of the Woodruff School Advisory Board is to recommend strategic directions for the Woodruff School, suggest broad-based curriculumchanges, and consult with the School Chair and the faculty on important issues. Mr. Henry Ward chaired the fall advisory board meeting. The agendafor the meeting consisted of a discussion of the School’s budget, organizational changes, and a fundraising update. In addition, the group discussedABET and the new Program Educational Objectives, and considered the board’s bylaws. They held a breakout session to discuss increasing the qualityof the graduate program, especially at the Ph.D. level; how to enhance interdisciplinary research especially in areas of societal impact; and the best strategies for faculty hiring.

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Dr. Dennis AssanisJon R. and Beverly S. HoltProfessor of EngineeringUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan

Mr. Jeffrey A. Benjamin Senior Vice President forCommerical and InternationalNuclear ProjectsCH2M HillEnglewood, Colorado

Mr. Michael J. Bly(BME 1990)Executive Director GM PowertrainEngine HardwarePontiac Global HeadquartersPontiac, Michigan

Mr. Lou CeroneGeneral Electric Energy SystemsGreenville, South Caorlina

Dr. Dana ChristensenAssociate Laboratory DirectorNuclear ProgramsORNLOak Ridge, Tennessee

Mr. Thomas A. Coleman(BSPhys 1971, MSNE 1973)Vice President of Federal ServicesFramatome-ANPLynchburg, Virginia

Mr. Joseph P. DeRoy Vice President Operations SupportEntergyJackson, Michigan

Mr. Ken S. Folk Manager, Core AnalysisSouthern Nuclear Operating CompanyBirmingham, Alabama

Mr. Jeffrey Gasser (BME 1983)Executive Vice President/Chief Nuclear OfficerSouthern Nuclear Operating CompanyBirmingham, Alabama

Mr. Manuel Junco, Jr.(BME 1975)CEOBrinderson Engineers andConstructorsCosta Mesa, California

Mr. John KluberVice PresidentKluber Skahan & AssociatesBatavia, Illinois

Mr. Thomas KopanskiSiemensNorcross, Georgia

Mr. Bryan LaBrecqueManaging Partner & CEOHealthcare Team Training LLCFayetteville, Georgia

Dr. James A. Lake (MSNE 1969, Ph.D. NE 1972)Retired from Idaho National LaboratoryIdaho Falls, Idaho

Dr. William R. McCollum Jr. Chief Operating OfficeTennessee Valley AuthorityChattanooga, Tennessee

Mr. Mark D. Morelli(BME 1987)President & CEOEnergy Conversion DevicesRochester Hills, Michigan

Dr. Johné M. Parker(BME 1995, MSME 1992, Ph.D. ME 1997)Associate ProfessorUniversity of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky

Mr. Jim E. ReebDirector, Manufacturing R&DProduction System Division Caterpillar Inc.Peoria, Illinois

Ms. Lisa A. Schott(BME 1990)President & Principal Acoustical ConsultantQuietly Making Noise, LLCOviedo, Florida

Mr. Randy Sheffield(BME 1988, MSME 1990, Ph.D. ME 1994)SchlumbergerBeaumont, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Joseph L. Smith Jr.(BME 1952, MSME 1953)Senior Professor of Mechanical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, Massachusetts

Mr. Michael Tinskey(MSEE 1991)Director, BusinessDevelopment Ford Motor CompanyDearborn, Michigan

Dr. Kyle H. Turner (BSEE 1968, MSNE 1969,Ph.D. NE 1971)Chief Executive OfficerMcCallum-Turner, Inc.Evergreen, Colorado

Mr. Henry B. Ward III(BME 1993)Partner Moore & Van Allen, PLLCCharlotte, North Carolina

Dr. Lawrence J. Ybarrondo (Ph.D. ME 1964)Jackson Hole, Wyoming

2008-2009 Woodruff School Annual Report

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