Dr. Ramulu Mamidala is a mechanical engineering professor at University of Washington. Usually goes by the name 'Ram',or 'M.R.',he is recognized for his leadership and outstanding record in promoting collaborative education and research with industry. He is currently the director of Manufacturing Science and Technology Laboratory (MSTL) at Mechanical Engineering Department,University of Washington. He has designed and developed manufacturing methods for a wide range of systems,from the B2 bomber to the Boeing 787. Additionally,in collaboration with industry,he established and directed two interdisciplinary graduate educational programs in engineering and management and a certificate program in composites tooling and manufacturing. His exemplary collaborative efforts motivated working engineers to pursue doctoral studies and he is a leader in using emerging technologies in distance education to reach non-traditional students.
Bahgat G. Sammakia is an educator and academic administrator who currently serves as Vice President for Research at Binghamton University. He was previously the Interim President of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He is also a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Small Scale Systems Packaging Center at Binghamton University in Binghamton,New York. Sammakia has published over 200 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings,holds 21 U.S. patents and 12 IBM technical disclosures. He has also contributed to three books.
Manuela Maria Veloso is the Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research &Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emeritus in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University,where she was previously Head of the Machine Learning Department. She served as president of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) until 2014,and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Yuwen Zhang is a Chinese American professor of mechanical engineering who is well known for his contributions to phase change heat transfer. He is presently a Curators' Distinguished Professor and Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri in Columbia,Missouri.
Pradeep Kumar Khosla is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California,San Diego.
Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American engineer,materials scientist,and academic leader. He is currently Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Barack Obama,where he served from 2010 to 2013. He was the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2013 to 2017. Between 2018 and 2022,he was the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU),where he was also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor.
Amir Faghri is an American professor and leader in the engineering profession as an educator,scientist,and administrator. He is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Distinguished Dean Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He is also currently Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. Faghri served as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1994 to 1998,and Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut from 1998 to 2006. Faghri is well known for his contributions to the field of heat transfer. He is the world's leading expert in the area of heat pipes and a contributor to thermal-fluids engineering in multiphase heat transfer.
Sheri D. Sheppard is the Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education;Associate Vice Provost of Graduate Education;and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum,Mechanical Engineering,Stanford University. She focuses her teaching on engineering design for undergraduate and graduate students. In November 2014,the Carnegie Foundation bestowed on her the U.S. Professor of the Year award.
Leroy Stevenson (Skipp) Fletcher is an American mechanical and aerospace engineer,and college dean,who served as the 104th president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1985–86,and was recipient of the 2002 ASME Medal.
Yongjie Jessica Zhang is an American mechanical engineer. She is the George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of mechanical engineering and,by courtesy,of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering with Computers.
Andrew G. Alleyne is the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He was previously the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professor in Engineering and Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Power Optimization of Electro Thermal Systems at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work considers decision making in complex physical systems. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Carlotta Berry is an American academic in the field of engineering. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is co-director of the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) program. She is a co-founder of Black In Engineering and a co-founder of Black In Robotics.
Jayathi Y. Murthy is an Indian-American mechanical engineer who is the current President of Oregon State University. Previously,she was the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California,Los Angeles where she was also a distinguished professor. Her research interests include macroelectronics,computational fluid dynamics,heat transfer,and phase-change materials. Murthy has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize since 2018.
Yaman Yener was a Turkish-American scientist.
Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley is an American mechanical engineer,the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering and associate dean for research and innovation for the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. Her research concerns "systems for enhancing the human sensorimotor control system",including work on exoskeletons,neuroprosthetics,haptic technology,and brain–computer interfaces.
Michele J. Grimm is a British-American biomechanical engineer. She took on the role of Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Albany in 2022. She was previously the Wielenga Creative Engineering Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at Michigan State University. Her research concerns the biomechanics of injury,particularly injuries in newborn children to the brachial plexus,a part of the nervous system connecting it to the upper body.
Susan Finger is an American engineer whose research involves engineering design and additive manufacturing for mechanical engineering,bioengineering,and building engineering. She is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University,where she is also associate dean for the Integrative Design,Arts and Technology Network,and is affiliated with the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems and the School of Architecture.
Caroline Clarke Hayes is an American computer scientist,roboticist,and mechanical engineer whose research concerns agent-based models,human–computer interaction,intelligent decision support systems,and more generally "the interface between people and technology for complex tasks". She is Lynn Gleason Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at Iowa State University,where she chairs the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Linda Catherine Schmidt was an American mechanical engineer whose interests included the engineering design process,the use of formal grammars in design,and engineering education. She was a faculty member in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland,College Park.
Gregory Scott Chirikjian is an American roboticist and applied mathematician,primarily working in the field of kinematics,motion planning,computer vision,group theory applications in engineering,and the mechanics of macromolecules. He currently serves as the head and professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He is known for his theoretical contributions to the kinematics of hyper-redundant robots and stochastic methods on Lie groups.
