Judith Ann Bamberger is an American mechanical engineer whose research has concentrated on the measurement of physical properties in materials undergoing multiphase flow, especially through the use of ultrasound, and its applications in the cleanup of the Hanford Site. [1] She is a senior research engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, [2] in its Energy and Environment Directorate. [1]
Bamberger majored in physics and chemistry at Dickinson College. She has a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and completed her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Washington State University. [1] Her 2013 doctoral dissertation, Characterizing and Modeling of Concentration Profiles during Pulsed Jet Mixing of Slurries, was supervised by Cecilia Richards. [3]
Bamberger was named as an ASME Fellow in 2014. [4] She was the recipient of the 2015 Tri-Cities Engineer of the Year Award. [2]
Bamberger also competes as a triathlete. [5]
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach." ASME is thus an engineering society, a standards organization, a research and development organization, an advocacy organization, a provider of training and education, and a nonprofit organization. Founded as an engineering society focused on mechanical engineering in North America, ASME is today multidisciplinary and global.
Hussein M. Zbib was Lebanese-born American engineer. He was a professor in School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, where he has also served as director of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and director of the Computational Mechanics and Materials Laboratory. His research expertise was in the area of thermo-mechanical behavior and properties of solids. Zbib was recognized for his work on the theory of 3D dislocation dynamics and defects in metals, multi-scale modeling of metal plasticity, and strain gradient plasticity theory.
Yvonne Y. Clark was a pioneer for African-American and women engineers. Also known as Y.Y., she was the first woman to get a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Howard University, the first woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University, and the first woman to serve as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Technology at Tennessee State University, afterward becoming a professor emeritus.
George Em Karniadakis is a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University. He is a Greek-American researcher who is known for his wide-spectrum work on high-dimensional stochastic modeling and multiscale simulations of physical and biological systems, and is a pioneer of spectral/hp-element methods for fluids in complex geometries, general polynomial chaos for uncertainty quantification, and the Sturm-Liouville theory for partial differential equations and fractional calculus.
Frank Kreith was an American mechanical engineer.
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.
Francine Battaglia is an American aerospace engineer specializing in computational fluid dynamics, including the study of fluidized beds and of fire, fire whirls, and flame spread. Her other research interests include ventilation and energy usage in architectural design, and alternative and renewable energy systems. She is professor and chair in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University at Buffalo, where she directs the Computational Research for Energy Systems and Transport Laboratory.
Beth Ann Todd is an American engineering educator and biomechanical engineer who studies the mechanics of the human body and of assistive technology, and works to integrate graduate students in engineering into primary and secondary school mathematics and science education. She is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama.
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Judith A. Todd is a British-American materials scientist whose research topics have included multilayered coatings, the properties of metal alloys and ceramics, the use of lasers in the nondestructive analysis of materials, and the history of ancient metallurgy. She is the P. B. Breneman Chair at Pennsylvania State University, where she heads the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.
Susan H. Skemp is a retired American mechanical engineer, the former president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the former executive director of the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University.
Amy S. Fleischer is an American mechanical engineer whose research concerns thermal engineering, including sustainable energy, thermal energy storage using phase-change materials, and energy recovery from the heat management of electronic devices. She is dean of the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Engineering.
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.
Lola Boyce is an American mechanical engineer whose research concerns mechanical fatigue and strength degradation in materials for nuclear and aerospace applications.
Olesya I. Zhupanska is a Ukrainian and American mechanical engineer and materials scientist whose research concerns composite materials and their application in extreme environments, such as in wind turbine blades subject to lightning strikes. She is a professor in the Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona.
Diann Erbschloe Brei is an American mechanical engineer whose research focuses on smart materials and piezoelectric actuators. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.
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.
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