Research Award for Innovation
2006 Winner Joseph L. Rose

Joseph L. Rose holds the Paul Morrow Professorship in Engineering Design and Manufacturing in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, College of Engineering, at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in applied mechanics from Drexel University and has been a member of ASNT since 1970. Rose was the guest technical editor for the January 2003 issue of Materials Evaluation and has been a member of the Research Council for over a decade. He served as an associate technical editor of Materials Evaluation from 1978 to 1988. He has won a number of awards, including the 1973 ASNT Achievement Award, the 1986 ASNT Tutorial Citation, and ASNT Fellowship Awards on five separate occasions. Rose presented the Mehl Honor Lecture in 2001, and was the recipient of the Penn State Outstanding Research Award in 1997 and the Penn State University Faculty Scholar Medal for Achievement in Engineering in 1996. Rose was a finalist in the 1995 Discover Awards for technological innovation in aviation and aerospace, for the development of a handheld probe for aging aircraft testing. He also received the ASME Nondestructive Evaluation Engineering Division Founders Award in 2003. Rose is a Fellow of ASNT, ASME, IEEE and BINDT. He has published a number of technical papers and is the author of Ultrasonic Waves in Solid Media (Cambridge University Press, 1999). In addition to ASNT, Rose is a member of ASME, ASA, IEEE and BINDT.

Research Award for Sustained Excellence
2006 Winner R. Bruce Thompson

R. Bruce Thompson is the director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and a distinguished professor in the Department of Material Science and Engineering and the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his B.A. in physics from Rice University and his M.S. in physics and Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University. From 1970 to 1980, he served as a member of the technical staff and group leader at the Rockwell International Science Center before coming to Iowa State University, where he has served in a variety of research and administrative positions. He has also served as chair of the Iowa Section of ASNT. In 2002, he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. ASNT honored him in 2004 by asking him to present the Lester Honor Lecture and in 2006 by bestowing the Society's Tutorial Citation upon him.

Thompson's research interests fall in the area of ultrasonic NDT. Specialties include the analysis and development of noncontact sensors (in particular electromagnetic acoustic transducers), modeling the effects of measurement geometry on ultrasonic testing and studying the uses of ultrasound to characterize a variety of microstructural and material properties such as stress, texture, grain size and anisotropy, porosity, and partially contacting interfaces. Current interests focus on developing a set of model based tools to assist in the determination of the probability of detection of ultrasonic techniques. Thompson is the author of six major invited review articles in the field of NDT, over 90 articles in archival journals and over 300 papers in edited conference proceedings. He has been awarded 24 US patents and presently serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation.

About the Research Award for Innovation

The Research Award for Innovation was established to recognize highly distinguished individual breakthroughs in research in NDT. No more than one such award may be given in any calendar year and need not be given if there are no outstanding candidates nominated for the award. The recipient presents an overview lecture regarding the breakthrough at the Annual Research Symposium and receives an appropriate award, as established by the ASNT Research Council.

Congratulations to Joseph L. Rose, winner of the 2006 Research Award for Innovation.

About the Research Award for Sustained Excellence

The Research Award for Sustained Excellence was established to recognize sustained contributions in research in NDT. No more than one such award may be given in any calendar year and need not be given if there are no outstanding candidates nominated for the award. The recipient presents a lecture on some aspect of his or her research at the Annual Research Symposium and receives an appropriate award, as established by the ASNT Research Council.

Congratulations to R. Bruce Thompson, winner of the 2006 Research Award for Sustained Excellence.

 

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