2007 Winner Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University will receive a Fellowship
Award for proposed research entitled, "Improved Performance of
Long-Range Guided-Wave Ultrasonic Inspection of Pipeline." The
project advisor is Joseph L. Rose and the graduate student is Jason
K. Van Velsor.
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. Rose has won a number of
awards, including the 1973 ASNT Achievement Award, the 1986 ASNT Tutorial
Citation, the 2007 ASNT Research Award for Innovation and ASNT Fellowship
Awards on five separate occasions. He also 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. In 1995, Rose was a finalist
in the Discover Awards for Technological Innovation in Aviation and
Aerospace for the development of a hand-held probe for aging aircraft
testing. ASME honored him with the 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.
Jason
K. Van Velsor is a graduate assistant at the Pennsylvania State University,
where he is working on his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics. As an undergraduate
at Penn State, he was a Schreyer Scholar. He has been a member of ASNT
since 2005 and is also a member of the Society of Engineering Science.
2007 Winner Stevens Institute of Technology
The Stevens Institute of Technology will receive a Fellowship
Award for proposed research entitled, "Fabrication and Characterization
of Nano AFCs as Acoustic Emission Sensor." The project advisor
is Yong Shi and the graduate student is Shiyou Xu.
Yong
Shi is an assistant professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology,
where he has taught and conducted research since 2004. A member of ASME,
IEEE, MRS, ASEE and the Fiber Society, Shi is a graduate of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 2004.
He has published on the preparation and mechanical properties of nanoscale
piezoelectric fibers.
Shiyou
Xu is a graduate student at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where
he is involved in the fabrication of nanoscale piezoelectric fibers
and composites. He was previously a research assistant at Zhejiang University,
China, where he obtained his M.S. in 2005. He has published an article
on the preparation and properties of nanoscale piezoelectric fibers.
2007 Winner University of Maryland, Baltimore
County
The University of Maryland, Baltimore Country will receive
a Fellowship Award for proposed research entitled, "Vibration-Based
Structural Damage Detection with Application to Joint Damage Detection."
The project advisor is Weidong Zhu and the graduate student is Kun He.
Weidong
Zhu has been an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County since 1999.
He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in dynamics, vibration
and control, and supervises the work of students pursuing master's and
doctoral degrees. He also conducts research into vibration and structural
health monitoring. Prior to his affiliation with the University of Maryland,
Zhu was assistant professor at the University of North Dakota (1997-1999)
and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994-1997). He is a member
of ASME and the American Society for Engineering Education, and has
published 25 papers in reviewed journals on the subjects of dynamics,
vibration and control, and applied mechanics, in addition to work he
has presented at conferences. Zhu received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, having received
his M.S. from Arizona State University in 1988 and dual undergraduate
degrees in mechanical engineering and computational science from the
Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China in 1986. He has three utility
patents pending for a system and method for detecting structural damage.
Kun
He has been a teacher and research assistant in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County since 2005.
He was previously a teaching assistant in the Mechanical Engineering
Department of Peking University, Beijing, China, where he received his
master's degree in mechanical engineering. He has presented work on
dynamics, vibration and control at various conferences and had his work
included in the published proceedings. He received his undergraduate
degree from Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University.
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