MechanicalEngineering

News

Summer 2003

Managing EditorNathan Cloud

Contributing WriterDiane Kukich

Layout & EditingLiz Dunkle

University of Delaware

Inside: Department News • Faculty Research • Student Profile • Senior Design • Awards • Alumni News

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Tsu-Wei Chou

ME’s class of 2003 is a first in twoways—it’s the first to graduateunder the new curriculum and thefirst to go all the way through ourprogram under my chairmanship.So even though I’m always excitedand proud to see a class graduate, Iguess I have a special feeling aboutthis one.

A lot has happened in the past sixmonths. The move of theDepartment of Materials Scienceand Engineering into DuPont Hallhas enabled our department to

occupy most of the Spencer Lab andto renovate several labs, includingspace for biomedical engineeringresearch, computational mechanics,and combustion. During the nextsix months, we plan to renovateseveral more. We have alsoimproved the physical structureand appearance of Spencer Lab.

We are continuing to strengthenour relations with alumni anddevoting more efforts to develop-ment. The joining of Deirdre Smithto the College of Engineering is abig step in this direction—she isvery energetic and enthusiasticabout contributing in this area.

As always, we are proud of themany accomplishments of our fac-ulty, students, and staff. We can’tcover them all in any one issue ofME News, but I think our newslet-ter staff has put together a greatsampling of stories to let our read-ers know what is going on in thedepartment.

Please give us your feedbackabout the newsletter itself or aboutthe activities of the department. Wethink great things are going on herein ME, but we know there is alwaysroom for improvement.

Message from the Chair

IN THIS ISSUE

Message from the Chair ......Pg 2

Department News ..................Pg 3

Department Seminar LectureSeries ......................................Pg 3

History of MechanicalEngineering at UD ................Pg 3

Faculty Focus ..........................Pg 4

Mike Keefe ............................Pg 4

Faculty and Staff Highlights ..................................Pg 5

Research Highlights................Pg 6

Tsu-wei Chou ..........................Pg 6

Sunil Agrawal ........................Pg 7

Student Focus ........................Pg 8

HPV ..........................................Pg 9

Senior Design ......................Pg 10

Alumni Focus ..........................Pg 12

ABET ......................................Pg 12

Vasilios Peros ......................Pg 12

UDME Engineers at Boeing ..............................Pg 13

Don McCoy ............................Pg 14

UDME Alumni Saves Lives ......................................Pg 14

Reflections and Memories................................................Pg 15

Alumni Business Highlight ................................Pg 16

Alumni Class Notes ............Pg 16

Outstanding Alumni Awards ..17

Student Awards............................17

FY ’02 Donor Addendum ............8

Contacts..........................................19

Feedback Form..............................19

Editor’s Note

Nanoscale technologies; the mathematics of biological systems; bio-mechanics; MEMS (microelectro-mechanical systems), flyingrobots…new directions in mechanical engineering! Some may think ofmechanical engineering as having reached a zenith in the industrialpast, but new fields of research have been rapidly emerging, creatingnew collaborative efforts across schools and departments and present-ing exciting opportunities for students! We urge alumni to learn moreabout your Department by visiting or staying in touch by the variousmeans available: visit our web site, give us feedback via email or theresponse form in this newsletter, and/or just call…..and read moreabout “what’s up” in the ME world in this newsletter—from flyingrobots (cover) to nanotechnology!

Department News

Department SeminarSeries

The department runs regular seminarseries every semester in addition to manyinformal ones presented by our visitingprofessors and scientists. The departmen-tal seminars have high academic standardsand are often presented by the world-widefamous professors and researchers fromprestigious universities and institutions.The seminar talks have covered the emerg-ing research areas such as nano-technolo-gies and MEMS, and the traditional sub-jects of the mechanical engineering includ-ing solid and fluid mechanics, and thermalsciences.

Please visit the departmental website forthe schedule of future seminar talks.

Contact: Crystal Maccari/Jian Qiao Sun– 302-831-6975

Jack R. VinsonLecture announced

The 2003-04 academicyear marks the 40th yearof Jack Vinson’s service atthe University ofDelaware. Dr. Vinson isthe H. Fletcher BrownProfessor of Mechanicaland Aerospace

Engineering at the University of Delaware,with joint appointments to the Center forComposite Materials and the College ofMarine Studies.

In addition to being the FoundingDirector of our internationally renownedCenter for Composite Materials and Chairof Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringDepartment (1965-79), Professor Vinson isa dedicated teacher, a prominent researcherin structural mechanics and compositematerials, an author/co-author of sevenpopular textbooks, a highly active contrib-utor to several professional societies, andan inspiring mentor to graduate andundergraduate students.

To celebrate this milestone of an extraor-dinary career, the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment has established the “Jack R.Vinson Lecture.” The annual lectures willbe delivered by prominentresearchers/educators on topics in engi-neering science and technology. The inau-gural Jack R. Vinson Lecture will be givenin the fall of 2003.

In announcing the establishment of theLecture, Dr. Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. duPont Chair of Engineering and Chair ofMechanical Engineering said, “I have hadthe privilege of working with Jack in thesame department at Delaware for 34 years,and because of our common interests inteaching and research, I have followed his

professional career fairly closely. I deeplyadmire his scholarly accomplishments andtruly marvel at his dedication to engineer-ing education. His energy and enthusiasmtoward his profession are just as vibrantnow as when he first started fourdecades ago. His vision and pioneeringefforts in teaching and research in theareas of composite materials and struc-tures technology have had profoundimpact world-wide.”

However, as one of his colleagues haspointed out, Professor Vinson’s “mostimportant impact on our industry andon engineering is in the people he hastouched and educated over the years.”This is borne out by the accoladesProfessor Vinson has received frommany of his students, including the fol-lowing recent comment: “I want tothank you for your kindness, under-standing, and generosity for helping me‘help myself’ over 25 years ago. Whenpeople ask me about my career, one ofthe important pieces in it was Dr. JackVinson. Remember, people are the great-est composite materials you’ll ever workwith.”

Professor Vinson is the embodiment ofan educator and a leader of the mechani-cal engineering profession. He is a truerole model for junior engineering faculty.We are proud to establish this new lec-ture in his name and his honor.

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History of MechanicalEngineering at UDAlumni can help with Memories

The article below, “Where is ME onthe UD Campus?” by Diane Kukich, waspublished in the ME News, Fall 1997,along with Interesting “Did You Knows”regarding UDME history. These include:Did you know that?

The department of mechanical andelectrical engineering was establishedin 1891.At that time, the average annualsalary for a full professor in 1891 was$1,750!?Frederick Bartlett and Frank H.Hynson are listed in our alumni data-base as the first graduating class in1895? (Incidentally the data baseincludes 3,108 alums through the 2001class – Editors note, July 03)Mechanical Hall cost just over $7,000to build in 1898, Evans Hall was$360,000 in 1930, and Spencer Lab cost

$9.7 million in 1983?The average starting salary for amechanical engineer with a bachelor’sdegree was $2,700 in 1947 and $5,100just 10 years later?The father and son for whom EvansHall was named served a total of 87years on the boards of trustees ofDelaware College and the Universityof Delaware?When the department of mechanicaland electrical engineering was estab-lished in 1891, one professor wasassigned to the program; while in 1997,close to 30 full-time, visiting, andadjunct faculty are affiliated with theME department?Out of the 154 bachelor’s degreesawarded by Delaware College between1909 and 1914, 120 were in engineering,leading President Harter to say, “TheCollege is now becoming anEngineering School largely”?Electrical and mechanical engineeringwere part of a single department until1911 and, even after they separated,

their curricula remained the sameexcept for the fourth-year require-ments?In addition to these items we have

begun compiling history items with theidea that we can create an updated“History of Mechanical Engineering atThe University.”

We need your help in this endeavor.Please send us history items that youmight have from your files or from yourmemory. As a guide, the items might fitinto the following categories, but we cer-tainly don’t want to limit your input tothese—include anything you think couldbe of interest, and we will take it fromthere.

FacilitiesChairpersons, facultyCurriculaResearch areasNotable faculty, alumniSignificant eventsContact: Nate Cloud (Ref: contact

sheet; address)

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Mike Keefe:Engineering ProfStarted Education inMathematicsby Diane Kukich

Although Mike Keefe says that hereally had no clue what he wanted todo when he finished college with amath degree, being a faculty memberin engineering seems to have workedout just fine for him. What he didknow was that although he likedmath, pure mathematics did notappeal to him as much as “appliedmath” did, so he chose mechanicalengineering as the course of study forhis master’s degree at the Universityof Minnesota.

While working for Honeywell, heearned his Ph.D. and was urged byhis advisor to consider teaching as acareer. By then, Keefe was married,and he and his wife had started thefamily that would eventually (ormaybe the correct word is currently)grow to include 10 children.

In looking for a faculty position,Keefe looked at schools in theMidwest, while his wife, who wasoriginally from Connecticut, focusedon the East Coast. She saw an ad foran assistant professor position at theUniversity of Delaware, and Keefejoined the UD faculty in 1985.

He teaches primarily machinedesign courses, and his research inter-ests are all in areas related to solidmodeling. “I’m still fundamentally amathematician,” he says. “I like the

challenge of aproof.”

Now anassociate pro-fessor, Keefealso enjoys thechallenge ofworking withstudents. “Ilike to havelots of interac-tion with mystudents,” hesays. “I trynever to turnthem awaywhen theyknock at thedoor.”

“If I hadbeen interest-ed in just theresearch partof my career,”he continues,“I would havetaken a job ina governmentlab. But my whole reason for goinginto academia was to work withkids.”

Keefe admits that working with stu-dents takes a lot of time, as does hisinvolvement with the Faculty Senate.But he believes that involvement in allthree aspects of being a faculty mem-ber is critical. “Research is veryimportant at a place like Delaware,”he says, “and so is teaching, includingmentoring of students. In terms ofservice, a university is a community—if you want to ‘live’ here, you need toget involved.”

After spending almost two decadesat UD, Keefe notes that some thingshave changed, while others haven’t.“In some ways, the University ofDelaware is becoming more like acompany as it gets bigger and morecomplex,” he says. “Things were cer-tainly simpler when I came here in1985. Today, sometimes the studentsseem to be here more as a means toget a job than as a place to learn. But Idon’t think that students havechanged in any fundamental waysince then.”

Front row l-r: Anne, Nicole, Andrew, wife Liz with baby TheresaSecond row: Christopher, Laura, David, Mike KeefeThird row: Carolyn, Michelle, Stephanie

Faculty Focus

Solid ModelingSimulation of a sphereimpacting a layer offabric

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Anette M. Karlssonwas an Invited GuestScientist at the Instituteof Industrial Science,The University ofTokyo, from March 21-31, 2003. The visit was

funded by the Center of Excellence,the Japanese Ministry of Education,Japan. During her visit she gave aseminar entitled “Failure Mechanicsin Coated Structures Subjected toCorrosive Thermal Environments.”

Jian-Qiao Sun hasbeen promoted to therank of Professor, effec-tive September 2003.

Ajay K. Prasad is ispresenting an invitedlecture at the Advancesin Fluid MechanicsSymposium from July24-25 in Bangalore,India. The proceedings

of this symposium will be dedicatedto Professor R. Narasimha to honorhim on the occasion of his 70th birth-day. Professor Prasad is also present-ing a paper at the 5th European FluidMechanics Conference, to be held inToulouse, France, August 24-28, 2003.

Andras Z. Szeri, hasbeen invited to give aPlenary Lecture at theCongress of AIMETA(the Italian Associationof Theoretical andApplied Mechanics),on

September 9-12, 2003.

Suresh Advani, has provided tech-nical editing for a book, AdvancedPolymeric Materials. The book con-

tains chapters thataddress currentresearch in polymercomposites, polymerblends, nanocompos-ites, and biopolymers; itwas published by CRC

press in April 2003.

Lian-Ping Wang was a VisitingScientist at the National Center forAtmospheric Research (NCAR) in

Boulder, CO, fromJanuary to March, 2003,where he gave a semi-nar to the Mesoscaleand MicroscaleMeteorology Divisiontitled “Effects of

Turbulence on the CoagulationGrowth of Cloud Droplets.” NCAR isan NSF-funded, national research cen-ter focusing on atmospheric and relat-ed science problems.

Sunil K. Agrawal is a Besselresearch awardee of the Alexandervon Humboldt Foundation during the

summer of 2003. Hewill attend an awardsceremony hosted byPresident of Germany.During the summer, hewill be working jointlywith researchers at

Technical University of Darmstadt.During these visits, he has been invit-ed to present seminars at TechnicalUniversity, Vienna and TechnicalUniversity, of Ulm. He has been nomi-

nated to be the Technical ProgramChair for the 2004 ASME Mechanismsand Robotics Conference to be held inUtah. He will also assume the role ofChair of the ASME TechnicalCommittee on Robotics for the years2003 and 2004.

Dr. Eric Preissner (Ph.D.02) and Dr.Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher BrownProfessor of Mechanical andAerospace Engineering, the Center forComposite Materials, and the Collegeof Marine Studies, have co-authored a

paper entitled, “Theoryfor MidplaneAsymmetric SandwichCylindrical Shells,”which appeared in theJournal of SandwichStructures and

Materials, Vol. 5, No. 2, July, 2003.

STAFF

Donna Fritz was recognized for 15years of service at a Service Awardsluncheon Wednesday, March 26.“Thanks to [all of] you, the Universityof Delaware is a healthy and vibrantplace well-known for its service tostudents, its leading-edge technolo-gies and its academic excellence,” UDPresident David Roselle said.

Faculty and Staff Highlights

Introducing theDepartment Staff

Hello from the staff in theMechanical Engineering Department!

This most energetic team of workersincludes, from left to right: DonnaFritz/Administrative Assistant, JeanAnderson/Senior Secretary, DawnJohnson/Records Analyst, CrystalMaccari/Staff Assistant, Sue

Coombes/Managerof Operations, andRogerStahl/LaboratoryCoordinator.

Sue Coombesspeaks for the entirestaff when shedescribes the openand friendly atmos-

phere in the department. “We allknow that our work for the depart-ment is beneficial to the success of theUniversity of Delaware, and westrive to be excellent. In our dailytasks, accuracy, dependability andhelpfulness are our tools. To benefitthe faculty and students, staff team-work is emphasized. We also have anexcellent leader in our Chairperson,Dr.Tsu-Wei Chou. He cares deeplyabout the well-being of the staff and itshows in the high moral of everyone.We all enjoy being part of the greatUniversity of Delaware community!”

Jian-Qiao Sun, Dean Eric Kaler and JueChen Sun at Dr. Sun’s promotion reception.

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Research Highlights

Dr. Chou LeadsNanomaterialsResearch Teamultra-small size adds newchallenges to the researchprocess

A team of researchers led by Tsu-Wei Chou, P.S. du Pont Chair ofEngineering, was recently awarded amajor grant from the National ScienceFoundation for research on carbonnanotubes. The funding from NIRT(Nanoscale Interdisciplinary ResearchTeam) will support the team’s effortsto synthesize, characterize, and modelaligned nanotube arrays for nanoscaledevices and composites. The teamalso includes researchers from BostonCollege and Northwestern University,as well as Associate Professor HaiWang, Ph.D. student Erik Thostenson,and postdoctoral researcher ChunyuLi, all from UD.

According to Chou, the potentialapplications of the tiny carbon tubes,which measure from less than one to afew nanometers (one billionth of ameter) in diameter, range from molec-ular electronics and field emission dis-

plays to nanocomposites. “At thenanoscale,” he says, “this unique formof carbon displays extraordinarymechanical and physical properties.”

While the superior properties of car-bon nanotubes are well known, theirintegration into practical materialsand devices requires a basic under-standing of their behavior—at lengthscales ranging from the atomistic tothe macroscopic level. To facilitate theengineering application of these mate-rials requires a fundamental under-standing of their process-structure-property relations.

This is where Chou’s expertiseenters the picture. He has devotedmuch of his career as a researcher tostudying these relationships in fibercomposites. Now, he is simply down-sizing. “It’s just like working withfibers or ‘whiskers,’” he says, “exceptthat it’s about three orders of magni-tude smaller. I’m very excited aboutthis work because, while some of theknowledge we’ve developed abouttraditional composites may be appli-cable to this field, it’s really a totallynew frontier because of the scale.”

Exploring this new frontier meansaddressing questions such as “Howdo you make these tubes of high qual-

ity and free of defects?” and “How doyou characterize the performance ofmaterials this small?” According toChou, conventional fabrication andcharacterization technologies are notadequate, and modeling requires scal-ing down to the atomistic level.

Chou’s entry into the field of nano-materials and nanostructures is timely.A number of government organiza-tions, including NSF as well as thedefense agencies, are extremely inter-ested in the potential of these materi-als and are funding projects through avariety of programs. In addition to therecent NIRT grant, Chou is the PI forgrants from NSF’s NER (NanoscaleExploratory Research) program, aswell as from the Army Research Office(ARO), the Naval Research Laboratory(NRL), and the Air Force Office ofScientific Research (AFOSR). Thefunded research addresses both theo-retical and applied topics and rangesfrom polymer- and ceramic-matrixcomposites reinforced with carbonnanotubes to microarray devices ofaligned carbon nanotubes for biologi-cal and biomedical research.

The research results of Chou and co-workers have already been publishedin a number of prestigious physics,applied mechanics, and compositematerial journals. He has also beeninvited as a plenary and keynotespeaker on nanostructured materialsat international conferences in China,Belgium, Italy, Greece, and the U.S.Chou says. “I look to my work toform a bridge from the very basicresearch done by physicists andchemists to the practical applications.That’s where I think I can make acontribution with my materials sci-ence and engineering background.”

“I really enjoy what I’m doing rightnow,” Chou continues. “It’s excitingand there are new things happeningalmost every day. There is so muchpotential for this new technology—itdoesn’t mean that everything wedream of will become reality, but theopportunities are there.”

Reinforcement hirearchy across length scales: (from left) woven bundles of carbon fiber,"fuzzy" fibers where carbon nanotubes are grown on thesurfaces, and the nanoscalestructure of a multi-walled nanotube.

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Flapping WingRobots....emulating nature’s way

by Diane Kukich

They may be high-tech in theirdesign and intended application, butthe unmanned flying vehicles thatProf. Sunil Agrawal and his studentsare building in the MechanicalSystems Lab at UD are made fromsome pretty simple materials—balsawood, Mylar, and tiny motors andbatteries. Ultimately, such devicesmay make their way into the humanbody for diagnostic purposes, intoearthquake rubble for rescue, and into

industrial plants for quality control.Inspired by insect biology, the tiny

flapping-wing robots offer improvedmaneuverability over fixed-wingvehicles as well as the capability tohover. The flapping wing presentstremendous challenges, however, as itoccupies an entirely different and less-understood understood regime ofaerodynamics.

“We’re basically trying to make anartificial hummingbird,” saysAgrawal, “which is much more diffi-cult than it might seem. Makingthings mimic nature is scientificallyfascinating but also extremely chal-lenging.”

While the need for such devices insurveillance and telemetry has existedfor some time, the technology toenable such miniaturization is rela-tively new and continuously evolving.Agrawal and his team are currentlyusing motors the size of a woman’spinkie, which means the resultingdevice is still at least 10 times as largeas desired.

But Agrawal is pleased with theprogress he and his team have made.They have designed and built a work-ing prototype, thereby demonstratingthe feasibility of their approach, butnow they need to develop control sys-tems.

“Bees and birds have some verynice vision sensors,” says Agrawal,but we need to know a lot more aboutthese biological systems and how totransfer such capabilities to

machines.” To this end, scientists andengineers at Eglin Air Force Base,with whom Agrawal and his team arecollaborating, are working directlywith entomologists to study beevision.

And what about the UD-ME team’sfirst prototype? It flew quite success-fully for less than a minute beforecrashing on the roof of Spencer Lab.When grad student Zaeem Khanreached it to assess the damage, itwas—like an injured insect—still flap-ping its wings.

Sunil Agrawal and Zaeem Khan

First flying prototype

Experimental set-up designed to test a mechanism that mimics an insect’s thorax.

Test flight of second Flying Prototype which used and improved upon many features of the first prototype.

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Top Senior Students:Kirstin Huesmann &David ForneyEmbark on DifferentCareersChoosing UD as place tostart journey leaves noregrets

by Diane Kukich

Being at the top of your class canopen a lot of doors. For Dave Forneyand Kirsten Huesmann, both 04BME,the doors opened in different, butequally prestigious, directions.Forney is headed for grad school atMIT, while Huesmann has beenaccepted into the DuPont Company’sField Engineering Program.

While most students attribute theirchoice of an engineering major totheir love of, or talent in, math andscience, for Forney, it was all aboutracing. “I’ve been racing go-cartssince I was ten years old,” he says. “Iwanted to learn what I needed toknow to optimize race cars forspeed.”

One of the factors instrumental inhis decision to come to Delaware formechanical engineering was thedepartment’s SAE race car team.“Being on the Formula One racecar

team provides excellent hands-ondesign experience,” he says. He par-ticipated in the program during hisfirst three years and then moved on tomore theoretically oriented researchas a senior.

UD-ME proved to be a perfect pro-gram for him. “I enjoyed all thecourses and found the faculty to begreat,” he says. “I’m looking forwardto applying what they taught me inthe future.”

His dream of being a NASCARdriver has faded, but otherwise thefuture looks wide open to him. “I’vetried to make my experience herebroad,” he says. “I plan to earn aPh.D. and then I can see myself work-ing just about anywhere—academia, anational lab, or industry.” Forneyworked at Lawrence LivermoreNational Lab last summer and thissummer will intern with ZF, aGerman company that makes partsfor BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche.

Top student status means a lot tohim: “I’m proud of it because itmeans that I’ve done my best tounderstand the fundamentals ofmechanical engineering,” he says,“and that’s important because wedesign things that people use everyday and that they rely on.”

Huesmann came to UD-ME fromthe Charter School of Wilmington,which is known for its strong mathand science programs. The school isso competitive academically that shewas ranked only third in her classthere yet managed to come out on topin her mechanical engineering class atDelaware. UD was perfect for herbecause it was a top-ranked program

that enabled her to stay close to home.The senior design project developed

by the team she was on resulted in apatent for a locking shampoo cap thatkeeps the product from spilling ingym bags and suitcases. She learneda great deal from the project, whichwas sponsored by PolySeal.

“We got to work with not only aproduct engineer but also an HRdirector so that our project had a con-sumer twist to it,” she says. “Wedeveloped designs and a consumersurvey to assess customer reactions toour product. That was very helpful,as it gave us insight into issues wehadn’t considered.”

Her job at DuPont will take her on arotation of positions that will changeevery two years. “The idea is thatafter several rotations, you’ll have apretty good idea of where you wouldlike to locate and what you’d like todo,” she says. “The program also pre-pares you for management because ofthe varied experience you gain.”

Like Forney, Huesmann speakshighly about her experience atDelaware. “I had the opportunity todo undergraduate research and com-plete a Degree with Distinction underDr. Jian Sun, and I also really enjoyedall of my classes and the faculty thattaught them,” she says.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN,Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Kirsten Huesmann on a visit to the UD SolarHouse in Washington D.C.

Dave Forney with Sr. Design Project: A biaxial fabric tester

Student Focus

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Human PoweredVehicleStudent Team Participates inASME Competition

“Can’t wait to start on thenew model for next year”

by Diane Kukich

Chris Pawson has scratches downthe backs of both legs from mishapswith the human-powered vehiclethat he and a group of four otherASME students built. But toPawson, it’s a small price to pay forgetting the vehicle designed, built,and actually running.

Along with teammate JonathanBlyer, Pawson spent uncountablehours on the project, including day

and night over spring break. “It wasworth every minute,” says Pawson.“It was so rewarding to finally rideit—turning it, switching gears,

falling off…. We love this thing evenwith all its flaws.”

After several months of work, thegroup traveled more than 1,000 miles

to Rolla, Missouri, to competein the national ASME HumanPowered Vehicle Competition.According to student chapterpresident Gwen Thorson, thecompetition consists ofdesigning and building avehicle that is run solely byhuman power, then racing ithead to head against otheruniversities in several events.

The events include a 100-meter dashsprint event to show off the vehicle’sspeed, a utility event to demonstrate

maneuverability and versatility, and a70-kilometer endurance event. “Thisyear was the 20th anniversary of thecompetition, but it was the first time

that the University of Delaware hastaken part in it,” says Thorsen.

“About 15 schools from the EastCoast showed up for the competi-tion,” she adds. “Many of theseschools have been participating forseveral years and have thousands ofdollars invested in their entries.Our team spent approximately $700on our vehicle and used many recy-cled bicycle parts. We managed toplace fifth in the sprint event andsecond in the utility event—losingonly to an HPV with dual riders,while ours had one.”

“We didn’t get to finish theendurance event because our brakesfailed during a torrential downpour,and we didn’t want to risk seriousinjury. Despite this stroke of badluck, we are extremely happy withour performance in our first year atthis competition, as we beat manyteams that had been entering foryears.”Both Pawson and Blyer are seniors

but have another semester to com-plete before graduating. “We plan tohang around until next year so we cando it again,” says Blyer. “It’s nice torelax right now for awhile, but wereally can’t wait to get started again.”

They’ve already started dreamingabout improvements—an innovativetransmission design, maybe somecomposite materials for the frame….

Jonathan Blyer and Chris Pawsonwith their Human Powered Vehicle

John Blyer (Student Leader): Taking theHuman Powered Vehicle, “Blue Steel” for thefirst test drive with the aerodynamic fairing.

“Blue Steel” on display prior tocompetition in Missouri.

Chris Pawson finishing in fifth place in the100m sprint event.

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SENIOR DESIGN -Seniors Learn “TheDesign Process” by Nate Cloud

Blending: Innovation, BusinessProcess Structure; Engineering,Teamwork; and ContinuousCommunication in pursuit of con-verting Ideas to Reality.

Cool Projects keep interest levelhigh

Eleven student teams completedtheir Senior Design projects for indus-

trial sponsors this past December.Projects covered a wide range of chal-lenges including process improve-ments and new product designs.Tackling real problems with “freshminds”, and exposure to students aspotential associates in their business-es, continued to be key valuesexpressed by sponsors in post projectinterviews early this year. Several stu-dents elected to continue developingtheir projects in the Spring semester.

The Local ASME Chapter presentedawards on March 18, to the studentteams that were judged by an ASMEpanel to have accomplished the most

outstanding projects. The awardswere presented at ASME’s annual din-ner meeting, which also served as a“senior send-off” celebration. 2001winners were:

First Place: New Holland Team -Bale Machine Kicker

Second Place: Poly-Seal Team - Disktop Closure

Third Place: Air Products Team –Bag Packer Improvements

The event was postponed from

DAIMLERCHRYSLER

EcoThermal Panel Systems,EcoThermal Panel Systems,

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February 18 because of the recordsnowstorm that paralyzed the areaover the previous weekend.

Alumni, faculty, and parents of stu-dents attended the dinner, which hasdeveloped into a tradition, andenjoyed the opportunity to talk infor-mally with the students about theirproject experience.

A large version of this two-page pic-ture, created by Liz Dunkle,University Publications, is on displayin the Senior Design display case inthe main hallway in Spencer Lab. Thedisplay case also includes a plaque

with the outstanding team (above)from each year engraved on it. Wewelcome you to stop by Spencer Labif you are in the Newark area to seethe display.

A growing number of Alumni havebeen an integral part of project spon-sorship, and some* have participatedas the primary student team contactfor the project:*Mike Smoot, ‘82 - Xymid, LLCMatt Savage, ’00 - Daimler ChryslerDave Friemuth, ’90 – HarleyDavidson*Bob Andrews, ’92 - Johnson Controls

Ralph Weis, ‘72 - ILC Dover*Jim Kegelman, ‘88 - Dade Behring*Alexis Cox, ’01 - AstroPower

For more information contact*: Nate Cloud, cloud@me.udel.edu, 302-778-4567; Dick Wilkins, wilkins@udel.edu, 302-831-2006; Michael Keefe, keefe@me.udel.edu,302-831-8009; Jim Glancey, jglancey@UDel.Edu, 302-831-0712/1179

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Alumni ProvideInput for ABETProgram

In March, a group of UD-ME alum-ni met with a team of faculty workingon ME curriculum improvements gen-erally aimed at better alignment withnational accreditation criteria. ABET(Accreditation Board for Engineering& Technology) is a federation of 31professional engineering and technicalsocieties that accredits more than 2500engineering, engineering technology,computing, and applied science pro-grams at over 550 colleges and uni-versities nationwide. ABET’s currentaccreditation criteria are collectivelyknown as EC 2000.

The faculty/alumni group dis-cussed several planned improvementareas, including

Student advisement revisions inlight of the new UD-wide online reg-istration procedures,

Treatment of statistics in the MEcurriculum,

ABET “breadth” outcomes, andAlumni interaction

In the area of student advisement,alumni suggested that a series ofgroup advisement sessions be initiat-ed for underclassmen, because theyusually have common questions.Such sessions would also help toacquaint students with the facilitiesavailable within ME and generatemore student-faculty interaction. Itwas also suggested that upperclass-men choose advisors based on theirspecialty field of interest (e.g., fluids,biomechanics, controls, etc.), interestin graduate school, and interest inbusiness.

With regard to the treatment of sta-tistics in the curriculum, there wasgeneral agreement about the desirabil-ity of thorough coverage of the basics.

Alumni were also supportive of theABET “breadth outcomes,” includingthe necessity of a broad education tounderstand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global and societal con-

text. Also emphasized are a recogni-tion for and an ability to engage inlifelong learning, as well as a knowl-edge of contemporary issues.

Finally, in the area of alumni inter-actions, there was general discussionand agreement that alumni are usual-ly willing to be resource people forconsulting about topics from seniordesign to job experiences and jobhunting strategies.

The Department expects to continueto seek alumni input on ABET issues.For more information about ABET, seewww.ABET.org.

Editor’s Note: The alumni includedDina Berlingieri (98), Dawn Cintavey(02), Dave Henderson (99), KevinPerdue (95), Shawn Riley (98), andEric Wetzel (95). Faculty present wereMike Greenberg, Rick Hall, MikeKeefe, John Novotny, Ajay Prasad,and Dick Wilkins.

Vasilios PerosAs Vasilios

Peros (M.S.MechanicalEngineering’87) can attest,engineeringand law makean interestingand effectivecombination.After a sixteenyear career asan engineer

and manager at a Fortune 100 technolo-gy corporation, Peros transitioned intohis current position as an attorney at

Venable, LLP, one of the nation’s toplaw firms with offices in and aroundWashington, D.C. Peros is one of only afew graduate students of theMechanical Engineering Department tobecome an attorney.

Now with a J.D./M.B.A., he advisesentrepreneurs and small to mid sizedcompanies in the areas of corporate law,business transactions, intellectual prop-erty and technology. He has extensiveexperience on business issues relatingto company formation, stock issuance,employment issues and financing. Hecounsels clients with respect to intellec-tual property issues such as copyrights,trademarks and trade secrets and with

respect to technology issues such astech transfers, licensing and maximiz-ing the value of their intellectual prop-erty portfolios. Peros enjoys workingwith the diverse clients and variety oftechnologies with which he is involved.

He has also taken his efforts into theuniversity classroom. In Summer 2002,he taught an undergraduate entrepre-neurship class at the College of NotreDame of Maryland. In Fall 2003, hewill teach an undergraduate intellectualproperty class at Johns HopkinsUniversity.

He can be reached by telephone at(410) 528-2865 or by email atvperos@venable.com.

Alumni Focus

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UDME Engineers atBoeingMany UD ME EngineeringGraduates Find CareerHomes At Boeing

by Diane Kukich

Editor’s Note: Nearly 90 UD gradscurrently work for the BoeingCompany, 22 of which are MEs. Thearticle below focuses on two whohave been involved recently in help-ing to develop the relationshipbetween Boeing and the MechanicalEngineering Department.

In an era when many people changejobs almost as often as they changehairstyles, Sherise Wood (93BME) andScott Holmes (90BME, 94MME) have

bucked thetrend andfound ahome atBoeing.Both havebeen withthe compa-ny for closeto a decade.

Woodjoined thecompanyimmediately

after graduation. “They allow for alot of mobility,” she says. “To workhere, you have to like change andchallenge—you have to be preparedfor opportunities that come up andtake them.” She is currently with thecompany’s Integrated DefenseSystems in Philadelphia working inrotorcraft but has had multiple—andvaried—assignments over the pastnine years, ranging from design andtesting of aircraft to internal auditing.

The undergraduate research experi-ence Wood gained at Delaware wasinstrumental in her getting a job atBoeing. She had worked with a UDteam on a project to apply compositesto bridge infrastructure renewal, mak-ing coupon samples and bondingthem to metals. “My background incomposites gave me an edge,” shesays, “and helped Boeing gain interestin me as a prospective employee.”

Wood says she still takes advantageof that background in seeking newopportunities with the company. “For

example, my materials classes withDr. Hall helped in my current workwith stress engineering, an area inwhich I never thought I’d be workingbecause my strength was always influid mechanics.”

Wood also credits the senior designexperience with honing her ability todo teamwork. “There are alwaysstrong and weak points within ateam,” she says, “and you have tolearn how to work with thosestrengths and weaknesses. It reflectsthe true workplace because it’s rarefor an individual to work on a projectalone in industry—all disciplines arerepresented on a product team. Youalso learn to work with deadlines,which is valuable in the workplace.To reach one goal, you may have to

give upanother tocreate avaluableproduct.”

Holmes,whoworked atUD’sCenter forCompositeMaterials(CCM),had actual-

ly done research projects for bothMcDonnell Douglas and Boeing whilehe was still a student. “That was howI got my job,” he says, “directlythrough my industrial experience.”Holmes is no longer doing R&D forthe company but is instead a ProjectEngineering Program Specialist forthe V-22 Osprey Program. “The mul-tidisciplinary experience I gained atCCM really helped in what I’m doingnow in terms of managing a team ofpeople,” he says.

Holmes’s senior design experiencealso opened doors for him. He waspart of a team that developed an auto-mated resistancewelder for joininglarge compositestructures in asequential process,which was awardeda U.S. patent. Alcoafunded the projectand collaborated with the UD team.“That project was great,” Holmessays. “The challenge was in learning

how to take the device and make itinto something that could actually beused on the factory floor. I learnedquickly that I had to be open to theidea of change and willing to adapt tochanging needs.”

He parlayed the senior design proj-ect into a graduate research project.Working directly with Alcoa person-nel, he designed and built a workingprototype that the company used tobond composites to aluminum, a tech-nology used on the Audi. “I got anovernight education from that proj-ect,” Holmes says. “I also learnedabout the patent process, which gotme up the learning curve quickly.”Holmes now holds several additionalpatents. “For me, senior design was aspringboard for much bigger opportu-nities and a great learning experi-ence,” he says.

He also mentions the value of team-work and gives Boeing credit for its“School-to-Work” program, whichenables high school students to spendthe summer rotating through variousareas of the company. “They learnhow to work with others and listen toother people’s ideas,” he says. “Thereare too many people with great tech-nical skills but no knowledge of howto function in a team environment.”

Holmes is currently enrolled inUD’s Executive MBA program, wherehe hopes to formalize his businessskills, including finance, programmanagement, and investment strate-gies. And Wood? She’s not sure whather next assignment will be, but she’salways ready for a new opportunityto add to her growing repertoire ofexperience.

Sherise Wood

Scott Holmes

Several of the exciting, leading edgeunmanned aircraft (UAVs-UnmannedAerial Vehicle)

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UDME Alumni SaveLives Are there really no coinci-dences?

by Diane Kukich

The mechanical engineering cur-riculum is known to be rigorous, butone thing it doesn’t include is life-sav-ing techniques. However, that didn’tstop two current ME students or analum from stepping in to help whenneeded.

John Barr and Justin Alms (04BME)were driving through Newark on aSaturday night in late November 2002with another UD student, JohnHawley, when they noticed a carstopped on the railroad tracks nearthe Deer Park Tavern on Main Street.They tried to assist the driver in push-ing the car off the tracks, but whentrain lights approached, they realizedthey would have to do somethingmore drastic. They pulled the driver,who was too intoxicated to help him-self, out of the car and dragged him tosafety just seconds before the traincollided with the car. “We didn’t planon going out and saving anyone’slife,” said Barr. “Everyone acted oninstinct. But we felt really good aboutit afterwards.”

Unlike Barr and Alms, whose hero-ics will probably turn out to be a

once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, JosephFrank (59MME) seems to have made acareer out of saving lives. In a letteraccompanying his recently submitted“Alumni Feedback” form, Frankrecounts saving the lives of a drown-ing child, three welders on a 200-foot-high conveyor, and several chokingbabies. In addition to these gooddeeds, Frank has saved lives on thejob in a less direct way.

In his various jobs with the U.S.Army and private industry, Frankcontributed to the redesign of a rock-et’s geometry to prevent it fromexploding, as well as to the design ofa test fixture for submarines that wereto be equipped with nuclear weapons.According to Frank, his fixturereduced the time to perform the testfrom 18–36 months to one month. “Ithink I put a monkey wrench into theSoviet Union’s plans to start a nuclear

war with the U.S.,” he wrote.Frank originally had plans to con-

tinue at UD-ME for a doctoral degree,but an added language requirementinduced him to walk away from theprogram with his courses completebut his thesis unfinished. Frankbelieves that his work could have hadan impact on recent U.S. history: Hehad planned to investigate the con-cept of cutting channels through themountains in Oregon and Washingtonto allow moist Japanese current airinto the American Southwest, therebypreventing forest fires and openingup more farmland.

Forty years later, Frank is “angrywith himself” for not finishing. Andwe’ll never know whether his thesismight have had a major impact onhow the U.S. Southwest developed.

Don McCoy

DonaldMcCoy is aDeputyAssociateDirector forWeaponsPhysics atLos AlamosNationalLaboratory.He is cur-rentlyresponsiblefor pit manu-

facturing and certification program-matic activities at the laboratory. Themain goal of the pit manufacturingand certification program is to certifya warhead with a Los Alamos manu-factured pit by 2007 without addition-al nuclear testing. Don was theProgram Director for Nuclear

Weapons Simulation and Computingat the Los Alamos NationalLaboratory from 1997 thru 2001. Hemanaged a successful program thatfocused on the development of pre-dictive nuclear weapons simulationtools. The program included simula-tion code development for nuclearperformance and safety, engineeringstructural analysis, and manufactur-ing. This simulation code develop-ment included development of hydro-dynamic, transport, materials andphysics methods and models as wellas the computer science techniquesrequired to make these codes efficienton large scale clustered SMP plat-forms. The program was responsiblefor planning the procurement, acqui-sition, and stabilization of the mostcapable computer platforms in theworld. The program helped developthe user requirements for the newStrategic Computing Complex. Donhas held various Program Manager

positions in the nuclear weapons pro-gram and served on DOE change ofstation position for the NuclearTesting Division and the AssistantSecretary for Defense Programs. Hejoined Los Alamos NationalLaboratory in 1980 and has experiencein simulation code development,nuclear test diagnostics, and nuclearweapon design and certification. Donhas received five Department ofEnergy Awards of Excellence in theNuclear Weapons Program and a LosAlamos National LaboratoryDistinguished Performance Award.He has a PhD and MS in NuclearEngineering from NorthwesternUniversity and a BS in MechanicalEngineering from the University ofDelaware. He is a member of theAmerican Nuclear Society. Address:Los Alamos National Laboratory, P OBox 1663,MS F603, Los Alamos NM87544. Email: dmccoy@lanl.gov.

Cape May New Jersey—1946

Seventieth Birthday—1998

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Reflections and Memories Recalling an ME Hall of Fame Athlete:Bauduy Grier

John Pursell, ’49, has been a contributor to the MENews in the past (see ME News – Fall/Winter 2001issue; Reflections & Memories). John was born inBrooklyn, NY in 1927. His engineering career waswith the Boeing Corporation. He retired 20 yearsago, and now lives in Seattle Washington. For manyof these retirement years John has beenresearching and writing extensively onWWII and the Vietnam Conflict for manyyears. When John was at The Universityin the late 40s he was a contributing writer- noteworthy for an Engineering student -to The Cauldren—a magazine produced bythe English Department for creative writingstudents. The following appeared in the Fall1947 issue of The Cauldren:

MODERN PROVERB

WHO IS THAT IDIOT, OUT ON THE WALL

THAT LAUGHS AT MY SPEECH AND SAYS NOTHING ATALL?

My grandfather once was a talkative youth,

Believing the nonsense he spoke was the truth.

He started on earth and he built to the skies

A castle of horrible, terrible lies.

But as he grew older he slowly began

To change to a wiser, less talkative man.

He horded the knowledge he gathered each day

And parts of the castle soon crumbled away

As age led him on to the end of his walk

The more he would think and the less he would talk.

And that is why grandfather sits on the wall

And listens and laughs and says nothing at all.

- John M. Pursell

Dear, NateThe article, Page 14, ME News of Winter 2003, discussing Bauduy

Grier, took me back so very many years.Our family moved from New York City to Wilmington in 1934. We

settled into a modest house on McLane Street in Union Park Gardens. Ientered the second grade at Lore School about eight blocks away.

At Christmas Season of that year, or the one following, the school held agreat extravaganza in the auditorium. I recall to this day theenchantment of the colored lights and the music, almost over-whelming for a child of eight.

And then, with possibly “The Waltz of the Flowers” asan accompaniment, came the performance of stage of theschool’s Tumbling team, highlighted by Bauduy Grier.

I’m going to guess that at that time he was about tenyears old, and in fifth grade. And Wow! I had neverseen anything like that before.

I never met him personally - - two years differenceis a great chasm when one is only eight, and hardlyto be spanned. But I knew that he lived nearSilverbrook Church, and I once delivered a birth-

day present to his home from my mother to his - - bothwere members of a Ladies’ Club.

His picture, along with those of the other members of the Team, hung inthe hallway near the office of the school Principal, Miss Pritchard. Hemay well have known my neighbors, Jim and Donald Dawson who, Ibelieve, attended the same school.

His fame at that time was far greater and more worthy than mine,which I achieved by counterfeiting five-cent tickets to the Our Gangmovies on my toy typewriter (all capital letters at that), and beingbetrayed to the authorities by my best friend, to whom I had given one.

Perhaps it was the ferocious lecture given me by Mrs. Dugan, the VicePrincipal, who must surely have convulsed her cronies with that storyover tea or beer (who knows?), that kept me from a life of crime: I herebyattest that I have never since counterfeited a five-cent Our Gang movieticket.

May I wish you the very best, Bauduy Grier, wherever you are; youbrought a sense of wonder to a small boy

John M. Pursell BME, 49

Alumni BusinessHighlight: 2Phase Technology; BobStratton ‘89

Robert Stratton BME 89 has co found-ed a company, 2Phase Technologies, thathas developed and patented a systemfor reconfigurable tooling. After leavingLockheed Martin after 12 years workingon the F-22 fighter this companyaddresses one of the primary problemswith composite manufacturing that Mr.Stratton found while working atLockheed; cost and time to manufacturetooling. 2Phase’s technology focuses onthe use of ceramic micro spheres com-bined with a liquid of water soluble

binder and plasticizer, making a slurrylike mixture. When the fluid is removed,the binder stay behind and locks themicro spheres together forming aceramic like tool. The process can thenbe reversed for formation of anothershape. Given a master shape to startwith a tool can be fabricated in under anhour. Mr. Stratton has been workingwith the University of Delaware’sCenter for Composite Manufacturingfor 2 years on the technology, in factCCM was one of the earliest users of thetechnology. Mr.. Stratton says, “onething that was not taught in theMechanical Engineering program atDelaware was how to raise money tofund and invention or idea, what a chal-lenge, it took almost 2 years to secure

significant venture capital for a compa-ny startup”. “It has been a very reward-ing and educational experience, verydifferent from life as a engineer with abig company,” Stratton says. If interest-ed in learning more, feel free to emailBob Stratton at bstrat@bellsouth.net.

Bauduy Grier

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Alumni Class Notes& Feedback

Karen Millsap (maiden nameKaren Price) - ‘85 - BS mechanicalengineering - Currently employedfull time as a Polyester ProductSpecialist at Ticona in northern KY.Is married and has one son. Also selfemployed as a glass bead artist andjewelry designer. Beads and jewelryare available on the web at:http://home.fuse.net/beadsnsuch

Jules J. Schwartz ‘53,’63M, retiredfrom Boston University as EmeritusProfessor of Management and ofEngineering, where he had previous-ly served as Dean of the School ofManagement. He won both theUniversity’s Metcalf and BeckwithAwards for Distinguished Teaching.Earlier he had earned his doctoratefrom the Harvard Business Schooland also taught at the WhartonSchool of the University ofPennsylvania. He and his wifeSandra live in Belmont, MA and areboth active members of the HarvardInstitute for Learning in Retirement.

Hsien-Kuang Liu, Nyan-Hwa Tai,and Wen-Hung Lee (2002), “Effect ofseawater on compressive strength ofconcrete cylinders reinforced by non-adhesive wound hybrid polymercomposites,” Composites Science andTechnology, Vol. 62, pp. 2131-2141.

Michael Quariadi (BME 1995). Iwon two tournaments and got sec-ond place in two tournaments inBrazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition. I amcurrently pursuing a Master’sDegree in Mechanical Engineering atthe University of Texas at Austin. Iam in their Mechanical Systems andDesign Group and I will be startingwork as a research assistant thissummer(summer 2003).

Robert Stratton BME 89’: In addi-tion to starting a composites consult-ing company. Robert is a directorand co-founder of 2Phase

Technologies at 2002 start-up, com-mercializing a company held patenton reconfigurable tooling. After rais-ing more than 1.5 million in venturecapital the company is manufactur-ing custom reconfigurable toolingfor a variety of industries and uses,including US Army,Air Force, Boeingand many others. 2Phase had therefirst public display of this revolu-tionary technology in May 2003 atSAMPE 2003 in Long Beach Ca.More information on Robert and hisnew company at www.2phasetech-nologies.com or bstrat@bellsouth.net

Michael Grimme ‘78 Living inFort Lauderdale Florida with wifePamela and four children. Currentlyowns a hotel business, an on-linedevelopment business, and a liqui-dation business. Our web site iswww.grimmeholdings.com Fellowclassmates are always welcome!!!!mgrimme@grimmeholdings.com

Jessica (Broderdorp) Nee ‘96. Iwas married on May 27th, 2001 toJames Nee. I work for Honeywell inFort Washington, PA as an energy

engi-neer,and Ihaveworkedtheresince1998. Ihad sonJacob onJuly12th,2002.

Leslie (Rossman) Ball ‘00. Iwould be happy to update you onmy life after Delaware.Unfortunately, none of it has to dowith the world of engineering. Theweek before graduation in ‘00 I metmy husband, Mark, and we weremarried June 30, 2001. I gave birth toour daughter, Molly Jean Ball, on2/26/02 and then recently had ourson, Riley Mark Ball, on 3/18/03.My days now consist of chasing a

one yearoldaroundthehouseand mynightconsistof wak-ing upevery 2-3 hoursto feed anew-born.

It’s a far cry from the engineeringworld that I thought I was going tobe a part of... but to me it’s muchmore fulfilling. I am currentlyhalfway through a Master’s degreein Mathematics from SUNYBrockport and plan on obtaining aPh.D. and teaching math at the col-lege level. I’m currently living northwest of Rochester, NY and missingthe Delaware weather more andmore every day

Thomas Whitney MME’88received his Ph.D. in MechanicalEngineering from the University ofDayton in commencement exercisesheld May 4, 2003. Tom is currently aSenior Research Engineer with theUniversity of Dayton ResearchInstitute. He resides in Kettering,Ohio, with his wife, Rhonda, andchildren Eric, 15, Michael, 12, andCaleb, 3.

Gary Becht, ’85, and his wife,Patti, are expecting their secondchild (a girl) on August 2, 2003.

Gary A. Hecht, Esq., BME 1980,earned his J.D. degree in law fromTemple University in 1991. He prac-tices patent, trademark and copy-right law and is a partner in theintellectual property law firm ofSynnestvedt & Lechner LLP inPhiladelphia, PA. He presentlyresides in Pennsylvania with his wifeLisa and two children.

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Honors Day AwardsMay 9, 2003

Senior Year Awards

W.Francis Lindell MechanicalEngineering Award To TheDistinguished Senior:

David Forney

Kirstin Huesmann

Mary And George Nowinski AwardFor Excellence In UndergraduateResearch:

Jared Rochester

Delaware Section Of The AmericanSociety Of Mechanical EngineersSenior Design Project

1st Place: Team 4 M. Fyock,

S. McIntosh,

D. Meckley,

J. Unger

2nd Place: Team 11 C. Englert,

K. Huesmann,D. Kerr

3rd Place: Team 1 I. Miller,

J. Rochester,

J. Rogers,

G.Harris

Junior Year Awards

W. Francis Lindell MechanicalEngineering Award To TheDistinguished Junior:

Todd Fitzgerald

W. Francis Lindell MechanicalEngineering Achievement Award:

Christine Tate

Sophomore Year Awards

W .J. Renton Award For OutstandingSophomore:

Michael Kutzer

Other Department Awards

Delaware Section Of The AmericanSociety Of Mechanical EngineersOutstanding Student:

Thomas Shipman

American Society Of MechanicalEngineers Student Section:

Gwen Thorson

Robert T. Bosworth Scholarship:

Matthew King

Redden Scholarship:

Hilary Goldman

Helwig Graduate Fellowship:

Brian Johnson

Conectiv Power And LightScholarship:

Jennifer Pahnke

Liston Houston Scholarship:

Hilary Goldman

Patrice Hughes

Panel Of Distinguished Seniors:

Dirk Veenema

Black Alumni Org. Book Award:

Allison Bruton

Boeing Company Scholarship:

Scott Kasprzak

Wilmington West Rotary Scholarship:

James F. Moore III

Bill N. Baron Fellowship:

Thomas Shipman

Awards and Recognition

Outstanding AlumniAwards

The following MechanicalEngineering Alumni have been recog-nized for their outstanding achieve-ment and service by being honoredwith the highest level awards offeredby the University of Delaware and theEngineering School.

n 2003 - Donald R. McCoy ’75 -Engineering’s Outstanding AlumniAward

n 2002 - Frederick H. Kohloss ’51MME - Engineering’s OutstandingAlumni Award

n 2001 - Nancy R. Sottos ’86 -Presidential Citation

n 1993 - David R. Helwig ‘ 73 -Presidential Citation

n 1986 - C. Jackson Levis ’50 - UDOutstanding Alumni Award

n 1984 – W. Murray Campbell ’50 –Alumni Wall of Fame

Information on the awards spon-sored by the University’s Alumni andUniversity Relations Office can befound athttp://www.udel.edu/alumni/awards/index.html, including past winners,nomination criteria, and instructionson the nomination process.

The Engineering School’sOutstanding Alumni Award is con-ferred on Honors day in the Spring,and nominations are received and

reviewed in the fourth quarter of thepreceding year. We urge you to sub-mit nominations for these awards perthe instructions at the above refer-enced web site.

Nominations for Engineering’sOutstanding Alumni Award can besubmitted to the Dean’s office direct-ly, or if you wish let me* know whatyour thoughts are on a candidate,and I will be pleased to help withthe nomination process.

*Nate Cloud, University ofDelaware, 126 Spencer Laboratory,Newark DE, 19716

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The list of ME donorswho have contributed tothe University and theMechanical EngineeringDepartment that we pub-lished in the Winter 2003issue of ME News was inad-vertently truncated. The fol-lowing people were notincluded in that listing, andwe wanted to let you knowwho they are, and that theircontributions are verymuch appreciated! Theirnames were added to arevised edition of theWinter 03 News and a newcopy was mailed to each ofthem.Mr. Alan J. Starr ........................1999

Mr. George H. Sapna III ..........1999

Mr. Brent L. King ......................1996

Mr. Ashok Krishnamurthy ......1995

Craig W. Murray, P.E. ..............1993

Mr. Andrew M. Lennon ..........1993

Mr. Dominick A. Azeglio ........1992

Mr. Sean M. Foster ....................1991

Mr. John S. McWilliams............1990

Mr. Jonathan R. Stahl................1990

Mr. John M. Fletcher III............1989

Mr. John B. Wyckoff..................1989

Dr. Eric P. Beyeler......................1988

Mrs. Patricia A. M. Derick ......1988

Mrs. Pamela A. Kaiser-Pare ....1987

Dr. Robert A. Jurf ......................1987

Martha Meaney Murray, M.D. 1987

Mr. Gary N. Peterson................1987

Mr. Alan J. DelFavero ..............1987

Mr. Gregory W. Antal ..............1986

Dr. Nancy R. Sottos ..................1986

Mr. J. Kenneth Ryder ..............1986

Mr. Andrew C. Walck ..............1986

Mr. David S. Diefenderfer........1986

Dr. David E. Walrath ................1986

Dr. Bruce A. Yost ......................1985

Mr. Brian J. Blonski ..................1985

Mr. Paul J. Manning..................1985

Mr. David J. Walbeck................1985

Ms. Mary Louise Mogan..........1984

Mr. Jon P. Martin ......................1984

Mr. Kenneth S. Solon ..............1984

Ann Massey Badmus, Esq. ......1984

Mr. Richard D. Walls ................1984

Mr. Kennith L. Quesenberry ..1984

Mr. Bradford S. Walters............1983

Mr. Douglas K. Schehr ............1983

Mr. Joseph D. Giordano ..........1983

Dr. William J. Taylor, Jr. ............1983

Mr. Jon G. Rowe ........................1983

Mr. Barry A. Record..................1983

Dr. Vishwanath Prasad ............1983

Mr. Daniel S. Hudson ..............1982

Mr. Stephen S. Vinson ..............1982

Mr. Peter A. Widdoes ..............1982

Ms. Linda M. Carapellucci ......1981

Mr. Mark E. Deckers ................1981

Mr. Ronald W. Gilkey ..............1981

Mr. Richard B. Stickel ..............1980

Mr. Gerald G. Weaver II ..........1980

Mr. Mark W. Hopkins ..............1980

Mr. David H. Nixon..................1980

Mr. Joseph A. Marsilii, Jr..........1980

Mr. David F. Teller ....................1980

Gary A. Hecht, Esq. ..................1980

Mr. Barry M. Seidenstat ..........1980

Mr. Ralph M. Nigro ..................1980

Mr. Steven J. Krinsky................1979

Mr. John G. Woolfolk................1979

Mr. Gregory N. Dudkin ..........1979

Thomas E. Wilson, P.E. ............1979

Dr. Bakhtier Farouk ..................1979

Mr. Carl W. Strickler ................1978

Mr. Stephen F. Fromyer, Jr. ......1978

Mr. Stephen C. Hemberger......1978

Dr. Young-Kil Kim ....................1978

Mr. Mark P. Hepp......................1977

Mr. Christopher E. Wagner ....1977

Mr. William J. Merlini ..............1977

Mr. W. David Cockey ..............1976

Mr. Terry L. Stuchlik ................1976

Mr. Marc D. Hunsberger..........1976

Mr. Steven I. Shukow ..............1975

Mr. Larry L. Shafer....................1974

Mr. John L. Morrow, Jr. ............1973

Dr. Joseph J. S. Shen..................1973

Mr. Steven R. Kiss ....................1973

Mr. David C. Haney..................1973

Mr. Lenn C. Daugherty ............1973

Commander Donald R. Rice......1973

Mr. Alton P. Smith, Jr. ..............1973

Mrs. Mary H. Swain ................1972

LCDR Margaretmary T. Weidert..1972

Mr. James H. Art ......................1972

Mr. Scott T. Jednacz ................1972

Mr. Robert J. Singley ................1972

Mr. Donald R. Ritter ................1971

Mr. Douglas P. Oldfield............1971

Mr. Marvin L. Gingrich ............1971

Lt. Colonel Mark J. Donald ....1971

Mr. Reza F. Moqtaderi ..............1971

Mr. Jeffery E. Smith ..................1970

Mr. Fiore M. Celano, Jr. ............1970

Mr. Sepehr Mostaghim ............1970

Dr. William A. Podgorski ........1970

Mr. Robert W. Kinney ..............1970

Dr. Kenneth A. Bannister ........1969

Mr. Samuel J. Kursh..................1969

Mr. D. Thomas Peterson ..........1969

Mr. James A. Barger ..................1969

Mr. Dean S. Gilchrist ................1968

Mr. J. Philip Greiner..................1968

Mr. Russ Bonadonna ................1967

Mr. David Hutton ....................1967

Mr. G. Mark Stofega, Jr ............1967

Mr. Barry W. Hauf ....................1967

Mr. Patrick J. Reynolds ............1967

Mr. Paul N. Costello ................1966

Mr. John W. Owen ....................1965

Dr. Henry O. Foster ................1965

Mr. C. William Spangler, Jr. ....1965

Mr. Barry H. Pritchard ............1965

Mr. David L. Sysko ..................1964

Dr. Frederick P. Stecher ............1964

Mr. William D. C. Richards......1963

Mr. Gerard B. Bijwaard ............1963

Mr. W. Douglas Boyce ..............1962

Mr. Thomas F. Sealman ............1962

Mr. F. J. Mainwaring, Jr. ..........1961

Mr. William Daniel Green........1961

Mr. William R. Magrogan ......1960

Mr. Charles B. Woodward III ..1960

Dr. Richard D. Swope ..............1960

Dr. John F. Sontowski ..............1960

Mr. C. Richard Orth ................1960

Mr. Edward J. Kelczewski ......1960

Mr. Chandler S. Eason, Jr. ........1959

Mr. James R. Stritzinger ..........1959

Mr. George A. MacFarland III 1959

Mr. Lawrence E. Murray ........1958

Mr. Donald L. Crouch ..............1958

Mr. Robert L. Stevens ..............1958

Mr. William S. Patterson, Jr. ....1958

Mr. Frank S. Hyer II..................1958

Mr. Robert F. Alsworth ............1958

Mr. George H. King ................1957

Mr. Francis W. Jackson ............1957

Mr. Frank A. Stevens ..............1957

Dr. James N. Zaiser ..................1957

Mr. Wayne E. McCabe ..............1957

Mr. Richard W. Perry................1956

Mr. William H. Lotter, Jr...........1956

Mr. Edgar W. Cannon, Jr. ........1956

Mr. James T. Bueche..................1955

Mr. Raymond T. Hoopes..........1955

Mr. Paul F. Bender ....................1955

Mr. Arthur J. Holveck ............1955

Mr. John D. Hukill ....................1954

Mr. Robert E. Haley ................1954

Mr. Charles W. Gurney ............1954

Mr. John W. Grundy ................1954

Mr. Purnal L. McWhorter III ..1954

Mr. Cornelius P. Zittere ..........1953

Mr. Richard E. Fisher ..............1953

Mr. W. Richard Clendaniel ......1953

Mr. Robert J. Redden ..............1953

Mr. Harry E. Mayhew, Jr..........1953

Mr. Ralph E. Gesell ..................1952

Mr. Thomas A. McKenna ........1952

Mr. Samuel H. Macrum, Jr ......1952

Mr. Donald B. Kiddoo ..............1952

Mr. Edward A. Milligan ..........1952

Mr. Robert T. Monaghan, Sr. ..1952

Mr. Richard F. Hammond ........1952

Mr. John J. Turney ....................1952

Mr. Thomas A. Wood, Jr...........1951

Mr. Paul F. Berry, Jr. ..................1951

Mr. Donald T. Hoffecker ..........1951

Mr. Charles L. Van Meter, Jr. ..1951

Mr. Benjamin E. Herring..........1950

Mr. Lawrence H. Gillespie, Jr. 1950

Mr. H. Dudley Barton ..............1950

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