PRESIDENT

Archie T. Andonian

Dr. Archie A.T. Andonian has received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and S.U. in 1978. He joined the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1984 after teaching five years at the University of Illinois. His research interests include experimental stress analysis, optical methods, fracture mechanics, composite materials and tire mechanics. He has publications in Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Applied Optics, Experimental Mechanics, Experimental Techniques, Journal of Biomechanics, ACI Journal and Journal of Materials Science. He is an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Akron and teaches graduate level courses as needed. He also has more than 200 research papers and numerous trade secrets proprietary to Goodyear. He is currently a Sr. R & D Associate, a prestigious technical position at Goodyear.

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Kristin B. Zimmerman

Dr. Zimmerman joined General Motors (GM) Research and Development Center in 1993 to create GM’s Global Academic Partnerships Program.  The Program’s structure, process, and tools for effective acquisition of technical expertise from the academic sector became the Protocol for establishing GM’s Global Satellite Laboratory Network. Key to the operation of the Program is the GM Academic Partnerships Master Agreement written by Zimmerman in 1994.  The Master Agreement was used to help enable the creation of the GM/Shanghai Joint Venture.

Dr. Zimmerman and is currently working in GM’s Public Policy Center as manager of Environment and Energy Policy, where she is in charge of GM’s annual corporate responsibility reporting, and greenhouse gas reporting policy and practices for GM’s global operations.  She is also GM’s liaison to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s voluntary programs, the U.S. Department of Energy Climate VISION and Science Bowl programs, and program manager of the GM/The Nature Conservancy Atlantic Rainforest Project in Brazil.  She received the 1999-2000 GM Fellowship to the National Academy of Engineering in Washington D.C., where she worked on policy development to enhance the U.S. engineering, science, and technology workforce.

She has been a technical consultant to numerous entities across academia and industry.  In 1999, she participated in a war-gaming scenario development exercise for the U.S. Department of Defense.  She is the co-owner and president of MedFor Inc., a biomedical/biomechanics consulting firm specializing in Translational Sciences. 

Dr. Zimmerman serves the Society for Experimental Mechanics as chair of the education committee, editor in chief of Experimental Techniques, and has recently been nominated to become President of the society with her term beginning in 2006. In 1993, she was recognized nationally by the Alpha Sigma Mu- Materials Research Honor Society and was inducted into the Sigma Xi-The Scientific Research Society in 1997.

VICE-PRESIDENT

Wei-Chung Wang

Dr. Wang is a professor in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering of the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, Republic of China.

He was a member of the SEM Executive Board from 2001-2003. He was the secretary, vice-chairman and chairman of the SEM Optical Methods Division between 2000 and 2003. He is the major founder of the SEM Republic of China Local Section. He is now a committee member in both the SEM Honors Committee and SEM Committee of Fellows.

Professor Wang was advisor (1987-1995) for the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Executive Director (1994-2002) for the Tze-Chiang Foundation of Science and Technology (TCFST) and Director General (2003-2004) of the Department of International Programs of the National Science Council (NSC).

He is the three time recipient of the Excellent Research Award from the NSC. He received the Outstanding Service Award and the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2000 and 2001, respectively. In 2002, he received K.T. Lee Management Medal for recognizing his outstanding performance on managing the TCFST. In November 2004, Professor Wang was elected a fellow by SEM.

PAST PRESIDENT
Eddie O'Brien

Dr. Eddie O'Brien is a Group Leader, Experimental Mechanics at Airbus Corporation in the United Kingdom. He is responsible for supervising a team of world-class experimental stress analysts in support of the design, engineering, manufacture and operation of Airbus aircraft. He acts as a specialist consultant to all divisions of British Aerospace and to the Airbus Industry Consortium Partners. His industrial life has included work on the Folland “Gnat” aircraft used by the original “Red Arrows,” and many years on the Concorde design team, where O'Brien developed the Airbus Experimental Mechanics group.

Dr. O'Brien received the Zandman Award in 1992 from SEM, and a Fellow's Award from the Aeronautical Society in 1994. He is a Chartered Engineer member of the Institute of Physics and a Chartered Physicist. He has been very active in the British Society for Strain Measurement and SEM, having served on the SEM Executive Board as a Member-at-Large from 1999-2001. O'Brien has been awarded a number of world patents and has published over 40 technical papers on experimental mechanics. He has been Chairman of the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM) and represents the Experimental Mechanics lobby on a variety of committees.

Dr. O'Brien earned his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and the Royal Aeronautical Society.

PAST PRESIDENT

Masahisa Takashi

Masahisa Takashi received his B.S., M.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees from Keio University . He then joined Aoyama Gakuin University in 1968, where he began as a Lecturer, Associate Professor for 10 years, then in 1979, he became a full professor of mechanical engineering. He served as the chair of Foreign Affairs in JSME-MMD and initiated the effort, with the current SEM President, Albert Kobayashi, to establish the cooperative agreement between SEM and JSME-MMD now in place successfully. He was an SEM Executive Board member from 1996 to 1998 and an SEM International Advisory Board member from 2001 to 2003. He is now serving as the president of the JSEM (2002-2003), and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials . He received several awards from JSME, Japan Photoelastic Society and others. He received Fellow Awards from JSME (2001) and SEM (2003), as well as the Peterson Award from SEM (2002).

His technical interest is focused on experimental mechanics, particularly in the fields of optical methods (photoelasticity, holographic interfelometry, etc.), hybrid techniques in stress analysis and time dependent mechanical behaviors, including contact mechanics and fracture of polymeric materials. He has authored and co-authored approximately 200 research papers in the aforementioned fields.

TREASURER
Jon Rogers

Dr. Rogers received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1980, 1984 and 1986, respectively. He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1986 in the Experimental Mechanics Department as a Member of the Technical Staff. In that capacity, his responsibilities included shock and vibration testing and analysis, field data acquisition and analysis, and the development of two combined dynamic environment test facilities. He is currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the New Initiatives Department at Sandia with duties in the fields of penetration mechanics and weapons effects on structures. Dr. Rogers' publication topics include: measurement of material damping properties; test data analysis; combined dynamic environment testing, reactor containment vessel analysis and economic aspects of technology development.

Dr. Rogers joined SEM as a student member in 1981. He has served as the chair of the Technical Program Planning Committee and is currently an Associate Technical Editor of Experimental Techniques. He has been a member of the SEM Executive Board since 1996.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SECRETARY
Tom Proulx

Dr. Proulx received a B.S. (Chemistry) from Boston College in 1970 and a Ph.D. (Chemistry/NMR Spectroscopy) from Texas A&M University in 1975. After a year of Post-Doctoral work at Texas Christian University, he joined Perkin-Elmer Corporation in 1976. He spent twenty years with Perkin-Elmer in the Analytical Instrumentation business holding a variety of technical, applications, sales, marketing and managerial positions. Since his years at Perkin-Elmer, he has also been with Atlas Software in the sales and marketing of Laboratory Information Systems for Clinical Laboratories, and at Cober Electronics as Marketing Manager, where he was involved with the design, manufacture and sales of industrial microwave systems for heating and research. He joined the SEM staff in October 2001.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

John Cafeo

John Cafeo is a Lab Group Manager of the Customer Driven Quality Methods group at the General Motors Research and Development Center.  He obtained a B.S.M.E. (1983), a M.S.M.E. (1984), and a Ph.D. (1992) all from Penn State University.  His master’s work was in the area of acoustical modal analysis and his doctorate work was the design and development of a laser-based vibration measurement system.

John worked for the GM Noise and Vibration Laboratory from 1985 to 1988.  There he worked on a variety of projects including valve train noise and full vehicle wind noise.   After completing his doctorate in 1992, John rejoined GM at the R&D Center. Since then, he has conducted research in the areas of quantifying structural variability, quantifying people’s perception of structural solidness, math model validation, and knowledge systems. Currently, John leads a group of 12 people at the GM R&D Center investigating and developing new methods and tools for our early vehicle design. This work includes advanced methods for customer understanding, vehicle feasibility prediction, and smart systems.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Emmanuel Gdoutos

Dr. Emmanuel E. Gdoutos is Professor of Mechanics and Director of the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University. He received M.S. and Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His interests and experience include experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, composite materials and nanotechnology.

He is author of over 200 technical papers, 15 books, editor of 14 books. He is editor-in-chief of “Strain – An International Journal for Experimental Mechanics,” President of the European Structural Integrity Society, Chairman of the European Association for Experimental mechanics, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of SEM, ASME and New York Academy of Sciences, Honorary member of the Italian Group of Fracture. He served as guest editor of several journals. He has organized many conferences on engineering mechanics. He is chairman of the 13th International Conference on Experimental Mechnaics, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 1-6, 2007. He serves on the editorial board of six international journals. He has awarded two Fulbright fellowships and an excellent teaching award from the University of Toledo. He is listed in several Who’s Who. He is member of the Honors and Fellows committees of SEM.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Yoshiharu “Harry” Morimoto

Y. Morimoto (Harry Moiré) is Professor of Dept. of Opto-Mechatronics at Wakayama University. He received Dr. Eng. from Osaka University. He is now President of JSEM and Chairman of ACEM. He developed some methods to measure shape, deformation, stress and strain as follows: (1) Scanning moiré method, (2) Phase analysis methods using Fourier, wavelet or Gabor transforms, (3) Strain rate distribution measurement by a high-speed video camera, (4) Real-time integrated phase-shifting method, (5) High-speed and accurate methods using multi-reference planes, a DMD, a linear image sensor, or a frequency modulated grating, (6) Real-time simultaneous measurement for two-directional stress or strain distributions, and (7) Accurate measurement by phase-shifting digital holography.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Guruswami Ravichandran

AT-LARGE MEMBER

François M. Hemez

Dr. Hemez received his Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, in 1993; M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, in 1990; Graduate degree in numerical analysis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Jussieu), France, in 1989; and Graduate degree in engineering, École Centrale de Paris, France in 1989.

Dr. Hemez has been Technical Staff Member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since 1997. He was member of the Weapon Response group for seven years; served as Validation Methods team leader for one year; and is currently with X-Division. He is contributing to the development of technology for solution verification, model validation, uncertainty quantification, and decision-making for engineering and weapon physics applications.

Before joining Los Alamos François was a research associate of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), working in the area of test-analysis correlation and finite element model updating. He has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in applied mathematics and structural dynamics.

François has co-developed a short course on the Verification and Validation (V&V) of computational models and taught the first-ever graduate course offered in a U.S. University on uncertainty quantification and V&V (University of California, San Diego, spring 2006). He was elected chair-person of the Society for Experimental Mechanics' Technical Division on Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (2005, 2-year term). In 2005 he received the Junior Research Award of the European Association of Structural Dynamics. In 2006 he received two U.S. Department of Energy Defense Programs Awards of Excellence for applying V&V to programmatic work at LANL. Dr. Hemez has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications, conference papers, and reports since 1992.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Eann A. Patterson

Dr. Patterson joined the Royal Navy before going to the University of Sheffield where he obtained his BEng(Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering. Subsequently, he left the Royal Navy and returned to Sheffield and completed his Ph.D. in 1985. After a short period as a post-doc at the University of Calgary, he returned to the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and was promoted to Professor in 1997. During this period he worked on novel techniques in digital photoelasticity and later in thermoelasticity supported by funds from the EU and UK governments and from the aerospace industry. He also pursued research in computational biomechanics developing a fluid-solid interaction model of the human aortic valve. In 1993 he became Director of Graduate Student Affairs for Engineering and Physical Sciences and in 2001 Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2004, he moved to Michigan State University as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has graduated 18 Ph.D. students and together with them published more than 100 journal papers. He is editor of the Journal of Strain Analysis and was editor of the International Journal, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures from 2001 to 2006.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Nancy R. Sottos

Dr. Sottos is a Donald B. Willett Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, a co-chair of the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures Research initiative at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and a designated University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined the faculty in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Illinois after earning a B.S. and a Ph.D. in 1986 and 1991, respectively, in mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware. She served as assistant dean for the College of Engineering from 1998-1999 and interim department head of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from 2005-2006.

Her research group studies the mechanics of complex, heterogeneous materials such as advanced composites, thin film devices, and microelectronic packaging, specializing in micro and nanoscale characterization of deformation and failure in these material systems. Current research focuses on the development of autonomic materials systems that have the ability to achieve adaptation and response in an independent and autonomic fashion (e.g., recent work on autonomic healing in polymers).

Research and teaching awards include the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1992), Outstanding Engineering Advisor Award (1992, 1998, 1999 and 2002), the Robert E. Miller award for Excellence in Teaching (1999), the University of Delaware Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement (2002), and the Hetényi Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics (2004). Her research group was awarded the American Society for Composites Best Paper Award in 2002 and 2003 and the Tech Museum of Innovation Award for Technology Benefiting Humanity in 2001 for work on self-healing polymers. She recently finished a three-year term as the Senior Technical Editor for Experimental Mechanics (EM) and prior to that served as an Associated Editor for EM. She is a member of SEM, a member-at-large of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, on the editorial board for Composites Science and Technology and is the faculty advisor for the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.

AT-LARGE MEMBER

Martin W. Tretheway

Dr. Trethewey is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University. He is also affiliated with the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Acoustics at Penn State where he holds the title of Professor of Acoustics. He has been at Penn State for 24 years. Preceding his academic career he worked at the General Motors Noise and Vibration Laboratory and Union Carbide Corporation. His research has focused on the development and analysis of machine dynamic systems from experimentally acquired data. The effort involves research in experimental technique development, machine dynamics, experimental modal analysis, signal processing, finite element modeling, machine dynamics and noise control. He currently serves as the SEM appointed Assistant Editor for Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.