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The Pod Project:
Students design and build sustainable home
Successful engineering educational
institutions must perform effectively the
education of future engineers and the creation
of knowledge in a form that is applicable to
present and future societal problems and needs.
Furthermore, they must be able to adapt to the
changing needs of our student body as well
as to changing societal needs. In this issue of
the Exchange, we highlight some instances of
such successful adaptation by departmental
researchers and educators.
The Gear Dynamics and Gear Noise
Laboratory, under the leadership of Professor
Ahmet Kahraman, has a number of research
projects focused on improvement of the
efficiency of geared systems and transmissions,
a subject of increasing importance to
automotive manufacturers in these days of high
gasoline costs and uncertainty in petroleum
supplies. Professor Joseph Heremans, Ohio
Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology, has
demonstrated the capability to significantly
improve the thermoelectric efficiency of
selected materials with properties and behavior
compatible for use in automotive waste heat
recovery, resulting in improved gas mileage.
The articles on the capstone design project
and the Pod project feature innovations in
mechanical engineering design education at
Ohio State — innovations that are critical to
ensuring the competitiveness of our graduates.
Whether the project involves understanding
and addressing needs in developing countries,
designing and building devices to assist people
with movement disorders, or working with
multidisciplinary teams to solve problems in
a manner that advances sustainability, it is fair
to expect that the experience broadens our
students’ skills and enables them to function
very effectively in teams in subsequent
professional settings.
We take pride in the accomplishments of
our undergraduates as well as our alumni. In
recent years, we have instituted departmentlevel recognition of alumni accomplishments
and are gratified by increasing alumni response
in the form of nominations for these awards.
We are saddened by the passing of our alumnus
and staunch supporter, Michael Chaszeyka, ’43
BS, on July 27, 2008.
K. Cheena Srinivasan
from mechanical engineering,
and associate professors Lisa
Tilder and Stephen Turk from
architecture.
“We’re trying to show
sustainability can be an integral
part of design,” says Schwinn,
who recently graduated from
Ohio State. “When people think
of sustainable architecture,
they think of a house with solar
panels on it—and there’s more
than that to making integrating
sustainability and architecture.”
A number of sustainable
technologies are being built into
the Pod structure. For example,
a solar hot water heater, with
a gas-line backup, will be used
to heat water in the Pod. Gray
water recycling, low flow water
fixtures; and LED and natural
lighting will also be installed.
The students are aiming to build
a home that is 100% maintained
by solar power, using an AC
inverter and DC battery storage.
The floor incorporates phasechange salt to act as an insulator:
It absorbs all the heat that comes
into the house or releases it
naturally, removing the need for
an AC/heating system. Such salts
have been used in cell phone
towers in Arizona to keep the
towers cool, as well as in the
South and North poles to keep
those stations warm.
“We’re using structurally
insulated panels to build the
Pod—basically these are big
solid pieces for each wall that
contain the structure and
insulation in the material,” says
Shell, a senior in mechanical
engineering. “The Pod will have
an exterior waterproof finish.”
EMILY BURKHART
Message from the Chair:
Collaborations between
engineering disciplines are
becoming more popular,
especially in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, and
the end product in one case is
a 125-square-foot sustainable
living space: The Pod Project.
In spring 2007, Anna Schwinn
had the idea of building a
small sustainable Pod for her
senior capstone design project,
requiring undergraduates in
mechanical engineering and
architecture to work together to
build the small-scale home.
Schwinn and five other
students, Kara Shell and Doug
Powell from the Department
of Mechanical Engineering,
and Beth Evanoo, Greg Tran
and Greg Delaney from
the Knowlton School of
Architecture, are hoping to
show the public that sustainable
living is cost effective, easy to
incorporate and aesthetically
pleasing. They’re working
under the guidance of four
faculty advisors: professors
Gary Kinzel and Seppo Korpela
Powell, also a senior in
mechanical engineering, adds
that much thought went into
using green-friendly products
for the interior as well.
“The Pod interior is custom
designed using formaldehyde
free plywood with Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC)
certified birch faces,” says Powell.
“FSC guarantees that the wood
used was from responsibly
managed forests.”
(Continued on page 5.)
Efficiency Research at the
Gear Dynamics & Gear
Noise Research Lab:
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Turning Wasted Heat into
Electricity:
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Capstone Design Projects
Allow Students to Make
an Impact:
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The Pod Project
Students Design and Build
a Sustainable Home:
Cover & Page 5
Honors and Awards:
Undergraduates and
Alumni Honored at Spring
Banquet:
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Efficiency Research at the
Gear Dynamics
& Gear Noise Research Lab
Not only are fuel prices
skyrocketing, but environmental
concerns associated with energy
utilization and air pollution
are at the forefront of our
government. Researchers in the
Gear Dynamics and Gear Noise
Research Laboratory are finding
their research on gear efficiency
to be extremely relevant to
these social and economincal
concerns.
The Gear Dynamics and
Gear Noise Research Lab in
the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at Ohio State
is conducting a number of
research projects that aim
to model power losses and
increasing efficiencies of gear
systems and transmissions —
something that has become
an important research topic
as requirements on the
fuel economy and gas and
particulate emissions for today’s
passenger vehicles have become
more stringent.
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Research being conducted
at the Gear Lab is mostly
sponsored by the automotive,
aerospace, heavy truck and
off-highway vehicle industries
and performed by 18 graduate
students and two staff
researchers in state-of-the-art
experimental facilities at the
Peter L. and Clara M. Scott
Laboratory. Seven of these
students focus on several aspects
of gear and drive train efficiency.
General Motors is currently
sponsoring a major helical
gear efficiency project that is
going into its fourth phase.
Aarthy Vaidyanathan, a
graduate student in mechanical
engineering, is conducting
precise helical gear efficiency
experiments for validating
predictive models developed
based on understanding the
tribological aspects of gear
contacts.
“Using these models, I can
find out what the theoretical
efficiency is, and using the
experimental set-up that I
have, I can measure how much
power is actually lost — so that
I can then compare the two
efficiencies,” says Vaidyanathan.
Vaidyanathan knows the
rising cost of gas has made her
research and other efficiencyrelated research in the lab very
relevant. She admits that the
efficiencies in gears are already
very high (some at 99 percent),
but now there’s a focus to make
gearboxes even more efficient.
“In gearboxes, even if you
can decrease power loss and
increase efficiency by half a
percentage point that makes
for a significant improvement
in terms of fuel use,” says
Vaidyanathan. “These efficiency
improvements that are
compounded in a transmission
have the potential to improve
fuel economy of a vehicle
significantly.”
Other efficiency projects
in the Gear Lab include the
development and validation
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of a manual transmission power loss
model. This project, supported by GM
Europe, aims to find ways to improve
manual transmission efficiency under
diverse operating conditions.
General Motors is also
sponsoring research where students
are performing theoretical and
experimental investigations of
planetary gear power losses in
automatic transmissions and
automotive rear axles.
“In addition to exposure to
fundamental science issues associated
with power transmissions and
gearing, our students gain hands-on
experience in practical aspects of
research, thanks to our sponsors,” says
Ahmet Kahraman, director of the Gear
Dynamics and Gear Noise Research
Laboratory.
“Not to mention, these students go
on to start their professional lives at
some very reputable companies in the
field.”
The Gear Dynamics and Gear Noise
Research Laboratory at Ohio State
is the only major lab conducting a
significant amount of transmission
and gear research in the United States.
At left: Aarthy Vaidyanathan, a
graduate student in the Gear Dynamics and Gear Research Lab,
sets up a machine being used
for her experimental tests.
It conducts research in several aspects
of power transmission and gearing
including design, noise and vibration,
lubrication and wear, fatigue and
efficiency. The lab has a consortium
formed by more than 50 industrial
partners that meet twice annually to
discuss current research projects and
future research goals.
Vaidyanathan notes that the types
of projects she is conducting have no
foreseeable end when you consider the
energy crisis that the United States is
dealing with.
“People are looking at fuel cell
vehicles and hybrids, but the fact
of the matter is whichever car you
choose to drive, you need to have
some sort of a gear box in place and
running as efficiently as possible; so
improving the efficiencies in these gear
boxes is going to improve all vehicles,
irrespective of the kind of energy
source you’re going to use.”
Turning Wasted Heat
into Electricity
In his lab, Joseph Heremans has invented
a new material that will make cars even
more efficient, by converting heat wasted
through engine exhaust into electricity.
Heremans’ most recent research finding, featured
in a July issue of the journal Science, describes a
thermoelectric material with twice the efficiency of
anything currently on the market.
The new material, thallium-doped lead , has a figure
of merit that is twice as high as the sodium-doped lead
telluride from which it was derived, meaning it can
convert heat into 50 percent more electricity at a given
temperature.
Heremans notes that he and colleagues used a
new strategy during this research. In the past 10
years, thermoelectric materials were improved using
nanotechnologies. Today, Heremans and his team go
further — they modify material properties at the atomic
level without relying upon more complicated nano
technologies, but by focusing on how to convert the
maximum amount of heat.
“The material does all the work. It produces electrical
power just like conventional heat engines — steam
engines, gas or diesel engines — that are coupled to
electrical generators, but it uses electrons as the working
fluids instead of water or gases, and makes electricity
directly,” says Heremans.
What’s more important to Heremans is that the new
material is most effective between 450 and 950 degrees
Fahrenheit -- a temperature range compatible with
power systems such as automobile engines.
On the average, 25 percent of the energy produced
by a gasoline engine is used to power a car and its
accessories, and nearly 60 percent is lost through waste
heat — much of which escapes in engine exhaust.
With this new material and technology for converting
heat from exhaust into electricity, one could improve a
car’s fuel efficiency by 7 percent. That makes the idea of
stretching a gallon of gas clearly feasible.
EMILY BURKHART
What’s Inside:
At left: an instrument probe with
thermoelectric materials attached
is used in an experiment setup.
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Capstone Design Projects Allow
Students to Make an
“We want to bring awareness to the public about
other cost effective ways you can make your
home sustainable through this Pod project.”
Impact
Improve a wheelchair device for people with spinal cord injuries: check.
Design a solar cooker for people in Third-World countries: check.
Envision a project that makes an impact in someone’s life and build the prototype: check and check.
Below: students in Guenther’s E 581 course built the above solar cooker
with corrugated plastic and aluminum foil.
KATHRYN BELISLE
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EMILY BURKHART
The Wheelchair Tray Project Team includes (L-R) James Falk, Monica Soncrant, Peter
Brockmeier, Rebecca Routson, Julie Thompson and Michael Quade.
A recent $88,000 grant awarded by the National Science
Foundation will allow Siston to continue working on
these types of assistive device projects with continued
collaborations across the university’s campus. The group that
constructed the wheelchair tray served as a model group.
“The grant will allow us to offer seven projects a year, for the
next three years,” says Siston. “These future projects will be
created in two quarters by interdisciplinary teams.”
At the other end of the hall in the Peter L. and Clara M.
Scott Laboratory, students studying under Professor Denny
Guenther are getting an opportunity to impact their world
through undergraduate projects that are designed and built in
Scott Lab.
Guenther teaches a mechanical engineering course (Senior
Design Group Project, ME 564) where students select a
project during week one of the quarter—and continue to
design, build and test the product during a second quarter
(Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, ME 581).
One project created by students in Guenther’s course is a
solar cooker that catches rays from the sun and redirects the
solar heat to cook food that sits in the center of the design.
The students were able to build and test a new type of solar
cooker made from corrugated plastic — which was not only
more durable than the older design that used aluminized
cardboard, but more weather resistant as well.
“There were a number of elements to test with our solar
cooker,” notes Kathryn Belisle, a student on the solar cooker
team. “Not only did we have to test the different fold methods,
but we had to test for heat resistance, material thickness, and
whether or not different types of corrugation would have
different impacts on the durability of the final product.”
The students gained experience in the course not only by
designing, building and testing these products, but during a
portion of the course they were educated on ways to perform
patent searches and avoid patent infringement.
“The students don’t ultimately seek patents for their
products,” says Guenther. “We want the product to remain as
cheap as possible and as widely available as needed. Without
patents, the solar cooker can do the greatest amount of good
for the people who really need it.”
Students involved with the Pod Project include (L-R) Elizabeth Evanoo, Greg Tran,
Anna Schwinn, Kara Shell, Greg Delanry and Doug Powell.
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“We are also placing customized solar
panels on the outside of the skin—these are
designed smaller than typical solar panels—
and we’re placing the panels on the roof top
with a diffused effect. We’ll keep the surface
area the same, but spread out the panels and
give a creative look to the rooftop.”
Shell notes that the team hopes this project
will also improve the public’s understanding
of sustainable homes.
“I think so many people tend to think that
a sustainable home has to be run by solar
energy—and that’s a large cost up front for
a home-owner. There’s a technology that
exists now, called AQUS®, which is gray
water recycling that can be installed in your
home for approximately $200. We want to
bring awareness to the public about other
cost-effective ways you can make your home
sustainable through this Pod project,” says
Shell.
Students are building the project with a
budget of less than $50,000. The funding for
the project has come from an Excellence in
Engagement Grant ($25,000) and from the
OSU Institute of Energy
and Environment ($15,000).
The students are also learning
how to market their project, and work
with industry sponsors to get some of the
materials for building the Pod donated.
The general public will most certainly
have the opportunity to view the Pod project
now that the Columbus Center of Science
and Industry (COSI) has agreed to install the
Pod as an exhibit in spring 2009.
The Pod is also serving as a warm-up act
for Ohio State’s student-led Solar Decathlon
team, which will build an 800 square-foot
house for a fall 2009 national competition
sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Energy.
The Pod project has served as a
stimulating opportunity to design and build,
for these six students.
“I can’t wait to get my own apartment
where a landlord would let me test out a
solar panel,” adds Shell. “I get excited about
wanting to try these technologies in my own
environment, and I hope to see others get
excited as well after our project is complete.”
At right: Kara Shell and Greg Delaney work
to install a final door frame on the Pod in
preparation for installing the roof.
EMILY BURKHART
Students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
are getting real-world experiences in the classroom with their
senior capstone design projects.
A team of mechanical engineering undergraduates recently
worked on a project that shows how exciting and rewarding
mechanical engineering principles can be when applied to the
world of human movement disorders.
In collaboration with colleagues in occupational therapy
as well as physical medicine and rehabilitation at Ohio State,
Peter Brockmeier, James Falk, Michael Quade, Rebecca
Routson, Monica Soncrant and Julie Thompson designed
and built a more efficient wheelchair tray for individuals with
spinal cord injuries.
The students note that current wheelchair trays are bulky
and heavy when placed on a wheelchair—and they don’t
allow the user a large amount of space to work on. The new
tray they designed and built is lighter in weight and adjustable
for the user. It can also be stored on the chair, giving the users
a sense of independence in accessing the tray on their own
when they need it.
As director of the Neuromuscular Biomechanics
Laboratory, Rob Siston applies mechanical engineering
principles to clinical problems in orthopaedics and studies
musculoskeletal mechanics, designs medical devices and
procedures, and optimizes the functional outcomes of clinical
and surgical interventions.
“One of the great aspects of undergraduate research
is that it allows our students to get an early start on the
next stage of their academic career, such as graduate or
medical school,” says Siston. “And one of the unique features
at Ohio State and these great interdisciplinary research
projects is that our reputable engineering and medicine
programs being located on the same campus. This allows for
enthusiastic collaborations between mechanical engineering,
orthopaedics, physical therapy, occupational therapy and
physical medicine and rehabilitation.”
- Kara Shell
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Awards that Recognize Our
Outstanding
Alumni
Alumni award recipients at the 2008 Honors and Awards Banquet included (front, L-R) Srinivas
Garimella, William Watkins and Richard Fosdick, (back, L-R) Richard Peters, Dale Andreatta and
Richard Navarro. Department Chair Cheena Srinivasan (back, far right) presented the alumni with
their awards.
Congratulations
Distinguished Alumni:
The 2008 Alumni Awards were
presented at the Honors and
Awards Banquet in the spring, and
six mechanical engineering alumni
were recognized. A committee
of alumni, faculty members, and
members of the department’s
External Advisory Board selected
alumni for these awards.
The 2008 Thomas French
Achievement Award was
presented to Srinivas Garimella.
Garimella is a professor in the
George W. Woodruff School of
Mechanical Engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology,
where his research focuses on
sustainable energy systems and he
is the director of the Sustainable
Thermal Systems Lab. Garimella
also serves as the chair for the
Advanced Energy Systems Division
of ASME. He received an Early
Career Development Award from
the National Science Foundation
in 1999.
Richard Fosdick was
presented the 2008 Ralph Boyer
Young Achiever Award for his
achievements at Moog Inc. where
he moved from development
engineer to project engineer
and ultimately became senior
project engineer in just eight
years. As a result of his work with
the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter, the F-35 is the first
aircraft to employ all electrically
powered flight controls as opposed
to traditional hydraulic controls.
Fosdick became a principal
engineer at Moog Inc. in 2007 and
continues to make contributions
in the field of new product
development.
The 2008 Marion Smith
Service Award was presented to
Dale Andreatta who has given
generously of his time to the
students of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering. He
contributed time and engineering
expertise to a group of students
who developed water purification
and cooking devices that will
improve the quality of life
for those living in developing
countries, as senior design projects.
Andreatta is employed by SEA
Ltd. in Columbus, Ohio, where
he performs vehicle accident
reconstruction and vehicle
component analysis. He is a
registered professional engineer in
Ohio.
Richard Navarro received the
2008 E.G. Bailey Entrepreneurship
Award to recognize his work with
spinal disc implants. Navarro is
vice-president and co-founder of
Theken Disc, a manufacturer of
revolutionary disc implants, and
has overseen development of the
company’s eDisc™ — a disc that
simulates the nonlinear elasticity
of a natural disc. He also holds 11
patents, most of which are related
to medical applications.
The 2008 Alan Gregory
Loofburrow Business Achievement
Award was presented to Richard
Peters, chief engineer at Timken
Aerospace. At Timken Aerospace,
he has the responsibility to
manage and direct the activities
of the aftermarket division. Peters
is a registered engineer in the
state of Ohio and is an active
member of the Canton Joint
Engineering Council, the Society
of Manufacturing Engineers, and
National Engineers Week.
William Watkins was presented
the 2008 Charles Kettering
Lifetime Achievement Award and
recognized as an alumnus who
has distinguished himself over his
lifetime. Watkins started his career
with Lockheed Aircraft Corp. as
a test engineer and worked for 15
years in the aerospace and military
design sectors with Lockheed,
Marquardt Corp. and Honeywell.
In 1966 he began working for Walt
Disney and ultimately became
chief engineer at the company,
where he designed, developed and
tested ride systems including Space
Mountain and Big Thunder.
Watkins has since started his
own company, Ride and Show
Engineering Inc. and continues
to work with Disney as well as
Universal Studios in California
and Florida. He is a registered
professional engineer in Ohio,
California and Florida — and
serves as a valuable resource expert
to a new theme park engineering
student group at Ohio State.
Undergraduate
Awards
At the 2008 Honors and Awards Banquet,
more than 90 undergraduate students
in mechanical engineering received
acknowledgements for their academic
excellence. Rich Granger, president of the
Mechanical Engineering Alumni Society,
presented eight students with top academic
awards: Freshmen: Garrett Olson, Amanda
Strube and Travis Walker; Sophomore
Michael Meade; Junior Paul SayGan; and
Seniors: James Falk, Mitchell Parsons and
Ehsan Sadeghipour.
Shell Oil Company Scholarships were
presented by Julie Dehne, a Shell Oil
representative, to seven students: Katherine
Bovee, Emily Buzzelli, Dan Eichel, Benjamin
Golden, Keeley Keny, David Pickens and
Eric Son.
The Rob Wolf Outstanding Senior
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Award, created to recognize students who
academically excel while taking an active
role in Department, College and University
organizations, was awarded to Kara Shell.
Shell is president of Pi Tau Sigma and a
student representative to the Mechanical
Engineering Undergraduate Studies
Committee. She played an instrumental
role in the groundbreaking interdisciplinary
capstone design project: The POD Project
(see cover story). Thomas Knapp and David
Pan were honored as finalists for the award.
The 2008 Outstanding Research Award
was presented to Himanshu Bhatnagar
and Timothy Mayberry. Both honored
for their research contributions to the
Department. Bhatnagar was nominated by
Dr. Somnath Ghosh for research excellence
in the study of failure and instability in
thermal barrier coatings contributing to
multiple publications and awards. Mayberry
was nominated by Dr. Jim Schmiedeler
for research excellence in the analysis of
human brain injury due to impact leading
to an increased understanding of injury
biomechanics.
The 2008 Outstanding Leadership Award
was presented to David Cooke and Craig
Pavlich, who both were nominated by Dr.
Giorgio Rizzoni for their roles as leaders
in the Department. Cooke was recognized
for his contributions as a team leader for
the record-setting Buckeye Bullet II student
automotive project team, while Pavlich was
recognized for his role as a team leader of
the ChallengeX student project team.
Frederick Dodge
Greg Ficke
Mechanical
Engineering, B.S. ’48
Nuclear Engineering
M.S. ’76
Please join us for the 2008 Engineering Reunion
Weekend on Friday, September 5, 2008, featuring
seminars for learning and a barbeque picnic for
relaxing.
The Engineering Continuing Education Seminar Series will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15
p.m., with seminars presented by five prominent
faculty members.
The 11th Annual Buckeye Reunion Under the
Stars will follow, on the Hitchcock Hall Patio from
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Buckeye Reunion is a complimentary barbeque dinner for Ohio State engineering and architecture alumni and their guests.
For more information regarding this event,
please contact Kerry Gastineau at (614) 292-3912
or visit http://engineering.osu.edu/alumni/buckeye/index.php.
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th
ANNUAL
Buckeye Reunion
The Rob Wolf Outstanding Senior Award was presented to Kara Shell, center. David Pan (left)
and Thomas Knapp (right) were honored as award finalists.
Under the Stars
2008
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Alumni
Updates
Dupaix
Honored for
Excellence in
Teaching
Denny Guenther Receives the 2008
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
KEVIN FITZSIMONS
Rebecca Dupaix, assistant
professor in mechanical
engineering, received two
teaching awards at the spring
Honors and Awards Banquet. She
is the 2008 recipient of both the
Above and Beyond Award and the
Teaching Excellence Award.
The Above and Beyond Award
is presented annually by members
of Pi Tau Sigma in recognition
of the contributions made by
a Department of Mechanical
Engineering faculty or staff
member to the mechanical
engineering department and its
students.
The Department of
Mechanical Engineering and
the External Advisory Board
collaboratively present the
Teaching Excellence Award to
recognize the importance of
undergraduate teaching within
the Department. Student
feedback highlighted Dupaix’s
passion for the subject material
as well as her concern for student
learning.
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Denny Guenther, professor in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the
2008 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
at Ohio State. Guenther has been teaching full
time at Ohio State for nearly 34 years, during
which he has taught courses in a wide variety of
areas within mechanical engineering: mechanical
design, including the capstone design course;
dynamic systems, including courses on vehicle
dynamics, thermal and fluid systems; and applied
mechanics. Students in his courses value his
energy and enthusiasm, the practical experience
he brings into the classroom, and his obvious
interest in students and teaching.
Guenther’s excellence as an educator has been
recognized on a number of other occasions. He
received the Mechanical Engineering Industrial
Advisory Board’s Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching in 2004, the Ohio
State College of Engineering Lumley Research
Award in 1983, and the Charles E. MacQuigg
Award for outstanding teaching in the College of
Engineering in 1982.
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
honors faculty members for superior teaching.
Recipients are nominated by present and former
students and colleagues and are chosen by a
committee of alumni, students, and faculty.
Along with the award, Guenther receives a cash
award, made possible by contributions from the
Alumni Association, friends of Ohio State, and
the Office of Academic Affairs. He also receives
an increase in his base salary from the Office of
Academic Affairs.
Guenther was also inducted into the
university’s Academy of Teaching, which provides
leadership for the improvement of teaching at
Ohio State.
Arthur Holly Compton Teaching Award
Presented to Brian Hajek
It has been an exciting year for Brian Hajek, associate chair for
the nuclear engineering program and senior research engineer in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Hajek was selected to receive the American Nuclear Society’s
(ANS) prestigious Arthur Holly Compton teaching award because
of his inspirational leadership that creates enthusiasm among
students about nuclear science and engineering. He promotes
diversity throughout his teaching and forges industrial links for
faculty and students.
The Compton Award is the Nuclear Engineering Education
Community’s Teacher of the Year award. It recognizes and encourages outstanding and sustained contributions to education
in nuclear science and engineering. The award is funded through
an endowment by the wife of Edward Malinckrodt Jr. and by
George E. Malinckrodt and is administered by the ANS Education
and Training Division. The award includes monetary elements to
be presented to both the recipient and the recipient’s academic
institution. Hajek received the award June 10 at the ANS National
Meeting in Los Angeles.
1940s
LaVerne E. Biser, ’42, worked as
a structures engineer at General
Dynamics and retired after 45 years.
Merrill F. Yale, ’48, is CEO of Apollo
World Services.
1950s
Gerrit S. van Straten, P.E., NCEES,
’59, is a senior staff engineer for WD
Partners.
1960s
Irv “Andy” Anderson, ’67, retired
in 2004 as pilot and manager of
corporate aircraft operations for
Owens-Illinois.
Randall F. Barron, ’61 M.S., ’64 Ph.D.,
is a professor emeritus at Louisiana
Tech University.
D. Michael Clabaugh, ’65, retired after
31 years with Cincinnati Milacron,
starting as a design engineer and
becoming group vice president. He
is currently president at VisionQuest
Alliance.
Ronald W. Cole, ’68, retired as
manager of applications and customer
support, specialty products at
ArvinMeritor after 38 years with the
company.
David W. Doll, ’65, won the
Distinguished Performance of the
Year Award from Los Alamos National
Laboratories and retired after 37 years
with General Atomics. He is now
manager at Hype Tech Research.
Arthur Haft, ’64, is a senior project
manager at Cummins & Barnard, is
currently working on the CFB boiler
plant installation at Purdue University.
Richard J. Hammond, ’69, has recently
retired as plant manager with Bekaert
Corp. in Rome, Italy after 19 years.
Dale Hartsock, ’68, M.S., senior
technical specialist at Ford Motor
Co. retired in 2007 after 38 years in
research.
Egon Hienz, ’61, is retired from EADS,
Military Aircraft.
Norman W. Hope Jr., ’68, is retired
from Columbia Gas Transmission.
Joesph W. Kimmel, ’67, retired after
41 years with Shell Oil Co. as manager
of marketing and transportation. He
will continue to be Shell’s campus
executive to Ohio State.
Jerry Mauch, ’68, retired from Ford
Motor Co. as supervisor of engine
design.
Larry Sharp, ’69, is a sales
representative at DDC Sales Associates.
Robert Strickland, ’67, received an
MBA from Columbia University and is
a self-employed financial consultant.
Stephen M. Wander, ’68, is a senior
aerospace engineer at NASA.
1970s
Ronald R. Bellamy, ’70 M.S., ’73 Ph.D.
NE, is branch chief of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
David Berniet, ’73, retired as captain
from Delta Airlines and is now captain
with NetJets.
Gary R. Blume, ’77, is an attorney and
started a commercial and corporate
law practice in Phoenix, Blume Law
Firm, PC.
James Booth, ’74 M.S. NE, is an
engineer/health physicist at Frontier
Technology Corp. He is also a
registered professional engineer.
John (Jack) Brown, ’73 Ph.D. NE, is
retired from Battelle and is a member
of city council in the City of Depoe
Bay. He was a nuclear weapons
inspector in Iraq with the United
Nations Special Commission, New
York.
John G. Burt, ’70 Ph.D. NE, ’73 MBA
in finance, is currently a shareholder/
member of the Valley Lumber Co.
LLC ,in Basalt, Colo. and co-owner of
Able Machinery Movers in Grapevine,
Texas.
Andrew A. Cosner, ’78, ’79 M.S., is
chief engineer of helicopter engines at
Rolls-Royce.
Jeff Duncan, ’77, is vice president,
CIO and director of technology at
Louisiana Pacific Corp.
Lawrence Flores, ’73, ’08 M.S., is an
advisory engineer at AREVA NP Inc.
Robert Gamble, ’76, P.E. is vice
president of engineering and chief
engineer at Trent Enterprises Inc. in
New Jersey.
Bruce Gillespie, ’75, M.S. NE, is a
business segment manager in the Labs
and Fuel Cycle Group for Canberra
Industries.
Philip J. Henderson, ’77 M.S., is an
advanced programs engineer at Harris
Corp.
Robert C. Johnson, ’74, retired from
Procter & Gamble as associate director
in R&D after 30 years. In 2006, he
started WindPath Sailing of Florida.
Lawrence Katonak, ’72 M.S., is a
compliance engineer at Innovative
Solutions.
Scott C. Kennedy, ’76 M.S., is a project
engineer at Mountaire Farms of
Delaware Inc.
Charles King, ’74, is a staff
development engineer at Coherent.
Scott Lambert, ’73, a self-employed
PE and is currently designing test
enabling hardware for gas turbine and
jet aircraft engines.
Arie Lipski, ’76 M.S., is a design and
development engineer at Battelle.
Jerry L. Lockenour, ’73 M.S., is
director of technology development at
Northrop Grumman.
Tim Marker, ’72, retired in 2007
after 30 years of service with Mettler
Toledo, where his last position was
vice president of human resources.
Recently joined the Ohio State ME
Building Campaign Committee.
Donald O. Marshall, ’73, is owner of
The Don Marshall Co. Inc.
Raymond E. Martin, ’78, is a lead
engineer at Whirlpool Corp.
Steven Matthew, ’73, is vice president
of operations at Certified Heat
Treating.
Edward McCauley, ’72, is retired from
General Electric.
David Meredith, ’72, is an associate
professor at Penn State University.
Lee Norris Miller, ’77, ’84 MBA, ’05
M.S., is an instructor at Bangkok
University in Thailand.
Timothy I. Miller, ’71, is a marketing
communications manager at Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Co.
Rick Papso, ’79, is general manager of
North America sales support at Shell
Oil Co.
Michael C. Prentice, ’73, is a Harowe
Resolver product manager at Dynapar.
Roy Reker, ’77, is a product technical
support engineer at Bechton
Dickinson.
James E. Schimpf, ’71, is retired from
Caterpillar Inc.
Daniel A. Schoch PE, ’70, is
engineering manager of advanced
technologies/future workforce
development at The Minster Machine
Co. He was awarded the National
Charles F. Kettering Award for
Direction of Best U.S. Co-op and
Internship Program within the United
States.
Alumni Memorial:
Michael A. Chaszeyka
Michael A. Chaszeyka was born in Youngstown,
Ohio, on July 28, 1920. Chaszeyka’s family moved
from Youngstown to Springfield Township in 1927,
and he later graduated from Springfield Local High
School.
He was a 1943 graduate of The Ohio State
University, earning his B.S. in mechanical engineering.
He went on to earn his M.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology while
participating in active duty for training sessions with the Active Naval
Reserve. Upon graduation, he entered the Navy as an ensign and spent most
of his World War II time at sea in the Pacific.
He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War and retired from
the Navy Reserve with the rank of lieutenant commander in 1980. His career
included science research positions with the Armour Research Foundation
and the Office of Naval Research. After retiring, he joined the Veterans of
Foreign Wars (VFW) as a public relations officer, and in 1996 he was named
Legislative Officer for District 4, Northern Illinois.
His interests included behavioral science, economics, sociopolitical
affairs, technology, world history and skiing. In 1997, at the age of 77, he was
the fastest of all Illinois skiers in his age group at the NASTAR (NAtional
STAndard Race) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. In 2000, he founded a chapter
of the Torch Club, an organization created to develop camaraderie among
professionals from different occupations. He was married to Libuse Panish
Chaszeyka.
Chaszeyka lived in Western Springs, Ill., and in 2006 he contributed
$250,000 toward Scott Laboratory construction costs, and to name the
Michael A. Chaszeyka Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Laboratory.
Chaszeyka passed away July 27, 2008, one day short of his 88th
birthday.
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Dale Schulze, ’75, ’79 M.S., is a
principal patent engineer at DePuy
Orthopaedics Inc./Johnson & Johnson.
He holds 63 U.S. patents for surgical
devices.
Lowell W. (Mel) Shelly, ’73, is vice
president of engineering at Westerman
Cos.
Jim Vance, ’71 M.S., is Asian technical
manager for Americas at Trelleborg
Automotive.
Peter C. Vorum, ’72, ’76 M.S., is a
retired mechanical engineer. He is
working on a career to develop a thesis
into auto industry applications.
James A. Youngs, ’71, retired in 2005
as a project manager from Ford Motor
Co.
Gene Zanko, ’72, is director of capital
planning at University of California,
San Francisco.
1980s
Kimberly Beal, ’86, is supply chainglobal program manager at Jabil.
James E. Bodiford Jr., ’81, is president
and owner of Abenteur Enterprises.
Dave Bouton, ’80, is vice president and
general manager at Americhem Inc.
Robert Broderick, ’82, retired as
colonel and F-16 pilot after 25 years
in the U.S. Air Force and is a pilot for
Southwest Airlines.
Jayne Stoffregen Byrnes, ’83, is director
at Cardinal Health in Worthington,
Ohio.
Paul Carson, ’87, is an R&D operating
manager in the networking and digital
solutions business unit at Agilent
Technologies Inc.
Andrew Cothrel, ’86, is general
manager of Dew Technologies.
Steven Dibert, ’86, MD, is a neurologist
and interim stroke director at
Carolinas Healthcare System.
Ben Elliott, ’82, is general manager of
Ohio Willow Wood.
David Emerling, ’81, is a program
director at Microheat Inc.
David Falk, ’83, is site manager at
Sherwin-Williams.
JohnC. Gazdik, ’86, is a sourcing
digitization leader at General Electric.
Barry Gluntz, ’89, is owner and
president of C&L Casting Sales.
Thomas Greetham, ’81, 82 M.S., is
project engineering manager for
hydraulic actuation in The Aircraft
Group at Moog Inc.
Andrew D. Herbert, ’85, is a plant
manager at Ford Motor Company.
Kent Kahle, ’85, is director of OEM
business development at Trimble
Navigation.
Rade Kecman, PE, ’87, is an executive
vice president at IMG Mechanical
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Group.
William H. Kiracofe, ’82, is manager
of maintenance and reliability at
Marathon Pipe Line.
Scott Ludwig, ’81, ’83 M.S. NE, is a
group leader at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory.
Ted Malone, ’88, is vice president of
product management at Sling Media
Inc.
Daniel P. Marty, ’86, is an engineering
manager in RTR wheel end systems
at Hendrickson Trailer Suspension
Systems.
Matthew Marks, ’86, ’89 M.S., is
employed with SABIC Innovative
Plastics as automotive market
development manager.
Carl McLaughlin, ’84, is director of
engineering at Worthington Cylinders
Corp.
David Mears, ’85, is a facilities
manager at Bettcher Industries.
David Mikesell, ’08 Ph.D., is an
assistant professor of mechanical
engineering at Ohio Northern
University.
Jim Milbaugh, ’83, is a partner at
Motion Components Inc.
Craig D. Miller, ’89, is chief engineer of
integrated mold procurement group at
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Jeff Moog, ’84, is president of Welded
Construction LP.
Bobbi Alkire Noe, ’83 M.S., is director
of innovation at Owens Corning.
Christodoulos Pierides, ’85, is a
marketing and market development
manager at Lambis G. Constantinides
Ltd.
Saeid Rahimian, ’82 M.S., is president
of fluid management group at Robbins
& Myers Inc.
Eric Roman, ’89, is general manager at
GE Healthcare.
Rob Rowan, ’86, is a senior manager
of product development at Phoenix
Analysis & Design Technologies.
Jim Schrader, ’83, ’87 M.S., is president
of TECHnology SITE Planners Inc.
Anthony J. Selley, ’89, is director of
global purchasing at Volvo AB.
Christopher Stevens, ’89, is vice
president of strategy & global
marketing at Tyco Flow Control.
Oather Taylor III, ’88, is director of
infrastructure security and facilities
services at Alliant Energy.
William E. Turner, ’82, is a field
engineer at Dresser-Rand.
Phillip G. Vander Kraats, ’80, is a
project manager at Concepts NREC.
Donald M. Weber, ’81, is a senior
IT specialist at IBM specializing in
performance and security testing of
web applications.
Lou Ziebold, ’80, is general manager
of Astroturf and SynLawn divisions
at Textile Management Associates in
Dalton, Ga.
1990s
Christina Adkins, ’99, is controls
product development team leader at
General Motors Powertrain.
Richard “Brian” Allender, ’93, ’99
MBA, is a pipe factory hot end
technical leader at Owens Corning in
Newark, Ohio.
Joshua M. Bergman, ‘95, is a product
manager at Bunge North America Inc.
Leah Bober, ’98, is a senior engine test
and evaluation engineer at HarleyDavidson Motor Co. In May 2008 she
obtained her M.S. in engine systems
from the University of WisconsinMadison.
Steve Boham, ’91, ’93 M.S., ’05 MBA, is
a senior manager of discovery research
strategy at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Douglas Campbell, P.E. ’94, is a
senior systems engineer for hybrid
powertrains at General Motors.
Jeffrey A. Campbell, ’93, is a staff
perfusionist at University of Toledo
Medical Center.
Aaron Carstens, ’99, is a mechanical
engineering manager at Stolle
Machinery Co. LLC.
Andrew Clarkson, ’94, is a bid support
specialist at Rolls-Royce Energy
Systems Inc.
John Cremers, ’91, is a senior process
engineer at Gerdau Ameristeel and is
currently board chair of United Way of
Bartow County.
Mark Coalmer, ’92, ’93 M.S., was
recently promoted to facilities and
construction manager for Occidental
Petroleum’s Permian Basin fields.
Jackie M. DiMarco, ’95, ’96 M.S., is
a Mustang business manager at Ford
Motor Co. She appeared on NBC’s
the Today Show for work bringing to
market the special edition Warrior in
pink benefitting Susan G. Komen for
the Cure.
Douglas Duke, ’92, is engineering
manager at Pratt & Whitney.
W. Scott Fentress, ’92, is a strategic
customer leader at General Electric –
Aviation.
James Finneran, ’90, ’91 M.S., ’97
Ph.D., is a research scientist for
the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal
Program, Space and Naval Warfare
Systems Center in San Diego. He
was selected as Department of the
Navy’s “Top Scientists and Engineers”
in 2007 for the advancement of
electrophysiological techniques
for rapid hearing tests in marine
mammals.
Brad Forry, ’95, is a new product line
manager, advanced manufacturing
engineer, for Honeywell Aerospace.
Michael Gabalski, ’93, is a senior
engineering team leader at JLG
Industries Inc.
Jim E. Giuliani, ’91, ’97, M.S.
Aerospace, is client and technology
support manager at The Ohio
Supercomputer Center.
John D. Groh, ’94, is a major, Battalion
S3 in the U.S. Army. He has 21 years
of Army service and is an Iraq war
veteran.
Lianhong Guo, ’99, is supply chain
leader at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.
Martin A. Haas, ’92 M.S. NE, ’96 M.S.
ME, is an engineering supervisor at
Liebert/Emerson Corp.
Theodore J. Hoke III, ’99, employed by
Barco Inc., issued two U.S. patents.
Robert J. Kenney, ’93, is director of
process improvement at the Cleveland
Clinic Foundation.
John Kirkpatrick, ’91, is a production
engineering manager at Central Motor
Wheel of America.
Charles M. List, ’93, is a combustion
and refractories design engineer at
Carbonyx Carbon Technolgies Inc.
Daniel Marsalek, ’95, is a project
engineer at The Andersons Inc.
Victor S. Mcbride, ’95, is a quality
engineer at Diamond Power
International Inc.
Daniel Minotti, ’99, is senior manager
at Accenture.
Shane Monday, ’97, is operations
manager of CSA at General Electric,
Energy.
Anil Nagar, ’98, is a data base
administrator at Reynolds & Reynolds.
Mojdeh M. Naieni, ’94, is a NPI
Program manager and manufacturing
specialist 4 at Microsoft.
James Porach, ’92, is a market manager
at Aeroglide Corp.
Robert E. Pressler, III, ’98, is south
central region energy manager at
Cooper Industries.
Daniel Prophater, ’98, ’99 M.S. ISE, is
director of research and development
at the David J. Joseph Co.
Wesley C. Prout, ’91, is president of
Prout Boiler, Heating & Welding Inc.
Amir G. Rezaei, ’95 Ph.D., is an
associate professor at California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona. He
received the SAW Ralph R. Teetor
Educational Award and is chair of
Design in Engineering Education
Division of ASEE.
Joseph J. Rouhana, ’94, is senior IS
manager at L.L. Bean.
Joe Sabo, ’98, is an executive
consultant and project management
office director for CGI’s U.S. central
and south region.
George Stratman, ’96, is a senior cost
analyst at Ford Motor Company.
Brian Thomas, ’92, ’95 M.S. IE, ’03
Ph.D., is an assistant professor at
Cleveland State University.
Tessy Thomas, ’94, is a mechanical
engineer at Dow Corning Corp.
Allen R. White, ’91, ’00 M.S., ’07 Ph.D.,
is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulma
Institute of Technology.
Dan Wieczynski, ’90, is a project
manager at ExxonMobil Development
Co. He is currently project manager
for a 40 km pipeline being installed in
the Po River Delta in Italy.
Scott Wright, ’92, is associate
marketing director for Global Pantene
Pro-V at Procter & Gamble.
Kenny Yap, ’97, is a manufacturing
engineer at Illumina Inc.
2000s
Shashank Aggarwal, ’04 M.S., is a
senior account manager at Dassault
Systemes Simulia Corp.
Farzad Ahmadkhanlou, ’08, Ph.D.,
is a scientist/system engineer at U.S.
Hybrid.
Valerie Annunziata, ’06, is a T-6A
instructor pilot for the U.S. Air Force.
Kamran Aslam, ’02 M.S., is a senior
member of the technical staff at The
Aerospace Corp.
Kevin Augsburger, ’06, is an R&D test
engineer at American Showa and is
working with Honda engineers tuning
dampers on new vehicles.
Sarath Babu Kamalakkannan, ’04 M.S.,
is a project engineer at TASS Americas.
Nathaniel C. Bambauer, ’06, is a
technical salesman at Samson AG.
Kevin Chrencik, ’03, is a vehicle
dynamics manager at Michael Waltrip
Racing.
Noel Coffman, ’04, is a field engineer
recruiter at Schlumberger.
Anjan Contractor, ’99, ’03 Ph.D MSE,
is an R&D engineer at Texas Research
Institute.
Mihai Cotlet, ’02, is a design engineer
at ProVia Door.
Tony DeCrescenzo, ’05, is an account
executive at Johnson Controls.
Ryan R. Duling, ’04, is assistant vice
president at Red Capital Group.
Tyler S. Dunham, ’04, is a patent
attorney at Standley Law Group, LLP.
He graduated cum laude from Capital
University Law School.
Nick Eiselstein, ’07, is a coordinating
engineer at SEA Ltd.
Michael Fiorino, ’01, ’03 M.S., is a
senior reactor operator at Progress
Energy at the company’s Brunswick
nuclear plant near Southport, N.C.
David Fitzgerald, II, ’05, graduated
magna cum laude from OSU Moritz
College of Law in May 2008. He is a
first-year associate at Wood, Herron
and Evans.
Ruchika Gahlot, ’07 M.S., is product
design engineer at Cameron and is
working on subsea architecture for oil
and gas drilling.
Ryan Griffin, ’04, is a regional
engineering business leader at
Honeywell Aerospace.
David Hoelzle, ’05, is a research
assistant at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. He has
completed his M.S. in mechanical
engineering at Illinois. He is now
pursuing a Ph.D.
Jason Holmes, ’02, is an emissions lab
project engineer at the Transportation
Research Center.
Tim House, ’03, is a basic development
engineer at Borg Warner Turbo
Systems.
Waseem A Jamali, ’00, is a design
engineer at Carja Technical Solutions.
Prabhu Jacob Jackson, ’04 M.S., is an
aftertreatment integration engineer at
Cummins Inc.
Trevor Kanode, ’05, is a mechanical
engineer at Job Industrial Services.
Khalil M. Khanafer, ’02 Ph.D., is a
research scientist in the Biomedical
Engineering Department at The
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Hyunok Kim, ’08 Ph.D., is a
postdoctoral researcher at The Ohio
State University.
Dan Kimmet, ’71, ’72 M.S., retired as
CEO of Dillon Corp.
Andreas Kurnia, ’00, is a design
engineer at Clearwater Technology
Pty. Ltd.
Christine Nicole Law, ’08, is an
operations group manager at
Anheuser-Busch.
Jae Y. Lee, ’00, ’03 M.S., is a senior
project engineer at Volvo Powertrain.
Lynette Leigh, ’06, is a production
engineer at Toyota Motor
Manufacturing in Kentucky.
Grant Malmedahl, ’05, ’06 M.S.,
completed Caterpillar’s 15-month
training program and was promoted to
hydraulic systems engineer.
Ryan McWilliams, ’04, is a design
engineer at GE Aviation.
Jui-Min Chang, ’03, is a quality
engineer at Johnson Electric.
Thomas D. Miyano, ’01, ’03 M.A. AE, is
lieutenant JG, Aerospace Engineering
Duty Officer for the U.S. Navy. He
received the Battle Efficiency Unit
Award and the Meritorious Award.
David Murch, ’04, is a mechanical
engineer at Corporate Safe Specialists.
John Neyer, ’04, is a project leader of
infrastructure improvement initiative
at ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery.
Ryan Noward, ’04, is an account
manager in general industrial coatings
at PPG Industries.
Annette Opbroek, ’05, is a mechanical
engineer at Rockwell Collins.
Kevin M. Orloske, ’04 M.S., is
structural analysis manager at MPC
Products Corp.
Douglas Pintar, ’02, is a new product
development engineer at Preformed
Line Products.
Phil Prospal, ’07, is a mechanical
engineer at Harris Corp.
Adam R. Ratliff, ’08 M.S., is an
advanced engineer at ExxonMobil.
Anna M. Rogers, ’06, is a doctoral
student in electrical and computer
engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University.
Patrick Saad, ’06, is a consultant at
Booz Allen Hamilton.
Sandra Selley, ’90, is a senior project
manager at Volvo Trucks.
Larry Slone, ’04, M.S., is a research
engineer at Caterpillar Inc.
Mike Snyder, ’08 M.S., is an engineer
at ExxonMobil Corp.
Dennis Stammen, ’01, is a project
engineer at Stolle Machinery.
Nelsen M. Thomas, ’06, is facilities
and resource conservation manager at
Frito-Lay.
Ryan T. Wester, PE, ’00, is a mechanical
engineer/project manager at The Ohio
State University.
Jim Wilde, ’05, is an algorithm
engineer for controlled brakes at
Delphi Corp.
Amy Abott Wolfinger, ’03, is an
engineering coordinator at Honda of
America Mfg. Inc.
Seth Wyatt, ’05, is a senior sales
engineer at The Timken Corp.
Daniel Zehentbauer, ’07, is a
combustion mechanical engineer at
General Electric.
Matthew Zotter PE, ’00, M.S., is a R&D
engineer at Covidien, Respiratory and
Monitoring Solutions.
Hines Named Associate Dean
at the University of Tennessee
Dr. J. Wesley Hines received his PhD from the NE Program in 1994 and accepted a
faculty position at the University of Tennessee (UT), where he subsequently became a
full professor in 2005. He has continued to collaborate with Ohio State faculty on several
research projects.
Earlier this year, Hines was named Interim Associate Dean for Research and Technology
for the UT Knoxville College of Engineering.
Hines received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Ohio University, Athens, in 1985;
an M.S. in nuclear engineering and a master’s of business administration from Ohio State
in 1992. Hines also attended the Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando, Fla., in 1986 and
worked as a U.S. Naval Officer on Naval nuclear submarines from 1987-1990.
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