Mechanical Engineering

Career Celebration & Senior Appreciation April 26, 2013

April 26, 2013

Mechanical MECHANICALEngineering ENGINEERING

Career Celebration & SENIOR APPRECIATION

Program Agenda All events are located inside the John M. Clayton Hall.

2:30pm Registration 3:00pm  Welcome & Overview by Suresh Advani Mechanical Engineering 3:15pm  Senior Design Teams

4:30pm  Alumni Distinguished Career Awards & Panel Discussion 5:45pm Networking & Socializing 6:45pm  Senior & Alumni Appreciation Dinner

Recognition & ASME

Closely followed by special

Outstanding Project Award

senior design awards

3:45pm Student Honors & Awards 4:00pm Senior Design Presentations

8:00pm  Keynote Address by John Thackrah ‘79 executive director, U.S. Navy, Military Sealift Command & 2005 DCA Honoree

Welcome & Overview Suresh G. Advani

George W. Laird Professor & chair Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Suresh G. Advani, George W. Laird Professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, joined the UD faculty in 1987. He earned his bachelors of technology in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include materials, rheology, fluid mechanics and heat transfer in composite processing, fuel cells and hydrogen storage. Advani, who is also the associate director of the Center for Composite Materials and co-investigator of University of Delaware’s fuel cell bus program, is the coauthor and editor of 20 books and over 250 journal publications. Since 2000, he has served as the North American editor for the journal Composites Part A; Applied Science and Manufacturing and has chaired multiple international conferences surrounding the liquid molding of composites. Advani was elected a fellow of ASME in 1998 and received the University’s Outstanding Doctoral Graduate Student Advising and Mentoring award in 2008.

3:15pm 

Senior Design Teams Recognition & ASME Outstanding Project Award

3:45pm

Student Honors & Awards Senior Awards

Junior Awards

W. Francis Lindell Distinguished Senior Awards Dhara Amin, Christine Gregg, & Benjamin Hockman

W. Francis Lindell Distinguished Junior Awards Peter Hauser, Benjamin Henry, & Brandon Zimmerman

Mary and George Nowinski Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award Christine Gregg & Benjamin Hockman

W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Achievement Awards Nathan Giguere, Emily Pierce, & Jessica Harrington

Other Departmental Awards ASME Delaware Section Outstanding Student Award Anna D’Alessio ASME Student Section Award Scott Wroten Outstanding Student Leader Awards Anna D’Alessio & Michael Pfeiffer Graduate Achievement Awards Harman Khare & Zachary Melrose Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Amy Bucha

ME Alumni Awards: Outstanding Senior Kevin Matthews & Ravi Sharma Outstanding Junior Kenneth Manley & Frederick Mauer Outstanding Sophomore Joseph Esposito & Garrett Swenson

4:00pm

Senior Design Presentations Team Smiths Detection X-Ray Conveyor Belt System Team Smiths Detection redesigned the conveyor belt system that is used in many of the sponsor’s products. By simplifying the assembly process, the new design reduced the manufacturing time required to make the conveyor system, allowing for quick replacement of worn belts.

Team White Optics Spray Coat System Automation Team White Optics replaced a manual coating system used in product manufacturing with an automated, semi-continuous spray application. By adapting the spray gun to a mechanical linkage above a belt conveyor, sensors detect the presence of a part and turn the spray on and off. The new system allows the company to increase its production rate.

Team Yes U Can Hands-Free Bicycle Steering System Team Yes U Can retrofitted a recumbent bicycle with a joystick steering system using a stepper motor, making it possible for a physically handicapped rider to independently maneuver the bicycle. Power is generated when an incorporated Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) system jumpstarts the muscles in the user’s legs.

Gerad Lieb, Benjamin Hockman, Luke Walmer, Gregory Ohnemus

Scott Wroten, Colleen Cannatelli, Lauren Resch, Benjamin Natrin

Devin Prate, Daniel Evans, Christopher Leonard, Matthew Klixbull

4:30pm

Distinguished Career Awards and Panel Discussion Ellen F. Benedict, ‘75, is the director of Strategy and Business Programs for Global Oncology Care, Philips Healthcare in Andover, Mass. She uses her expertise in business analytic modeling, market research, segmentation and analysis, strategy and execution, product management, medical science, Six Sigma (she’s a black belt) and biomedical engineering to translate the needs of medical care providers into products and solutions that improve patient care. Following her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from UD, Benedict earned a master of science in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which included a two-year clinical internship at Hartford Hospital. Benedict launched her career as an engineer, but it was during her time with Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies that she transitioned to marketing. Brian R. Scott, ‘84, is a senior researcher for the U.S. Army dealing with composite armor materials while maintaining his commission in the Ordnance Corps. Previously he redesigned high-temperature carbon composite rocket nozzle sections with Morton Thiokol, then accepted a position with the DuPont Company as technology manager of armor systems. With the end of the Cold War, Scott was transferred to DuPont’s Kevlar division to develop helmets, vests and spall liners for vehicles. In 2003 he retired from DuPont and returned to Army civilian status at the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he earned his doctorate and now focuses on designing vehicle armors.

Alfred J. Unione, ‘67 , currently a consultant for the Department of Energy in the nuclear power industry, spent almost four decades in risk management of nuclear plants, in energy and water technology development and in developing the infrastructure to safely and sustainably manage “cold war” nuclear wastes. Unione’s career included roles in government, industry and in academia, where he led energy and risk management projects overseas and in the U.S. He even participated in a televised debate on the safety of nuclear power in the Swedish Parliament. Unione’s most recent assignment was at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, where he held the position of chief technology officer for Parsons and URS Corporation. Currently, he is part of a committee developing codes and standards for hydrogen systems. Jeffrey C. Weil, ‘67, currently holds joint appointments as a scientist at the University of Colorado and a visiting scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is considered an international expert on atmospheric dispersion. Following UD, he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from MIT before spending 15 years with Martin Marietta Laboratories in Baltimore. Weil made significant contributions to numerical simulation of atmospheric dispersion, buoyant plume modeling and laboratory dispersion experiments and was among the first to address the role of large-scale boundary layer structure on the vertical asymmetry of dispersion. He also developed dispersion models for real-world problems involving stacks, buoyant emissions and turbulence – issues commonly encountered in air pollution, environmental safety and toxics modeling.

8:00pm

Keynote: John Thackrah, BME ‘79 - 2005 DCA Be Crisp John Thackrah is executive director of the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command, which operates approximately 110 noncombatant, civilian-crewed ships that replenish U.S. Navy ships, conduct specialized missions, strategically preposition combat cargo at sea around the world and move military cargo and supplies used by deployed U.S. forces and coalition partners. Previously, Thackrah served the Navy as principal deputy of the Strategic Systems Program; acting assistant secretary of Research, Development and Acquisition; and deputy assistant secretary of Management and Budget.

Abstract What does it mean to be an engineer? What does it take to be successful? John Thackrah has learned a lot in his 34 years since graduation about how to succeed in the corporate, private and public sectors and even government environments. In this invited lecture, Thackrah will share several basic principles, or values, he has identified throughout his diverse career as critical to success—particularly for those just starting out.

Previous Distinguished Career Alumni 2012 Ernest E. Jones ‘92 Dinesh Mohan ‘70 Ken Ryder ‘86 Ann M. Sastry ‘89

2011 Ann M. Badmus ’84 Mark E. Conroy ’80 William H. Lotter, Jr. ’56 Paul H. Norton ’80

2010 Ralph D. Cope ’78, ’79M Frank S. Hyer ’58 Doug B. McKenna ’82

2009 E. Fenton Carey, Jr. ’67, ’70M John W. Gillespie, Jr. ’76, ’78M, ’85Ph.D. E. Douglass Huggard ’55, ’61M (deceased) James R. Laser ’69 Eric M. Svendsen ’71

2008 Martha Meaney Murray ’87 Oren B. Phillips ’68 Raymond V. Feehery, Jr. ’74 James J. Gitney ’78 David B. Meyers ’81

2007 Donald R. Cohee ’67 Michael J. Doyle ’92 James B. Foulk ’59 Jerome T. Kegelman ’78 Jodie l. (Kuchler) Morgan ’85 Nancy R. Sottos ’86, ‘91Ph.D

2006 Alan W. Flenner J.D., P.E. ’86 Carl W. Hall ’50M Terri L. Kelly ’83 Kaushal Kurapati ’95M William G. Mavity ’72

2005 Dave T. Bach ’77 Alex Bourdon ’80 Frederick H. Kohloss ’51M Anthony Laganelli ’61M, ’66Ph.D. Amy Lerner ’90 Don McCoy ’75 (deceased) Jack N. Pezza ’98 Stephen D. Popovich ’49 Patrick J. Reynolds ’68 John Thackrah ’79