Nominations for 2000 ASEE elections

Daniel C. Davis has served with the Minorities in Engineering Division as treasurer, program chair, vice chair, and chair in ASEE. He is currently a member of the Minorities in Engineering Award Committee. During his leadership period, the Minorities Division became more viable within ASEE, having grown in membership, having important sessions of interest at the national meetings, and increasing members' interactions with other divisions of the Society Davis also led the MIND co-sponsorship of two Forums on Minority Faculty Development held at the 1995 and 1997 ASEE national meetings. Davis departed the Minorities Division chair in 1998 after developing and conducting a leadership retreat for MIND to establish directions for the future and the 21st century.

Davis obtained a B.S. at Pennsylvania State University, M.S. at Union College, and Ph.D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, all in engineering mechanics. He was employed for a number of years with the General Electric Company in engineering design, analysis, research, and management positions. In academia, Davis was on the faculties in mechanical engineering at Temple University, engineering mechanics at Pennsylvania State University and as associate dean of engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. At Penn State, he was the founding director of the minority engineering program, where he established a number of programs that over the years mentored and financially supported hundreds of pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate students toward careers in engineering and the sciences. Davis served as ECSEL Coalition coordinator for minority issues and initiated the Forum on Minority Faculty Development and the Directory of Minority Engineering Faculty.

His engineering research contributions have been in creep, fatigue, and thermal mechanical fatigue of metallic alloys. In collaboration with Professor S.Y Zamrik and others, this research was well supported by the National Science Foundation and other organizations. He is active in the materials division of ASME and currently serves on the executive committee. Additionally, Davis served with the Engineering Directorate of NSF as program officer for human resources development and materials engineering. In human resources at NSF, he managed new faculty development and undergraduates in research programs and two engineering education coalitions. Presently he is the program officer of materials where he monitors fundamental research in mechanics and materials for the Engineering Directorate.

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William L. McMahan, PE., received his B.S. (1966) and his M.S. (1967) in engineering from Southern Illinois University. McMahan has been active in engineering organizations, and was chair of the ASEE group at SIU in 1966-67. Following graduation, he worked for Union Carbide in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for approximately 10 years, during which time he completed the EIT and EE. license in 1972. He was selected as Outstanding Engineer for NSPE for the State of Tennessee, in 1975 for his engineering work activities with the NSPE chapter in Oak Ridge.