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Mechanical Engineering, Nov 2007

Donald B. Bidder

Donald B. Bickler, P.E., has had a long and distinguished career in mechanical engineering, spanning nearly 50 years. He has worked on a variety of problems and his outstanding accomplishments include the designs of a propane carburetor, a light source simulating sunlight, and the suspension system used for the vehicle sent to Mars. In his later years he has focused on training and mentoring young engineers. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal for the development of the mobility design of the Mars Pathfinder rover, Sojourner, a pioneering system that enables NASA missions to perform instrument deployments, measurements, and imaging on remote planetary bodies. B.S, (1956), Northwestern University.

John C. Bischof

John C. Bischof's research is related to bioheat transfer and biomass transfer as it relates to biomechanics of cell death. Bischof has achieved unusual prominence in areas within the field of cryobiology and low temperature biology including novel cryopreservation protocols. He has identified biologically damaging mechanisms, designed improved cryoprobes, and invented methods of limiting damage to the surrounding normal tissue. He has received four young investigator awards and successfully attracted major funding from federal agencies like the NIH, NSF and the Whitaker Foundation. Ph.D. (1992), University of California, Berkeley.

Gautam Biswas

Gautam Biswas is a Professor, of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the Federal Republic of Germany during 1987 to 1988 and in 1992. He received the JSPS Invitation Fellowship award and was in Yokohama National University of Japan in 1994. Biswas has worked in the area of computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer. He has done extensive numerical work on bubble formation in film boiling, and on turbulent transport. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and is one of the members of the Scientific Council of the International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer. He is the author of around 100 technical publications, including more than 60 in archival journals and three books. He has made significant contributions in the area of enhanced heat transfer using vortex generators. He has been selected as one of the Associate Editors of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. Ph.D. (1985), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Michael D. Bryant

Michael D. Bryant is the Accenture Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and Director of Manufacturing Systems Engineering Computational nad Applied Mathematics. He has made significant contributions to the development of thermoelastic solutions for field in moving heat source problems. This work has application in elastohydrodynamic lubrication theory as well as treatment of thermoelastic instability-a problem that manifests itself in automotive brakes, clutches, and mechanical face seals in the form of hot spots. Bryant is currently the Editor of The ASME Journal of Tribology. Ph.D. (1981), Northwestern University.