Luke J. Breon, Jason K. Van Velsor and Joseph L. Rose are the winners of the 2008 Outstanding Paper Award for their article, "Guided Wave Damage Detection Tomography for Structural Health Monitoring in Critical Zones of Pipelines," published in the December 2007 issue of Materials Evaluation.

2008 Winner Luke J. Breon is currently working toward a Ph.D. in engineering science and mechanics at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his M.S. in engineering mechanics from Penn State in 2008. His work addressed quantitative ultrasonic guided wave tomography for use in two-dimensional areal thickness measurement of plates and plate-like structures. Breon earned his B.S. in engineering science from Penn State in 2007. His thesis addressed monitoring of critical zones in pipelines using ultrasonic guided wave tomography. He also took a minor in engineering mechanics. Additionally, Breon has done many theoretically driven guided wave FEM simulations and has participated in the study of various applications of ultrasonics such as flow velocity monitoring in pipes, powdered metal green part characterization, basic studies on wave propagation in composite structures, air pocket detection and quantization in pipelines, effects of soil loading on wave propagation in buried pipes, and damage detection in coated pipes.

2008 Winner Jason K. Van Velsor received his B.Sc. in engineering science and his M.Sc. in engineering mechanics from Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department of Pennsylvania State University. He is a student recipient of the 2007 ASNT Fellowship Award. His research interests include the experimental application and theoretical and numerical modeling of ultrasonic guided waves in multilayered pipe-like structures as well as guided wave structural health monitoring techniques.

2008 Winner Joseph L. Rose holds the Paul Morrow Professorship in Engineering Design and Manufacturing in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, College of Engineering, at Pennsylvania State University. He is also the founder and chief scientist of FBS, Inc., a company dedicated to ultrasonic guided wave technology and product development. He received his Ph.D. in applied mechanics from Drexel University and has been a member of ASNT since 1970. Rose was the guest technical editor for the January 2003 issue of Materials Evaluation and has been a member of the Research Council for over a decade. He served as an associate technical editor of Materials Evaluation from 1978 to 1988. Rose has won a number of awards, including the 1973 ASNT Achievement Award, the 1986 ASNT Tutorial Citation, the 2007 ASNT Research Award for Innovation, and ASNT Fellowship Awards on five separate occasions. He also presented the Mehl Honor Lecture in 2001, and was the recipient of the Penn State Outstanding Research Award in 1997 and the Penn State University Faculty Scholar Medal for Achievement in Engineering in 1996. In 1995, Rose was a finalist in the Discover Awards for Technological Innovation in Aviation and Aerospace for the development of a handheld probe for aging aircraft testing. ASME honored him with the Nondestructive Evaluation Engineering Division Founders Award in 2003. During his career, he has been principal advisor to over 50 doctoral and 150 master's students. Rose is a Fellow of ASNT, ASME, IEEE and BINDT. He has published over 500 papers and is the author of Ultrasonic Waves in Solid Media (Cambridge University Press, 1999). In addition to ASNT, Rose is a member of ASME, ASA, IEEE and BINDT.

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