ASNT Fellowship
Award
2009 winner Iowa State University will receive a Fellowship Award for proposed research titled, “Quantitative Capacitive NDE for Materials Characterization.” The project advisor is Nicola Bowler and the graduate student is Tianming Chen.
Nicola Bowler is an associate professor of both materials science and engineering, and electrical and computer engineering, associated with the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University. Her affiliation with the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation goes back to 1999, when she was a postdoctoral research associate, after which she served as an associate scientist at the Center from 2001 to 2006. She received her B.Sc. in physics in 1990 from the University of Nottingham, England and her Ph.D., also in physics, in 1994 from the University of Surrey, England. Bowler did postgraduate work in electromagnetism at the University of Surrey from 1995 to 1998, after which she served as senior scientist at the Defence Evaluation Research Agency in Farnborough, England. She was recently the recipient of a 2008 ASNT Faculty Grant. An ASNT member, Bowler is also a member of the Standing Committee of the International Workshop on Electromagnetic NDE, which she served as co-chair in 2004. She was the recipient of a 2005 Measurement Science and Technology Outstanding Paper Award in the sensors and sensing systems category.
2009 winner Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive a Fellowship Award for proposed research titled, “Extension of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Synthetic Aperture and Holographic (3D) Imaging to Complex Composite Structures.” The project advisor is Reza Zoughi.
Reza Zoughi received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas. He is currently the Schlumberger Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Zoughi is an acknowledged expert in the fields of microwave and millimeter wave NDT, and is the author of Microwave Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Principles, a graduate-level textbook on the subject. He recently received the 2008 ASNT Research Award for Sustained Excellence. A Fellow of ASNT (Class of 2005), Zoughi has written over 425 articles for journal publications, conference proceedings and presentations. He is an associate technical editor of Materials Evaluation and the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. The holder of nine US patents in the field of microwave NDT, Zoughi has been honored with a number of awards from universities and professional societies. In particular, he has been repeatedly cited for excellence in teaching. In addition to ASNT, Zoughi is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu.
2009 winner Pennsylvania State University will receive a Fellowship Award for proposed research titled, “Defect Characterization Potential in Buried Pipe with Ultrasonic Guided Waves.” The project advisor is Joseph L. Rose and the graduate student is Jia Hua.
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, the 2008 Outstanding Paper Award for Materials Evaluation, 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.
2009 winner University of Pittsburgh will receive a Fellowship Award for proposed research titled, “Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves for NDT of Civil Structures.” The project advisor is Piervincenzo Rizzo and the graduate student is Xianglei Ni.
Piervincenzo Rizzo is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his laurea (master’s equivalent) degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Palermo in Italy, and earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in structural engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Rizzo remained at the University of California until 2006 to do postdoctoral work and as an assistant project scientist. He has published over 30 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 2007, he received the ASNT Faculty Grant to develop a new course in nondestructive testing within the civil and environmental engineering curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh.
2009 winner Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will receive a Fellowship Award for proposed research titled, “Global/Local Distributed Strain/Temperature Measurements in Composite Materials.” The project advisor is John C. Duke, Jr. and the graduate student is Douglas A. Harold.
John C. Duke is a professor in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), where he has held various faculty positions since 1978. He earned his BES, MSE and Ph.D. in mechanics and materials science from the Johns Hopkins University. A widely published researcher in the NDT field, Duke has been active within ASNT for some time. From 1983 to 1986, he was a member of the Board of Directors, and has served on the Society’s Executive Committee and in a number of different council committees. A founding member of the Research Council, Duke also served as chair of the Education and Qualification Council for the 1985–1986 term. He is an ASNT Fellow (1988) and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Duke is also a member of the American Society of Engineering Educators and the Transportation Research Board. In 1980, he received the Ralph R. Teetor Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers in recognition of his significant contributions to teaching, research and student development. Duke delivered the 2003 ASNT Mehl Honor Lecture and was an ASNT Faculty Grant Recipient in 2001 and 2002. He received an ASNT Fellowship Award in 2008 as well. He is an associate technical editor of Materials Evaluation and is the editor in chief of Research in Nondestructive Evaluation.
Nicola Bowler
Tianming Chen
Reza Zoughi
Joseph L. Rose
Piervincenzo Rizzo
Xianglei Ni
John C. Duke, Jr.
Douglas A. Harold
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