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Special Sethna Lecture

Professor Ronald L. Adrian gave the special Sethna Lecture* on April 27th on Large-scale Structures Created by Small-scale Motions in Wall Turbulence: The Energy Cascade Reversed.

Professor Adrian is a member of Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he holds the Hoeft Chair in Engineering and is the Director of the Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Flow. His research interests are the space-time structure of turbulent fluid motion and the development of techniques, both experimental and mathematical, to explore this structure. Methods to which he has made fundamental contributions are the laser Doppler velocimeter technique, the method of particle image velocimetery and the stochastic estimation method. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Fluid Mechanics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.

*The Sethna lecture is supported by funding from the AEM Excellence Fund.

Alumni Highlights

Dr. Stuart Antman (PhD, Mechanics 1965) received the 1999 Theodore von Karman Prize of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work on Nonlinear Elasticity of Rods, Plates and Shells. (He shared the prize with John Ball of Oxford University, who has collaborated with Professor Richard James.) The prize is given every five years for a notable application to mechanics of the Engineering Sciences. Dr. Antman is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland.

Dr. James Licari (BS 1965, MS 1967, Mechanics and Materials, PhD 1970, Mechanics and Materials) has retired from IBM in Rochester and joined the University’s new Digital Technology Center as Assistant Director for Industrial Liaison. More information on the IT Digital Technology Center can be found at: http://www.it.umn.edu/walter/.

Col. Jeffrey Koss (BS, ME 3/80; MS 8/81) is with the Air Force in Melbourne, FL. He is the Director of Engineering for the STARS Joint Test Forces.

Col. Tom Konicke (BAEM 6/80; MS 8/81) and family left Albuquerque, NM for an F-15 flying job in Anchorage, AK. Col. Konicke is currently in requalification training for F-15s and should be finished in late November.

Jon S. Berndt (BAEM 1986), is a senior software engineer and team lead at Coastal Flow Measurement, Inc., in Houston, TX. Currently, he is participating in the development of electronic gas measurements data management software (to be used by such companies as Alliance Pipeline and Coastal Corporation). Prior to 1999, he had been supporting space shuttle and space station training simulators for various NASA contractors. He is keeping his feet wet in the simulation arena by participating in the open source, multi-platform, flight simulator software development project called FlightGear (www.flightgear.org) which has a strong Minnesota connection. Jon has a home page on the web at www.hal-pc.org/~jsb and can be contacted via email at jsb@hal-pc.org.

Karl Rink, a 1983 BAEM graduate, went on to receive his MS in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue, graduating in 1986. After a couple years of work, he returned to school to earn his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah in 1993. He is currently a Manager of Compressed Gas Research at Autoliv Automotive Safety Products in Ogden, Utah. Autoliv is the world’s largest manufacturer of automotive safety restraint systems (airbags, airbag inflators, seat belts, initiators and more).

Alumni News

Robert Jewett, a 1931 AEM Alumus passed away in May of 2000.

Robert Gilruth, a 1935 BS and 1936 MS Aeronautical Engineering, AEM alumnus passed away August of 2000.

New Alumni Resource Addition

We have added a section on our AEM Web page for alumni at /alumni/. As part of this process, we are also creating an Alumni Network section, where you can place information about where you are, etc. and update as needed. This will be formally rolled out this next year.