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Appendix E
Biographical Information on
Committee Members
William G. Agnew is a technical director at the General Motors Research
Laboratories, where he has directed research in many aspects of automotive
engineering, including environmental, health, and socioeconomic issues. He
was a director of the International Combustion Institute, has served on
working committees in the National Research Council, American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, Society of Automotive Engineers, and Office of Tech-
nology Assessment, serves on industrial advisory boards for Pennsylvania
State and Purdue University, and is an Accreditation Board for Engineering
and Technology evaluator of mechanical engineering education programs.
He is currently a member of the NRC Engineering Research Board.
Arden IJ. Bement, Jr., is vice president of technical resources, TRW
Inc. Dr. Bement is currently serving as chairman of the Commission on
Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council. At TRW his
responsibilities include identification and evaluation of emerging technologies
and recommending product, material, and process development projects.
Bernard Budiansky is Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechan-
ics and Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering at Harvard
University. Dr. Budiansky is a member of the National Research Council
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. He is a Foreign Member of both
the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Danish Center
for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.
A. E. Dukler is Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engi-
neering at the University of Houston. Dr. Dukler served previously as dean
of engineering at the University.
Martin Goland is president of Southwest Research Institute. Mr. Goland
has served on numerous committees such as the NASA advisory committee
on materials, structures and aircraft dynamics, the Naval Research Advisory
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Board, the National Research Council's Board on Army Science and Tech-
nology, and as the chairman of the NRC Commission on Engineering and
Technical Systems.
Kenneth E. Haughton has been dean of engineering at Santa Clara
University since 1982. Before moving to Santa Clara, Dr. Haughton was
with the IBM Corporation for 25 years, where his work focused on air-
bearing research, machine design, and computer peripheral products.
George W. Housner is C. F. Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus at
the California Institute of Technology. He has served as president of the Seis-
mological Society of America, the International Association of Earthquake
Engineering, and the Earthquake Research Institute.
Arthur E. Humphrey is vice president and provost at Lehigh University.
He has been a member of the National Science Foundation Engineering
Directorate Advisory Board since 1979. Dr. Humphrey has authored or
coauthored more than 180 technical publications and 3 books on a variety of
topics, including biochemistry, food technology, and fermentation processes.
Ernest S. Euh is professor of electrical engineering at the University of
California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences. From 1973 to 1980 he served as dean of the College of Engineering
at UCB. Dr. Kuh has also been visiting professor at Imperial College, Lon-
don; Technical University, Denmark; Osaka University; Kobe University;
Technical University, Munich; and Waseda University.
William W. [any is currently program manager, Acoustics Technology,
IBM Corporation. Dr. Lang also serves as president of the Noise Control
Foundation and has been active in the development of national and inter-
national standards. In 1971, he was a founding member of the Institute of
Noise Control Engineering of the U.S.A., and in 1974, a cofounder of the
International Institute of Noise Control Engineering.
Ronald M. [atanision is Shell Distinguished Professor of Materials Sci-
ence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also serves as director
of the Materials Processing Center at MIT's School of Engineering.
Robert W. Lucky is executive director, research, Communications Sci-
ences Division of AT&T Bell Laboratories. He also serves on the Engineering
Advisory Boards of the National Science Foundation and of the University
of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Lucky is currently a member of the United
States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Keith W. McHenry, Jr., is vice president for research and development
for the Amoco Oil Company. Dr. McHenry also serves on the Industrial
Advisory Board of the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Engineering.
He is president-elect of the Industrial Research Institute, and is a past
member of the U.S. National Committee for the World Petroleum Congress.
James Y. Oldshue is vice president, mixing technology, Mixing Equip-
ment Co., Inc., a unit of General Signal. Dr. Oldshue has served as president
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and as president of the
American Association of Engineering Societies. In 1983 he received the
Victor Marquez Award from the InterAmerican Confederation of Chemical
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Engineers. He is active in the World Federation of Engineering Organize
tions and presents seminars and continuing education courses on fluid mixing
processes throughout the world.
Harold W. Paxton is U.S. Steel Professor, Metallurgical Engineering and
Materials Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Paxton
has served previously as vice president for research, U.S. Steel Corporation,
chairman of the General Research Committee of the American Iron and Steel
Institute, president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and
Petroleum Engineers, and president of the Metallurgical Society, AIME. He
is a former U.S. Representative on the Technical Committee of International
Iron and Steel Institute and an honorary member of the Iron and Steel
Institute of Japan.
Walter A. Rosenblith is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. His fields of interest include electrical activity
of the nervous system and brain function; sensory communications; and
science and technology in the university and society. From 1982 to 1986
Professor Rosenblith served as foreign secretary of the National Academy
of Sciences and chairman of the Office of International Affairs, National
Research Council. At present he is chairman of the Chinese University
Development Project.
H. Guyford Stever is foreign secretary, of the National Academy of Engi-
neering. Dr. Stever has also served as Science and Technology Advisor to the
President of the United States, and as director of the White House Once of
Science and Technology Policy; director of the National Science Foundation;
president of the Carnegie Mellon University; and professor of aeronautical
engineering at MIT. Dr. Stever is currently serving as chairman of the Na-
tional Research Council Panel examining redesign of the space shuttle solid
rocket booster for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Mac E]wyn Van Vaikenburg is dean of the college of engineering at
the University of Illinois. Dr. Van Valkenburg also serves as chairman of
the Transnational Relations Committee of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers. From 1974 to 1976 he served on the National Research
Council Board on Engineering Manpower and Educational Policy.
Albert R. C. Westwood is corporate director of research and develop-
ment for the Martin Marietta Corporation. He serves also on the Commission
on Engineering and Technical Studies of the National Research Council, on
the boards of directors of Martin Marietta Energy Systems (Oak Ridge) and
the Metallurgical Society, and as vice president of the Industrial Research
Institute.
1?. Ear] Willenbrock is executive director of the American Society for
Engineering Education. For the previous 10 years, Dr. Willenbrock was Cecil
and Ida Green Professor of Engineering at the School of Engineering and
Applied Science, Southern Methodist University, also serving as dean of the
school from 1976 to 1981.
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