April 26, 2013

Career Celebration & Senior Appreciation

Mechanical Engineering

Program Agenda

All events are located inside the John M. Clayton Hall.

2:30pm Registration

3:00pm Welcome & Overview

by Suresh Advani

Mechanical Engineering

3:15pm Senior Design Teams

Recognition & ASME

Outstanding Project Award

3:45pm Student Honors & Awards

4:00pm Senior Design Presentations

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Career CelebrationSENIOR APPRECIATION&

Mechanical EngineeringApril 26, 2013

4:30pm Alumni Distinguished Career

Awards & Panel Discussion

5:45pm Networking & Socializing

6:45pm Senior & Alumni

Appreciation Dinner

Closely followed by special

senior design awards

8:00pm Keynote Address

by John Thackrah ‘79

executive director, U.S. Navy,

Military Sealift Command

& 2005 DCA Honoree

Welcome & Overview

Suresh G. Advani

Dr. Suresh G. Advani, George W. Laird Professor and

chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering,

joined the UD faculty in 1987. He earned his bachelors

of technology in mechanical engineering from the

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his

doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from

the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His research interests include materials, rheology,

fluid mechanics and heat transfer in composite

processing, fuel cells and hydrogen storage. Advani,

who is also the associate director of the Center for

Composite Materials and co-investigator of University

of Delaware’s fuel cell bus program, is the co-

author and editor of 20 books and over 250 journal

publications. Since 2000, he has served as the North

American editor for the journal Composites Part A;

Applied Science and Manufacturing and has chaired

multiple international conferences surrounding the

liquid molding of composites. Advani was elected a

fellow of ASME in 1998 and received the University ’s

Outstanding Doctoral Graduate Student Advising and

Mentoring award in 2008.

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DEPArTMENT Of MECHANICAL ENGINEErING

3:15pm

Senior Design Teams recognition &

ASME Outstanding Project Award

3:45pm

Student Honors & Awards

Senior Awards

W. francis Lindell

distinguished Senior Awards

Dhara Amin, Christine Gregg, &

Benjamin Hockman

Mary and George Nowinski Award for

excellence in Undergraduate

research Award

Christine Gregg & Benjamin Hockman

Junior Awards

W. francis Lindell

distinguished Junior Awards

Peter Hauser, Benjamin Henry, &

Brandon Zimmerman

W. francis Lindell Mechanical

engineering Achievement Awards

Nathan Giguere, Emily Pierce, &

Jessica Harrington

ASMe delaware Section outstanding

Student Award

Anna D’Alessio

ASMe Student Section Award

Scott Wroten

outstanding Student Leader Awards

Anna D’Alessio & Michael Pfeiffer

Graduate Achievement Awards

Harman Khare & Zachary Melrose

Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Amy Bucha

Me Alumni Awards:

outstanding Senior

Kevin Matthews & ravi Sharma

outstanding Junior

Kenneth Manley & frederick Mauer

outstanding Sophomore

Joseph Esposito & Garrett Swenson

other departmental Awards

TeAM WhiTe oPTicS

Spray Coat System Automation

Team White optics replaced a manual coating system used in

product manufacturing with an automated, semi-continuous spray application.

By adapting the spray gun to a mechanical linkage above a belt conveyor,

sensors detect the presence of a part and turn the spray on and off. The new

system allows the company to increase its production rate.

4:00pm

Senior Design Presentations

TeAM SMiThS deTecTioN

X-Ray Conveyor Belt System

Team Smiths detection redesigned the conveyor belt system that is

used in many of the sponsor ’s products. By simplifying the assembly process, the

new design reduced the manufacturing time required to make the conveyor

system, allowing for quick replacement of worn belts.

TeAM YeS U cAN

Hands-Free Bicycle Steering System

Team Yes U can retrofitted a recumbent bicycle with a joystick steering system

using a stepper motor, making it possible for a physically handicapped rider to

independently maneuver the bicycle. Power is generated when an incorporated

functional Electrical Stimulation (fES) system jumpstarts the muscles in the

user ’s legs.

TeAM WhiTe oPTicS

Spray Coat System Automation

Team White optics replaced a manual coating system used in

product manufacturing with an automated, semi-continuous spray application.

By adapting the spray gun to a mechanical linkage above a belt conveyor,

sensors detect the presence of a part and turn the spray on and off. The new

system allows the company to increase its production rate.

TeAM SMiThS deTecTioN

X-Ray Conveyor Belt System

Team Smiths detection redesigned the conveyor belt system that is

used in many of the sponsor ’s products. By simplifying the assembly process, the

new design reduced the manufacturing time required to make the conveyor

system, allowing for quick replacement of worn belts.

TeAM YeS U cAN

Hands-Free Bicycle Steering System

Team Yes U can retrofitted a recumbent bicycle with a joystick steering system

using a stepper motor, making it possible for a physically handicapped rider to

independently maneuver the bicycle. Power is generated when an incorporated

functional Electrical Stimulation (fES) system jumpstarts the muscles in the

user ’s legs.

Scott Wroten, Colleen Cannatelli, Lauren Resch, Benjamin Natrin

Devin Prate, Daniel Evans, Christopher Leonard, Matthew Klixbull

Gerad Lieb, Benjamin Hockman, Luke Walmer, Gregory Ohnemus

eLLeN f. BeNedicT, ‘75, is the

director of Strategy and Business Programs

for Global Oncology Care, Philips Healthcare

in Andover, Mass. She uses her expertise in

business analytic modeling, market research,

segmentation and analysis, strategy and

execution, product management, medical

science, Six Sigma (she’s a black belt) and

biomedical engineering to translate the

needs of medical care providers into products and solutions that improve

patient care. following her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering

from UD, Benedict earned a master of science in biomedical engineering

from rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which included a two-year clinical

internship at Hartford Hospital. Benedict launched her career as an engineer,

but it was during her time with Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies that she

transitioned to marketing.

BriAN r. ScoTT, ‘84, is a senior

researcher for the U.S. Army dealing with

composite armor materials while maintaining

his commission in the Ordnance Corps.

Previously he redesigned high-temperature

carbon composite rocket nozzle sections with

Morton Thiokol, then accepted a position with

the DuPont Company as technology manager

of armor systems. With the end of the Cold War,

Scott was transferred to DuPont’s Kevlar division to develop helmets, vests and

spall liners for vehicles. In 2003 he retired from DuPont and returned to Army

civilian status at the Army research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground,

where he earned his doctorate and now focuses on designing vehicle armors.

4:30pm

Distinguished Career Awards and Panel Discussion

ALfred J. UNioNe, ‘67, currently a

consultant for the Department of Energy in

the nuclear power industry, spent almost four

decades in risk management of nuclear plants,

in energy and water technology development

and in developing the infrastructure to safely

and sustainably manage “cold war” nuclear

wastes. Unione’s career included roles in

government, industry and in academia, where

he led energy and risk management projects overseas and in the U.S. He

even participated in a televised debate on the safety of nuclear power in the

Swedish Parliament. Unione’s most recent assignment was at the National

Energy Technology Laboratory, where he held the position of chief technology

officer for Parsons and UrS Corporation. Currently, he is part of a committee

developing codes and standards for hydrogen systems.

JeffreY c. WeiL, ‘67, currently holds

joint appointments as a scientist at the

University of Colorado and a visiting scientist

with the National Center for Atmospheric

research. He is considered an international

expert on atmospheric dispersion. following

UD, he earned his master’s and doctoral

degrees from MIT before spending 15 years

with Martin Marietta Laboratories in Baltimore.

Weil made significant contributions to

numerical simulation of atmospheric dispersion, buoyant plume modeling and

laboratory dispersion experiments and was among the first to address the role

of large-scale boundary layer structure on the vertical asymmetry of dispersion.

He also developed dispersion models for real-world problems involving stacks,

buoyant emissions and turbulence – issues commonly encountered in air

pollution, environmental safety and toxics modeling.

8:00pm

Keynote: John Thackrah, BME ‘79 - 2005 DCA

Be criSP

Abstract

What does it mean to be an engineer? What does it take to be successful? John

Thackrah has learned a lot in his 34 years since graduation about how to succeed

in the corporate, private and public sectors and even government environments.

In this invited lecture, Thackrah will share several basic principles, or values, he

has identified throughout his diverse career as critical to success—particularly for

those just starting out.

JohN ThAckrAh is executive director of

the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command, which

operates approximately 110 noncombatant,

civilian-crewed ships that replenish U.S. Navy

ships, conduct specialized missions, strategically

preposition combat cargo at sea around the world

and move military cargo and supplies used by

deployed U.S. forces and coalition partners.

Previously, Thackrah served the Navy as principal

deputy of the Strategic Systems Program; acting

assistant secretary of research, Development and

Acquisition; and deputy assistant secretary of

Management and Budget.

2012

Ernest E. Jones ‘92

Dinesh Mohan ‘70

Ken Ryder ‘86

Ann M. Sastry ‘89

2011

Ann M. Badmus ’84

Mark E. Conroy ’80

William H. Lotter, Jr. ’56

Paul H. Norton ’80

2010

Ralph D. Cope ’78, ’79M

Frank S. Hyer ’58

Doug B. McKenna ’82

2009

E. Fenton Carey, Jr. ’67, ’70M

John W. Gillespie, Jr. ’76, ’78M, ’85Ph.D.

E. Douglass Huggard ’55, ’61M (deceased)

James R. Laser ’69

Eric M. Svendsen ’71

2008

Martha Meaney Murray ’87

oren B. Phillips ’68

raymond V. feehery, Jr. ’74

James J. Gitney ’78

david B. Meyers ’81

2007

Donald R. Cohee ’67

Michael J. Doyle ’92

James B. Foulk ’59

Jerome T. Kegelman ’78

Jodie l. (Kuchler) Morgan ’85

Nancy R. Sottos ’86, ‘91Ph.D

2006

Alan W. Flenner J.D., P.E. ’86

Carl W. Hall ’50M

Terri L. Kelly ’83

Kaushal Kurapati ’95M

William G. Mavity ’72

2005

Dave T. Bach ’77

Alex Bourdon ’80

Frederick H. Kohloss ’51M

Anthony Laganelli ’61M, ’66Ph.D.

Amy Lerner ’90

Don McCoy ’75 (deceased)

Jack N. Pezza ’98

Stephen D. Popovich ’49

Patrick J. Reynolds ’68

John Thackrah ’79

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