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Research and Graduate Education
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Careers of discoveryFollowing are some of the many ISU engineering alumni who are successful researchers. If you know of others, contact the Muses editor at the address on the back page. Robert J. Bernhard, BSME’73, PhDEM’82, joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1982, became the director of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories in 1994, and was named co-director of the Institute for Safe, Quiet, Durable Highways. His contributions to the field include new finite element approaches in acoustics, significant contributions in implementing modal analysis techniques in noise control applications, and broad contributions to consumer product and automotive noise reduction. Arthur L. Bryson, BSAeroE’46, the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University, is the founding father of trajectory optimization and the application of optimal control to aerospace systems. He substantially reduced the time it takes for a fighter interceptor to climb to altitude, and he developed practical guidance schemes for aircraft. His textbooks, Applied Optimal Control (1969 with Y.C. Ho) and Control of Spacecraft and Aircraft (1994), are landmarks. His latest book, Dynamic Optimization, was published in 1998. Bryson was named to the National Academy of Engineering in 1970 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. David Ditzel, BSEE’78, helped build AT&T’s first reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor and developed the first bitmap terminal while at Bell Laboratories Computing Science Research Center. Later, as director of SPARC Laboratories at Sun Microsystems, he led members of SPARC International in developing the 64-bit SPARC standard and the IEEE 1754 instruction set standard. He is president and CEO of Transmeta Corporation in California. Mary Jane Hagenson, MSBioMedE’76, PhDBioMedE’80, is vice president of specialty chemicals and specialty plastics at Phillips Petroleum Co. She began her career there as a senior research scientist and holds seven U.S. patents for glass-reinforced plastic compounds that dramatically increase adhesion between the polymer matrixes and the reinforcing glass fibers. Michael Klein, BSEE’62, is preparing to publish 27 years’ worth of research on his observations of Jupiter. As manager of California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Observatory Support Office, manager for the Deep Space Network Science Office, and program manager for the Two-Micron All Sky Survey Project, he has accumulated more than 30 years of experience in radio astronomy research. From 1981 to 1993 he was the JPL program manager for NASA’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Harry J. Leamy, PhDMetallurgy’67, spent 22 years as a scientist and researcher in different divisions of AT&T Bell Labs, where he made important contributions to the technologies involved in laser processing of semiconductors, display devices based on single crystal CRT technology, and batteries for portable telephones. He was a founding member and president of the Materials Research Society, which has become the international forum for interdisciplinary materials science and technology. Currently he is director of the C.C. Cameron Applied Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Lanny Robbins, BSChE’61, MSChE’63, PhDChE’66, is a Research Fellow with the Dow Chemical Company where he has developed many separation and purification unit operations, including melt crystal refining, AquaDetox™ aqueous purification devices for stripping impurities from water to the parts per billion range, and industrial wastewater purification technology to reduce trace impurities to unprecedented low levels of parts per quadrillion. He holds 18 patents and is the author of the liquid-liquid extraction chapters in Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s Handbook and Schweitzer’s Handbook of Separation Techniques for Chemical Engineers. |