Spotlight on Sidney Bernsen and Ann Dowling to Receive ASME Awards at Honors Assembly

Spotlight on Sidney Bernsen and Ann Dowling to Receive ASME Awards at Honors Assembly Spotlight on Sidney Bernsen and Ann Dowling to Receive ASME Awards at Honors Assembly Each year, the ASME Honors and Awards Program recognizes individuals and organizations for a variety of engineering achievements and contributions to the profession. This year, the Society will honor 10 individuals for their accomplishments at the 2013 ASME Honors Assembly to be held on the evening of Nov. 18, during the 2013 ASME grenzberschreitend Mechanical Engineering Congress Exposition in San Diego, Calif.One of the nights honorees, Sidney A. Bernsen, Ph.D., will receive ASMEs Melvin R. Green Codes and Standards Medal, which celebrates memory and extraordinary contributions of Melvin R. Green, an ardent supporter of industrial standards and a longtime employee of the Society. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the development, promulgation or management of documents, objects or devices used in ASME programs of technical codification, standardization and conformity assessment. Sidney Bernsen Dr. Bernsen, a consultant and resident of San Diego, will be recognized for his distinguished leadership and professionalism in the development, advancement, promotion and acceptance of ASME codes and standards and for pioneering efforts in the development and standardization of quality assurance and nuclear risk management programs for application in power plants and other facilities. For 60 years, Bernsen has made outstanding contributions as a leader in research, development, design, licensing, quality assurance and management of nuclear and other high technology facilities, including a number of unique projects and programs. An ASME Fellow and Honorary Member, Bernsen was the first chair of the ASME Standards Committee on Nuclear Quality Assurance. He was a member of the committee for 30 years. In addition, he served on the ASME Nominating Committee and the Codes and Standards Redesign Team. He is a founding member of the ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards and has served continuously for more than 38 years. In 1998, Bernsen was appointed the first chair of the ASME Standards Committee on Nuclear Risk Management, and he continues as a member and serves on the Executive Committee. He is also a member and former vice chair of the ASME Standards Board on New Development. He received an ASME Dedicated Service Award in 1989 and the Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award in 2000. Ann Dowling Ann Dowling, CEng, CPhys, Ph.D., Sc.D., a resident of Cambridge, U.K., and head of the department of engineering and deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Cambridge, will be also be honored during the ceremony. Dr. Dowling will receive the Kate Gleason Award, which is given to a female engineer who is a highly successful entrepreneur in a field of engineering or who has had a lifetime of achievement in the engineering profes sion. Established in 2011, the award honors the legacy of Kate Gleason, the first woman to become a full member of ASME. Dowling is being recognized for significant contributions to advance gas turbine engine technology and the engineering science of combustion and acoustics and for outstanding leadership in industry-university cooperative research and international engineering education. At the University of Cambridge, Dowling is also a professor of mechanical engineering and chair of the University Gas Turbine Partnership with Rolls-Royce. She is one of the founders of the Energy Efficient Cities initiative at Cambridge and was the U.K. lead of the Silent Aircraft Initiative, in collaboration with researchers at Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Dowlings research is primarily in the fields of combustion, acoustics and vibration, and is aimed at low-emission combustion and quiet vehicles. Her research on unsteady combustion provides insight and models that are enabling gas turbine manufacturers to avoid damaging instabilities in low-emission combustors. An ASME reviewer and conference participant, Dowling received a Best Technical Paper Award from the ASME International Gas Turbine Institutes Combustion and Fuels Committee in 2001.The ASME Foundation is the proud supporter of the ASME Honors and Awards program through the management of award endowment funds set up by individuals, corporations or groups. For more information on the 2013 Honors Assembly and all 10 of the award recipients, visit www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2013/Honors.cfm.