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American Society of Mechanical Engineers

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

"Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. ASME conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations, holds numerous technical conferences worldwide, and offers hundreds of professional development courses each year. ASME sets internationally recognized industrial and manufacturing codes and standards that enhance public safety."

Official Website:
http://www.asme.org/

Location:
New York City

Founding Date:
1880

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Norman Augustine Business 27-Jul-1935   CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97
Samuel C. Collins Chemist 28-Dec-1898 19-Jun-1984 Collins-type cryocooler
Robert B. Coutts Business c. 1950   EVP at Lockheed Martin
Lloyd H. Donnell Engineer 20-May-1895 7-Nov-1997 Donnell's thin shell theory
Daniel C. Drucker Engineer 1918 25-Aug-2001 Drucker's stability postulate
William F. Durand Engineer 5-Mar-1859 9-Aug-1958 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Thomas Edison Inventor 11-Feb-1847 18-Oct-1931 Invented the light bulb
William L. Emmet Engineer 10-Jul-1859 26-Sep-1941 All-electric warships
John R. Freeman Engineer 27-Jul-1855 6-Oct-1932 Charles River Dam
Henry Gantt Engineer 20-May-1861 23-Nov-1919 Management as a science
Robert R. Gilruth Engineer 18-Oct-1913 17-Aug-2000 NASA scientist
Richard J. Goldstein Engineer c. 1936   Fluid mechanics
Jesse J. Greene, Jr. Business c. 1945   Chief Financial Risk Officer at IBM, 2007-10
Frederick A. Halsey Engineer 12-Jul-1856 20-Oct-1935 Kept America safe from the metric system
Mayo D. Hersey Engineer 30-Aug-1886 5-Sep-1978 Tribology
John A. Hill Publisher 22-Feb-1858 24-Jan-1916 Co-Founder of the McGraw-Hill Companies
Nicholas J. Hoff Engineer 3-Jan-1906 4-Aug-1997 Aluminum in aircraft design
Alexander Lyman Holley Business 20-Jul-1832 29-Jan-1882 Designed steel foundries
Joseph M. Juran Scientist 24-Dec-1904 28-Feb-2008 The Pareto Principle
Ted Kaufman Government 15-Mar-1939   TARP oversight panel
Charles F. Kettering Engineer 29-Aug-1876 25-Nov-1958 Invented the electric starter
Jack S. Kilby Inventor 8-Nov-1923 20-Jun-2005 Electrical engineering pioneer
Albert Kingsbury Engineer 23-Dec-1863 28-Jul-1943 Kingsbury thrust bearing
Dale Klein Government c. 1948   Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Morris E. Leeds Business 6-Mar-1869 8-Feb-1952 Leeds & Northrup Co.
Robert W. Mann Inventor 1924 16-Jun-2006 Prosthetic devices
Jerry McNerney Politician 18-Jun-1951   Congressman, California 11th
Raymond D. Mindlin Engineer 17-Sep-1906 22-Nov-1987 Mindlin's problem
C. D. Mote, Jr. Educator c. 1937   President, University of Maryland
Francis A. Pratt Business 15-Feb-1827 10-Feb-1902 Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney
Daniel R. Raichel Scientist 1935 22-Dec-2006 Acoustics expert
Eric Reissner Mathematician 5-Jan-1913 1-Nov-1996 Reissner shear-deformation plate theory
Franz Reuleaux Mathematician 30-Sep-1829 20-Aug-1905 Father of modern kinematics
Charles M. Schwab Business 18-Feb-1862 19-Sep-1939 Founder of Bethlehem Steel
William R. Sears Engineer 1-Mar-1913 12-Oct-2002 Airfoil engineer
Igor Sikorsky Business 25-May-1889 26-Oct-1972 Helicopter magnate
Elmer Sperry Inventor 12-Oct-1860 10-Jun-1930 Gyroscopic compass
Philip Sporn Engineer 25-Nov-1896 23-Jan-1978 American Electric Power Company
Ambrose Swasey Business 19-Dec-1846 15-Jun-1937 Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory
Chang-Lin Tien Educator 24-Jul-1935 29-Oct-2002 Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1990-97
Stephen Timoshenko Engineer 23-Dec-1878 29-May-1972 Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
George Westinghouse Inventor 6-Oct-1846 12-Mar-1914 Air brake and AC power
Amos Whitney Business 8-Oct-1832 5-Aug-1928 Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney

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