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By Brian Howe , July 2, 2007
From 1988 until the recent release of Woke on a Whaleheart under his birth name, Bill Callahan, as far as the public was concerned, was the entity known as Smog. But Smog was not a person. Smog was a late-afternoon feeling of desolation, dread, and enchantment. Smog made brutal, no-fi tapes of acoustic musings pinioned by abrasive noise experiments. Smog's music brushed up against the misogynistic, the antisocial, the outright sociopathic. Smog was an enigma to be relished but never resolved. Bill Callahan, meanwhile, is a fairly traditional folk-rocker with a weathered baritone and a penchant for aphorisms. Could they be the same person?
This isn't the first time I've interviewed Bill Callahan, but in a way, it is, because years ago, I was interviewing Smog. His answers to my questions were terse and enigmatic. But here in 2007, I got to talk to Bill Callahan, because Smog is dead. Or, at least, dissipated-- it doesn't seem accurate to have ever regarded Smog as sentient. The most obvious clue is the name change, but there are others, more compelling ones. Callahan's loquacity in this Smog postmortem is one-- I had to practically pry answers from Smog, but with Callahan, as you'll see, I hardly had to say anything. He's gone through some fundamental perspective changes and is ready to talk about them directly-- and directness was anathema to Smog. Other signs of Callahan's emergence from Smog are writ large in Woke on a Whaleheart. There's the reference to waking in the album's title. There are the celebratory gospel tinges. There is the shinier production and the easygoing demeanor.
And there are, most compellingly, the lyrical themes: "From the Rivers to the Ocean" narrates a stormy passage into a safe haven. "Footprints" looks at "last summer's footprints" walking through "last summer's sand," and, most tellingly, where the footprints end "we must have flown." Transformation is the theme of "Diamond Dancer", where a girl dances alone until she turns into a diamond, and "Sycamore" revisits A River Ain't Too Much To Love's gentle, reverent naturalism. "The Wheel" is equally concerned with stability, contentment, and natural cycles: Callahan longs to make his home "in a stable spoke inside a turning wheel." If all this weren't evidence enough, this interview should prove it-- the troubled singer "raised in the wild space between two hearts" is finally, gratefully, settling into one.
Pitchfork: Woke on a Whaleheart makes it seem as if you've undergone some fundamental life and perspective changes. The most obvious clue is the name change-- Smog seemed like a concept, a sort of free-floating, malevolent intelligence that was a manifestation of Bill Callahan, but was not, in fact, Bill Callahan. But the lingering dread I associated with Smog seems to have lifted from Whaleheart. It feels like the exhalation of a long-held breath. Can you discuss what the concept of Smog has meant to you, and what leaving it behind means now?
Bill Callahan: I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am "at" personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy. I tend to hope people will meet me halfway. The "halfway" point is, "here's some music, forget about the particulars of the feller before you, let's listen to it and see what happens."
But there is the half that gets left off, the half that never gets told. There has definitely been a transition of some sort, an upheaval, which started three or so years ago. You've come at an unfortunate time in that I am still trying to sort it all out. I cannot tell you exactly what is going on now. I look at my hands and I don't know what they wrought in the past. Are they the hands of a bad man? I used to be an artist. I don't think I am right now. I don't know if I ever will be again. I am something else. I was a student of personal strife. I ran with the wrong crowd early on. I tortured myself for a song. I thought it was the way.
These things changed many years ago, but those stubborn barnacles remained buttoned to my cape. In shrugging off the cape of Smog and running-- I am still in the giddy and running stage, where you can't believe how easy it was to shrug off. I figure I will be giddy and running for another album or so. I've got six different sketches for albums that lay ahead of me. Usually how it works is something will come in to usurp all of those plans at the last minute.
I suppose there was some, as you say, malevolence of a sort in the early Smog stuff. When it was understood by others why I put it in there, it was a huge joy. I was going out on a limb and when I found there was weight for two people out there, it was such a joy. I don't think most people understood it. Maybe that means I failed. I give the greatest power to the audience. I give them the greatest respect. That is where a song lives or dies.
Changing the name was to demarcate a change for myself. A reminder. My record label discouraged it. I said I wanted change, they said, "The cool thing about Smog is that it could be anything and still be Smog." But even this began to feel like a twisted sheet, something that limited movement. Even having the concept that it could be anything at all felt restrictive. As if the wide-openness defined it.
And so I have narrowed my focus with the name change. There is no name anymore, I am just a figure in a landscape that huddles together with other figures. I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things, I am not the encompassing Smog. I will leave the wide-openness to others. Meaning, I will have arrangers and producers. Neil [Hagerty] said, "This is my chance to make the record I've always wanted to hear you make." I liked that, eventually. Well, I liked the idea of that immediately, but the cold hard facts of it took a little while to accommodate, Brian.
I noticed the other day that the first song on A River Ain't Too Much to Love ends with a bird migrating south for the winter and the last song on the record ends with a phoenix flying out of whatever it is a phoenix flies out of. The living death of fire. I think I went through all that when I left Chicago. I had been living in a stasis there. After having moved around the country on a yearly basis, I ended up there like a beached whale. No one knew what to do with me. I just lay there waiting for the tide to come in and float me home while people stood around and poked me with a driftwood stick or threw handfuls of sand at me. I realize now that there was something big birthing in me and I had to find a suitable place to birth it. I had to get out of there-- not for the old reasons of moving for curiosity-- but to go home.
And that, at this moment, is reflected in the title of the LP.
But what is so uncertain now, why I can't really say where I am "at," is that there are always clumps of brush to clear away, and unexpected attacks swooping in.
All that said, I am in an easier place.
Pitchfork: You say you no longer feel like "an artist," and since you're still working, I wonder what you mean by that. Do you equate being an artist with "artifice?" In other words, was Smog about artifice, while Bill Callahan is more artisanal than artistic? A music as carpentry sort of thing-- functional, not conceptual?
Bill Callahan: I equate being an artist with impaling yourself on your art. Only feeding, feeding the thing always. And it being starving. That's what that old forgotten song "Strawberry Rash," was about. As I said earlier, I don't yet know what I am now. Any talk of "craft" makes me laugh. My music looks outward, it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for Cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar it's like the first time. There's no craft in that. Although I do often think of working out a guitar part as "carving." There is the huge block of silence and you carve little bits out of it by making sound.
Pitchfork: You allude to Smog's malevolence being often misunderstood. Like a colleague of mine recently wrote in a review of Houston rapper Devin the Dude's new album, you listen to it and want to believe it's more about misogyny than just misogynistic or what have you. When the music you created as Smog broached topics that scanned as antisocial, it didn't seem to me like a critique of these things, but it didn't seem like the things themselves either. Can you talk about the ways in which Smog has been misunderstood, about the gap between your general intentions and the music's reception?
Bill Callahan: Spend a night with an owl and you'll see more blood than sleep. A song like "I Break Horses" has often been misconstrued. Some people tell me, "Ah, I get it-- we are all murderers under the skin!" That's not it. I don't give a shit about people's dark sides. I wrote that song to help a friend try to understand how a guy she had a one-night stand with could possibly not return her phone calls the next day or ever again. There is also a lot more going on with that song, but that was the impetus. It is rooted in Good. I like Devin the Dude-- there's vitality in his music. That's my only requirement that people have to meet in music.
Pitchfork: Can you talk about Neil's work on the record, what he brought to it, and also the gospel touches that spring up on it? I don't think that's a particular influence we've heard in your music before, and I wonder if gospel is a new passion of yours, how you came to it, all that stuff.
Bill Callahan: I was watching cable-access TV here, some church has 24-hour sermons that are mostly musical. Saw a minister tearing up a red stage with an organ player and an electric guitarist at four in the morning. That set me off. It was raw music. I suggested there be a backing vocalist of some sort, who could handle gospelly styles. But I was open to just about anybody singing on the record, any style. Because as Neil said, something like, "We will get what we can out of whoever and use it in the way we want." Paraphrasing like a mother on that one. But we happened to get the leader of a gospel choir here in town, [Deani Pugh-Flemmings]. Apart from "The Wheel", I don't think there's anything approaching pure Gospel on the record, anyway.
I gave Neil free reign to arrange and produce the record. This was a first for me, to give over control completely. It was a relief, but was not as easy as I thought it would be. It is hard to do nothing! Neil is an old-school producer, the type where the singer isn't even supposed to stick around after his or her vocal tracking. I finally realized this halfway through the experience, so I would leave the room to go read on the couch at the other side of the building. Because what I thought were the basic needs of what I'd come to know as a "record I was happy with," were, in truth, not as innocuous as I thought. I thought I was saying, "Look out for that cat in the road," but I was actually saying, "Drive over that way and then back over that way and that cat will still be alive."
Pitchfork: Did you consider dropping the Smog moniker before now? A River Ain't Too Much to Love was a terrific record, but it didn't sound like a Smog record, at least not Smog as it had come to be generally defined-- in all its quietude and naturalism, it sounded like a Bill Callahan record to me.
Bill Callahan: I wanted to release it under my own name, but my record label begged me not to. They said every band on their label that has changed their name has a drop in record sales that takes two to three years of plugging away to get back to what you had before. I was confident that what happened to those other people wouldn't happen to me. I also thought it might help-- maybe some people who hated Smog but didn't know the singer's name would buy my album.
But the name change was an afterthought with A River... So, I conceded to the label on that one. In a way, I am glad my debut album is not all stripped down like A River... is. But it really could go either way. A River... is a transitional record, so it could be one or the other, Bill Callahan or Smog. It's which came first, the phoenix or the ashes? For Whaleheart, the first step in making the record was to announce that it would be under my own name, before writing any songs. That put a glow on things. You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
Pitchfork: I saw Thor Harris playing with Shearwater the other night. Is he playing with you right now? How are you handling the touring band for this album, anyway?
Bill Callahan: Thor is playing on the Texas tour and the UK/Israel tour that follows. The line-up for these two tours is drums, piano, fiddle, bass and me. I would hope that I don't end up handling any of them, but those European hotel rooms are pretty small.
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Despite all the setbacks and resistance, Google Books is notching victory after victory. Having secured a partnership with Sony to provide more than one million public domain books to its e-book store just recently, Google has managed to strike another deal, this time with the British company Interead, to supply the same amount of books with half a million available outside the US.
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Many companies that do custom application development do not have dedicated designers, front-end engineers, interaction designers, or whatever they are called today. Instead, these companies rely on application developers to develop a user interface for an application. This situation can have consequences on the usability of the resulting user interface. A common pattern that I personally have been stuck in for years is the CRUD pattern:
CRUD stands for Create Read Update Delete, the basic interactions you need on pretty much any entity you introduce into your application. In your architecture CRUD is likely to appear in multiple layers. If you have a users table, you may have CRUD operations in stored procedures, a Data Access Layer (DAL) and a Business Layer (BL) to carry out the basic CRUD operations on that user table.
The design mistake occurs when you extend that pattern to the user interface. Let's reuse the users table example. If you extend the CRUD model to the UI, you'd probably create a page that enlists users along with links to view, edit or delete an individual user. You'll create a page to view a user and one to edit a user. You'll name your fields and labels to the names used in your actual table. You may even generate the whole UI since it leans so much on the database model.
Through a few simple, subtle examples I want to show you how it can be beneficial to usability to think outside this CRUD model for user interfaces. Here they are:
1. Think about your labels
Labels are what you call your links, buttons, menu options, form labels, etc. They are crucial for usability. A subtle example here is a form label. If we had a users table containing a description field how would you call the form label on the edit form?
The CRUD way is to call it "description", just like the field name. A better label would be "describe yourself", which is actionable, or "About me" which makes more sense to a user. The difference seems subtle, but if you apply this to all labels throughout your design, your UI usability will improve. Form labels are only a start, navigation and button labels are of equal importance.
2. Tables do not equal screens
Stuck in the CRUD-model, we tend to make a one to one relationship between a table and a screen. We build an edit form containing all fields of the user table that should be editable. This does not always make sense, as users tend to think task-oriented, not storage-oriented. This example from Digg.com illustrates my point:
Notice how Digg.com provides different options to edit different parts that evolve around a user. Each option has a dedicated screen that is optimized for the task. Although it is likely that Digg stores all of this stuff in a single user profile table, this is not reflected into their UI. There's even a possibility to do an inline edit of a single field (the avatar icon). Clearly, this part of the Digg UI is task oriented, the way it is stored in the database is abstracted away. In a CRUD approach, we'd have a single user profile edit form containing all fields.
3. Users do not think in fields. They think in natural language.
In CRUD design mode, we visualize data (in read mode) similar to the way we store it. Tabular, data-like, as if we're looking directly at the content of a record or table. Users, however, are not database administrators and not everybody is an accountant. Sometimes natural language is better. Consider this example from Digg (again) where some key fields of the user profile are used to form a natural sentence:
Not only does this take up much less screen space, it also reads a lot more fluently. It is as if I as a user do not have to connect the dots to learn about this great person, the application has already translated it to language I can understand. The application turned data into information. They're not the same.
Surely my examples do not apply in every situation, but they are just examples. I hope this article inspired you to understand the subtle difference between a database-inspired UI (CRUD) and a user-inspired UI (tasks, natural language). It takes practice to think outside the CRUD box, but I feel the result is rewarding. We as developers may not all be professional usability experts, but it never hurts to develop a change in mindset.
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» Hi, Ferdy!
Only two words, AWE-SOME!
In a few days i will send you your BLOGO 1.75 template translated to spanish! «
» Juan,
Great, I look forward to it! «
» Simply Superb.
Using this, the GUI expert always come with nice innovative options.
But sometimes the hands are tied, because of organizational standards and policies. I hope you will agree with me.
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Until quite recently, the steppes of northern Mesopotamia (in present-day Syria) were largely neglected. But when the war between Iraq and Iran closed access to southerly sites in the 1980s, archaeologists were forced to pay more attention to peripheral areas. A research team led by Marc Lebeau of the European Center for Upper Mesopotamian Studies and Antoine Suleiman of the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums (Syria) began to excavate Tell Beydar, a large mound--or "tell"--rising out of the flat steppes near the Khābūr River. The team also consisted of the universities of Leuven (Karel Van Lerberghe), Venice (Philippe Talon), Brussels (Lucio Milano) and Münster (Bretschneider). In these steppes, a tell indicates a long-buried city; after 10 years of intensive research, we can now say that Beydar did not disappoint.
Inside the 28-meter-high circular hill archaeologists found a complex almost as old and large as the citadel of ancient Troy. The city, known in ancient times as Nabada, evidently enjoyed its greatest prosperity during the early Bronze Age, between 2800 and 2200 B.C.E., and the excavation concentrated on this period. Our aim was to understand the birth of city-states--the metropolises that ruled the surrounding countryside and, sometimes, other cities--in northern Mesopotamia. Complex administration, as evinced by written tablets and seals, evolved at this time.
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Austin band brings outlaw folk/Americana to Western Heritage Classic
The Dirty River Boys' appearance at this year's Western Heritage Classic is part of the event's efforts to attract younger people, organizers said.
"We are always looking to try to draw a younger crowd to our dances and to the event as a whole," said Rochelle Johnson, general manager of the Taylor County Expo Center. "We kind of polled college students and we had several of them tell us that the Dirty River Boys was a great group, and so that was how we went about getting them."
The Austin-based Americana band will perform at 10:30 p.m. Friday at the outdoor entertainment pavilion.
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So far the band has recorded two EPs, "Long Cold Fall" and "Train Station," and a 15-track album (with a hidden track) called "Science of Flight," which was released in September. Although the EPs sound much like the band's live performances, the group experimented a little with "Science of Flight."
The band members, who tried coming up with their own techniques to produce a unique sound, brought a live rattlesnake into the studio for a rhythmic rattle to complete one of the tracks.
"We are still touring on what we have now," Cooper said. "We have a lot of new songs, and we play them live occasionally. We do have plans to get back into the studio at some point and record our next record, but before that, we are going to rerecord a song for a new single."
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This decadent flourless chocolate and almond cake originated on the island of Capri, where it's called torta Caprese.
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- 1 cup sugar
- 8 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 5 large eggs, separated
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel
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- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 10-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Combine almonds and 1/3 cup sugar in processor. Blend until almonds are very finely ground. Transfer almond mixture to medium bowl; do not clean processor. Add chocolate and 1/3 cup sugar to processor. Blend until chocolate is finely ground but not beginning to clump, about 45 seconds; stir into almond mixture. Using electric mixer, beat egg yolks and remaining 1/3 cup sugar in large bowl until mixture falls in heavy ribbon when beaters are lifted, about 5 minutes. Beat in almond extract and lemon peel. Fold in chocolate-almond mixture, then butter.
Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites and salt in another large bowl until stiff but not dry. Fold whites into chocolate batter in three additions. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 40 minutes. Cool cake completely in pan on rack. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; store at room temperature.) Cut around pan sides to loosen; release sides. Sift powdered sugar over cake.
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- Carbohydrates32 g (11%)
- Fat21 g (32%)
- Protein6 g (12%)
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LiC Detector Toy - Tracking detector optimization with fast simulation and its application to the ILD design
Veröffentlicht am 20.11.2008 in Proceedings von LCWS2008, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
The LiC Detector Toy is a fast single-track simulation and reconstruction tool, aiming at the optimization of tracking detector design, i.e. geometric layout and material budgets. Its implementation is based on the MATLAB system. Improvements over the last year include correct handling of complex forward regions (arbitrary mixture of cylindrical and plane surfaces), advanced detector description, flexible data presentation of the results (e.g. fitted track resolutions and impact parameters), and support by an integrated GUI. In addition a non-GUI version running under open-source OCTAVE has been implemented. The tool has recently been used for fixing the reference design layout of the silicon tracker (SIT, SET and FTD) within the ILD detector concept.
Autoren: Winfried Mitaroff, Meinhard Regler, Manfred Valentan, Rudolf Frühwirth
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Ahmed F. GhoniemRonald C. Crane (1972) Professor
Director, Center for Energy and Propulsion Research
Director, Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory
Room 3-344
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-2295
Fax: 617-253-5981
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Administrative Contact:
Lorraine Rabb
Room 3-343
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Research Interests
- Energy Conversion science and engineering, including combustion, thermochemical and electrothermochemical processes, their integration, and interface with renewable energy systems such as solar thermal and biofuels.
- Combustion fundamentals and modeling, combustion dynamics and thermoacoustic instability, noise, signature, emissions and performance. Active control of combustion.
- High-performance computing, science discovery through advanced computing, information technology, computational mathematics, and application to turbulence and combustion. CFD: development and application of advanced computational methods in fluid dynamics, transport, mixing and combustion.
- Carbon-capture research, including gasification and reforming, oxy-combustion, ITM reactor development, Chemical looping combustion. CO2 reduction and reuse.
- Renewable energy sources and conversion including biomass to liquid via thermochemical pathways, hybrid CSP and solar reforming.
Teaching Interests
Thermal-Fluid Science and Engineering, Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion and Combustion, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence
Educational Background
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, July 1973, Cairo University, Egypt
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, October 1975, Cairo University, Egypt
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, June 1980, University of California, Berkeley
Academic Appointments at MIT
July 83 - Sept. 85, Assistant Professor
Sep. 85 - July 86, Edgerton Assistant Professor
July 86 - June 87, Edgerton Associate Professor
July 86 - June 88, Associate Professor, non-tenured
July 88 - June 92, Associate Professor, tenured
June 92 - present, Professor
Other Related Experience
Oct . 73 - Sep. 75 Cairo University, Egypt, Res. & Teaching Assistant
Sept. 75 - Sep. 76 Calgary University, Canada, Res. & Teaching Assistant
Jan. 77 - Mar. 80 University of California, Berkeley, Res. & Teaching Assistant
Mar. 80 - Nov. 80 University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Research
Nov. 80 - July 83 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Research Scientist
Professional Service and Consulting
1985 - 1986 Cairo University, Egypt
1987 - 1988 Flow Industries, Inc., Kent, WA
1987 - 1989 R & D Associates, Marina del Rey, CA
1987 - 1988 Bolt, Beranek and Newmann, Cambridge, MA
1987 - 1991 Altex Technologies, San Jose, CA
1988 - 1992 U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
1989 - 1992 Allison Gas Turbine, G.M.
1989 - 1989 Shell Oil Co.
1989 - 1989 National Institute of Standards and Technology
1990 - 1990 Current General Electric Co.
1990 - 1991 Northwest Fuel Development, Inc.
1990 - 1991 Northwest Fuel Development, Inc., Portland, OR
1991 - 1995 Altex Corporation, San Jose, CA
1991 - 1991 Chm Michelson Institute, Norway
1993 - 1993 Advanced Mechanical Technologies, Inc. (AMTI)
1993 - 1994 AMTI, Newton, MA
1994 - 1995 Hinton and Alfert Law Offices, Walnut Creel, CA
1995 - 1997 United Technologies, East Hartford, CT
1995 - 1995 Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M.
1997 - 1997 Enppi, Egypt
1997 - 1997 Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
1998 United Technologies, East Hartford, CT
1998 United States Golf Association
1998 Radian Technologies1998 - 2001 United Technology Research Center, East Hartford, CT
2000 - 2000 Draper Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
2000 - 2000 Delta Search Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, Member of the Board
2000 - 2001 EXO New Energy, The Netherlands
2001 - 2002 Fish and Anderson, Boston, MA
2002 - 2005 United Technology
2004 - 2005 Mechanology, Inc.
2005 - 2006 Morrison & Mahoney, LLC
2007 - 2008 AFL/Creare
2007 - 2009 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Technical Advisory Committee
2008 Tecogen Board of Directors
2009 - 2012 Chair, IAB for KFUPM Center for Research Excellence in Renewable Energy
2009 Ilios, Inc., MA, Board of Directors
2009 - 2010 Vale/VSE, Member of the Advisory Committee
2010 - 2012Vale/VEL, Member of the Technical Advisory Committee
2011 ARAMCO Research and Development Center, CAC
2011 - 2012 Babcock-Thermo Clean Combustion LLC, Member of the Board
2012 Unity Power Alliance, Member of the Board
2013 ETH, Evaluation Board.
Patents and Patents Pending:
- Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Santosh Janardhan Shanbhogue, Zachary Alexander LaBry, and Raymond l. Speth, SWIRL-COUNTER-SWIRL MICROJETS FOR THERMOACOUSTIC INSTABILITY SUPPRESSION, MIT docket number 14110.108769, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2010 Serial Number 61/292330.
- Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Randall Field and Chukwunwike Ogbonnia. Iloeje, "A NOVEL APPROACH TO CARBON-DIOXIDE PURIFICATION FOR OXY-COMBUSTION SYSTEM", M.I.T. Case No. 14236, U.S. patent application No 61/330860.
- Patrick Kirchen and Ahmed F. Ghoniem, "NEARLY ISOTHERMAL ION TRANSPORT MEMBRANE REACTOR FOR OXYGEN SEPARATION AND HYDROCARBON CONVERSION", M.I.T. Case No. 14581.
- M. A. Habib, K. Mezghani, R. Ben-Mansour, A. F. Ghoniem, Y. Shao-Horn and A. Mitsos, "INTEGRATED POLYMERIC-CERAMIC MEMBRANE BASED OXY-FUEL COMBUSTOR", Patent application, No 13/365290, filed Feb 2012.
- Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Seung Hyuck Hong and Santosh Janardahn Shanbhogue, "SUPPRESSION OF COMBUSTION INSTABILITY USING AN INSULATEING MATERIAL NEAR THE FLAME ANCHORING REGION" Provisional Patent filed on April 2012, application number 61/623177.
- Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Tianjiao Chen and Zhenlong Zhao, ROTARY BED REACTOR FOR CHEMICAL LOOPING COMBUSTION WITH CARBON CAPTURE, US Patent Application No.: 13/676600, filing Date Nov 14, 2012, MIT Case No. 15476K.
- Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Le Cheng and Patrick Kirchen, USE OF ION TRANSPORT MEMBRANE FOR COMBINED CO2 CAPTURE AND REUSE, MIT Tech disclosure 15596.
- Cristina Botero, Randall Field, Howard Herzog and Ahmed F Ghoniem, METHOD FOR PREPARING A SLURRY OF PULVERIZED SOLID MATERIAL IN LIQUID OR SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE, MIT Case No. 15909K. U.S. patent Application No. 61/712954 filed Oct 12, 2012.
- Wu, Guang, and Ghoniem, Ahmed F., SEPARATION OF HYDROCARBON MIXTURE USING NEAR-CRITICAL OR SUPERCRITICAL WATER, MIT Case No. 16199, 2013.
- Cristina Botero, Randall Field, Howard Herzog and Ahmed F Ghoniem, METHOD FOR CONVEYING A SOLID TO A DENSE, HIGH PRESSURE STATE VIA PHASE INVERSION WITH CO2, case No. 61/829321, 2013. Patent filed on Oct 8, 2013, Serial No 14/048150.
Awards and Honors
1968 - 1973 Ministry (Egyptian) of Higher Education Scholarship (yearly)
1979 Pi Tau Sigma, Excellent Teaching Assistant (U.C. Berkeley)
1984 N.S.F. Research Initiation Award
1985 N.A.S.A. Certificate of Recognition
1985 Edgerton Professorship
1987 S.A.E. Teetor Educational Award
1990 A.I.A.A Certificate of Appreciation
ASME Fellow
2006 Robert C. Crane (1972) Professor
2008 - 2013 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Professional Registration: The Egyptian Engineering Society
Principal Publications (last 3 years):
- LaBry, Z. A., Shanbhogue, S.J., Speth, R.L. and Ghoniem, A.F., Flow Structures in a lean premixed swirl stabilized combustor with microjet air injection, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 33, 2011, 1113-1120.
- Kedia, K., Altay, H.M. and Ghoniem, A.F., Impact of wall-flame interactions of premixed flame transfer function, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 33, 2011, 1113-1120.
- Ghoniem, A.F., Needs, resources and climate change: Clean and efficient conversion technologies, Progress Energy Combust Science, Vol. 37, 2011, p. 15-51.
- Singer, S. and Ghoniem, A.F., "Adaptive random pore model (ARPM) for multimodal-pore structure evolution during char conversion", Energy and Fuels, 2011, 25 (4), pp. 1423-1437, DOI: 10.1021/ef101532u.
- LaBry, Z.A., Shanbhogue, S.J. and Ghoniem, A.F., "Microjet injection for suppressing instability in a premixed swirl stabilized combustor," Presented at the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting January, Orlando, FL 2011.
- Speth, R.I., Shanbhogue, S.J., Hong, S.H., and Ghoniem, A.F., "Mode selection in flame-vortex driven combustion instability", Presented at the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting January, Orlando, FL 2011.
- Habib, M.A., Badr, H.M., Ahmed, S.F., Ben-Mansour, R., Mezghani, K., Imashuku, S., La O', G.J., Shao-Horn, Y., Mancini, N., Mitsos, A., Kirchen, P., and Ghoniem, A.F., A review of recent developments in carbon capture utilizing oxy-fuel combustion in conventional and ion transport membrane systems, Int. Journal for Energy Research, (2011), Vol 35, 9, pp. 741-764.
- Schlegel, F., Wee, Dh, Marzouk, Y.M. and Ghoniem, A.F., Contributions of the wall boundary layer to the formation of counter-rotating vortex pair in transverse jets, J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 676, 2011, pp. 461-490.
- Rutberg, M.J., Delgado, A., Herzog, H. and Ghoniem, A.F., A system-level generic model of water use at power plants and its application to regional water use estimation and technology evaluation, IMECE2011-63786, ASME 2011 IMECE, Nov 11-17, 2011, Denver, CO.
- Chen, Lei, Yong, S.Z. and Ghoniem, A.F., Oxy-fuel combustion of coal for carbon capture; characterization, fundamentals, stabilization and CFD modeling, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, 38 (2012) 156-214.
- Kedia, K. and Ghoniem, A.F., Mechanisms of stabilization and blowoff of a premixed flame downstream of a heat-conducting perforated plate, Combustion and Flame, 159 (2012) 1055-1069.
- Monaghan, R.F. and Ghoniem, A.F., A dynamic reduced order model for simulating entrained flow gasifier. Part 1: Model development and description, Fuel, 91, 2012, 61-80.
- Monaghan, R.F. and Ghoniem, A.F., A dynamic reduced order model for simulating entrained flow gasifier. Part 2: Validation, Fuel, 2012, 94, pp. 280-297.
- Yong, S.Z., Gazzino, M. and Ghoniem, A.F., Modeling the slag layer in solid fuel gasification and combustion- formulation and sensitivity analysis, Fuel, 92, 2012, 162-170.
- Kewlani, G., Abani, N., Shanbhogue, S. and Ghoniem, A.F., Large eddy simulation of a swirl stabilized combustor, presented at the AIAA 50th Aerospace Science Meeting, Jan 2012, Nashville, TN.
- Wee, Daehyun, Park, Sungbae, Ghoniem, A.F., Impact of curvature on the kinematic response of small flames, J. Engineering Math, 74, 1, 37-52 (2012). DOI 10.1007/s10665-011-9481-5.
- Kumar, Mayank, and Ghoniem, A.F., Multi-physics simulations of entrained flow gasification. Part I: validating the non-reacting flow solver and the particle turbulent dispersion model, Energy and Fuels, 2012, 26(1) pp. 451-463, DOI: 10.1021/ef200884j.
- Kumar, Mayank, and Ghoniem, A.F., Multi-physics simulations of entrained flow. Part II constructing and validating the overall model, Energy and Fuels, 2012, 26(1) pp. 464-479, DOI: 10.1021/ef2008858.
- Yong, S.Z., and Ghoniem, A.F., Multiphase slag models in solid fuel gasification and combustion- Two way coupling with CFD, Fuel, 97 (2012) 457-466.
- Dabiri, S., Wu, G., Timko, M. and Ghoniem, A.F., Mixing of single component hydrocarbon droplets in supercritical water, J Supercritical Fluids, 67 (2012) 29-40.
- Habib, M.A., Mansour, R.B., Badr, H.M., Ahmed, S.F., Ghoniem, A.F., Characteristics of oxy-fuel and air-fuel combustion in water tube boilers, 2011, Computers and Fluids, 56, 2012, 152-165.
- Monaghan, R. and Ghoniem, A.F., Simulation of a commercial scale entrained flow gasifier using a dynamic reduced order model, Energy and Fuels, 2012, 26(2), pp. 1089-1106, DOI: 10.1021/ef201551m.
- Hassan, B., Shamim, T. and Ghoniem, A.F., "A parametric study of multi-stage chemical looping combustion for CO2 capture power plants, Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 8-12, 2012, Puerto Rico, ASME2012-58579.
- Wu, G., Timko, M. and Ghoniem, A.F., Mixing of multicomponent hydrocarbon droplet in supercritical water, presented at the Int. Symposium on Supercritical Fluids, May 13-16, 2012, San Francisco CA.
- Beretta, G.P., Iora, P. and Ghoniem, A.F., Novel approaches for fair allocation of primary energy consumption among cogenerated energy intensive products based on the actual local area production scenario, Energy, 44 (2012) 1107-1120.
- Hong, JS, Kirchen, P. and Ghoniem, A.F., Numerical simulation of ion-transport membrane reactors: oxygen permeation and transport and fuel conversion, J. Membrane Science, 407-408, 2012, pp. 71-85.
- Hong, S.H., Shanbhogue, S.J., and Ghoniem, A.F., Impact of heat transfer at the flame-holder on combustion instability characteristics, ASME Turbo Expo 2012, GT2012-70057, June 11-15, Copenhagen DN.
- Ghoniem, A.F., Oxy-coal Combustion for carbon Capture, invited presentation in the Oxy-fuel Combustion Technology Panel, the 37th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems, June 4-7, 2012, Clearwater, FL.
- Chen, L. and Ghoniem, A.F., Simulation of oxy-coal combustion using RANS and LES, a validation study, Energy and Fuels, 2012, 26(8), pp.4783-4798, DOI: 10.1021/ef3006993.
- Bates, Richard and Ghoniem, A.F., Biomass torrefaction: modeling of volatiles and solid product evolution kinetics, Bioresource Technology, 124 (2012) 460-469.
- Shroll, A.P., Shanbhogue, S.J. and Ghoniem, A.F., Dynamic stability characteristics of premixed methane oxy-combustion, J. of Eng For Gas Turbines and Power, May 2012, Vol 134/051504-1-10. DOI: 10.1115/1.4004737.
- Botero, C., Brasington, R., Field, R., Herzog, H. and Ghoniem, A.F., Performance of an IGCC plant with carbon capture and coal-CO2-slurry feed: impact of coal rank, slurry loading and syngas cooling technology, Indust. & Eng. Chemistry Research, 51(36) (2012) 11778-11790.
- Wu, G., Dabiri, S., Timko, M.T., and Ghoniem, A.F., Fractionation of multicomponent hydrocarbon droplet in water at supercritical and near-critical conditions. J. Supercritical Fluids, 72 (2012) 150-160.
- Beretta, G.P., Iora, P., and Ghoniem, A.F., Allocating electricity production from a hybrid fossil-renewable power plant among its multi primary resources consumption, Energy, 60(1) (2013) pp. 34-360.
- Kedia, K. and Ghoniem, A.F., An analytical model for the prediction of the dynamic response of premixed flames stabilized on a heat-conducting perforated plate, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 34, 2013, 921-9928.
- Singer, S., Chen, L. and Ghoniem, A.F., The influence of char particle trajectory and conversion of char gasification reactions during oxy-combustion and gasification, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 34, 2, 2013, 3471-3478. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2012.07.042.
- Kirchen, P., Apo, D.J., Hunt, A., and Ghoniem, A.F., A novel ion transport membrane reactor for fundamental investigations of oxygen permeation and oxy-combustion under reactive flow conditions, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 34, 2, 2013, 3463-3470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2012.07.076.
- Botero, C., Herzog, H. and Ghoniem, A.F., Coal-CO2 slurry feed for pressurized gasifiers, slurry preparation system characterization and economics, the 11th Green-House Gas Technology Conference, Nov 18-22, 2012, Kyoto, Japan. Energy Procedia, 37, 2013, 2212-2223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.101.
- Hong, JS, Kirchen, P. and Ghoniem, A.F., Interaction between oxygen permeation and homogeneous-phase fuel conversion on the sweep side of an ion transport membrane, J. Membrane Sci., 428, Feb 2013, 309-322.
- Kewlani, G., Vogiatzaki, K., Shanbhogue, S., and Ghoniem, A.F., LES of wake stabilized reacting flows: a validation study, presented at the 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Jan 2013. DOI: 10.2514/6.2013-169.
- Abani. N., and Ghoniem, A.F., Large-eddy simulation of coal gasification in an entrained flow gasifier, Fuel, Vol. 104, Feb 2013, pp. 664-680.
- Singer, S. and Ghoniem, A.F. Comprehensive single particle conversion model, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 160, no. 1, Jan 2013, pp. 120-137.
- Gazzani, M., Manzolini, G., Macchi, E., and Ghoniem, A.F., Reduced order modeling is the Shell-Prenflo entrained flow gasifier, Fuel, Vol. 104, Feb 2013, pp. 822-837.
- Botero, C., Field, R.P., Herzog, H.J. and Ghoniem, A.F., Impact of finite-rate kinetics on carbon conversion in a high-pressure single-stage entrained flow gasifier with coal-CO2 slurry feed. (Best Paper Award, 37th Int. Tech. Conf. on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems, June 2012). J. Applied Energy, 104 (2013) 408-417.
- Lee, W.Y., Hanna, J. and Ghoniem, A.F., On the predictions of carbon deposition on the nickel anode of an SOFC and its impact on open–circuit conditions, J. Electrochem. Soc., 2013, 160(2): F94-F105. DOI: 10.1149/2.051302jes.
- Zhao, Z.L., Chen, T.J., and Ghoniem, A.F., Rotary-bed reactor for chemical looping combustion with carbon capture; Part 1: reactor design and model development, Energy & Fuels, 2013, 27(1), pp. 327-343, DOI: 10.1021/ef3014103.
- Zhao, Z.L., Chen, T.J., and Ghoniem, A.F., Rotary-bed reactor for chemical looping combustion with carbon capture; Part 1I: base case and sensitivity analysis, Energy & Fuels, 2013, 27(1), pp. 344-359, DOI: 10.1021/ef301411g.
- Taamallah, S., Vogiatzaki, K., Kewlani, G., Shanbhogue, S., and Ghoniem, A.F., "Influence of Boundary Layer Trip on Non–Swirling and Swirling Reacting Jets Using Large Eddy Simulation" Numerical Combustion Conference, San Antonio Texas, USA, April 8-10th.
- Hong, J.S., Kirchen, P. and Ghoniem, A.F., Laminar oxy-fuel diffusion flame supported by an oxygen permeable ion transport membrane. Combust. Flame, 160, 3, 2013, pp. 704-717. DOI: 10.1016/j.combustionflame.2012.11.014.
- Hong, S.H., Speth, R., Shanbhogue, S., and Ghoniem, A.F., Examining flow-flame interactions and the characteristic stretch rate in vortex-driven combustion dynamics using PIV and numerical simulations, Combustion and Flame, 160 (2013) 1381-1397. DOI:10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.02.016.
- Bates, Richard and Ghoniem, A.F., Biomass torrefaction: modeling of Reaction thermochemistry, Bioresource Technology, 134 (2013) 331-340, DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.01.158.
- Kumar, Mayank and Ghoniem, Ahmed F., Application of a validated CFD gasification model to determine the impact of coal particle size on carbon conversion, Fuel, 108, 2013, 565-577.
- Hanna, J., Lee, W.Y., and Ghoniem, A.F., Electrochemical kinetics models for CO oxidation in Ni-YZS anodes, J. Electrochem. Soc., 160(6) F698-F708 (2013). DOI: 10.1149/2.136606jes.
- Chen, L., Yong, S.Z. and Ghoniem, A.F., Modeling the slag behavior in 3D CFD simulations of slagging coal oxy-combustion. Fuel Processing Tech, 112, 2013, 106-117.
- Hong, JS, Kirchen, P. and Ghoniem, A.F., Analysis of heterogeneous oxygen exchange and fuel oxidation on the catalytic surface of pervoskite membranes, J. Membrane Sci., 445, 96-106, 2013. DOI:10.1016/j.memsci.2013.05.055.
- Yu, X., Shi, Y., Wang, H., Cai, N., Li, C., Hanna, J., Tomov, R.I., Glowacki, B.A. and Ghoniem, A.F., Experimental characterization and elementary reaction modeling of solid oxide electrolyte direct carbon fuel cell, J. Power Sources, 243 (2013) 159-171.
- Habib, M.A., Ahmed, P., Ben-Mansour, R., Badr, H.M., Kirchen, P., and Ghoniem, A.F., Modeling of a combined ion transport and porous membrane reactor for oxy-combustion, J. Membrane Sci., 446 (2013) 230-243.
- Chen, Lei, and Ghoniem, A.F., Development of a 3D computational slag flow model for coal combustion and gasification, Fuel, 113 (2013) 357-366, 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.05.103
- Botero, C., Field, R., Herzog, H. and Ghoniem, A.F., The Phase Inversion based coal-CO2 slurry (PHICCOS) feeding system: techno-economic assessment using coupled multiscale analysis method, International Journal for Green Gas Control, 18, 150-164, 2013.
- Hong, S.H., Shanbhogue, S., Kedia, K. and Ghoniem, A.F., Impact of the flame-holder heat transfer characteristics on the onset of combustion instability, Combust. Sci. Tech., 185 (2013) 1541-1567. DOI: 10.1080/00102202.2013.816575.
- Nemitallah, M.A., Habib, M.A., Ben-Mansour, R., and Ghoniem, A.F., Design of an ion-transport membrane reactor for gas turbine combustion applications, J. Membrane Sci., 446, pp. 230-243, 2013.
- Hong, S.H., Speth, R., Shanbhogue, S., and Ghoniem, A.F., On the phase between pressure and heat release fluctuations in C3H8/H2 flames in a backward-facing step combustor and its role in dynamic mode transition, Combustion and Flame, 160 (2013) 2827-2742. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.07.001
- Altantzis, C., Bates, R.B., and Ghoniem, A.F., Comparison of simplified 1D models with 2D and 3D CFD simulations of a laboratory-scale bubbling fluidized bed hydrodynamics, for presentation at the Int. Conf. Multiphase Flow 2013, Jujo, South Korea, May 26-31, 2013.
- Altantzis, C., and Ghoniem, A.F., Numerical simulation of mixing of a binary mixture consisting of spherical wooden particles and sand in a bubbling fluidized bed, for presentation at the Int. Conf. Multiphase Flow 2013, Jujo, South Korea, May 26-31, 2013.
- Stark, A.K., Altantzis, C., and Ghoniem, A.F., CFD modeling of wood sawdust gasification in a laboratory-scale fluidized bed gasifier, for presentation at the SIAM Numerical Combustion Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 2013.
- Hanna, J., She, Y., Lee, W.Y., and Ghoniem, A.F., Fundamentals of electro and thermochemistry in the anode of solid-oxide fuel cells with hydrocarbon and syngas fuels, Progress Energy Combust. Sci., in press, 2013, doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2013.
- Schlegel, F. and Ghoniem, A.F., Simulation of high Reynolds number reactive transverse jet and the formation of a triple flame, Combustion and Flame, in press, 2013. 10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.10.006
- Botero, C., Field, R.P., Herzog, H.J. and Ghoniem, A.F., On the role of thermodynamics and kinetics in a coal-CO2 slurry-fed gasifier: optimization of CO2:H2O ratio though CO2 skimming and steam injection. The 38th Int. Tech. Conf. on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems, June 2013, Best Paper Award. In review, Applied Energy.
- Iora, P., Ghoniem, A.F. and Beretta, G.P., What fraction of the electrical energy produced in a hybrid solar-fossil power plant should qualify as "renewable energy," for presentation at the IMECE, San Diego, Nov 2013.
- Beretta, G.P., Iora, P. and Ghoniem, A.F., What fraction of the fuel consumed by a heat-and-power cogeneration facility should be allocated to the heat produced, for presentation at the IMECE, San Diego, Nov 2013.
Department & Institute Committees
Sep. 83 - Current Department Undergraduate Faculty Advisor
Sep. 84 - Sep. 87 Department Graduate Committee Department Graduate Advisor
Sep. 85 - Sep. 90 Mathematics Minor Advisor
Sep. 85 - June 86 Department Seminar Chairman
Sep. 87 - Sept. 88 Department Admission Committee
Sep. 90 - Current Computers in Education
Nov. 91 - Jan. 92 Ad hoc Committee on Promotion
1991 - 1992 Committee to establish PEEER
Jan. 92 - pres. Department Admissions Committee
Jan. 90 - May 94 SAL Seminar Series
Jan. 94 - June 94 Search Committee Chair
Jan. 94 - 1995 Ad hoc Committee on the Core Development
Jan. 94 - pres. Space Committee
Sep. 95 - June 98 Committee on Undergraduate Programs
June 96 - pres. Head of Thermo Fluids Sciences Division
Sep 99 - Sep 00 Committee on Curricula, member
Sep 00 - Committee on Curricula, Chair
2000 - 2003 Member of NERSC, the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center Advisory Group.
2000 - pres. Member of Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Advisory Board.
2002 - 2005 Member of the MIT Faculty Policy Committee.
2005 Chaired the School of Engineering ME-OE Merger Planning Committee.
2005 - 2006 Chaired the Energy Search Committee.
2005 - 2007 Chaired the MIT Committee to review Engineering Systems Division.
2005 - 2010 Head, Energy Science and Engineering Division, ME.
2005 - 2010 Co-director, then Director of the Center for 21st Century Energy, ME.
2007 Chairman of the organizing committee of the Keenan Symposium "Meeting the Entropy Challenge".
2007 Member of the Technical Advisory Committee, KAUST: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
2008 - pres. Member of the Energy Education Task Force, part of the MIT Energy Initiative.
2008 Chaired the MIT MASDAR Institute effort on establishing an Energy Program.
2008 - pres. Member of the MIT Middle East Studies Working Group.
2008 - pres. Member of the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean Energy and Clean Water.
2009 Member of the MIT Task Force on Promotion and Tenure.
2009 - 2010 Member of the ME Graduate Program Review Committee.
2008 - 2013 Scientific Director, Cariplo Faculty Exchange Program.
2008 - 2013 Member of the IAB for Oxford Center for Collaborative Applied Mathematics.
2010 - pres. Currently mentoring six junior faculty in the Department.
2010 Member of the NSE Department Strategic Review Committee.
2010 Member of the ME/OE Merger Review Committee.
2009 - pres. Chair of the Center of Research Excellence in Renewable Energy at KFUPM.
2010 Founding Executive Director, Center for Energy and Propulsion Research.
2011 - pres. Chair of the Center Advisory Committee of the ARAMCO Research and Development Center.
2011 Member, Strategic Planning Committee, ME.
2011 - Pres. Member, ME Faculty Awards Committee.
2012 Member, Ocean Engineering Faculty Search Committee.
2012 Member of the Mechanical Eng. Council.
2013 Visiting Professor, KAUST.
2013 Member of Executive Committee, KFUPM Center.
Professional Service
Sep. 90 - Feb. 91 National Research Council Committee on Research Directions in Computational Mechanics
1993 - 1994 DOE Review Panel on Energy Related Research
1993 - 1996 NSF Review Board on Supercomputer Allocation
1997 NCSA Users Advisory Board
Scientific and Professional Societies
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Fellow)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Associate Fellow)
The Combustion Institute
American Mathematical Society (Member)
Society of Automotive Engineering (Member)


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