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Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture, and Columbia College Chicago, among others.
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Ben Zinn, Regents’ Professor and David S. Lewis Jr. Chair, received the 2006 George Westinghouse Gold Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for outstanding contributions to low-emissions com- bustor development and improved understanding of unsteady combustion phenomena in power generating com- bustion devices for collaborative approach to fundamental research that has led to practical solutions.
Georgia Tech’s Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering hon- ored him on May 18 by naming its combustion laboratory the Ben T. Zinn Combustion Laboratory. Zinn is an expert in the dynamics of flow, com- bustion, propulsion and energy conver- sion systems. Zinn is also director of the NASA University Research Education Technology Institute (URETI) Center for Aeropropulsion and Power based at Georgia Tech. The center’s research is aimed at improving aircraft engines technologies.
Zinn started his career at Georgia Tech in 1965 as an assistant professor. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in
Ben T. Zinn
Ben Zinn honored by ASME and Georgia Tech
aerospace and mechanical engineering from Princeton and his M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford.
Zinn is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanley Flatté honored at colloquium
Stanley Flatté, professor emeritus of physics, was honored at a colloqui- um organized by the Department of Physics of the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) held on May 11, 2006.
The colloquium provided a retro- spective of Flatté’s career, with speakers from fields in which he has made sig- nificant contributions—particle physics, seismology, and ocean acoustics. Speakers included Jeff Simmen, director of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, and John Colosi, an oceanographer at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Flatté is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned his B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. He joined the UCSC faculty in 1971.
Yves H. Berthelot appointed
Yves H. Berthelot
Director of Georgia Tech Lorraine
Yves H. Berthelot was appointed Director of Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL) effective 1 January 2006. Georgia Tech Lorraine, the Georgia Institute of Technology's platform into Europe, conducts activities including graduate level education, with degree programs offered in several engineer- ing disciplines, an undergraduate sum- mer program in engineering, manage- ment and international affairs, spon- sored research, with programs directed toward specific opportunities in the European community, continuing edu- cation targeted at practicing engineers and managers, and local economic development targeted at hosting high- tech companies.
Dr. Berthelot is actively involved in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) where he serves on several com- mittees. He was elected a Fellow of the ASA in 1995 and was recipient of the Society's R. Bruce Lindsay Award in 1991. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America for Physical Acoustics and Ultrasonics. Dr. Berthelot has served as the general chairman of the 139th ASA meeting held in Atlanta in the spring of 2000 and as President (1986-87) and Secretary (1988-90) of the Georgia Chapter of the ASA.
Kelly Benoit-Bird is the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research
Kelly Benoit-Bird, an assistant pro- fessor of biological oceanography in the College of Oceanic and
Stanley Flatté
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