DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress

DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress Warren R. DeVries ASME Fellows Warren R. DeVries, PhD, and Pol D. Spanos, PE, PhD, are among eight pioneers of the designing calling ASME will pay tribute to this year during the Society's 2014 Honors Assembly. Dr. DeVries and Dr. Spanos will both get Honorary Membership in ASME during the function, which be held Nov. 17 during the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Montreal, Canada. First granted in 1880, the establishing year of the Society, Honorary Membership perceives a lifetime of administration to building or related fields. DeVries, Ph.D., a teacher of mechanical designing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and previous individual from the ASME Board of Governors, is being perceived for unmistakable commitments to building instruction and exploration as an educator; for devotion to propelling the outskirts of disclosure and development through open help; and for endeavoring to propel the acknowledgment of building's commitments to mankind through administration in proficient social orders. An innovator in designing instruction and a famous pioneer in assembling procedures and frameworks research, DeVries filled in as dignitary of the College of Engineering and Information Technology at UMBC from 2006 to 2014, where he worked with personnel and staff to expand on UMBC's notoriety for incorporation of training and exploration covering the whole range of advancement, from information disclosure through innovation commercialization. Before joining UMBC in 2006, DeVries filled in as executive of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation. Through its subsidizing, the division empowered revelation, learning and development in colleges, and dealt with the NSF's job in the administration wide Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. DeVries was on task to the NSF from Iowa State University, Ames, where was seat of the division of mechanical building from 1996 to 2002. Before that, DeVries went through two years as a program executive at the NSF, and held staff positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Wisconsinâ€"Madison. DeVries, who is as of now the Society's secretary and treasurer, has served the Society in various positions, including as an individual from the ASME Board of Governors from 1999 to 2002, and as senior VP of the Council for Engineering from 1990 to 1999. He got an Outstanding Service Award from the Manufacturing Engineering Division in 1997, and the Society's Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award in 2005 and Dedicated Service Award in 2006. DeVries got his four year college education in letters and designing from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1971. He earned three degrees in mechanical designing from University of Wisconsinâ€"Madison: a bachelor's, with distinction, in 1971; an ace's in 1973; and a PhD, with minors in insights, and electrical and PC building, in 1975. Pol D. Spanos Spanos, the L.B. Ryon supplied seat in building at Rice University, is being perceived with Honorary Membership for his commitments to the dynamic examination and structure of assorted mechanical frameworks; for successful instructional methods that have propelled designing training; and for accomplishments coming about because of a fearless pledge to cultural improvement through building advancement. One of the world's driving specialists on the elements and vibrations of basic and mechanical frameworks, Spanos joined the workforce at Rice University in 1984, and has held the L.B. Ryon invested seat in designing since 1988. He was beforehand on the workforce at the University of Texas at Austin from 1977 to 1984. Spanos' accentuation in the region of elements and vibrations has been on probabilistic, nonlinear and signal-handling viewpoints, with applications to basic building, aviation design, seaward designing, biomechanics and composite materials. His work has been upheld by government elements including NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and by mechanical consortia. Moreover, Spanos is every now and again engaged with scientific building matters filling in as ace of-the-court and specialized master for the government courts. Spanos filled in as secretary and seat of the Applied Mechanics Division's official board of trustees, and as a commentator and a partner editorial manager for a few ASME division diaries. He is the beneficiary of the Society's Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, and the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award. An individual from the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Spanos got his certificate in mechanical building and designing science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1973. He earned his graduate degree in structural building (elements); and his Ph.D. in applied mechanics, with minors in applied arithmetic and business financial aspects, from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1974 and 1976, separately. He is an enrolled proficient designer in Texas, and an authorized mechanical architect and structural specialist in Greece.