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Engineers Nominated By American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society Chair of Engineers Week 2005
Sameer Kamrudin Bachani is a Student Engineer in the Order Related Engineering group at Sulzer Pumps (US) Inc. He previously held a position as a research assistant at Portland State University Department of Mechanical Engineering in Portland, Oregon. As a graduate student in mechanical and materials engineering, Bachani researched metal weldability, phase transformation, solid modeling, failure mechanisms, computer aided design and Finite Element Analysis. Finite element analysis computer model simulations are used to determine the areas of failure in a structure. Bachani developed a solution to the low income housing problem by developing and testing high clay content building blocks in technologically developing countries. This was a project that was presented at Development by Design, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology workshop in 2001. He applied non-destructive testing techniques to foresee and detect failure. He presented a paper titled "Use of Acoustic Emission to detect Solidification Cracking" to the Acoustic Emission Working Group conference in 2003. His abstract titled "Modeling and Analysis of a New Solidification Cracking Test" was accepted for publication by the 7th International Conference on Trends in Welding Research. Bachani is an active ASME member.
Jessica Berens is a mechanical design engineer for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, working in the Product, Power, Packaging, and Cooling (PPP&C) area. Berens is the Mechanical/Integration Design Lead on the 2107-921 storage system. She provides direction to designers on part designs and concepts, assigns work items, tracks all issues to closure, and implements cost-reduction opportunities. Berens is also the Removable Media focal point for PPP&C in Rochester. She works with the media team and suppliers to help shape the future drives that IBM will use and communicates with project teams to help them understand drive requirements. Berens takes an active role in volunteer efforts by participating on core teams for the IBM Employee Charitable Contribution Campaign and the Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering (EXITE) Camp for 6th-grade girls. She is involved in Engineers Week, MentorPlace, and is president of the New Hire Connect group. She has five patents and five technical publications, has been awarded the title “Early Tenure Innovator” in 2004, and is an active member of the Rochester Hardware Invention Review board.
Cassandra Dugal, a mechanical engineer at the Texas Screw Products in Houston, Texas, helps design the nuts and bolts needed to hold together tools used in the oil field. Beginning her career at Norfolk Southern railroad as a management trainee, Dugal had a range of experiences from driving a train, to building new railroad track, to fixing locomotives. As an Assistant Trainmaster, she worked with a group analyzing the movements of people, trains and railroad cars at a big hump yard, an actual hump on the track that can be used to kick cars off a train to send them onto different tracks for sorting. As a team facilitator at an optical fiber manufacturing plant, Dugal directed technicians making glass canes used to create the core of fiber optic wire through which data is transmitted. At Corning, Dugal became an emergency shift leader at the manufacturing plant in charge of all emergencies including fires, hurricanes, and chemical spills. Currently with Texas Screw Products, a fastener supply company, Dugal reviews client specifications to determine viability and suggested improvements for all kinds of strange screws used in the oil patch. These bolts can include everything from a washer to 1/2" double socket bolts made from A286 and requiring tensile strength of 200 ksi, to precise 1/4" long pan heads that have to be specially machined from Beryllium Copper. Dugal is active in her church and in her community serving as a middle school math tutor and as a volunteer on renovation projects, and is an active member of ASME International and the Society of Women Engineers.
David Youmans, a mechanical engineer with Green Mountain Engineering in San Francisco, California, develops cutting edge clean technologies ranging from solid hydrogen storage to passive solar trackers. While still in school at the University of California San Diego Youmans was part of a student team that designed a cervical traction device for treating patients with ruptured intervertebral disks. The device received a design award and is patent pending. During his first year as a practicing engineer Youmans designed a metal hydride based system for solid hydrogen storage consisting of charging and discharge stations and a transport vessel. He is assisting in the development of a number of prototype solar electric systems, a passive solar tracker, and a process for producing low cost photovoltaic cells. Youmans decided to dedicate his engineering skills to technologies that benefit the world, such as renewable energy. In addition to his work on renewable energy, Youmans helped establish a West Coast presence of Engineers Without Borders, an organization focused on village-based development and the training of a new generation of socially responsible engineers. Youmans assisted in the formation of the West Coast regional structure and a San Francisco professional chapter. Now that the chapter has grown to thirty members it is taking on a water supply project in Tanzania. |
Sameer Kamrudin Bachani
Jessica Berens
Cassandra Dugal
David Youmans
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National Engineers Week Foundation
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