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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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