Appendix G
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
ROBERT V. HILLERY, chair, is manager of Airfoil Materials in the Engineering Materials Technology Laboratories at GE Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has a B.Sc. degree in metallurgy and a Ph.D. degree in corrosion science from the University of Manchester. His research interests are in environmental high-temperature oxidation, corrosion-resistant thermal barrier wear, and erosion coatings and their processing.
NEIL BARTLETT is professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He has B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in inorganic chemistry from the University of Durham. He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Society of London, the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the Academy of Science of France. His research concerns fluorine inorganic chemistry, noble gas chemistry, high-energy oxidizers, X-ray crystallography, solid-state chemistry, nonaqueous solvent chemistry, and thermochemistry.
HENRY L. BERNSTEIN is a staff engineer in the Materials and Structures Division and the assistant director of the Electric Power Research Institute's Materials Center for Combustion Turbines at Southwest Research Institute. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has a B.S. degree from Ohio State University, an M.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and a Ph.D. degree in applied mechanics and materials science from the University of Cincinnati. His research concerns gas-turbine durability and life prediction and the mechanical behavior of high-temperature materials. In both of these areas, high-temperature coatings are of key interest.
ROBERT F. DAVIS is a professor of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University. He has a B.S. degree from North Carolina State University, an M.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. degree in ceramic engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in diffusion and high-temperature deformation of ceramic materials, growth and characterization of wide bandgap electronic materials, and ceramic/metal coating deposition and interface adherence.
HERBERT HERMAN is Leading Professor of materials science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has a B.S. degree from De Paul University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgy from Northwestern University. His research interests are in thermal-sprayed protective coatings, intermetallic compounds, metal-and ceramic-matrix composites, fuel cell processing, powder metallurgy and processing, and corrosion protection of transportation and marine structures.
LULU L. HSU is chief of process engineering at Solar Turbines in San Diego, California. She has a B.A. degree from Barat College and an M.S. degree in analytical chemistry from Michigan State University. She has 19 years of experience in the gas-turbine industry with Solar Turbines Incorporated. For 17 of these years she did work in the field of materials engineering, where she was involved in the development, evaluation, and application of hot-section coatings for use in Solar's fleet of industrial gas turbines. During this period, she collaborated with other turbomachinery experts and evolved a comprehensive approach on contaminant ingestion within the context of air, fuel, and water management. Over the years, she was also been involved with providing technical support on engine cleaning, lube oils for turbomachinery, and component repairs, including responsibility for Solar's engineering specifications on the same subjects. In her current role as customer services marketing manager she provides technical and commercial support to Solar's aftermarket product offerings.
WEN L. HSU is a distinguished member of the technical staff and technical coordinator of ultrahard materials for Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. He has a B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute and a Ph.D. degree in astrophysical sciences-plasma physics from Princeton University. His research concerns diamond, ceramic materials, plasma chemical vapor deposition, and chemical vapor deposition reaction kinetics.
JOHN C. MURPHY is a professor in the Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering departments and principle staff physicist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. He has a B.A. degree from the Catholic University
of America and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include microwave-optical double resonance experiments on excitation migration in solids; photocatalysis; elastic wave propagation in soils using electro-optical methods; photoacoustic spectroscopy; electron spin resonance of electrogenerated radical ions in solution; photothermal imaging; thermal and thermoacoustic imaging and spectroscopy; microwave and magnetic properties of solids; metrology; nondestructive evaluation of materials; and near-field imaging of organic conductors and films.
ROBERT A. RAPP is professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Ohio State University. He has a B.S. degree from Purdue University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. His research interests include the oxidation, corrosion, and coating of metals and alloys. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
JEFFERY S. SMITH is manager of surface technology at Howmet's Operhall Research Center. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research interests are superalloy processing and manufacturing methods, superalloy coating process development and performance, high-temperature oxidation and repair technology for engine-run components. He is currently chair of the Manufacturing, Materials, and Metallurgy Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
JOHN STRINGER is technical director of exploratory research at the Electric Power Research Institute. He has B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Liverpool. His research concerns high-temperature oxidation and corrosion of metals and alloys, fossil-fuel burning systems, hot-corrosion of gas turbines, and erosion and erosion/corrosion of metals and alloys.