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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 57-60

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... , is a retired senior corporate vice president and chairman of Commercial Launch Services, General Dynamics Corporation. His expertise includes aerospace and defense systems and materials.
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... is director of the Center for Advanced Structural and Electronic Polymers, University of Massachusetts. His research activities are concentrated in a number of areas in polymer physics and chemistry: polymerpolymer interactions in binary amorphous and amorphous crystalline blend systems; effects of copolymerization and microstructure; nuclear magnetic resonance studies of polymer solid state, especially blends; computer simulations of polymer-polymer miscibility; quasi-elastic light scattering from macromolecular solutions; electronic and optical properties of conducting polymers; and polyimide systems.
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... Tressler is professor and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. His expertise is in the properties and processing of structural ceramics and ceramic composites, as well as Army and aerospace systems.
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  • includes aerospace
  • innovative materials
  • expertise includes
  • optical properties
  • electronic materials

  • solid state
  • wright aeronautical
  • currently vice
  • boat corporation
  • structural ceramics

  • nuclear magnetic
  • computer simulations
  • commercial reality
  • binary amorphous
  • medical devices

  • navy rear
  • james williams
  • medical device
  • rear admiral
  • crystalline blend

  • materials characterization
  • sandia national
  • federico capasso
  • bell laboratories
  • nasa ames

  • polymer solid
  • mechanical behavior
  • quantum devices
  • julia phillips
  • physical research


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