Spotlight on Sadik Kaka and Arunava Majumdar to Become Honorary Members of ASME

Focus on Sadik Kaka and Arunava Majumdar to Become Honorary Members of ASME Focus on Sadik Kaka and Arunava Majumdar to Become Honorary Members of ASME This year, the Society will respect 10 people for their achievements at the ASME Honors Assembly to be hung on the night of Nov. 18, during the 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress Exposition in San Diego, Calif. Two of the honorees, Sadik Kaka and Arunava Majumdar, will be granted ASME Honorary Membership at the service. First granted in 1880, the establishing year of the Society, Honorary Membership perceives a lifetime of administration to building or related fields. Sadik Kaka Sadik Kaka, Ph.D., a recognized researcher and eminent teacher whose vocation traverses over five decades, is being perceived for original and spearheading accomplishments in transient two-stage streams, power devices and smaller scale/nano heat move examination and designing; and for supported commitments to instruction as a coordinator of gatherings and writer of notable course readings on heat move and warmth exchangers. Dr. Kaka an inhabitant of Ankara, Turkey, is a teacher of mechanical designing at TOBB University of Economics and Technology (TOBB ET). Kaka got his Dipl.- Ing. degree in mechanical building from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1955 and later got a grant to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned graduate degrees in mechanical designing and atomic building in 1959 and 1960, separately. He came back to Turkey, where he joined the mechanical building division at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. During his residency at METU, from 1960-1982, he assumed a critical job in building up the college's mechanical designing office into an incredibly famous establishment for heat move examination and applications. The author of warmth move training and exploration at METU, Kaka he built up and coordinated the Heat Technique Research Unit, an examination place supported by TBITAK, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. While at METU, he likewise held various administrative and exploration positions, including board individual from TBITAK, secretary general of the Turkish Atomic Energy Commission, and individual from the NATO Science Committee, the OECD/NEA (Organization for Economic Co-activity and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency) Steering Committee and the Cento Scientific Coordinating Board. Following two years as a meeting educator, Kaka was selected as a full teacher of mechanical building with residency at the University of Miami and filled in as office seat from 1990-1998. In 2008 Kaka became educator emeritus at the University of Miami and joined TOBB ET. An ASME Fellow, Kaka is an individual from the Heat Transfer Division's (HTD) K-16 Committee on Heat Transfer in Electronics, and recently filled in as a part and seat of the Max Jakob Award Committee. He has been associated with different ASME meetings held in Istanbul. Kaka established the ASME Student Section at the TOBB ET and is an individual from the ASME European Section. He got the Society's Heat Transfer Memorial Award in 1997 and HTD's 75th Anniversary Award prior this year. Arunava Majumdar ASME Honorary Membership will likewise be granted to Arunava Majumdar, Ph.D., during the current year's Honors Assembly. Dr. Majumdar, an occupant of Orinda, Calif., and VP for vitality at Google Inc., He is being perceived for spearheading research in small scale and nanoscale heat move; and for recognized help on the Journal of Heat Transfer article board, as the establishing seat of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute, as establishing executive of the U.S. Branch of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agencyâ€"Energy (ARPAâ€"E) and as acting under secretary of vitality. Majumdar is broadly perceived as one of the premier chiefs in vitality development. He has separated himself in research, educating, college and expert assistance, and national help. At Google, Majumdar coordinates Google.org's vitality activities and exhorts the organization on its more extensive vitality procedure. In October 2009, Majumdar was selected by President Barak Obama and affirmed by the Senate to turn into the establishing executive of DOE's ARPAâ€"E, where he served until June 2012. The sole U.S. government organization devoted to transformational vitality innovative work, ARPAâ€"E recognizes and puts resources into inventive undertakings to quickly make new advances. From March 2011 to June 2012, Majumdar additionally filled in as the acting under secretary of vitality and senior guide to the secretary of vitality. Prior to his DOE arrangement, Majumdar was the Almy and Agnes Maynard seat educator of mechanical designing, and materials science and building at the University of California, Berkeley, and the partner research center executive for vitality and condition at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Majumdar, an ASME Fellow, filled in as partner supervisor of the Society's Journal of Heat Transfer from 1998-2001 and establishing seat of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute from 2003-2006. He is the beneficiary of a few ASME grants, remembering the Melville Medal for 1992, the Gustus Larson Memorial Award in 2001 and the Heat Transfer Memorial Awardâ€"Science in 2006. The ASME Honors and Awards program is supported by the ASME Foundation, through the administration of grant gift subsidizes set up by people, enterprises or gatherings. For more data on the 2013 Honors Assembly and every one of the current year's 10 honor beneficiaries, visit www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2013/Honors.cfm.