tion support to further the outstanding efforts of these schools and their students. Hawthorne High School’s (Hawthorne, CA) efforts with Northrop Grumman (Redondo Beach, CA ) and Wheeling High School’s (Wheeling, IL) work with several local companies and SME’s Chicago Chapter 5 are truly inspiring stories of how our members, SME and the Foundation’s efforts change the world.
It has been a year of excellence and one that sets the stage for a great future. 2012 was a good year!
Congratulations to the 2012 Class of SME Fellows
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ix manufacturing leaders have been elected to the 2012 SME College of Fellows. Recipients are recog- nized by their peers and the manufacturing community as key contributors to the social, technical and educational progress of manufacturing.
Dean L. Bartles, PhD, FSME, is vice president of advanced programs and strategic growth for the Ordnance and Tactical Systems Division of General Dynamics Corp. He has served in both domestic and international capaci- ties, with emphasis on manufacturing facility startups, plant management and research and development. Bartles has more than 34 years of management experience, which has included positions with Fairchild Republic Co., General Defense Corp., Olin Ordnance and Primex Technolo- gies. He currently serves as an SME international director. He graduated from Shepherd College with a BS in business ad- ministration, holds a master’s degree in international business from Tampa College, an MBA from Shippensburg University and a doctorate in business administration from Nova South- eastern University. Member Since 2002
Ruxu Du, PhD, FSME, received his master’s from the South China University of Technology in 1983 and his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1989. He has taught in the Univer- sity of Windsor and the University of Miami. Currently, Du is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the director of the Chinese Academy of Science Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Tech- nology and the director of the Institute of Precision Engineering of CUHK. His research area includes design and manufactur- ing (metalforming and machining) as well as robotics. Du has
published more than 300 papers in various academic journals and international conferences. He is also a fellow of the Ameri- can Society of Mechanical Engineers. Member Since 2002
F. Brian Holmes, FSME, CMfgE, is vice president and general manager at Columbia Plastics Ltd. where he is responsible for the overall company performance. During his career, Holmes has overseen the design and construction of a new plant to consolidate two plant operations, and he worked on the development of in- jection-molded wood waste for silvaculture containers, which spun off into a separate company. The president of SME in 2007, Holmes was the founding chair of the fomer Greater Vancouver Chapter 318. In the CanAm section of (the former) Region 7, he held the positions of secretary, chair-elect and chair. From 1987 to 1991, Holmes served as chapter liaison representative and member of the International Membership Council Coordinating Committee. He has been a member of the SME Board Work Group on Governance, the Audit, Bud- get and Finance committees. Holmes received the 1991 SME Award of Merit, the SME Endurance Award and the Joseph A. Siegel Service Award in 1999. Holmes holds an associate degree in engineering technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Member Since 1982
Fritz Klocke, Prof. Dr.-Ing., FSME, studied manufacturing engineering at the TU Berlin, was a research fellow there at the Institute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Technology until 1981 and then as head engineer until 1984, receiving his engineering doctorate in
1982. Klocke worked in industry from 1984 until 1994 at Ernst Winter & Sohn in Hamburg. In 1995, he joined RWTH Aachen as professor of manufacturing engineering technology, and since then, has been chair of manufacturing technology, co- director of the WZL Laboratory for Machine Tools & Production Engineering at the RWTH Aachen and head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen. Klocke was awarded the Otto-Kienzle Memorial Coin in 1985 by the Manu- facturing Engineering University Group. Member Since 2011
Steven Y. Liang, PhD, FSME, is the Morris M. Bryan Jr. professor in mechanical engineering for advanced manufacturing systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering in 1987 from the University of California at Berkeley.