Portonovo Ayyaswamy Honorary Member

Portonovo Ayyaswamy Honorary Member Portonovo Ayyaswamy Honorary Member Portonovo Ayyaswamy, 2018 ASME Honorary MemberPortonovo Ayyaswamy, Ph.D., the Asa Whitney professor of dynamical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is honored for exceptional contributions to mechanical engineering through a career marked with seminal and groundbreaking research scholarship, which has engendered transformational technology transfer for diverse applications and for exemplary professional service to the worldwide scientific and practicing thermal engineering community.Dr. Ayyaswamy has been a member of the faculty at UPenn since 1974. He is world renowned for contributions to diverse areas of multiscale and multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer. His seminal contributions to transport with moving droplets/bubbles have had an extraordinary impact on both fundamental understanding and the development of novel devices. Other contribution areas include biofluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer ionized arc plasma heat transfer capillary flows buoyancy flows in tilted cavities the thermal design of nuclear reactors and targeted drug delivery using nanocarriers.He has published more than 200 archival papers and technical reports, and given numerous keynote and invited lectures. Dr. Ayyaswamy holds two patents.An ASME Fellow, Dr. Ayyaswamy has been serving as editor of the Journal of Heat Transfer since 2016. He received the Societys Heat Transfer Memorial AwardScience in 2001 and Worcester Reed Warner Medal in 2007. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Max Jakob Memorial Award from ASME and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.Dr. Ayyaswamy is a member of the American Nuclear Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.Among his honors, two sessions at the 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, held in Boston in 2014, were designated as P. Ayyaswamy birthday tribute s.Dr. Ayyaswamy earned masters degrees in science and engineering from Columbia University in New York in 1965 and 1967, respectively. In 1971 he earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.Video profile produced and written by Roger Torda and edited by Juan Yepes. The copyright of this program is owned by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

7 Science-Backed Secrets for Achieving Success in Life

7 Science-Backed Secrets for Achieving Success in Life7 Science-Backed Secrets for Achieving Success in LifeSuccess is a subjective notion, if there ever was one. But for simplicitys sake, lets assume the higher you are on Maslows hierarchy of needs, the better youre doing. In case you dont remember the levels from Psych 101, essentially, people cant be their best possible selves (self-actualization) until lower-level needs are met first. In other words, you cant be an iabsprache version of yourself if you dont have enough food and money to pay the bills, or enough love and esteem to feel good about your value as a human being. So, what can you do to move yourself up the pyramid?Check out the findings from several studies, which shine a light on what it takes to achieve more in life.1. Increase Your Confidence by Taking ActionKatty Kay and Claire Shipman, authors of The Confidence Code, wrote a stellar article for The Atlantic on this subject. Highlighting scads of studies that have found that a wide confidence gap exists between the sexes, they point out that success is just as dependent on confidence as it is on competence. Their conclusion? Low confidence results in inaction. Taking action bolsters ones belief in ones ability to succeed, they write. So confidence accumulates- through hard work, through success, and even through failure.2. Broaden Your Definition of AuthenticityAuthenticity is a much sought-after leadership trait, with the prevailing idea being that the best leaders are those who self-disclose, who are true to themselves, and who make decisions based on their values. Yet in a recent Harvard Business Review article titled The Authenticity Paradox, Insead professor herbeiminia Ibarra discusses interesting research on the subject and tells the cautionary tale of a newly promoted general manager who admitted to subordinates that she felt scared in her expanded role, asking them to help her succeed. Her candor backfired, Ibarra writes. She lost cr edibility with people who wanted and needed a confident leader to take charge. So know this Play-acting to emulate the qualities of successful leaders doesnt make you a fake. It merely means youre a work in progress.3. Improve Your Social SkillsAccording to research by University of California Santa Barbara economist Catherine Weinberger, the most successful business people excel in both cognitive ability and social skills, something that hasnt always been true. She crunched data linking adolescent skills in 1972 and 1992 with adult outcomes, and found that in 1980, having both skills didnt correlate with better success, whereas today the combination does. The people who are both smart and socially adept earn more in todays workforce than similarly endowed workers in 1980, she says.4. Train Yourself to Delay GratificationThe classic Marshmallow Experiment of 1972 involved placing a marshmallow in front of a young child, with the promise of a second marshmallow if he or she could ref rain from eating the squishy blob while a researcher stepped out of the room for 15 minutes. Follow-up studies over the next 40 years found that the children who were able to resist the temptation to eat the marshmallow grew up to be people with better social skills, higher test scores, and lower incidence of substance abuse. They also turned out to be less obese and better able to deal with stress. But how to improve your ability to delay things like eating junk food when healthy alternatives arent available, or to remain on the treadmill when youd rather just stop?Writer James Clear suggests starting small, choosing one thing to improve incrementally every day, and committing to not pushing off things that take less than two minutes to do, such as washing the dishes after a meal or eating a piece of fruit to work toward the goal of eating healthier. Committing to doing something every single day works too. Top performers in every field- athletes, musicians, CEOs, artists- they are all more consistent than their peers, he writes. They show up and deliver day after day while everyone else gets bogged down with the urgencies of daily life and fights a constant battle between procrastination and motivation.5. Demonstrate Passion and Perseverance for Long-Term GoalsPsychologist Angela Duckworth has spent years studying kids and adults and found that one characteristic is a significant predictor of success grit. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality, she said in a TED talk on the subject. Grit is living life like its a marathon, not a sprint.6. Embrace a Growth MindsetAccording to research conducted by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, how people view their personality affects their capacity for happiness and success. Those with a fixed mindset believe things like character, intelligence, and creativity are unch angeable, and avoiding failure is a way of proving skill and smarts. People with a growth mindset, however, see failure as a way to grow and therefore embrace challenges, persevere against setbacks, learn from criticism, and reach higher levels of achievement. Do people with this mindset believe that anyone can be anything, that anyone with proper motivation or education can become Einstein or Beethoven? No, but they believe that a persons true befhigung is unknown (and unknowable) that its impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training, she writes.7. Invest in Your RelationshipsAfter following the lives of 268 Harvard undergraduate males from the classes of 1938 to 1940 for decades, psychiatrist George Vaillant concluded something you probably already know Love is the key to happiness. Even if a man succeeded in work, amassed piles of money, and experienced good health, without loving relationships he wouldnt be happy, Vaillant found. The l ongitudinal study showed happiness depends on two things One is love, he wrote. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away.More From Inc.How to Instantly Click With Everyone You Meet10 Best Ways to Start a CompanyHow to Beat Your Competition With LovePhoto of escalator courtesy of Shutterstock.

Air Force Crew Chief (Tactical Aircraft Maintenance)

Air Force Crew Chief (Tactical Aircraft Maintenance)Air Force Crew Chief (Tactical Aircraft Maintenance)Duties and Responsibilities As you can imagine, keeping an aircraft worth hundreds of millions of dollars in tip-top shape is a complex process. Serious teamwork between airmen in several different Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) is vital to make it happen. In that group, the tactical aircraft maintainers are commonly known as crew chiefs because theyre generalists who coordinate the aircrafts care and call in the specialists (like avionics or propulsion technicians) when they find a problem. In other words, if the jet were a patient in a hospital, the crew chief would be his primary doctor, coordinating with specialists in radiology, psychology, and the like as needed. The Air Force Enlisted Classification Manual (PDF) describes the crew chiefs duties in four broad areas Day-to-day maintenance, including end-of-runway, postflight, preflight, thru-flight, special inspections and phase inspections.Diagnosing malfunctions and replacing components.Detailed inspection, record-keeping, and administration.Supervision and coordination of aircraft care, as well as such varied duties as crew chief, repair and reclamation, and . . . crash recovery duties. Military Requirements Like most other technicians, crew chiefs need to have a normal color vision to get the job. They must also pass a background check with eligibility for a secret security clearance. Air Force recruiting literature recommends anyone interested in aircraft, electronics, computer science, engineering, maintenance, and repair, or physics may find this career engaging. But regardless of their interests, before enlisting, recruits must graduate high school and pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) with a qualifying Air Force mechanical score of 47 or higher. Education Day one in the Air Force begins, for everyone, with basic training at Lackland Air Force Base Texas. Airm en contracted as crew chiefs stay on in Texas, at least anfangsbuchstabely, for technical school at Sheppard Air Force Base. Its hard to say how long the rest of a crew chiefs initial schooling takes. This official fact sheet 404 from the Air Force claims initial training at Sheppard lasts close to three months, though that probably wont include training on a specific aircraft. See, its up to the Air Force which aircraft a particular crew chief will train to work on, so if youve got your eye on a favorite, you may be out of luck. After learning basic principles, airmen may be assigned to specialize in maintenance of such craft as F-15 or F-16 fighter jets, the A-10 Thunderbolt, training aircraft, helicopters, the U-2 reconnaissance plane (not the band) or the one thats set to replace most other jets, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Where and how long a crew chief trains depends on which craft the Air Force assigns. Those assigned to work on F-16 fighter jets, for example, move on to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona to finish training. In a 2009 public affairs article, Captain Kimberly Hollenback then commander of the training program at Luke described an F-16 crew chiefs schooling as four months at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, and one month at Luke, where final training consists of a short 20-day program, mostly outside the classroom. Alternately, Airmen destined to work on the (relatively) new F-35 may find themselves concluding training at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. But, again, course length may vary. Certifications and Career Outlook With additional training and testing, the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) Credentialing and Education Research Tool (CERT) tells us crew chiefs may want to look into some of these professional certifications to bolster their resume FAA-Certified Airframe or Powerplant MechanicCertified Aerospace Technician Certified ManagerCertified Production Technician CCAF also offers an Airframe and Powerplant Certific ation Program that helps airmen get FAA certification using on-the-job experience and online courses. Following a career in the Air Force, crew chiefs may work as aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics or technicians, though the Bureau of Labor and Statistics predicts that field will grow slower than average through 2020. This may be one of those fields where, if you enjoy the military, a 20-year hitch to retirement isnt such a bad idea.