Title: Engineering Educator (Retired)
Company: The University of Mississippi
Location: Pittsboro, North Carolina
United States
Affiliations/Associations/Societies:
- American Association of University Professors
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Fellow (Chairman, Terrestrial Energy Systems Technical Committee, 1979-1981) (Chairman, Thermophysics Conference, 1975) (Chairman, Thermophysics Technical Committee, 1975-1977) (General Chairman, Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 1979) (National Publication Committee, 1979-1983) (Supernumerary Director, Alabama-Mississippi Section, 1994-2000)
- American Society for Engineering Education (Host and General Chairman, Engineering Deans Institute, 1991)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), (Aerospace Heat Transfer Committee, 1975-2007) (President, Northeast Mississippi Chapter, 1990-1991)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), Pittsburgh, PA (Chairman, Radiative Heat Transfer I and II Sessions, 2000)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), St. Louis, MO (Chairman, Radiation Heat Transfer II Session, 2002)
- Mississippi Engineering Society
- New York Academy of Sciences
- Order of the Engineer (Notable Member)
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Pi Tau Sigma
- Rotary International (1980-2000)
- Sigma Pi
- Sigma Pi Fraternity International
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
- The Tau Beta Pi Association, Inc.
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Achievements:
- Honoree, Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award (2021, 2020, 2017)
- Inductee, Top Professionals of the Year, Marquis Who’s Who (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
- Inductee, Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who (2020)
- Featured Member, Marquis Millennium Magazine, Marquis Who’s Who (2018)
- Inductee, Hall of Fame for Mechanical and Aerospace Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2018)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,” Marquis Who’s Who (2011-2017, 2003-2004, 2000-2001)
- Inductee, Worldwide Lifetime Achievement (2017)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in America,” Marquis Who’s Who (1987-2016)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in the South and Southwest,” Marquis Who’s Who (2002-2016, 1993-1994, 1999-2000)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in the World,” Marquis Who’s Who (2006-2016)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in Finance and Business,” Marquis Who’s Who (2006-2010)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in American Education,” Marquis Who’s Who (2006-2008)
- Recipient, Thermophysics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (1978)
- Recipient, Hermann Oberth Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1984-1985)
- Recipient, Space Shuttle Flag Challenger Plaque, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1984)
- Discovery of anomalous refraction maxima phenomenon
- Scholarship Recipient, Sigma Pi Fraternity International
