Two Lab researchers named ASME Fellows

November 10, 2010—Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers Michael Prime of the Advanced Engineering Analysis group and Edward Rodriguez of the Weapons Directorate have been named 2010 Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

The ASME Board of Governors confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize there outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by their peers, the new Fellows have had 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of continuous active corporate membership in ASME.

Prime was cited for his worldwide reputation as an expert in residual stresses and in structural health monitoring. He is particularly known for his invention of the contour method, a groundbreaking but conceptually simple method for determining a cross-sectional map of residual stresses. Prime also has served the profession in numerous roles, from chairing the local ASME section and mentoring students to co-founding the Residual Stress Summit.

Prime received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley

Rodriguez is recognized by the ASME for his more than 30-year career with the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program and the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion and Department of Energy nuclear reactor programs. He also was honored for his "extraordinary contributions as a researcher and administrator." In particular, Rodriguez has contributed to many endeavors in the fields of structural dynamics, computational hydrodynamics, shock and vibration engineering, and explosive blast phenomena. Rodriguez recently received the Outstanding Paper Award for the 2009 ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, and he serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology.

Rodriguez earned a master's degree from the University of Connecticut.

For the full list of 2010 ASME Fellows, see the ASME website.