03-10-95 Wagoner & Kouyoumjian Named to NAE

TWO OHIO STATE ENGINEERS ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY

     COLUMBUS -- Two faculty members of The Ohio State University
are among 77 engineers and eight foreign associates elected to
membership this year in the National Academy of Engineering.
Election is the highest honor of the American engineering
profession.

     Robert H. Wagoner of POWELL, professor and chairperson of
the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected
for original and fundamental contributions to the materials,
mechanics and manufacturing aspects of industrial metal forming.

     A Fellow of ASM International, Wagoner works closely with
automotive companies in studying the fundamental and
technological aspects of sheet metal forming.  He studies what
happens to metals when they're bent, compressed, or stretched,
including macroscopic and microscopic aspects of their behavior.
The research is parlayed into design of improved methods of
forming sheet metal parts for the automotive and other
industries.

     Robert G. Kouyoumjian of COLUMBUS (43214), professor
emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was chosen
for his fundamental contributions to the development of the
Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and the analysis and
design of antennas and scatterers.

     This high-frequency, ray method is useful in the analysis
and design of antennas and scatterers.  It is particularly useful
in calculating the radiation patterns of antennas in the presence
of nearby objects and in calculating the radiation from antennas
mounted on aircraft, ships, and buildings.

     Robert M. White, president of the National Academy of
Engineering, noted that induction honors those who have made
important contributions to engineering theory and practice,
including its literature, and those who have demonstrated unusual
accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of
technology.

     Wagoner has been chairman of the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering since 1992.  He joined the Ohio State
faculty in 1983 after six years as a research scientist at the
General Motors Research Laboratories in Warren, Mich.  He is a
director of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, a
trustee of the Edward F. Orton Jr. Ceramics Foundation, and a
charter member of the TMS Foundation.  Wagoner served as director
of the Ohio State Research Foundation from 1991 to 1994.

     Wagoner has received numerous awards for research and
educational activities, including Ohio State's Distinguished
Scholar Award, the Lumley Research Award and Harrison Faculty
Award for Excellence in Engineering, both from the College of
Engineering; the Mathewson Gold Medal and Hardy Gold Medal, both
from the Metallurgical Society; the Presidential Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation; and the
Raymond Memorial Award from the American Institute of Mining,
Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers.

     In addition, he has served as a National Science Foundation
postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, sheet forming
coordinator at the Center for Net Shape Manufacturing at Ohio
State, and maitre de recherche at the Ecole des Mines de Paris,
Sophia Antipolis, France.

     Kouyoumjian joined the Department of Electrical Engineering
in 1954 after graduating from Ohio State a year earlier with a
doctorate in physics.  He retired in 1982, but has remained
active in his department and has been collaborating with
professors at the University of Pisa and the University of Siena
in Italy.  In recent years, his interests have centered on
efforts to extend and improve the theory.

     Kouyoumjian was elected a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1976 and received
the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984.  He received the George
Sinclair Award from the ElectroScience Laboratory in 1989.

     The National Academy of Engineering has 1,790 U.S. members
and 151 foreign associates.

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Contact:  Tom Spring, University Communications, (614) 292-8309.


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