Professors Ken Cunefare and Mike Leamy were both recently named American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellows.                   

The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements.

Nominated by ASME Members and Fellows, an ASME Member has to have 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of active corporate membership in ASME.

Cunefare began at Tech in 1990 as an assistant professor. Prior he was an F.V. Hunt Postdoctural Fellow at The Technical University of Berlin. Cunefare's research is directed toward controlling and tailoring the sound produced by engineered structures and systems, such as from transformers, motors, and in aircraft and automobile interiors. Cunefare is the professor in charge of the Integrated Acoustics Laboratory, a state-of-the-art acoustics and vibration research facility funded by the Ford Motor Company, the National Science Foundation, and Georgia Tech. This facility is intended to provide educational and research opportunities that span the theoretical, computational, and experimental range of acoustics and vibrations.

Leamy joined Georgia Tech in 2007 as an assistant professor. Prior, he was a Research Scientist in the Emerging Technology Office at the MITRE Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, and an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Leamy has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, and a Research Associate at the NASA Langley Research Center. Leamy's research interests are in emerging and multidisciplinary areas of engineering science, with an emphasis on simulating nonlinear dynamical behavior present in structures and materials. Leamy is also active in applying and extending nonlinear analysis techniques to industry-relevant applications.