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Mistree received his bachelor’s of technology in naval
architecture, with honors, at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, in 1967. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees
in engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970
and 1974, respectively.
2011 Barnett Uzgiris Product
Safety Award
Design Engineering Division
The award recognizes individuals
who have made significant
contributions to the safe design of
products through teaching, research,
and professional accomplishments.
The award was established as the Triodyne Safety Award
by the Design Engineering Division and operated as a
division award until 2008 when it was elevated to a
Society award and renamed the ASME Barnett-Uzgiris
Product Safety Design Award.
John Vorderbrueggen
US Department of Energy
Biographical Description: Mr. Vorderbrueggen has more
than 35 years of experience in design, process safety, federal
regulatory programs involving worker and public safety,
maintenance management, human factors, quality assurance
and workforce training in industries including chemical,
petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and nuclear and fossil power.
He has extensive experience in fitness-for-service engineering
analyses, incident investigations and management programs
addressing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s
Process Safety Management standard and the Environmental
Protection Agency’s Risk Management Program regulation.
Currently, Vorderbrueggen is a nuclear engineer at the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of the Departmental
Representative to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
(DNFSB) in Washington, D.C. He is responsible for coordinating
between DOE offices and the DNFSB to resolve DNFSBidentified
technical and management issues addressing health,
safety and security relating to the design, construction,
operation and decommissioning of the DOE defense nuclear
facilities.
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AWARDS AND MEMORIAMS
Prior to joining the DOE in April 2011, Vorderbrueggen spent
more than eight years as an investigations supervisor at the U.S.
Chemical Safety Board in Washington, D.C. He managed more
than a dozen major accident investigations at industrial facilities
in the U.S. that involved worker fatalities and toxic chemical
releases into the community. Extensive on-scene activities, the
analysis of physical evidence, and research into the technical,
regulatory and legal issues involved resulted in comprehensive
reports with root causes and recommendations for actions to
prevent similar incidents in the future. He also worked closely
with agency staff to create video animations of the incidents and
the report findings. The videos () are world-renowned for their
effectiveness as training tools throughout industry.
While promoting the application of good engineering practices
through his work at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board,
Vorderbrueggen advocated for the use of ASME codes and
standards in both the government and private sectors to further
public safety. Earlier in his career, Vorderbrueggen worked in the
industrial sector in positions including quality engineer, reliability
test design engineer, engineering supervisor and vice president
of process industries services. He is a frequent public speaker
at technical conferences, stakeholder meeting and public
meetings. He served on the Technical Advisory Committee
(2001-02) for the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at
Texas A&M University, College Station.
Vorderbrueggen earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical
engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo, in 1974. He is a registered professional engineer in
Ohio, Maryland and California.