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Ravi Rangan
Centric Software, Inc.
2011 CIE Distinguished
Service Award
Computers & Information in
Engineering Division
In recognition of distinguished
service for the Computers and
Information in Engineering Division
of ASME.
Biographical Description: As the chief technical officer of
Centric Software Inc., Ravi Rangan brings real-world PLM
implementation experience in enterprise scale product
structure/configuration management, search-based applications
and process-driven system integration/design automation in the
automotive, aerospace, high technology and medical device
industries, where he holds several U.S. patents. He is currently
responsible for deploying Centric’s PLM systems into emerging
markets such as systems engineering, consumer goods, apparel
and high-fashion, with a focus on rapidly deployable and affordable
PLM deployments that emphasize fine-grain life cycle support,
domain level configurability and low cost of ownership. Ravi was
the CTO of Product Sight Corporation (acquired by Centric
Software, Inc. in 2005), a company he co-founded to address
process-aware product lifecycle applications for the PLM market.
He previously served as a world-wide corporate director for
SDRC’s ExperTeam program (now Siemens PLM), and worked as
the Founding Technical Director of SDRC’s Enterprise Solution
Center and onsite Metaphase solution architect with The Boeing
Company’s DCAC/MRM business process reengineering initiative,
where he consulted and contributed to various business process/IT
architecture teams and provided leadership to the architecture,
design, and implementation phases of the program. Rangan has
published extensively, and organized symposia, panels and
tutorials in the areas of business process modeling, systems
architecture, design automation, and information/knowledge
management. He has served on the Executive Steering Committee
of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) CIE Division,
the Engineering Database Program, and is a founding member
and currently Advisory Board Member of the ASME’s Journal of
Computing and Information Science in Engineering editorial board,
and a reviewer for several other journals. Ravi completed his Ph.D.
in mechanical engineering, with a specialty in engineering
information management, from Georgia Tech in 1990; an M.S. from
the University of Wyoming and a B.E. from M.S. University of
Baroda, India.
Ravi was inducted to the Academy of Distinguished Engineers
at Georgia Tech. in 2008, and received a Best Paper Award at
the ASME CIE-EDBP Conference in 1990, and numerous
awards from companies for contributions to their global PLM
projects. He set up the Robert E. Fulton Best Paper Award for
the ASME CIE Division to honor the contributions of Dr. Bob
Fulton, the founder of EDBP.
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Shorya Awtar
University of Michigan
AWARDS AND MEMORIAMS
2011 Leonardo Da Vinci Award
Design Engineering Division
The award recognizes an individual
for eminent achievements in the
design or invention of a product
which is universally recognized as an
important advance in machine
design.
Biographical Description: Shorya Awtar, Sc.D. is an
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). He received his undergraduate
degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India)
and graduate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(Troy, NY) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Cambridge, MA). Prior to joining the University of Michigan,
Shorya worked at the General Electric Global Research Center
(Niskayuna, NY) and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (Gaithersburg, MD).
Shorya's engineering and research interests lie in machine
design, flexure mechanisms, precision engineering, and
mechatronic systems. He is currently working on large-range
nanopositioning systems for metrology and manufacturing
applications, MEMS actuators and sensors, high-dexterity
minimally invasive surgical tools, and kinetic energy harvesting
devices. He has published several dozen conference and
journal articles and has more than two dozen inventions that
are patented or patent-pending. Shorya is also the co-founder
of two startup companies – FlexDex Inc. and HiPERNaP LLC.
He has received the National Science Foundation's CAREER
Award, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' Outstanding
Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, and the Research and
Development magazine's R&D100 Award, among others, for
his contributions to machine and mechanism design.