Ipri-Brown Begins Term as ASME’s 143 ^rd President,
New Members and Nominees to the Board of Governors Announced

NEW YORK (June 19, 2024) – Susan Ipri-Brown has begun her term as the 143^rd president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society announced during its annual meeting June 4. Ipri-Brown is a Fellow of ASME, has served on the ASME Board of Governors, and has been an active member of the Society for 34 years, including her years as a student member.

Ipri-Brown is a strategic partnership specialist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM), which also serves as the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office for Manufacturing USA. Prior to joining OAM, she served as the associate dean for educational outreach, as founding director of the ExploreHope Academic Outreach Office, and as an associate professor of engineering instruction at Hope College in Holland, Mich. She also served as associate director of the STEM Education Partnerships at Northwestern University, where she directed teacher professional development programs, grant writing, and new program development.    

At ASME, Ipri-Brown has held numerous positions of leadership, including serving on the ASME Board of Governors and the Executive Committee, and as a member of the Public Affairs and Outreach Council.  She served as vice president of the Committee on Government Relations and was named an ASME Federal Fellow and served at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where she fostered strategic partnerships to support technology-based economic development initiatives. She also held the position of vice president of ASME’s Global Outreach and was a member of the Society’s Council on Education.

Ipri-Brown actively encourages the next generation of engineers through STEM programs for area Scout councils along with devoting time as a coach and judge for FIRST robotics programs. Within her work and community, she is a long-time advocate of programs that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the engineering profession.

Ipri-Brown earned her master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University. She is a recipient of the ASME Dedicated Service Award.

In addition, the ASME Board of Governors welcomed the following four individuals who were elected by the ASME membership to a three-year term that ends June 2027:

Nicole Kaufman Dyess, an ASME member, currently works as an independent consultant who helps her clients bring emerging energy technologies to market. Her 24-year career includes strategic program management and product development leadership positions at for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations.

An active ASME volunteer since her undergraduate studies, Dyess recently completed her service as ASME’s senior vice president for student and early career programs. She earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from NC State University and a master’s in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

William P. King, Ph.D., an ASME Fellow, is a professor and the Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. His work focuses on advanced manufacturing, microsystems and nanotechnology, heat transfer, and materials. He is the co-founder of three companies. His most recent company, Fast Radius, was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Lighthouse Factory, one of the world's best digital factories. King was the founding chief technology officer at MxD, one of the first Manufacturing USA Institutes.

King is active in ASME’s Heat Transfer Division, Manufacturing Engineering Division, and Microelectromechanical Engineering Division. He has published 280 journal articles and holds 21 patents. His awards include the PECASE award from the White House, the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award from ASME, and the Ennor Award from ASME. He is an ASME Fellow, as well as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, IEEE, SME International (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), and the National Academy of Inventors. He received a B.S. degree from University of Dayton and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering.

Lester K. Su, Ph.D., an ASME member, is a lecturer in the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University. His areas of expertise are experimental fluid mechanics, thermal sciences, and turbulent flows.

Su previously served as a faculty member in mechanical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the University of Wisconsin. At JHU, he received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, won a Diversity Recognition Award from the university, and received teaching awards from the JHU Alumni Association, school of engineering, and student government association. He also served as an ASME Congressional Fellow in 2000-2001 in the office of Rep. Vernon Ehlers, where he worked on issues including STEM education and funding for basic research in engineering and the sciences.

As an active volunteer with ASME for over 20 years, Su was the senior vice president of the Public Affairs and Outreach Sector and a member of the Philanthropy Committee. Previously, he chaired the Committee on Government Relations and the Federal Fellows selection committee, was an alternate to the Nominating Committee, and was the faculty advisor for the JHU Student Section. While at JHU, he founded an outreach program to introduce middle school girls to engineering that was awarded three ASME Diversity Action Grants.

Su earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from the University of Chicago and did his graduate work at the University of Michigan, where he earned Master of Science degrees in mathematics and engineering and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering. He also did post-doctoral work at the University of Texas and Stanford University.

Janis P. Terpenny, Ph.D., an ASME Fellow, is a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) where she directs the Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) program and works with other related programs focused on integrated digital environments for manufacturing and design. She is also a professor at George Mason University in systems engineering and operations research and in mechanical engineering. Her research focuses on smart integrated manufacturing systems, engineering design, and design education. She has previously served as dean of engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, department head of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Penn State, department chair of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Iowa State, professor of mechanical engineering and engineering education at Virginia Tech, and assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She previously worked for NSF in the Division of Undergraduate Education and in industry for General Electric (GE), including a 2-year rotational management program.