Dr. Ward Winer will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2007 International Joint Tribology Conference, at the Marriott Mission Valley Hotel in San Diego, CA, October 22-24. His presentation "I was in tribology before tribology was cool" is sure to be a highlight of the conference.
Ward O. Winer is the Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Regents' Professor at Georgia Tech. He received Ph.D.'s from both Cambridge University and the University of Michigan. Dr. Winer began his career at Georgia Tech in 1969 as an associate professor and is internationally known in the fields of tribology, high-pressure rheology, and mechanical systems diagnostics.
He has received numerous awards and distinctions over his career including the Donald E. Wilcock Award, The Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, the Melville Medal, the Mayo D. Hersey Award (on 2 occasions), and Life Fellow distinction from ASME; the Donald E. Marlowe Award, the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, and Fellow distinction from ASEE; and the International Award and Fellow distinction from STLE. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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