Arthur G. Erdman University of Minnesota Arthur G. Erdman, P.E., is the Richard C. Jordan Professor and a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, specializing in mechanical design, bioengineering and product design. In July 2007 he was selected as the Director of the Medical Devices Center at the U of M and is also the Co-Editor of the ASME Journal of Medical Devices. He received his BS degree at Rutgers University, his MS and Ph.D. at RPI. Dr. Erdman has published over 350 technical papers, 3 books, holds 35 patents (plus 10 pending), and shares with his former students 9 Best Paper Awards at international conferences. Dr. Erdman currently has a number of ongoing projects of which many are related to biomedical engineering and medical device design. He led the effort to create LINCAGES, a mechanism software design package that has been use worldwide. Dr. Erdman has had research collaborations with faculty in Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Cardiology, Urology, Orthopedics, Surgery, Dentistry, Otolaryngology and Sport Biomechanics. He has consulted at over 50 companies in mechanical, biomedical and product design, including Xerox, 3M, Andersen Windows, Proctor and Gamble, HP, Rollerblade, Sulzer Medica, St. Jude Medical and Yamaha. He has received a number of awards including ASME Machine Design Award and the ASME Outstanding Design Educator Award. Erdman is a Fellow of ASME and a Founding Fellow of AIMBE. Dr. Erdman has served as chair of the Publications committee, the Design Division and the Bioengineering Divisions of ASME. He has also been the Chair of ten Design of Medical Devices Conferences which are held next to the University of Minnesota each April.
		Douglas B. Kothe Oak Ridge National Laboratory Douglas B. Kothe currently serves as the Director of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, which is a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Doug conducted his PhD research at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from 1985-1987 as a Graduate Research Assistant, where he developed the models and algorithms for a particle-in-cell application designed to simulate the hydrodynamically unstable implosion of inertial confinement fusion targets. He joined the Technical Staff at LANL in 1988 in the Fluid Dynamics Group (T-3), and worked in a variety of Technical and Management positions at LANL until 2006, when he joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as Director of Science in the National Center of Computational Sciences Doug's research interests and expertise is focused on development of physical models and numerical algorithms for the simulation of a wide variety of physical processes in the presence of incompressible and compressible fluid flow. A notable contribution is his development of methods for flows possessing interfaces having surface tension, especially free surfaces. Another has been the development and application of an advanced casting/welding simulation tool (known as "Truchas") for the U.S. Department of Energy Complex. Doug has authored over 60 refereed and invited publications and written over one-half million lines of scientific source code Doug graduated in 1983 with a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri - Columbia, followed by his MS and PhD in Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University in 1986 and 1987, respectively
		William L. Oberkampf Sandia National Laboratories William L. Oberkampf received his PhD in 1970 from the University of Notre Dame in Aerospace Engineering. He has 41 years of experience in research and development in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, flight dynamics, and solid mechanics. He served on the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin from 1970 to 1979. From 1979 until 2007 he worked in both staff and management positions at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During his career he has been deeply involved in both computational simulation and experimental activities. During the last 20 years he has been focused on verification, validation, uncertainty quantification, and risk analyses in modeling and simulation. He retired from Sandia as Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has over 160 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and technical reports, and has taught 35 short courses in the field of verification and validation. He recently co-authored, with Christopher Roy, the book "Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing" published by Cambridge University Press.
		Patrick J. Roache Consultant Dr. Patrick J. Roache's primary area of expertise is in the numerical solution of partial differential equations, particularly those of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and electrodynamics, with special interest in Verification and Validation. He is the author of the original (1972) CFD book Computational Fluid Dynamics (translated into Japanese, Russian, and Chinese), the monograph Elliptic Marching Methods and Domain Decomposition (1995), the widely referenced Verification and Validation in Computational Science and Engineering (1995), the successor to the original CFD book Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics (1995), the successor to the original V&V book Fundamentals of Verification and Validation (2009), and the booklet A Defense of Computational Physic (2012). Dr. Roache served as Associate Editor for Numerical Methods for the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering from 1985 to 1988, and co-authored that journal's innovative Policy Statement on the Control of Numerical Accuracy. He also chaired the AIAA Fluid Dynamics subcommittee on Publication Standards for Computational Fluid Dynamics which produced the original AIAA Policy Statements on Numerical Accuracy. He co-edited an ASME symposium proceedings on Quantification of Uncertainty in CFD, wrote a chapter on that subject for Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, and co-authored a Chapter on V&V in the Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer, 2nd Edition. He has taught eleven short courses (six for AIAA) on Verification and Validation. Committee work and publications on Verification and Validation include ASCE Free Surface Flow Model Verifications, and ASME Committees on V&V in Computational Solid Mechanics (V&V 10), V&V in Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (V&V 20), and the newly formed V&V in Computational Nuclear System Thermal Fluids Behavior (V& 30). Both V&V 10 and V&V 20 have resulted in ASME publications accepted as ANSI Standards. He has served on the Advisory Editorial Board of six international journals and on several Review Boards and Committees. He has received career awards from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Notre Dame, and the ASME Knapp Award. With Prof. S. Steinberg, he pioneered the use of computer Artificial Intelligence (Symbolic Manipulation) in CFD and variational grid generation. He has served as Adjunct Faculty and Visiting Professor in engineering and mathematics at six universities Dr. Roache is a Fellow of the ASME and Associate Fellow of AIAA. He received his Ph.D. (1967) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. For full resume, visit www.hermosa-pub.com/hermosa.