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Ted Anderson, Ph.D., P.E., chief technology officer at Quest   Bruce Chehroudi, Ph.D., is an award-winning engineer/scientist/R&D
        Integrity Group, is a world-renowned expert in fracture mechanics   manager. He has nearly twenty years experience in automotive,
        and fitness-for-service methods. He is the author of a best-selling   aerospace, energy, environment, nanotechnology and medicine. He
        book on fracture mechanics, which has been adopted as a required   has worked at Raytheon STX, Ford, Air Force Research Laboratory,
        text in over 100 universities worldwide. He was instrumental in the   Princeton University, General Motors and NASA. He has been a
        development of the original API 579 Fitness-for-Service document   technical and R&D consultant for organizations such as Honda
        and continues to be active on the joint API/ASME Fitness-for-Service   R&D, Honeywell, NASA, GE, Boeing, TRW, General Motors, Amgen
        Committee. He founded Structural Reliability Technology (SRT) in   and GlaxoSmithKline. Chehroudi earned a Ph.D. in mechanical &
        1995, which was acquired by the Quest Integrity Group in 2007.   aerospace engineering, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton
        Previously, he was a member of the mechanical engineering faculty at   University and was awarded an MS in mechanical engineering
        Texas A&M University. Prior to that he was a senior research engineer   from Southern Methodist University and an MS in economics and
        at The Welding Institute in Cambridge, England. He received a PhD in   management from Swiss Finance Institute. He has more than 150
        metallurgy from the Colorado School of Mines.         publications and patents.

        George Antaki, P.E., Becht Engineering, is internationally recognized   Derrick Chevalier is an internationally acclaimed consultant with
        for his expertise in design, analysis and fitness-for-service evaluation   more than 21 years’ experience who has facilitated hundreds of
        of pressure equipment and piping systems. Antaki is chair of ASME   seminars and workshops throughout the United States, Canada,
        B31 Mechanical Design Committee, chair of ASME III Working Group   Mexico and elsewhere. He has consulted and worked with
        Piping Design, member of the ASME III Subgroup Component Design,   engineers, technical professionals, project managers, and business
        ASME QME and ASME Operation and Maintenance Subgroup Piping.   development executives from a wide range of disciplines and areas,
        He is the author of three textbooks on pressure equipment design   including electrical, mechanical, bridge maintenance, aerospace,
        and integrity evaluation, including Fitness-for-Service for Piping,   transportation, manufacturing, Information technology, bio-chemistry,
        Vessels, and Tanks. Antaki earned his degree in nuclear engineering   pharmaceuticals, nutrition, real estate, finance and accounting.
        from the University of Liege, and was awarded an MS in mechanical
        engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.          Alan Cline, PMP, PMI-ACP, is a consultant and agile iteration coach,
                                                              and president of Carolla Development, a project management
                                                              consulting company. He has been in the software industry for
        Bryan R. Becker, Ph.D., P.E., is a professor and previous chair of the
     INSTRUCTOR PROFILES  Becker is widely published and a fellow of ASME, ASHRAE and   internationally. Cline is currently writing a book on agile practices
                                                              about 35 years. He holds an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
        Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-
                                                              and a Project Management Professional (PMP) credential from the
        Kansas City. He has taught courses in refrigeration, heating and
        air-conditioning, thermal analysis, and computational fluid dynamics.
                                                              PMI. He teaches BA, PM, PMP-prep classes, and ACP-prep classes
        IIR. He has directed the graduate research of master and doctoral
                                                              for those new to agile so that they can deliver software predictably
                                                              with unusually low defect rates. Previously, Cline was the director
        students. He has served on the Research and Technical Committee,
        the Refrigeration Committee, the Technical Activities Committee,
                                                              of Software Engineering for Flairsoft Federal. He was the software
                                                              engineering lead and iteration coach for a $3.3M agile project at
        the Handbook Committee, and the Conferences and Expositions
        Committee. He has also served on ASHRAE Technical Committees
                                                              Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He was a lecturer at Ohio State
                                                              University, and the AVP of Nationwide’s Requirements Center of
        4.2, 4.10, 8.6, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.9 and 11.5. He has chaired TC 10.9,
        TC 11.5 and the Technical Activities Committee.
                                                              Excellence. He earned his MS in physics and BS in mathematics.
        John Blanton is chief consulting engineer, Heat Transfer, for GE
        Energy. With over 30 years’ engineering design and analysis
                                                              Associates, a training and development consulting firm, dedicated
        experience in industrial and aircraft engines with GE Research, GE
                                                              to assist organizations and individuals achieve their highest level
        Aviation and GE Energy, his work has included leadership of industrial
                                                              of performance excellence. Previously he was vice president of
                                                              training and development for Citicorp and also served as manager of
        gas turbine alternative fuels research programs, including industrial   Gary Dichtenberg is the president of Professional Development
        gas turbine compressor design and SCRAMjet propulsion system   management development at Consolidated Edison, where he directed
        studies. For the past 20 years his work has focused on gas turbine   a broad developmental strategy. He is a member of the commercial
        heat transfer and thermal management. He is an active member of   panel of the American Arbitration Association, the Network of
        ASME and AIAA and serves on several IGTI technical committees.  Organizational Development practitioners and the American Society
                                                              for Training and Development. He holds a BA degree in history from
        Robert D. Blevins, Ph.D., is a member of the ASME Special Working   Hofstra University. He holds a M.S in organizational psychology from
        Group on Structural Dynamics and the Pressure Vessel Research   Columbia University and an MSW from Yeshiva University.
        Council’s Committee on Dynamic Analysis of Pressure Components.
        Blevins has more than 25 years’ experience in flow-induced vibration.   Paul Drake developed the successful application of Six Sigma
        Having earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, he   mechanical processes at Raytheon Systems Company, where he
        is a frequent consultant to government and industry. Blevins is the   co-managed the Mechanical Tolerancing and Performance Sigma
        author of three books and over 30 papers on fluid flow, structural   Center for Excellence. Drake is an ASME certified senior level
        dynamics and flow-induced vibration.                  geometric dimensioning and tolerancing professional, a registered
                                                              professional engineer and has earned a Six Sigma black belt.
        Greg W. Brown, Ph.D., is principal consulting engineer and general
        manager of Advanced Engineering for the Quest Integrity Group. In   Philip D. Flenner, P.E., has spent nearly 40 years in welding
        2001, he joined Ted Anderson at Structural Reliability Technology,   qualifications and training, engineering training, power plant
        which later became part of Quest Integrity Group. Previously, he   maintenance and performance assessment. He has developed
        developed algorithms to update industrial finite element models   several guidelines on material control, repair methods and the use
        using experimental measurements and performed flutter analyses   of codes and standards for the power industry. He participates
        of F16 and F18 fighter aircraft. Anderson, Brown and the engineers   significantly on several piping codes, welding qualification codes and
        at Structural Reliability Technology performed much of the work that   materials codes, and has gained the honor of being named an ASME
        was incorporated into API 579. He currently performs computational   fellow. Flenner has participated in industry research on the effects
        mechanics and CFD analyses, specializing in litigation and failure   of PWHT on ASME materials, and has played significant roles in
        analysis. His group performs Fitness-for-Service assessments for a   sponsoring changes in ASME Code requirements covering preheating
        variety of industries using API 579. Brown also develops specialized   and PWHT.
        software and methodologies for structural analysis and life assessment.
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