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William K. (Ken) Sowder, Ph.D., is a senior consultant to the nuclear David Thornton, P.E., principal engineer and technical advisor, Equity
industry. He works with manufacturers and suppliers to develop Engineering Group, has over 35 years’ experience as a specialist
management systems which meet the requirements of codes and in pressure vessel, piping, and tank design/analysis. He is both an
standards such as ASME NQA-1-2008, ISO 9001: 2008 and IAEA owner-user, and a consultant, providing engineering support to
GS-R-3. Sowder worked for the ITER Project on-site in France from refineries and chemical plants worldwide. Currently with the Equity
2004–2007 as responsible officer and division head for ITER Quality Engineering Group, his work has included mechanical engineering
Assurance, and from 2008–2009 as expert contractor reporting to quality control for a $500 million clean fuels expansion of a Middle
the ITER’s director general and deputy director general of safety and East refinery, FFS evaluations, fracture mechanics evaluations, high
security. He helped develop the ITER interfaces with international temperature creep analysis and life assessment, fatigue, structural
organizations such as IAEA, JSME and ISO. In addition, he works with reliability and risk assessment, etc. He is also responsible for training
code and standard writing organizations such as ASME, JSME and engineers and inspectors in API Fitness-For-Service API 579-1/ASME
IAEA. He is a member of Section III Committees, NQA-1 Committees, FFS-1, Pressure Vessel Design, and Piping Design and Analysis.
the ISO 9001 TC 176 US TAG and is an ASME BNCS member. Thornton serves as a member of the joint API/ASME technical
committee responsible for the development of FFS assessment
Walter J. Sperko, P.E., is president of Sperko Engineering Services, techniques. He earned his BS in civil engineering at Drexel University
Inc., a consulting firm specializing in metal fabrication technology. He and his MS in theoretical and applied mechanics at Cornell University.
is chair of ASME Standards Committee IX and a member of several
of its subgroups; a member of ASME Standards Committee III and its Randy Wacker, P.E., has over 35 years’ experience in the design,
Subgroup on Materials, Fabrication and Examination; a member of the specification, maintenance and troubleshooting of process
ASME B31 Standards Committee; and past chair of AWS International equipment. This includes working in various capacities for 20 years
Standards Activities Committee, which represents the US at meetings in three DuPont Petrochemical Plants, plus an additional 13 years
of ISO/TC44, Welding and Allied Processes and a member of AWS as a consultant in the DuPont Engineering Technology, Process
Technical Activities Committee. He is a professional engineer Equipment Group. Wacker is currently the senior consultant for
registered in several states and holds five US patents. Inertech, Inc., where he specifies leak-tight gasket solutions for
bolted flange connections and various types of process equipment.
C. (Raj) Sundararajan has spent more than 25 years analyzing and He is a committee member of the ASME Special Working Group
designing mechanical components, equipment, piping, and structures for Bolted Flange Connections, ASTM F03 on Gaskets, and the
subjected to dynamic forces. Currently president of EDA Consultants, SAE AMS Aerospace G9 Committee on Sealing. Wacker is also a
he has held senior technical positions at an architect-engineering founding member of the Task Group that developed the ASME Bolting
company, an equipment vendor and a consulting firm. The author of Specialist Qualification Program, the author of ASME PVP 2008-61410,
more than 50 technical papers and reports, Sundararajan received and has recently published five magazine articles discussing bolted
the ASME Best Paper Award in 1986. flange connections.

Rick Swayne is a senior consultant with Reedy Engineering. He Ed Wilcox is a staff machinery engineer with the Energy Technology
has worked in many different areas of the nuclear power industry Company (ETC) of Chevron. Previously he worked for Conoco INSTRUCTOR PROFILES
for over 20 years. Swayne has experience in design, fabrication, and Lyondell Chemical as a machinery engineer. He has a BS in
quality assurance, inservice inspection, and repair, replacement and mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and
modification activities. a BS from Oklahoma State University. Wilcox is a Vibration Institute
category IV vibration specialist and a registered professional engineer
John P. Swezy, Jr., has over 35 years’ experience in steam and in Oklahoma.
combustion driven prime mover electrical generation plants and
associated engineering auxiliary systems, and over 20 years’ in Bob Wilson is an engineering consultant with TWD Technologies
developing and implementing detailed procedures, work instructions, in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and former engineering professor
and QC programs for design, welded fabrication, repairs, and at Sheridan College. He is a member of the B31.1 Power Piping
alterations of pressure equipment following ASME, B31, NBIC, API, Section Sub Group on Design. Wilson has taught piping design and
DOT and various International codes and standards. He also has engineering courses for 30 years. He has been involved with the
extensive experience in the area of nondestructive examination. design, analysis, layout and support of piping systems since 1963,
Swezy has been a member of various ASME codes and standards with petrochemical, power, steel, mining and processing companies in
committees since 1996. He is a National Board commissioned boiler North America and Europe and is currently working as a piping stress
and pressure vessel inspector and an American Welding Society engineer with experience in Caesar II, Caepipe and Autopipe analysis
certified welding inspector (CWI). He is recognized for his expertise programs. Wilson is the author of Detail Engineering and Layout of
with the ASME Code rules of Section VIII, Divisions 1 and 2 as they Piping Systems and is former chair of ASME’s Ontario Section.
apply to toughness, fabrication, and examination of pressure vessels.
He is past chair of the Subgroup on Toughness, newly elected as chair Andrew Wolosik is the piping lead designer with Teng & Associates
of the Subgroup on Fabrication and Examination, and member of the in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He has over 14 years’ experience in
Standards Committee for Pressure Vessels. He is also a member of the oil and gas refining and petrochemical industries. He has worked
the Standards Committee for Welding, Brazing, and Fusing; the ASME for world class EPCM companies, such as Bechtel/Bantrel and AMEC,
B31 Piping Standards Committee; and is chair of the B31 Fabrication where he has been involved in plant layout for large to small projects,
and Examination Technical Committee. Swezy was presented the including assignments in the United Kingdom and China. Wolosik has
ASME Dedicated Service Award in 2013. extensive experience in CAD coordination, estimating, 3D modeling,
plant layout and 3D model design reviews, and has worked with and
managed Autoplant and PDS software systems. Additionally, he is Six
Sigma certified.
Carl Zweben, Ph.D., has over 40 years’ commercial and aerospace
experience in composite materials technology. He pioneered a
wide range of commercial and aerospace composite applications,
including machine components, thermal management, micoelectronic
and optoelectronic packaging, spacecraft and aircraft structures,
automobiles, wind turbines, pressure vessels and weapon systems.

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