Mark Bryden named ASME Fellow

Mark Bryden, mechanical engineering professor and founding program director of the Division of Simulation, Modeling and Decision Science at Ames National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME).

ASME Fellow membership is an honor held by less than 5 percent of all ASME members and conferred on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. To be nominated, individuals must have 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of active corporate membership in the organization.

Bryden’s groundbreaking work and discoveries have been published in more than 180 peer-reviewed articles, and he co-authored the textbook Combustion Engineering. He founded two successful startups based on his research and founded the nonprofit ETHOS, a community of more than 150 researchers focused on energy solutions in the developing world.

In addition, he led teams that received three R&D 100 Awards for virtual reality software that quickly converts data to 3D design models. Called the “Oscars of invention,” the R&D 100 Awards recognize the most promising products, processes and materials introduced to the market the previous year.

Bryden also has three patents, two Regional Excellence in Technology Transfer awards and a National Excellence in Technology Transfer award. In 2013, he and his coauthors received the ASME Melville Medal. This medal was first awarded in 1927 and is the highest honor for the best original technical paper published in the ASME Transactions in the past two years.