Bhavik R. Bakshi holds a dual appointment as a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, Ohio; and Vice Chancellor and Professor of Energy and Environment at TERI University in New Delhi, India. He is also the Research Director of the Center for Resilience at OSU. From 2006 to 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai, India. He has published more than 100 articles in areas such as process systems engineering and sustainability science and engineering.
Timothy G. Gutowski is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the Director of MIT's Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (1994-2004) and the Associate Department Head of Mechanical Engineering (2001-2005). From 1999 to 2001, he was Chairman of the National Science Foundation's Department of Energy Panel on Environmentally Benign Manufacturing. He is the author of the book Advanced Composites Manufacturing, holds seven patents and patent applications, and has authored more than 150 technical publications.
Duan P. Sekulic is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Sekulic is a Consulting Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China. He is the author of more than 150 research publications, more than a dozen book chapters, and the book Fundamentals of Heat Exchanger Design (jointly with R. K. Shah), which was published in both the United States and China. He is editor of the books Advances in Brazing: Science, Technology and Applications and Handbook of Heat Exchanger Design.