Committees

The Central States Section conducts some activities through committees, both standing and ad hoc. The composition of the Nominating Committee is dictated by the By-Laws.

TypeNameMembers
StandingCombustion Art Competition (2023)Ya-Ting Liao, Chair (Case Western University)
Standing
(ex officio)
Conduct Review (2022)Robert S. Tranter, Chair (Argonne National Laboratory)
Waruna Kulatilaka (Texas A&M University)
Tonghun Lee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Ramanan Sankaran (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Standing
(one-year terms)
Nominating (2022)Robert S. Tranter, Chair (Argonne National Laboratory)
Timothy J. Jacobs (Texas A&M University)
Waruna Kulatilaka (Texas A&M University)
Ramanan Sankaran (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
StandingOutreach (2022)Kalyan K. Srinivasan, Chair (University of Alabama)
Ya-Ting Liao (Case Western University)
Ramanan Sankaran (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
StandingProgram (2022)Steven F. Son, Chair (Purdue University)
Waruna Kulatilaka, Vice-Chair (acting) (Texas A&M University)
ad hocBy-Laws Revision (2021)Kathleen M. Tacina, Chair (NASA Glenn)
Charles E. Baukal, Jr (The John Zink Company)
Charles E.A. Finney (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Waruna Kulatilaka (Texas A&M University)
ad hocCode of Conduct (2021)Kathleen M. Tacina, Chair (NASA Glenn)
Waruna Kulatilaka (Texas A&M University)
Robert S. Tranter, Chair (Argonne National Laboratory)
ad hocJames E. Peters Student Fellowship (2022)Albert Ratner, Chair (University of Iowa)
William F. Northrop (University of Minnesota)
P. Kelly Senecal (Convergent Science, Inc.)
Kalyan K. Srinivasan (University of Alabama)
ad hocUndergraduate Research Competition (2022)Kalyan K. Srinivasan, Chair (University of Alabama)
Ya-Ting Liao (Case Western University)
Ramanan Sankaran (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)