In Memoriam: John Eldon (Jack) Renaud

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John Eldon (Jack) Renaud, Ph.D., P.E., of Niles, Michigan, passed away on March 18, 2011, at the age of 50. Jack had a distinguished career in industry and academia, and he was an active and enthusiastic supporter of ASME. He graduated with a BSME in 1982 from the University of Maine at Orono. He then worked 5 years as a manufacturing systems design engineer at the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. He returned to graduate school, earning M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jack joined the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1992 as the Clark Equipment Assistant Professor. He received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and Professor in 2002. In 2008, Dr. Renaud was appointed as Department Chair.