Former ASME President Jack Fernandes Dies

Previous ASME President Jack Fernandes Dies Previous ASME President Jack Fernandes Dies Previous ASME President Jack Fernandes Dies John H. (Jack) Fernandes, Sc.D., P.E. John H. (Jack) Fernandes, Sc.D., P.E., a long-lasting individual from ASME who filled in as the Societys 112th president, died March 9 at the Rhode Island Veterans Home in Bristol, R.I. He was 91 years of age. Dr. Fernandes, an occupant of Tiverton, R.I., was utilized as a mechanical specialist for a long time until his retirement in 1999. Subsequent to serving in the U.S. Armed force Air Corps from 1942 to 1946, he filled in as a partner educator of mechanical designing at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., from 1950 to 1960. He at that point joined the staff at Manhattan College in New York as educator and leader of the schools mechanical building division in 1960. He left showing three years after the fact to work for Combustion Engineering in Windsor, Conn. During his 21 years at the organization, he served in various limits, at last holding the situation of senior innovation advisor and executive of innovation move. He at that point worked for the Maguire Group in Providence, R.I., as VP of the vitality division until 1990, when he began his own counseling business. During his over 65 years as an ASME part, Fernandes was a functioning and submitted Society volunteer, especially in the territory of codes and norms. Fernandes, who was an ASME Fellow, filled in as senior VP for the Council on Codes and Standards, VP for the Board on Performance Test Codes, seat of the Performance Test Code Committee on Incinerators, seat of the Board on Hearings and Appeals, and an individual from the Performance Test Code Committees on General Instructions and on Definitions and Values, among different codes-related positions. The leader of ASME from 1993 to 1994, Fernandes filled in as an innovator in territories outside of codes and norms too. He was individual from the Board of Governors from 1988 to 1992 and seat of the Committee on Staff from 1998 to 2003. He additionally filled in as an individual from the Council on Engineering Committee on Technical Planning and the Board on Public Information, and was dynamic in ASMEs Providence Section. He was respected by ASME for his times of administration with two renowned Society Awards: the Codes and Standards Medal (later renamed the Melvin R. Green Codes and Standards Award) in 1988 and the Dedicated Service Award in 1995. Fernandes got a lone wolves degree in mechanical building from the University of Rhode Island in 1949, an experts degree in mechanical designing from Lehigh University in 1953, and a Doctor of Science qualification from Calvin Coolidge College in 1960.