Paul J. Torpey
Paul J. Torpey (born c. 1937) is an American mechanical engineer and former executive at ESEERCO research cooperation, who served as 113th president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1994-95.[1]
Biography
Torpey graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1955. Next. he studied mechanical engineering at Columbia University, where he obtained his BSc in 1959, and his MSc in 1960.[2]
After his graduation in 1960 Torpey started his career at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. (Bell Labs) in New Jersey.[3] In 1970 he joined Consolidated Edison, where he became research manager/director of the first electric utility research departments he helped to establish. He was also cofounder of the Empire State Electric Energy Research Corp (ESEERCO), which coordinated the research by New York State's electric utilities. He served as its administrator from 1974 to 1976, and was executive director from 1988[4] to his retirement in 1999.[2]
In the year 1994-95 Torpey served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2012 Torpey was elected Honorary ASME Member for his "outstanding leadership in the electric utility research field that significantly advanced modern power systems, and for enlightened and insightful activities in engineering societies that improved the quality of the profession."[2]
Selected publications
- Torpey, P. J., "Noise control of emergency power generating equipment." Amer. Ind. Hyg. Ass., J. 30, 596 (1969).
- Paul J. Torpey. "Establishing the longitudinal temperature distribution for fully developed turbulent flow in a gas turbine exhaust duct," Conference Paper, in: Papers, ASME, The Society, 1970. p. 81-89
- Torpey, P. J. "Mini computerizing analog data collection." Control Eng. 17(6), 69, June 1970.
- Torpey, Paul J. "Collaborative R&D Helps Companies Stay Productive," Mechanical Engineering-CIME, Vol. 116, No. 10. (October 1994)
References
External links
- Honorary Membership Recipient Paul J. Torpey, May 2012 by ASME
