ENERGY TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING CENTER (1980 to Present)

Dr. Faulders is a Project Engineer for the Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Loan Guarantee Program, with responsibility for technical monitoring of the Ormesa Geothermal Power Plant now under construction. He was also responsible for monitoring the Niland Geothermal Project prior to termination thereof in mid-1985. His effort includes evaluations of project management, engineering design and construction, wellfield development and project economics. He manages subcontractors, as required, to provide financial, reservoir engineering and other specialized consulting services.

He previously managed ETEC's technical monitoring effort on the Superior Oil Company Cooperative Agreement with the DOE for design of a surface oil shale demonstration plant. He also assisted in monitoring the management elements of the project including cost and schedule control procedures and methods of reporting. Subsequent to the Superior project, which ran from mid-1980 to mid-1983, he participated in a technical assistance task for the Laramie Project Office of the DOE.

ENERGY SYSTEMS GROUP (1976-1980)

Dr. Faulders was a member of the marketing group from 1977 to 1980 and was responsible for marketing plans, customer contacts and preparation of proposals for fossil energy systems, including coal gasification and liquefaction, and for marketing tasks for ESG geothermal programs. Earlier he was Project Manager for industrial energy conservation programs.

SPACE DIVISION (1954-1976)

Dr. Faulders was a Project Engineer for Energy Programs from 1973 to 1976. Previous assignments included Manager of Flight Sciences and Manager of Systems Engineering, Research and Engineering; Manager of Flight Sciences, Paraglider Program; and Supervisor of Aerothermodynamics, Navaho and advanced missile programs. From 1960 to 1962 he served on the faculty of the Universite d'Aix - Marseille, France, while on leave from the Division.

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1948 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.M. in Mechanical Engineering, 1950 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.E., 1951
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sc.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 1954 Professional Engineering Registration, California (M015979)

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. "An Interferometric Investigation of the Flow Through a Cascade of Turbine Nozzle Blades," ASME Paper 52-SA-36, (Presented at ASME Semi-Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1952)

2. "An Interferometric Study of the Boundary Layer on a Turbine Nozzle Blade," ASME Transactions, Vol. 76, No. 1, January 1954, pp 61-69, (Presented at ASME Spring Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, April 28-30, 1953)

3. "Aerodynamic Design of Vaned Diffusers for Centrifugal Compressors," ASME Paper 56-A-213, (Presented at ASME Annual Meeting, New York, New York, November 25-30, 1956)

4. "The Application of Physics to High-Speed Flight," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 48, No. 3, December 1957, pp 201-209, (Presented at 65th Annua! Meeting of the ASEE, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 19, 1957)

5. "Low-Thrust Rocket Steering Program for Minimum Time Transfer Between Planetary Orbits," SAE Paper No. 88a, (Presented at SAE National Aeronautic Meeting, Los Angeles, California, September 29 - October 4, 1958)

6. "Optimum Thrust Programming of Electrically Powered Rocket Vehicles in a Gravitational Field," ARS Journal, October I960, pp 954-960

7. "Reynolds-Analogy Parameter for the Laminar Boundary Layer with Blowing, Pr = 3/4," Journal of the Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 8, August I960

8. "A Note on Laminar Boundary-Layer Skin Friction Under the Influence of Foreign-Gas Injection," Journal of the Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 28, No. 2, February 1961

9. "Minimum-Time Steering Programs for Orbiter Transfer with Low-Thrust Rockets," Astronautica Acta, Vol. VII, Fasc. 1, 1961

10. "Heat Transfer in the Laminar Boundary Layer with Ablation of Vapor of Arbitrary Molecular Weight," Journal of the Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 1, January !962

11. "Sur la Celerite de Propogation d'un Choc Engendre par Impulsion Magneto-dynamique," Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, t.254, May 14, 1962, pp 3490-3492

12. "Optimum Thrust Programming of Electrically Powered Rocket Vehicles for Earth Escape," AIAA Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1963

13. "Flight Characteristics of the Paraglider Spacecraft Recovery System," AAS Symposium on Rendezvous, Rescue, and Recovery, Edwards Air Force Base, California, September 10-12, 1963. Proceedings published as Vol. 16, Part I, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, An American Astronautical Society Publication

14. "The Application of the Paraglider to Spacecraft Recovery," with G. M. Minott, SAE Paper No. 756B, (Presented at SAE National Aeronautic and Space Engineering and Manufacturing Meeting, Los Angeles, California, September 23-27, 1963)

15. "Flying Qualities of the Gemini Paraglider Recovery System," with G. M. Minott (Presented at the Eighth Symposium on Ballistic Missile and Space Technology, USAFSC, San Diego, California, October 16-18, 1963) (Paper Conf i dent i a 1)

16. "Aerodynamic Requirements for Flare and Landing of Low-L/D Glide Vehicles," with E. R. Lekawa and R. L. McNary, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp 915-920VAugust 1968, (Presented at AIAA Guidance Control, and Flight Dynamics Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, August 14-16, 1967)