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	Dr. Joseph L. Rose, Ph.D.
	Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering

Dr. Rose is author of over ten patents, four textbooks, and over 380 articles on ultrasonic NDE, wave mechanics, guided waves, medical ultrasound, adhesive bonding, concrete inspection, pipe and tubing inspection, and composite material inspection. Textbooks include Basic Physics in Diagnostic Ultrasound, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1979, and Ultrasonic Waves in Solid Media, Cambridge University Press, 1999. This new book includes an up-to-date state of the art review on such topics as dispersion principles, unbounded isotropic and anisotropic media, reflection and refraction, oblique incidence, wave scattering, surface and subsurface waves, waves in plates, interface waves, layer on a half-space, waves in rods, waves in hollow cylinder, guided waves in multiple layers, transducer source influence on the phase velocity spectrum, horizontal shear waves, waves in an anisotropic layer, elastic constant determination, waves in viscoelastic media, stress influence on wave propagation, and boundary element modeling methods.

Dr. Rose has served as principal advisor to over 30 Ph.D. students. Current research activity is directed towards sensor utilization in design, process control, and manufacturing, and also wave mechanics, physically based signal processing, aging aircraft inspection, tubing and piping inspection for the power generation and chemical processing industries, adhesive bonding, composite material inspection, and hidden corrosion detection.

Dr. Rose received his Ph.D. from Drexel University in 1969. He received a variety of awards including: American Society for Nondestructive Testing achieved in 1973; Fellowship Awards in 1985, 1997, and 2000; Tutorial Citation Award in 1986; became an ASNT Fellow in 2000, and was recipient of the Mehl Honor Lecture Award in October 2001. He also received several University teaching and research awards. Dr. Rose was also a finalist in the 1995 Discover Awards for technological innovation in Aviation and Aerospace for the development of a portable hand held probe for aging aircraft inspection. He was also the recipient of a University Faculty Scholar Medal for achievement in Engineering in 1996, an outstanding research award in 1997and the Premier Research Award, College of Engineering, Penn State University, 2002. Dr. Rose has managed over 20 million dollars in ultrasonic research and development funding with early projects primarily on signal processing and pattern recognition and most recent exclusively on guided wave analysis and application. Consulting activities include work on a guided wave wing ice detection system for Rosemount Aerospace in Minneapolis, MN, a guided wave broken rail detection system for the railroad industry for Texas Research Institute in Austin, TX, and guided wave product and development and marketing activities for a variety of different companies including Matec, Boston, MA, Krautkramer Branson, Lewistown, PA, TISEC, Montreal, Canada, and FBS, Inc., State College, PA.