Ferdinand P. Beer. Born in France and educated in France and Switzerland, Ferd received an M.S. degree from the Sorbonne and an Sc. D. degree in theoretical mechanics from the University of Geneva. He moved to the United States after serving in the French army during the early part of World War II and taught for four years at Williams College in the Williams-MIT joint arts and engineering program. Following his service at Williams College, Ferd joined the faculty of Lehigh University where he taught for thirty-seven years. He held several positions, including University Distinguished Professor and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, and in 1995 Ferd was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by Lehigh University.

E. Russell Johnston, Jr. Born in Philadelphia, Russ received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Delaware and an Sc. D. degree in the field of structural engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at Lehigh University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute before joining the faculty of the University of Connecticut where he held the position of chairman of the Civil Engineering Department and taught for twenty-six years. In 1991 Russ received the Outstanding Civil Engineer Award from the Connecticut Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Phillip J. Cornwell. Phil holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where he has taught since 1989. Phil received an SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award in 1992, the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher Award at Rose-Hulman in 2000, and the Board of Trustees’ Outstanding Scholar Award at Rose-Hulman in 2001. Phil was one of the developers of the Dynamics Concept Inventory.

Brian P. Self. Brian obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. He has been very active in the American Society of Engineering Education, serving on its Board from 2008–2010. With a team of five, Brian developed the Dynamics Concept Inventory to help assess student conceptual understanding. His professional interests include educational research, aviation physiology, and biomechanics.

Sanjeev Sanghi. obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He continued his education further at Cornell University and The Levich Institute of City University of New York from where he obtained his MS and PhD respectively. He is now Professor in the Applied Mechanics Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He joined the department in 1992 and since then has been teaching courses in Engineering Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been the Head of Educational Technology and Service Centre, IIT Delhi and was Visiting Professor at The University of Sussex, UK in 2007–2008. At Cornell University, he won the Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award in 1988. In 2002, he was given the Distinguished Teacher Award by the C V Kapoor Foundation. He has published papers in leading journals like Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics, Physics of Fluids, Chaos, AIAA Journal, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Computers and Structures and Computers and Fluids.