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| TvU has a staff of two at this writing, including a chief scientist, and a machinist/designer. Dr. Stephen C. Bates, President of TvU, has B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT. Prior to founding TvU he was: a Staff Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (5 years) working on a major national project in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, a Senior Scientist at the General Motors Research Laboratories (6 years) working on internal combustion engine research, and a Senior Scientist (3 years) performing a wide variety of other small business research. He has 30 journal publications in a variety of fields, 68 other publications, 3 patents (2 sole author), and has been included in a variety of national and international Who's Who publications. | ||
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| TvU: Dr. S. C. Bates - President | ||
| Dr. Stephen C. Bates , President of TvU, is a Senior Scientist
pursuing a career in multidisciplinary applied physical sciences. Dr.
Bates founded TvU early in 1993 as a research and development company
keying on the commercial development of multidisciplinary research
advances. He has direct work experience in many different fields, and
has worked in 4 different major fields in his technical career. At TvU
he has
managed research contracts totaling over $3,050,000, receiving 14 Phase
1 and 3 Phase 2 Government Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
awards as of June 2006. Dr. Bates is sole author of 9 and coauthor
of 27 refereed journal papers (30 total), as well as 68 other
publications in many different fields. He is the primary author of
articles in such diverse journals as Review of Scientific Instruments,
Experiments in Fluids, Journal of Fire Science, Cryogenics, Combustion
and Flame, Journal of Crystal Growth, Progress in Aeronautics and
Astronautics, and SAE Transactions. He has been included in a variety of
Who's Who publications since 1992, and he is currently a member of the
Materials Research Society (MRS), American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronnautics (AIAA-Associate Fellow), Combustion Inst., Soc. of Photo-optical Instr.
Eng. (SPIE), and the Cryogenics Society of America.
Dr. Bates has a broad scientific educational background based on 11 years of undergraduate (BS 1970, MS 1971) and graduate course work and research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He accumulated twice the course credits needed for a BS equally divided between engineering, physics, and mathematics. His Master's thesis centered on controlling the chamber pressure of a transparent hybrid rocket (still in use) using a vortex valve exhaust nozzle. His doctoral program (ScD 1977) was a fundamental flow visualization study of the structure of turbulent mixing in a plane shear layer using planar excited phosphorescence when this technique was new. Diverging from his fluid mechanics and combustion work at MIT, Dr. Bates used his educational background and references to become a full staff member of a physics team working on a major national project in the area of magnetic confinement nuclear fusion at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories. Over a 5 year tenure (1978-82) his major role in the ISX Group in the Fusion Energy Division was the operation of high power (2 MW) neutral beams and their associated systems and diagnostics. He also contributed to a wide variety of plasma diagnostic projects and overall Tokamak machine operation. Dr. Bates next moved to internal combustion engine work at the General Motors Research Laboratories. Over 6 years (1984-90) his project was the design, construction, and successful operation of a unique (in the world at the time and currently much copied) single cylinder engine with full compression and combustion in a single-crystal sapphire cylinder. Together with a quartz piston top this engine gives complete optical access to the flow and combustion processes in the cylinder. Instantaneous image-intensified videography of engine flames together with image processing and analysis led to extensive research and publications concerning the fundamental processes of flow and flame propagation inside of the cylinder. As a tool for studying in-cylinder flows he developed a velocity diagnostic based on seeding micron-sized phosphorescing particles into the flow. He continues automotive consulting. Continuing his diversification at a small R&D business, Dr. Bates was involved in a wide variety of contract research that included cryogenics, materials, combustion and fluid mechanics, chemistry, and optical diagnostics. Projects on which he was PI involved Sapphire, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Coal pyrolysis, Particulate clean-up of coal combustion gas, Materials fire characteristics, Solid oxygen, Soot measurement, and Acoustic fine particle agglomeration. Since founding TvU, Dr. Bates has pursued a variety of Research and Development Programs. He has successfully initiated SBIR programs funded by the Air Force, DOE, DOT/FAA, NASA, NSF, as well as a wide variety of commercial programs. These programs include work in the areas of Furnace Development, Crystal Growth, Sapphire Fiber Optics, Sapphire Microwave Windows, Solid Cryogenic Propulsion Systems, Materials, and Airport Lighting. These programs have been almost all successful, building a foundation for ongoing research and commercial products. To E-Mail comments or questions to the designers of this web-page, click this address: thought@tvu.com Last updated: May 2006. |
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| TvU: Glenn Rice | ||
| Glenn Rice is a mechanical designer/machinist who
provides the detailed fabrication and mechanical design for many of TvU’s
products and projects.
Glenn has an extensive background in machinery and machine design. Previous to joining TvU early in 2003, Glenn was the founder (1982) and operator of the New Tool Company, a contractor providing machining, special tooling, machinery design, and fabrication. His projects centered on special machinery, tooling and product development for a variety of industries and companies that include a major appliance manufacturer, a tool manufacturer in the cable industry, a large automotive component supplier, a food equipment manufacturer, a medical supply company and several electronics firms.Glenn has designed and manufactured a number of products sold by his own company, including technical diving accessories, hydroponic systems, fabric measuring and inspection machinery, and a number of hand tools and machine tool accessories. He was a founding partner in Asterisk Inc., an engineering and manufacturing company, and cofounded Fabric Workshop with his wife Judith to create and market videos in the home decoration field. He also worked as an assistant to the chief engineer at GBR, Ltd, a company that designed and developed special paper handling machinery including High Security Packaging and Collating machines, mailing machinery, inserting, slitting, cutting and folding modules. Previous to this position and the founding of New Tool, he was a field service technician and then product manager at GBR. To E-Mail comments or questions to Glenn Rice, click this address: thought@tvu.com |
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