Newswise — Santokh S. Badesha, Xerox fellow at the Xerox Corporation; Sandy S. Ginsberg, engineer and construction executive; and Andrew C. Palmer, the Jafar Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Cambridge University, will receive honorary degrees at Clarkson University's 114th commencement on Sunday, May 13.
Santokh Badesha has invented new materials and marking components that are at the heart of successive generations of better, faster Xerox copiers and printers. The revolutionary imaging system in the Xerox's DocuColor iGen3 Digital Production Press is expected to include more than 30 of his inventions. Badesha's areas of research have varied from designing environmentally friendly materials to the investigation of novel composite materials with enhanced thermal, electrical, chemical and mechanical stability. His inventions in the area of black-and-white and high-speed color fusing, for instance, have resulted in reduced paper jams and a longer time between service calls. Badesha was awarded his 150th U.S. patent on April 3 — a milestone achieved by only one other inventor in Xerox's history.
Sandy Ginsberg's career has set him apart as an engineer, construction executive, and project manager of "choice" because of his success working on many high profile and one-of-a-kind projects. A 1954 graduate of Clarkson, he played a critical role in rebuilding and preserving some of America's most notable landmarks that are a significant part of New York City's rich architectural history. Ginsberg was highly lauded for his work as construction manager for the restorations of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and over the years has managed many other unique and complex projects. Among them are the construction of the Exxon Headquarters and the Helmsley Palace Hotel in Manhattan, Shea Stadium and the Meadowlands Giants Stadium. Ginsberg's unique expertise led to his involvement managing the restoration of the Central Park Zoo and the carousel in Central Park; the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center; the American Museum of Natural History; and Grand Central Station.
Andrew Palmer is distinguished for his early contributions to the mechanics of solids, for his numerous applications of solids and for his numerous applications of classical mechanics to a wide variety of problems in offshore engineering. As a lecturer at Cambridge, he established for the first time the circumstances in which a buckle, once initiated, propagates indefinitely along a steel pipe on the sea bed. He is the world's leading authority on the incremental movement of pipes on the sea bed resulting from cyclic pressure and temperature changes — an important and difficult area in which his knowledge of soil mechanics, stability theory and non-linear analysis puts him in a uniquely strong position. Palmer is a rare individual in that he is both a very successful academician and a very successful businessman. He left Cambridge to start Andrew Palmer & Associates, which became successful. The company was bought out by SAIC. Palmer then returned to Cambridge as the Jafar Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering.
Clarkson University, located in Potsdam, New York, is a private, nationally ranked university with a reputation for developing innovative leaders in engineering, business, the sciences, health sciences and the humanities. At Clarkson, 3,000 high-ability students excel in an environment where learning is not only positive, friendly and supportive but spans the boundaries of traditional disciplines and knowledge. Faculty achieves international recognition for their research and scholarship and connects students to their leadership potential in the marketplace through dynamic, real-world problem solving.
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