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Thomas O. Mensah

President and Director, Georgia Aerospace Systems Manufacturing Inc.

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Mr. Thomas O. Mensah is the Founder of Goergia Aerospace Systems Manufacturing Inc and serves as its President and Director. Dr. Mensah serves as the National Chairman of the Materials and Engineering Sciences Division of the AIChE. Dr. Thomas Mensah was a chemical engineer at Corning Inc. He worked at the Sullivan Park Research and Development Center of Corning Inc where he solved this worldwide problem through a series of inventions. His first patent increased the ... manufacturing speed from 2 meters a second to 20 meters a second, bringing fiber optics costs to the same level as copper, thus, making it economical to replace copper cables with fiber optics media throughout the country. Dr. Mensah went onto Bell Labs (AT&T; Bell Laboratories) where he led a team in the development of a guidance system for smart weapons using fiber optics. At AT&T; Bell Labs, Dr. Mensah had to wait a whole year before he could work in the manufacturing area because of a certain clause in his contract at Corning Glass Works. He founded Supercond Technology in 1992 and served as its President. He served as the Research Engineer at Air Products & Chemicals Inc. Dr. Mensah has also worked with the Department of Energy, through a CRADA at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, on developing fiber optics-based sensors for intelligent highway traffic management. He also served as the Member of Advisory Board at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as the Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His first patent increased the manufacturing speed from 2 meters a second to 20 meters a second, bringing fiber optics costs to the same level as copper, thus, making it economical to replace copper cables with fiber optics media throughout the country. His first patent increased the manufacturing speed from 2 meters a second to 20 meters a second, bringing fiber optics costs to the same level as copper, thus, making it economical to replace copper cables with fiber optics media throughout the country. In the meantime, he focused his effort on the design and development of missile systems that are guided by fiber optics. He holds three patents in the fiber optics guided missile FOG-M technology, including the Guided Vehicle Patent. Dr. Mensah is one of the early innovators in smart missile technology. He and his team developed missiles that were successfully deployed at Mach 1 (the speed of sound) using the FOG-M technology. Dr. Thomas Mensah have had and continue to play a major role in such advanced and innovative warfare. Dr. Mensah also received a certificate in Modeling and Simulation of Chemical Processes at MIT in 1977, under Professor Larry Evans, 2007 President of AIChE. After finishing his graduate work in France, Dr. Mensah joined the Chemicals Group at Air Products and Chemicals, as a Research Engineer, in the Polyvinyl Alcohol Process Improvement Division. In the lab, he developed simulations for the mixing process, where a highly viscous polymer, PVAC, was injected with a catalyst with viscosity around 1 centipoise. Dr. Mensah solved this major industrial problem at the Polyvinyl Alcohol manufacturing plant at Paducah, Kentucky by changing blade configuration and notch depth, leading to a total redesign of the high speed thin film industrial mixers. Dr. Mensah has worked with the Department of Defense to develop new filament wound composite structures to replace gun barrels on new army tanks to reduce their weight. He published the Finite Element Analysis of these structures, focusing on the hoop stresses generated, the heat transfer, and the axial temperature profiles along the barrel during firing of the ballistics, in the proceedings of the Army Workshop in New Orleans, 1994. Dr. Mensah and his team are working on the use of carbon nanotubes as reinforcement materials in next generation composite structures for novel supersonic missiles, a project under Contract from the US Air Force.

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