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Dr. Keating is the founder of Environmental Kinetics, Ltd., a Maryland company that provides proprietary support on a variety of emerging advanced heat/power and thermal destruction concepts early in their commercial development. His work with various government and corporate clients focuses on critical areas of energy and environmental activities vital to successful development of emerging technologies in areas of theory, design, and operation.

Dr. Keating received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara; his Masters from the University of Michigan; and his Ph.D. from Drexel University. He taught in the evening school at Hofstra University on Long Island as well as the Whiting School of Engineering Evening Program at Johns Hopkins University for 12 years. He has held academic positions at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point , NY , and at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis , MD for a total of 18 years.

Dr. Keating helped to refocus the heat/power lecture/laboratory curriculum at both USMMA and USNA during a period of transition from steam-powered ship propulsion to gas turbine and diesel engine usage throughout the Naval and maritime fleets.

As a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Keating served for 16 years as the original and founding Director of the first hands-on Applied Thermodynamics and Combustion Laboratories. He was responsible for developing the principal architecture and d eveloping the foundation for their current PC computer and state-of-the-art electronic-based, full-scale power engineering and combustion laboratories that reflect modern electronic operational and design changes successfully being integrated into today's fleet. He served as Course Coordinator for the department courses in Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Combustion.

Dr. Keating has over 30 years of professional and academic experience in the heat/power and applied combustion field of engineering. Dr. Keating has authored three engineering textbooks as well as over 50 scholarly papers, in addition to white papers, reports, technical presentations and reviews. He served in several capacities with the Society of Automotive Engineers, including the Board of Directors. He was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2001 (ASME) and Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in 2007. He is a P.E. Mechanical Engineer registered in the state of Maryland .

Dr. Keating has published scholarly papers describing basic and scientific investigations into the fundamentals of high temperature chemical kinetics of combustion. Experimental and numerical studies relevant to this award have included the autoignition and radical characteristics of various fuels and non-fuels using a Cooperative Fuel Research (CFR) engine, as well as an optical glass engine using high speed Schlieren and holographic interferometry, and the roles of oxygen and radical species enhancement in a variety of internal and external combustion processes using both research engine facilities and high-speed computer codes. While a faculty member of the Naval Academy , Dr. Keating was supported through funded research programs by ONR, the NAVSEA Deep Ocean Branch, and NAVSEA Energy Environment Study Group.