Mr. Stephen R. Locke

Stephen R. (Steve) Locke is a Senior Consultant with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc., with 34 years of turbomachinery and rotating equipment experience. He is assigned to DuPont Engineering Technology Rotating Machinery Group, in Old Hickory, Tennessee. Since 1983, Mr. Locke has been an engineering consultant for turbomachinery and process machinery making reliability improvements, machine retrofits, and performance analysis on operating equipment, and helps specify and startup new equipment. During his first 11 years with DuPont, he held plant assignments in the Petrochemical Department providing technical assistance to operations and maintenance and was responsible for startup of several large process compressors and other process equipment.

Mr. Locke has a B.S. degree (Mechanical Engineering, 1972) from Purdue University and is a member of ASME.

He has presented several papers at the Turbomachinery Symposia, at the University of Virginia ROMAC, and represents DuPont on Texas A&M’s Turbomachinery Research Consortium.