Kirk Lupkes

Siemens

Kirk Lupkes is the Engineering Manager responsible for technical and management oversight of the Dresser-Rand business’ Seattle Technology Center team. He is a 1995 honors program graduate of Washington State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Materials Science. He also received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1997. He provided program management and technical oversight on the compressor development activities reported in this paper. He joined Dresser-Rand in 2014 and has worked in combustion and turbomachinery technology development for more than 20 years.