HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | MAY 2026 53 Manjooran Visits University of Florida Navin Manjooran, FASM, ASM’s immediate past president and board member, visited the University of Florida on April 2-3, where he serves as chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Advisory Board. Also pictured are fellow advisory board members, along with the MSE interim department head and vice chair. Daehn, Scully and Yurko as TMS Fellows The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) announced its 2026 Class of Fellows in mid-February. Among the new TMS Fellows are three ASM members, who are also ASM Fellows: Glenn S. Daehn, FASM, Mars G. Fontana Professor of metallurgical engineering, The Ohio State University; John R. Scully, FASM, Charles Henderson Chaired Professor of materials science and engineering, University of Virginia; and James Yurko, senior distinguished engineer at Apple Inc. Cole Named IEEE Fellow Edward I. Cole, Jr., FASM, a veteran researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named a new Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in recognition of his pioneering work in microelectronics defect localization. Cole, who has been at Sandia for nearly 39 years, led teams that developed two failure analysis techniques still used today: charge-induced voltage alteration and lightinduced voltage alteration. These nondestructive scanning techniques allow researchers to rapidly locate defects in integrated circuits. Cole is a past president of ASM’s Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society and founding co-editor of EDFA magazine. The IEEE Fellow distinction is one of the highest honors in the engineering and technology community. Vinarcik Authors Career Guide Edward J. Vinarcik, FASM, authored a book entitled What They Don’t Teach You in Engineering School. Published by Purdue University Press, the book aims to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world by covering four areas: design philosophies, management and planning, design tools, and statistics and experimentation. Vinarcik is the director of product quality for a major aluminum manufacturer in North America. In 1993, he received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from The Ohio State University. During his career, he served in roles in quality, supplier assurance, product design, tooling, and manufacturing. Vinarcik has authored numerous other books and served as a contributor to the ASM Metals Handbook. Cole MEMBERS IN THE NEWS IN MEMORIAM Albert Eugene Miller, 86, of Notre Dame, Indiana, passed away on April 5. He was born in Albion, Nebraska, on June 22, 1938. He graduated at the top of his class in metallurgical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1960. Miller also earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Iowa State University in 1964. He spent two years at Ames Laboratory, followed by one year teaching at the University of Alberta. In 1967, Miller was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame, beginning a 41-year career at the university. He retired in 2008. His research concentrated on magnetism and magnetostriction in rare earth compounds that are the basis for high energy permanent magnets. He was a pioneer in using computers in materials science education. He helped to outfit a laboratory with Apple II computers and developed programs to allow undergraduate students to learn about phase diagrams, programming in BASIC. He also taught Engineering Concepts, a computer class taken by all freshman engineers for most of the 1980s. Miller
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