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Williams Joins EWI Board
Columbus-based technology innovator
EWI
recently welcomed
David B.
Williams, FASM,
of The Ohio State Uni-
versity (OSU) to its Board of Directors.
Williams is dean of the OSU College of
Engineering. From 2007 to 2011, he
served as the President of the University
of Alabama, Huntsville. Prior to 2007,
Williams spent 31 years at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,
Pa., as an MSE professor. He directed Lehigh’s Electron Mi-
croscope Lab and the Microscopy School from 1980-88. A
native of Leeds, England, Williams received his degrees from
the University of Cambridge. In 2013, Williams was selected
as the Alpha Sigma Mu Lecturer.
Materials Research Socity Honors Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeri-
tus Mildred Dresselhaus received the Material Research So-
ciety’s Von Hippel Award during the organization’s fall
meeting in Boston. In her acceptance speech, the awardee
recalled that Arthur R. von Hippel embodied scientific cu-
riosity and mentorship and shared her passion for music.
Dresselhaus received the award for her pioneering contribu-
tions to the fundamental sci-
ence of carbon-based and other
low-electron-density materials,
leadership in energy and sci-
ence policy, and exemplary
mentoring of young scientists.
Von Hippel encouraged Dres-
selhaus to study carbon—espe-
cially graphite—and made her part of his string quartet. Von
Hippel died in 2003 at age 105, having worked in the lab until
age 90.
Jones Receives Heritage Award
William R. Jones, FASM,
CEO of Solar Atmospheres
Inc., Souderton, Pa., received the Heritage Award at the
Metal Treating Institute (MTI) Fall Meeting in Las Vegas on
October 12. This prestigious award is given in recognition
of an individual’s lifetime commitment to the betterment of
the commercial heat treating industry with one or more no-
table accomplishments. Only nine people in the 78-year his-
tory of MTI have ever received this award.
Spain Joins Alpha Sigma Mu
The Alpha Sigma Mu MSE Honorary Society recently
welcomed Spain as its newest chapter affiliate.
Frederick
Schmidt, FASM,
the honor society’s president, welcomed
the new members and commend the University of Oviedo
and the community for
contributions to global
technology. In his presen-
tation, Schmidt reported
there are 58 active chap-
ters in North America
at prominent university
locations, and active in-
ternational chapters in
Australia, Canada, and
Spain. The honor society
expects to charter new
chapters in Austria (Wels),
Brazil, Germany, Hungary,
Poland (Krakow), and Rus-
sia (St. Petersburg).
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HIGHLIGHTS...
In Memoriam
Members
in the News
George S. Ansell, FASM,
of Tucson, Ariz.,
died on August 30, 2013. Ansell, born in 1934,
was the Colorado School of Mines’ 13th pres-
ident, serving 1984-1998. He earned a bache-
lor’s degree in metallurgical engineering in
1954 and a master’s the following year, both
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
After serving in the U.S. Navy, he was ap-
pointed to the Metal Physics Consultant Staff of the U.S. Naval
Research Laboratory as a physical metallurgist. Ansell earned a
Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from RPI in 1960 and joined
their faculty that same year. He was named Robert W. Hunt Pro-
fessor and later, dean of the school of engineering at RPI. After
his retirement fromMines in 1998, he received an honorary de-
gree and the metallurgy department was renamed the George S.
Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.
Ansell was a member of the ASM Rocky Mountain chapter.
Robert H. McCreery, FASM,
88, Portland, Ore., passed away
on October 13. He was born on September 11, 1925, in Muncie,
Ind., served with the U.S. Army during WW II, and earned his
B.S. from Purdue University. McCreery worked as a metallurgi-
cal engineer at Teledyne Portland Forge, retiring in 1990. He
was a licensed professional engineer and a life member of both
ASM International and ASME. McCreery also was a past ASM
trustee. Author of several technical articles, his topics included
nondestructive case depth measurements and effects of reduc-
tion on strand cast steel.
Word has been received at ASM Headquarters of the death of
Life Member
Robert W. Carter
of Libertyville, Ill. (Chicago
Chapter).
IN MEMORIAM
Juan Asensio-Iozano Alpha
Sigma Mu trustee (left) presents
the new charter to Juan-Jose
Fernández, president of the new
Spanish chapter.
Heritage Awardee Bill Jones is flanked by MTI presidents,
Buster Crossley (left), serving 2011-2012, and Jim Roberts (right),
2012-2013.