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In Memoriam
ASM
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IN MEMORIAM
Prof. Emeritus Joachim (Jockel) V.R.
Heberlein, FASM, TS–HoF,
a pillar of
the thermal spray community, died on
February 17. From Minneapolis, he was
beloved among the faculty and staff of the
M.E. department at the University of
Minnesota. Heberlein contributed greatly
to the ASM Thermal Spray Society, hav-
ing served as chair of the JTST Editorial Committee for 10
years (1996-2006) and chair of the TSS Awards Committee
for seven years (2004-2001). He was also a past member of
the Program Committee, Nominating Committee, Aca-
demic Advisory Council, and ITSC 2003 organizing com-
mittee. He was named ASM Fellow in 2001, inducted into
the TSS Hall of Fame in 2004, and received a number of
other awards, including the ASM Allan Ray Putnam Serv-
ice Award in 2009 and the TSS President’s Award in 2013.
See full obituary on page 3 of
iTSSe
in this issue.
understanding of scientists and their work. Kisailus, a for-
mer Material Advantage member, is now an associate profes-
sor in the Dept. of Chemical and Environmental
Engineering—part of the Materials Science and Engineering
Program—and works in the field of biomimetics.
CMU’s Real World Engineering Program
Fourteen Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) engineering
students were selected to network with industry leaders and
receive valuable job advice March 12-14 during the annual
Real World Engineering (RWE) Program in Washington.
Students shadowed engineering professionals, attended a
networking reception with alumni and D.C. industry profes-
sionals, and toured Lockheed Martin’s Energy Solutions and
Space Experience Center.
Benjamin Paren,
a sophomore
majoring in materials science and engineering, and engineer-
ing and public policy, from Naperville, Ill., praised the RWE
program, “Many doors were opened for me in terms of un-
derstanding what kinds of jobs I could have in the future.”
PM Champion Awarded
for Advancing Technology Applications
Robert J. Dowding,
research manager
for materials and manufacturing science,
U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL),
was selected to receive the first-ever Van-
guard Award from the Metal Powder In-
dustries Federation (MPIF). The award
recognizes powder metallurgy (PM) indus-
try champions from the end-user commu-
nity whose long-time promotion of the technology has
contributed to the expansion of powder metal applications.
The award presentation will take place at the PM2014 World
Congress, May 18-22, in Orlando.
TMS Student Poster Contest Winners
Sixty posters were entered by individuals or teams of stu-
dents in this year’s TMS Technical Division Student Poster
Contest held in San Diego in February. Congratulations to
these ASM joint student members who were among this
year’s winners:
Best of Show
Undergraduate
(Structural Materials Division): “Honey-
comb Materials for Improved Automobile Crashworthi-
ness,”
Connor Slone, Kit James, You Li,
and
Peter
Anderson
(professional ASMmember), The Ohio State
University;
Graduate
(Materials Processing &Manufac-
turing Division):
Tara Power
, McMaster University.
Undergraduate Winners
Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division:
Marc Doran,
The Ohio State University; Extraction &
Processing Division:
Brian Jamieson
, McMaster Univer-
sity; Light Metals Division:
Raul Marrero
and
Oscar
Marcelo Suarez,
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Campus; Materials Processing & Manufacturing Divi-
sion:
Mary Gallerneault
, McMaster University.
Graduate Winners
Extraction & Processing Division:
Sean Dudley
and
Grant Wallace,
Montana Tech of the University of Mon-
tana; Light Metals Division:
Abu Syed Humaun Kabir,
Mehdi Sanjari, Jing Su,
and
Stephen Yue
(professional
ASM member), McGill University; Structural Materials
Division:
Zhiqian Sun, Jan Ilavsky
(professional ASM
member), The University of Tennessee, Argonne Na-
tional Laboratory.
This summer, ASM and
Granta will launch a new
Neurological Module in the
Medical Materials Data-
base,
providing a peer-re-
viewed and reliable source of
materials-related data for neurological device design. Current
database users have FREE access to a preview version of this
new module.
The Neurological Module preview is fully integrated with the ex-
isting Medical Materials Database, which includes Orthopaedic and
Cardiovascular Modules. The preview contains records describing a
representative and diverse sample of neurological devices and the
materials (with specific grades, coatings, and more) used in those
devices. The full release in June will include nearly five times more
device records than are included in the preview, plus additional ma-
terials, drugs, and coatings.
For more information, contact Scott Flowers, Account Manager,
at
scott.flowers@asminternational.org, 800/336-5152 ext. 5230, or
440/338-5151 ext. 5230.
Medical Materials Database—
New Neurological Module!