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The HTS Board, at the recommendation of the Awards and
Nominating Committee, named new board members includ-
ing TimothyDeHennis, EricHutton, and ZbigniewZurecki
Sr., to serve on the HTS Board for the 2014–2017 term; Lee
Rothleutner to serve as student board member for the
2014–2015 term; and Piyamanee Komolwit to serve as young
professional board member for the 2014–2015 term. Terms
begin September 1, 2014. Remaining on the board are Roger
A. Jones (president), Steve Kowalski (vice president),
Thomas Clements (past president), John Keough (board li-
aison), William Disler (member), Robert Goldstein (mem-
ber), Richard Howell (member), Stephen Mashl (member),
James Oakes (member), and Jin Xia (member).
Tim DeHennis is a senior metallurgist at
The Boeing Co., Military Aircraft Div. in
Philadelphia. With the company for more
than 15 years, he is responsible for technical
oversight of the manufacture of gears, bear-
ings, and other flight critical components,
support of failure investigations, and
process development including investigat-
ing low pressure carburizing, high-pressure gas quenching,
and corrosion resistant gear and bearing materials. Tim is cur-
rently Boeing Materials Engineering’s subject matter expert
and prime technical contact pertaining to heat treatment and
gear manufacturing of CH-47 Chinook helicopter compo-
nents. He received his B.S. in materials science and engineer-
ing from Pennsylvania State University in 1999, and is
currently pursuing an M.S. degree from Drexel University in
the same discipline.
Eric Hutton is vice president of operations,
Automotive North America, Bodycote
Thermal Processing Inc., Detroit, responsi-
ble for sales and operations of 11 Bodycote
plants located in the U.S., Canada, and
Mexico. Before joining Bodycote in 1998, he
was employed at Michigan Induction. He
received his B.A. in marketing from Bob
Jones University and his MSM from Walsh College of Ac-
countancy. Eric has 20 years of experience in commercial heat
treating, and his well-rounded background in the automotive
industry and executive experience with Bodycote provides a
valuable foundation for working withHTS leadership. Eric has
been involved in Heat Treating Society activities including the
Heat Treat Conference and Expo and HTS Committees, and
is a member of the ASMDetroit Chapter.
Zbigniew Zurecki is research associate at
Air Products & Chemicals Inc., Allentown,
Pa. He has spent the past 30 years in re-
search aimed at the development of new in-
dustrial gas application technologies for
processing metals in the heat treating, pow-
der and process metallurgy, thermal spray
coatings, combustion, metalforming, and
electronics packaging industries. His new technological alter-
natives resulted in improved product quality and increased
productivity of industrial operations. Zbigniew has over 30
U.S. patents with multiple foreign derivatives, and has au-
thored papers in about 60 publications. He is a graduate of Po-
litechnika Warszawska, Poland, with a degree in mechanical
technologies, and of Drexel University with a degree in mate-
rials engineering.
Piyamanee Komolwit is senior engineer, surface
technology, Kennametal, Latrobe, Pa. Joining the
company in 2010, she is technical lead for the heat
treatment competency team, responsible for
global heat treatment capability, quality control
on heat treatment processes, and related equip-
ment and consumables at all Kennametal plants.
Prior to that, she was research associate, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and research assistant, Thai-
land Environmental Institute, Bangkok. Piyamanee earned a
Bachelor of Engineering in metallurgical engineering at
Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1996; an
M.S. in environmental management at the University of San
Francisco in 2002; and an M.S. and Ph.D. in materials sci-
ence and engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005
and 2009, respectively. She coauthored several conference
papers. She served as a volunteer for various ASM activities
and served as a member of the executive committee of the
ASM Pittsburgh Chapter.
Lee Rothleutner is a graduate research assistant
and Ph.D. candidate in materials science and engi-
neering (2015) at the Colorado School of Mines,
Golden. His research focuses on linking structure,
processing, and properties in ferrous alloys. Specific
areas of interest include induction processing, phase
transformations, precipitation, and fatigue. Lee also
earned a B.S. and M.S. in materials science and en-
gineering at Colorado School of Mines in 2009 and 2012, re-
spectively. He served as student representative to the
Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center
(ASPPRC) Industrial Advisory Board and as a teaching assis-
tant for a statistical process control (SPC) course. He authored
and coauthored several journal papers and conference presen-
tations. Lee served in the U.S. Coast Guard (2000–2005).
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HTPRO
Heat Treating Society Looking for Volunteers
Get Involved! Serve on a Heat Treating Committee!
The HTS Board is seeking enthusiastic, committed members to serve on vari-
ous HTS Committees. HTS committees monitor technical advances and other
areas of member interest to bring new information to members through prod-
ucts and services including conference and exposition programming, course
development, reference and periodical publications, and research and devel-
opment planning and implementation. The Board is currently looking for mem-
bers for the following committees:
Awards and Nominating Committee
Education Committee
Technology & Programming Committee
Exposition Committee
Finance Committee
Membership Committee
Research and Development Committee
Interested members should review the Committee Purpose on the
HTS website and contact .