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uide US LP, was named chair of
the HTS Technology & Programming
Committee.
David Rollings,
VP business devel-
opment, Advanced Abrasives Corp.,
Pennsauken, N.J., serves as chair of the
HTS Membership Committee.
Chuck Faulkner
, marketing manag-
er, Heat Treatment, Houghton Intl., Valley Forge, Pa., contin-
ues as chair of the HTS Expositon Commtitee.
INTERNATIONAL METALLOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (IMS)
Richard Blackwell, FASM,
general manager, Buehler Can-
ada, serves as president of IMS.
Natalio T. Saenz,
technologist, Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, Richland, Wash., serves as IMS immediate past
president and chair of the IMS Nominating Committee.
Jaret J. Frafjord,
technical director, IMR KHA Portland,
Portland, Ore., serves as chair of the Publications Committee
and IMS vice president.
George Abraham, IV,
materials engineer, Allied High Tech
Products Inc., Compton, Calif., continues to serve as chair of
the IMS Education Committee.
Coralee McNee,
Sr. metallurgical engineeer, UTC Buildings
& IndustrialSystems, Syracuse, N.Y., is chair of the IMS Tech-
nology Committee.
Jim Leftwich,
business developoment, PSI, Skokie, Ill.,
continues to serve as chair of the Membership, Marketing and
Outreach Committee.
THERMAL SPRAY SOCIETY (TSS)
See page 39 of
iTSSe
in this issue for the TSS committee chairs.
If you are interested in serving on an Affiliate Society com-
mittee, contact the respective committee chair directly or
.
AFFILIATE COMMITTEE CHAIRS
HIGHL IGHTS
Jones Clements Schneider
Faulkner Blackwell Saenz
Frafjord Abraham McNee
Leftwich
Ahmad Papp Rollings
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NEWS
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IMC: Fewer Classes, Larger Prize Money
Deadline July 18
The International Metallographic Contest (IMC), an annual
event cosponsored by the International Metallographic So-
ciety (IMS) and ASM International to advance the science of
microstructural analysis, continues to offer fewer classes and
larger prize money. These updates, initiated last year, were
designed to encourage participation and to simplify the pro-
cess for participants to submit entries. There are now just five
different classes of competition covering all fields of optical
and electron microscopy:
Class 1:
Optical Microscopy—All Materials
Class 2:
Electron Microscopy—All Materials
Class 3:
Student Entries—All Materials (Undergraduate
or Graduate Students Only)
Class 4:
Artistic Microscopy (Color)—All Materials
Class 5:
Artistic Microscopy (Black &White)—All Materials
All of the classes offer increased prize money, as estab-
lished last year. Best-In-Show receives the most prestigious
award available in the field of metallography, the Jacquet-
Lucas Award, which includes a cash prize of $3000.
For a completedescriptionof the rules, tips for creatingawin-
ning entry, and judging guidelines, visit
metallography.net.