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Suriano Receives DOE Research Award
Anne-Marie Suriano,
a
South Dakota School of Mines &
Technology Ph.D. candidate, will
receive the 2015 Science Graduate
Research Award from the DOE’s
Office of Science. Suriano, who
is pursuing her doctorate in the
materials engineering and sci-
ence program, will investigate the
electrodeposition of ultra-high
purity copper alloys for use in
low background experiments such as those at the Sanford
Underground Research Facility (SURF). Suriano’s one-year
DOE appointment will begin in May at the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
Das Elected to NAE
Santosh Das,
FASM, was
among the 67 individuals recently
elected to the National Academy
of Engineering (NAE). Das, who
retired as vice president, Polymer
Technologies Inc., Clifton, N.J.,
was elected for his contributions
to the understanding of the com-
position, structure, property, and
processing interrelationships of
rapidly solidified amorphous and
microcrystalline alloys. He earned engineering degrees
from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and the
University of California, Berkeley in materials science and
engineering. After graduation, he worked as a scientist at
Argonne National Laboratory and then as manager of mate-
rials science for corporate R&D, Honeywell Inc., Morristown,
N.J. Das has authored more than 130 research publications
and holds 43 patents in the field of rapid solidification.
William White,
FASM, Life
Member, was born on July 25,
1939, in Toronto and passed away
recently. He was just 22 when a
workplace accident left him a
paraplegic. After dropping out of
school in grade 13, he later com-
pleted a three-year engineering di-
ploma at Ryerson in 1966. He then became a research
assistant at the University of Saskatchewan and at-
tained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1977.
He worked as a professor at University of Calgary and
became head of Petro-Canada’s University Research
Lab in 1982. He returned to Ryerson in 1987 as Dean of
Engineering and Applied Science. Six engineering pro-
grams were accredited under his leadership, allowing
Ryerson to become a university. White was also a
longtime member of the International Metallographic
Society.
Alfred J. Babecki
died on
January 17 at age 89. He was
born an August 23, 1925, in Glen
Lyon, Pa. A World War II veteran,
he served in the U.S. Army during
the Battle of the Bulge from Dec.
1944 to Jan. 1945, in Belgium and
Luxembourg. Babecki graduated
from Penn State University with a
B.S. in metallurgy. He worked as metallurgist, initially
at ACF in Berwick, Pa., and later at the Naval Research
Laboratory in Washington. In 1962, he transferred to
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.,
where he received patents for chemical processes and
resolved spacecraft failures until he retired fromNASA
in 1984.
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MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
IN MEMORIAM
QuesTek Joins ASM in Full Force
As part of the ASMPower of One Membership Drive, five
colleagues at QuesTek Innovations have joined our Society!
Pictured here is the lead recruiter,
Jason Sebastian
(rear),
with new members
Nick Hatcher
and
James Saal
(mid-
dle, left to right), and
Jagan Padbidri, Dave Snyder,
and
Weiwei Zhang
(front, left to right). Not pictured are veter-
an ASM members
Aziz Asphahani, FASM, Jeff Grabowski,
Clay Houser, Greg Olsen, FASM,
and intern
Tom Kozmel
(student member)
.
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