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FEATURE

A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | O C T O B E R 2 0 1 5

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H TREATING SOCIETY NEWS

Craig Zimmerman

started his

career in heat treating in 1994 at

FPM Heat Treating, Milwaukee,

working as a second shift lab

technician. He then joined Lind-

berg Heat Treating (acquired by

Bodycote Thermal Processing),

working eight years at Body-

cote’s Melrose Park, Ill., facility in

several positions including chief metallurgist, quality man-

ager, and both business unit and plant manager. He was

promoted to Bodycote’s regional staff and served as a re-

gional sales manager-central group and director, technol-

ogy development-the Americas from 2002–2010. Zimmer-

man joined Bluewater Thermal Solution in 2010, and is

currently corporate director-technical, serving as a techni-

cal resource for staff and customers, developing and com-

mercializing new technologies, and improving existing

company heat treat technologies. He is also an expert in

boronizing/boriding technology. Zimmerman is an active

member and past chairman of the ASM HTS Research &

Development Committee.

Olga (Olly) Rowan

is senior engi-

neer in Advanced Materials Tech-

nology, Caterpillar Inc. Rowan

was a member of the Center for

Heat Treating Excellence, WPI,

Worcester, Mass., from 2004–

2007, working on gas carburizing

atmosphere optimization. She

joined Caterpillar in 2007 work-

ing in heat treat R&D, NPI, gear heat treat production sup-

port, and supplier development. Her areas of expertise in-

clude gas atmosphere and vacuum heat treat, energy and

business case analysis for new capital introduction, and

heat treat process control and optimization. She is a mem-

ber of ASM, active in the Peoria chapter and on the national

level. She was a member of the ASM Emerging Profession-

als Committee for five years and a member of the ASM Edu-

cation Committee for four years. She also serves as an ASM

Materials Camp organizer and mentor in the Central Illinois

area. Rowan co-authored two articles in

Steel Heat Treating

Fundamentals and Processes

, Vol 4A,

ASM Handbook

, and

has published 18 peer-review journal articles and confer-

ence publications and 16 internal technical reports.

Hannah Noll

earned her B.Sc. in

metallurgical engineering from

Missouri University of Science and

Technology in 2010, and is pursu-

ing an M.S. in materials science

and engineering at North Carolina

State University. After graduating

from Missouri S&T, she joined ATI Specialty Materials as

product engineer, and is currently process engineer at ATI

Specialty Materials Richburg Operations responsible for

Ni/Ti/Fe-base alloy heat treatment, continuous bar roll-

ing, and coil processing. She is responsible for qualifying

equipment and process improvements for materials used

primarily in the aerospace, biomedical, and oil & gas in-

dustries. Noll has been a member of the executive board

of the ASM Carolinas Southern Piedmont Chapter since

2012 and is currently chapter chair. She is a contributing

member of

engineergirl.org

, directed the first Union Coun-

ty JobReady Partnership “Women in Engineering” summer

camp for middle school girls in 2014, and will direct the

camp in 2015.

Rachel Sylvester

is currently a

senior at The Ohio State Univer-

sity in the materials science &

engineering program, and serves

as lead teaching assistant for the

first year engineering program.

She completed an internship with

Cessna Aircraft in metallurgical

failure analysis, and is currently

interning with FordMotor Co. in the same capacity. Sylvester

attended ASM Materials Camp in 2011 and has been an ASM

member since then, currently serving as vice president for

the Ohio State Chapter of Materials Advantage. She served

as a junior member twice, and traveled to a Materials Camp

in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Sylvester is a recipient of the

George A. Roberts Scholarship.

ROWAN RECEIVES 2015 ASM HTS/SURFACE

COMBUSTION EMERGING LEADER AWARD

Established in 2013, the ASM HTS/Surface Combus-

tion Emerging Leader award recognizes an outstanding

early-to-midcareer heat treating professional whose ac-

complishments exhibit exceptional achievements in the

heat treating industry. The award acknowledges an indi-

vidual who sets the highest standards for ASM Heat Treat-

ing Society participation and inspires others to dedicate

themselves to the advancement and promotion of vacuum

and atmosphere heat treating technologies such as carbu-

rizing, carbonitriding, nitriding, annealing, and through

hardening. The award will be presented at the HTS Gener-

al Membership Meeting on Wednesday, October 21, at the

ASM Heat Treating Society Conference and Exposition in

Detroit.

Olga (Olly) Rowan,

senior engineer in Advanced Mate-

rials Technology, Caterpillar Inc., is recognized “for a strong

combination of extensive carburizing expertise, passion for

advancing the science of heat treatment, and recognized

leadership.”