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of Pennsylvania in 1981 and currently holds P.E. licenses in
eight states. Schmidt has earned the National Council of
Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) designa-
tion as a Model Law Engineer.
Craig D. Clauser
Nominee for Treasurer
Craig D. Clauser is president
and owner of Craig Clauser Engi-
neering Consulting Inc., which he
founded in 2005. The company
provides metallurgical engineer-
ing services nationwide, primar-
ily in failure analysis and process
improvement.
Clauser is a magna cum
laude graduate of Lehigh Univer-
sity with a B.S. and M.S. in metallurgical engineering and
materials science and is a registered professional engineer.
He joined Westinghouse Electric Power Generation as a
metallurgical engineer in the Materials Engineering Labora-
tory after graduating and subsequently became laboratory
manager. The laboratory serviced the Steam Turbine, Gas
Turbine, and Heat Transfer Divisions at Lester, Pa. In 1977,
Clauser joined Phoenix Steel Corp. where he served as tech-
nical director. Phoenix produced carbon and alloy plate
in Claymont, Del., and heavy wall, pilger forged tubing in
Phoenixville, Pa., and was a leader in clean steel technology.
In 1986, he joined Consulting Engineers and Scientists Inc.
in Malvern, Pa., where he was an engineer and senior vice
president until starting his own firm.
Clauser joined ASM in 1967 and was Philadelphia
Chapter Chairman in 1983. He also served as chairman of
the ASM Chapter Operations Committee and the Handbook
Committee. He is currently a member of the ASM Content,
Failure Analysis, and Handbook Committees as well as the
ASM Finance and Investment Committees. He was the Dela-
ware Valley Metals Man of the Year in 1993 and Philadelphia
Liberty Bell Chapter Albert Sauveur Lecturer in 2001. Clauser
is also a member of NSPE, ASTM, NACE, ASME, and AWS.
Larry D. Hanke, P.E., FASM
Nominee for Trustee
Larry D. Hanke, P.E. FASM,
is the principal engineer and
founder of Materials Evaluation
and Engineering Inc. in Minneap-
olis. The company provides mate-
rials engineering and product
testing services to manufacturers
and end-users for a wide variety
of industries, including medical
devices, microelectronics, power
Clauser
Hanke
publications, edited six books, and holds two U.S. Patents.
He was inducted as an ASM Fellow in 1996, and served as an
ASM Trustee from 2003-2007. He has also served on numer-
ous committees including the AeroMat Committee and the
Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee. Currently he
serves as an associate editor for the
Journal of Materials
Engineering and Performance
and he is a key reader for
Met-
allurgical and Materials Transactions A.
Dr. Frederick E. Schmidt, Jr.,
P.E., FASM
Nominee for Vice President
Dr. Frederick E. Schmidt, Jr.,
P.E., FASM, retired in 2015 after 17
years as a senior managing con-
sultant at Engineering Systems
Inc. (ESI). He served as technical
director of materials engineer-
ing at ESI for many years. He was
responsible for a very broad pro-
fessional engineering practice,
which used interdisciplinary teamwork with clients and
other experts while working to solve complex “mission
impossible” problems. Prior to ESI, he served as chief met-
allurgist for Remington Arms, a subsidiary of E.I. DuPont
De Nemours. He designed and specified all materials, coat-
ings, and processes for advanced weapons, i.e., Navy SEALs,
sniper firearms, commercial products, and ammunition
optimization for the U.S. Army.
Schmidt was employed by DuPont from 1972 to 1993
as an R&D coordinator of inter-department projects at the
Experimental Station, Wilmington, Del. He was appointed a
research fellow in 1989 in recognition of his creative solu-
tions to proprietary electronic and materials processing
quality control issues. He was also the designated liaison
to the engineering development laboratory and DuPont
legal department tasked to invent unique products and
processes.
Schmidt was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1968.
He served for 12 years in various command positions, as a
combat qualified reserve officer, and retired in 1980 as Cap-
tain in the Corps of Engineers.
Schmidt is a Fellow of ASM International and Alpha
Sigma Mu, where he currently serves as president and chair-
man of the Board of Trustees, since 2010. He served on the
ASM Board of Trustees from 2004-2007 as well as the ASM
Materials Education Foundation Board as Trustee from
2007-2010. Schmidt received the ASM International Allan
Ray Putnam Service Award in 1991 and the William Hunt
Eisenman Award in 2015. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in materi-
als science and engineering from Drexel University, and a
B.S. in metallurgical engineering from Drexel Institute of
Technology. He became a professional engineer in the State
Schmidt