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VOLUNTEERISM COMMITTEE
ASM Materials
Education Foundation
Names National Merit
Scholar
The ASMMaterials Education
Foundation selected Helen He
as its 2016 ASM Materials Educa-
tion Foundation National Merit
Scholar. Helen will graduate from
William P. Clements High School,
Sugar Land, Texas, in 2016. She
was selected based on outstanding academic achieve-
ments, diverse activities, and her interest in pursuing a
career in materials engineering.
VOLUNTEERISM
COMMITTEE
Profile of a Volunteer
Warren Haws, Consultant, Retired
from Materion R&D
After 40 years of volunteer-
ing for ASM, Warren Haws laughs
and explains, “When I first came
to Cleveland, someone asked me
to volunteer—and nobody ever
asked me to stop!” He is now
retired from a successful career
in materials engineering, working
in research and development for Glidden Metals and then
Brush Wellman (now Materion) as an expert in beryllium
and aluminum-beryllium used in space and aerospace for
its stiff, lightweight, and nuclear properties.
Haws first joined ASM in 1969 as an undergrad at Pur-
due University, where he also earned his Ph.D. After moving
to Cleveland in 1976, he quickly got involved in the local
Chapter’s student affairs committee and began judging sci-
ence fairs. He never stopped. Haws has gone through the
chairman cycle twice, helped organize the 75th Chapter
anniversary celebration (now working on the 100th), served
on numerous committees including the National Chapter
Council, became an ASM Fellow in 2004, and was added to
the Volunteer Honor Roll in 2014.
Teaching is another passion for Haws, from college
computer classes in the 1980s to his current role leading
ASM classes at various sites, from Houston to the Canadian
Nuclear Laboratories. After retiring in 2009, Haws started
a consulting business and currently advises a client on 3D
printing of metals, helping to improve methods for layering
metals and creating complicated parts.
Asked why he continues to volunteer with ASM, he is
quick to say, “I just enjoy it! I’ve had a lot of fun with stu-
dent affairs and seeing young kids at science fairs, with
some later going into metallurgy. I feel a need to give back.”
Haws still remembers winning a school science fair and how
it inspired him. He encourages other professionals to give
back, even simply judging a science fair once a year. “I’d like
to see corporate cultures support volunteering,” he says,
“and realize the value to the community.”
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING
This new profile series introduces
leading materials scientists from
around the world who happen to
be females. Here we speak with
Lesley D. Frame,
Director of Prod-
uct Development for Thermatool
Corp.
What part of your job do
you like most?
Learning. Every day that I am
faced with technical challenges
and opportunities is a good day. Being able to interact
with customers to hear their challenges and the ways that
they are pushing Thermatool equipment to the extremes is
always very exciting for me—that is where innovation starts.
I listen to the customer and I merge their requests and con-
cerns with my skill and knowledge. From there we jointly
develop new products, new processes, and drive improve-
ments to industry norms.
What is your engineering background?
I fell in love with materials engineering when I was at
MIT earning my bachelor’s degree, and I decided to stick
with the field for the long haul (earning my M.S. and Ph.D.
at University of Arizona). I think the reason I appreciate MSE
somuch stems frommy desire to focus on the fundamentals
and then zoom out to the application. Studying materials
from the atomic arrangements up to the steel bridges and
titanium fan blades is wonderful.
I have mostly focused on metallurgy and slag systems,
which necessarily includes glasses and ceramics. I also have
a keen interest in geology, and throughout my education, I
had one foot in archaeology. As a student, I studied ancient
technologies alongside modern metallurgical questions
and phenomena. You can really learn a lot about a process
when you painstakingly reconstruct it based on a finished
product.
In my current position, I use the same strategies for
modern technologies and processes. I enjoy working with
He
Haws
Frame