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Armelle Vardelle, FASM (left), receives
her TSS Hall of Fame plaque from TSS
President Christian Moreau. Vardelle is
distinguished professor and co-chair of
the Department of Materials, Surface
Treatments, and Environment at the
Engineering School of Limoges,
University of Limoges, France. She was
honored for globally recognized con-
tributions to understanding the role of
plasma generation and plasma-particle
interaction on coatings microstructure.
Thomas A. Taylor, FASM (right), was
not present in Shanghai for the awards
ceremony so Ann Bolcavage (left),
TSS treasurer, presented the award to
him at a ceremony at Praxair Surface
Technologies in Indianapolis on
May 5. Taylor, retired fromPraxair, was
honored for significant contributions to
new and novel thermal barrier coating
architectures, and rub tolerant and
MCrAlY coatings for gas and engine
applications.
Kirsten Bobzin, technical chair, presents
an ITSC award to Wen Long Chen for
his poster presentation, “Microstructure
Evolution and Impedance Spectrosco-
py Characterization of Thermal Barrier
Coating Exposed to Gas Thermal-Shock
Environment.”
Amanda Wang (center) receives the Oerlikon Metco Young
Professionals Award fromOerlikon representatives Andreas
Bachmann and Markus Heusser for her presentation, “Three
Dimensional Reconstruction of Plasma Sprayed Ni-20Cr on
Alumina.”
Presenters of the Young Professional Symposium gathered after
the event on May 10.
André McDonaldmakes remarks during
the
JTST
Best Paper Awards Ceremony
during the networking boat cruise on
Wednesday, May 11.