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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 | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 1 7
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Frances Richards, Editor-in-Chief
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Contributing Editors
Jim Pallotta, Creative Director
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Jan Nejedlik, Layout and Design
Kelly Sukol, Production Manager
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Press Release Editor
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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Somuri Prasad, Chair, Sandia National Lab
Adam Farrow, Vice Chair, Los Alamos National Lab
Jaimie Tiley, Past Chair, U.S. Air Force Research Lab
Ellen Cerreta, Board Liaison, Los Alamos
National Lab
Tomasz Chojnacki, Caterpillar Inc.
Mario Epler, Carpenter Technology Corp.
Yaakov Idell, NIST
Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National
College of Technology
John Shingledecker, EPRI
Kumar Sridharan, University of Wisconsin
ASMBOARDOF TRUSTEES
William E. Frazier, President
Frederick E. Schmidt, Jr., Vice President
Jon D. Tirpak, Immediate Past President
Craig D. Clauser, Treasurer
Ellen K. Cerreta
Kathryn Dannemann
Ryan M. Deacon
Larry D. Hanke
Roger A. Jones
Sudipta Seal
Tirumalai S. Sudarshan
David B. Williams
John D. Wolodko
William T. Mahoney, Secretary and
Managing Director
STUDENT BOARDMEMBERS
Swetha Barkam, Allison Fraser, Rachael Stewart
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As part of the ongoing ASM Renewal effort, all ASM
staff members recently took part in a two-day training
program. Along with some teambuilding exercises
and conversations, we also learned new listening and story-
telling skills. As one of our coaches said, howmany of us have
had any formal listening training? When this question was
posed, nobody raised their hand—yet being a good listener
can work wonders in both personal and business settings.
During the offsite training retreat, we all practiced gather-
ing stories from each other and repeating them back to make sure we understood
the point of the story. These were useful exercises and I can certainly think of a few
friends and colleagues who could benefit fromupping their listening game. All in all,
the session seemed to go well and the teambuilding aspect was amajor benefit.
Speaking of teamwork, sometimes the best opportunities seem to arise
from challenges of all sizes. Be sure to check out the ad hoc pit crew story on
page 65 starring Ravi Ravindran and other members of the ASM Nominating
Committee. To peak your interest, let’s just say it begs the question, “How many
materials engineers does it take to change a tire?”
Also in this issue are other prime examples of groups of people working to-
gether. For one, consider our quarterly newsletters. Both HTPro and iTSSe are
included in this special double issue of AM&P. These newsletters are definitely
a team effort and we couldn’t produce them without the help of key industry
insiders in both the ASM Heat Treating Society (HTS) and ASM Thermal Spray
Society (TSS). Within HTS, we have an R&D Committee chaired by Mike Persh-
ing and formerly by Aquil Ahmad. These leaders, along with a very active group
of members, provide technical insights, editorial direction, and state-of-the-art
manuscripts about today’s heat treating environment. The same holds true for
TSS. Charlie Kay is instrumental as an editor and advisor for iTSSe and encour-
ages others, such as Chris Berndt in this issue, to provide current and insightful
articles on the state of thermal spray. These publications simply would not be
possible without this kind of collaboration.
As another example of teamwork in this issue, see the advanced high-
strength steel update beginning on page 25. This article highlights an industry
partnership involving Chrysler, GM, and Ford, and its progress on the collabora-
tive development of lightweight automotive metals. Also involved in the effort
are Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Brown University, The Ohio State
University, the University of Illinois, Colorado School of Mines, Clemson Univer-
sity, AK Steel, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Auto/Steel Partnership. In
short, the team has developed two new high-performance alloys and scaled up
its steelmaking process to produce large heats. Again, this kind of groundbreak-
ing research would not be possible without bright minds from several key indus-
try players working together toward a common goal.
If your organization has been involved in teambuilding or listening training,
we’d like to hear your thoughts on the matter and see if you’ve noticed positive
results. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy our double issue!
TEAMWORK! TEAMWORK!
THAT’S WHAT COUNTS!