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BOARD NOMINATIONS
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 Uni-
versity 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 the 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 Failure
Analysis Society and the ASMHandbook Committees as well
as the ASM Finance and Investment Committees. He was the
Delaware Valley Metals Man of the Year in 1993, Philadelphia
Liberty Bell Chapter Albert Sauveur Lecturer in 2001, and
Eisenman Night Speaker in 2016. Clauser is also a member
of NSPE, ASTM, NACE, ASME, AFS, and AWS.
Prem K. Aurora
Nominee for Trustee
Prem Kumar Aurora has been
an active member of ASM Interna-
tional since 1986. He received his
bachelor’s degree from Mumbai
University in 1975 and completed
his master of science degree from
Kansas State University in 1978.
His master’s project was on vibra-
tions of anisotropic plates, which
was published in the
Journal of Vibrations
in 1978-79.
Aurora started his career as a design engineer at Chem-
tron Fire Systems in Monee, Ill., and was there for two and a
half years before joining his family business of manufactur-
ing heat treatment furnaces in 1981. During his 36 years in
the industry, Aurora has been involved with major projects
at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Air India, Defence Met-
allurgical Research Labs, Midhani, IIT, ISRO, Tech Institutes,
and others. Projects involved the design and manufacture
of a wide range of furnaces, from laboratory models to com-
puterized SCADA production furnaces.
Aurora has been actively involved as a convenor and
organizing secretary at various conferences and exhibi-
tions in India to present the latest in materials science and
technology to industry participants. These events include
heat treat shows (HTS), materials engineering technology
(MET), melting metallurgy and technology (MELTMETTECH),
transportation materials (TRANSMAT), microstructure anal-
ysis of failure investigation of industries (MAFII) and inter-
national space enabling materials and processes (ISEMP).
Aurora also has the privilege of serving as chairman of three
national institutes—the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM),
Institute of Indian Foundrymen (IIF), and ASM International
India Chapter and India National Council.
Dr. Thomas M. Moore, FASM
Nominee for Trustee
Dr. ThomasM. Moore received
his bachelor’s degree in physics
(1976), and his master’s degree
and Ph.D. in materials science and
engineering (1978, 1981) from the
University of Virginia. He worked
for 21 years in the Texas Instru-
ments (TI) Central Research Labs
where he managed the scanning
electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy,
focused ion beam, and scanning acoustic microscopy labs.
Moore developed and productized the first digital acous-
tic microscope for automated IC package inspection. He
later managed TI’s Silicon Technology Ramp and Advanced
Characterization group during TI’s conversion to copper
and low-k dielectric processes. He left TI as a Distinguished
Member of the technical staff to found Omniprobe in 2001.
Omniprobe was acquired by Oxford Instruments
in 2011. Moore retired from Omniprobe in 2013 and is
now president of Waviks Inc. in Dallas. Waviks devel-
ops advanced characterization processes and tools for
nano-analysis. Moore has been publishing and presenting
at the International Symposium for Testing and Failure
Analysis (ISTFA) since 1989. He also coauthored a chapter
for ASM’s “Microelectronics Failure Analysis Desk Reference”
on Acoustic Microscopy of Semiconductor Packages. Moore
has presented extended tutorials at ISTFA on package anal-
ysis (1996) and acoustic microscopy and x-ray radiography
(1991-1997 and 2007-present, respectively) and served
Clauser
Aurora
Moore