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Suez:
As a partner in Material Advantage, do you believe the
program prepares students to face future challenges?
Frazier:
ASM is a strong supporter of Materials Advantage
(MA). It benefits students in a number of ways, such as pro-
viding a peer forum for students to gain experience work-
ing in a chapter for their common good and giving students
access to content from ASM and our sister societies. I would,
however, like to see a greater number of students convert-
ing to full ASM membership upon graduation and joining
one of our professional chapters. MA chapter members
should know that ASM’s professional chapters welcome stu-
dent participation and engagement on chapter committees.
MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
Symposium Honors Murty at TMS
During the spring TMS annual
meeting in San Diego, a sympo-
siumwas held in honor of
K. Linga
Murty, FASM,
Progress Energy Dis-
tinguished Professor and director
of graduate programs for nuclear
engineering at NC State Univer-
sity. The symposium was titled,
“Mechanical and Creep Behavior
of Advanced Materials.” Murty is
a Fellow of ASM International,
Fellow of the American Nuclear
Society, and Life Fellow and Honorary Member of the Indian
Institute of Metals.
Anderson and Apelian Receive MPIF
Distinguished Service Award
The Metal Powder Industries Fed-
eration’s (MPIF) Awards Committee
announced the recipients of the 2017
MPIF Distinguished Service to Powder
Metallurgy (PM) Award that recognizes
individuals who have actively served
the North American PM industry for at
least 25 years and, in the minds of their
peers, deserve special recognition.
Among the 2017 recipients are
Eric
Iver Anderson, FASM,
Ames Labora-
tory, and
Diran Apelian, FASM,
Wor-
cester Polytechnic Institute. The
awards ceremony will take place on
June 14 during the Powdermet2017
conference in Las Vegas.
Hu Wins Two Awards at Michigan Tech
Yun Hang Hu,
the Charles and
Carroll McArthur Professor of materials
science and engineering at Michigan
Technological University, was awarded
the2017MichiganTechResearchAward
this year for outstanding research
achievements in advanced materials
and clean energy. He also earned the
2017 Bhakta Rath Award with his Ph.D.
student, Wei Wei. This is the first time a faculty member has
won both awards. The Michigan Tech Research Award, the
highest research honor given at the university, commends
Hu’s internationally recognized work. He is well known for
his significant contributions to nanostructured materials,
memristive materials, catalysis, clean energy technology,
and quantum chemistry calculations. The Bhakta Rath
Research Award is a team effort, given out annually to a
Ph.D. student-advisor duo based on the quality and signif-
icance of their work together.
Jarvis Wins Missouri S&T Poster Contest
Groundbreaking research
by dozens of Missouri Univer-
sity of Science and Technology
graduate students was recently
featured at the university’s
eighth annual Graduate Fellows
Research Poster Session. On
March 13, Missouri S&T’s office
of graduate studies recognized the top presentations during
an awards banquet.
Leiren Jarvis,
a Ph.D. student in mate-
rials science and engineering, won first place for his poster,
“Extended Finite Element Modeling of Fracture Behavior
of ZrB2-based Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics.” Jarvis is
investigating ways to make ultra-high temperature ceram-
ics more fracture resistant for use in aerospace applications.
Murty
Anderson
Apelian
Hu
MEMBERS IN THE NEWS