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HIGHL IGHTS 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 | F E B R U A R Y / M A R C H 2 0 1 8 7 7 IN MEMORIAM Armed Services Turn to UCF for AM Help The U.S. Army and the U.S. Office of Naval Research have turned to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to help push the limits of additive man- ufacturing (AM). Investing $5 million in grants over the next 5 years, the armed services are inter- ested in seeing the industry advance, as AM is used to 3D print aircraft and naval ships. Yongho Sohn, FASM, a Peg- asus Professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the materials character­ ization facility at UCF, is overcoming the challenges as- sociated with using metallic alloys and exploring the development of new alloys for some unique applications required by Army and Navy. Sohn, a member of the ASM Phase Diagram Committee, is collaborating with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Rajiv Mishra, FASM, from the University of North Texas. IN MEMORIAM David E. Hendrix, 65, passed away on January 25. He was born on October 25, 1952, in Knox- ville, Tenn., and attended Bradshaw High School in Florence, Ala. He graduated with honors from the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering. Academic honors included dean’s list and selection to the Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Sigma Mu engineering honor societ- ies. Hendrix was a member of numerous technical associations, including ASM International, NACE, and SPE. He was founder and president of The Hendrix Group, a metallurgical engineering con- sulting company offering services both nationally and internationally. Hendrix held several officer positions with the ASM Houston Chapter, including chair in 2007. He also served as ASM’s Chapter Council Representative for District IV and was chair of Chapter Council in 2006. Francis Paul “Frank” Johnson, 84, of Titusville, Pa., passed away on December 31, 2017. Born on September 22, 1933, he was a graduate of LaSalle Academy in New York City. He attended City College of New York and New York University, and then pursued a career in accounting. Johnson worked for several large companies in the New York City area before becoming executive vice pres- ident of Electralloy, in Oil City, Pa., from 1968 to 1982. He was the founder and president of Center- ville Castings Inc. and also Therma-Fab Inc., where he worked until his retirement in 2011. Baldev Raj, FASM, passed away on January 7 in Pune, India, at age 71. Since 2014, he served as director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bengaluru. Prior to NIAS, Raj was director of the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research in Kalpakkam. He recently headed a major Ministry of Defense task force to ensure India’s self-reliance regarding strategicmaterials needed for defense applications. In 2010, he was named an ASM Fellow “for pioneering contributions to non- destructive testing of nuclear reactor materials and for the development of technologies for fast- breeder reactors.” Raj was a member of the ASM Bangalore Chapter. He previously served on the Executive Committee of the ASM Chennai Chapter and on the former ASM International Committee. Raj Johnson Hendrix