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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 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8 7 8 MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Berndt Leads Australian Training Facility SME Honors Beaman Joseph J. Beaman was recog- nized in June for contributions to manufacturing research at the annual North American Manufacturing Re- search Institution of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (NAMR/SME) in Texas. Beaman received the 2018 NAMR/SME S.M. Wu Research Imple- mentation Award. He is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow of SME and ASME. Beaman’s specific interest is in solid freeform fabrication, and one of its approaches, selec- tive laser sintering, was developed in his laboratory. Sherman: The Titanium Man Russell Gordon Sherman, FASM, aka The Titanium Man, was featured this summer in the Santa Monica Daily Press. His claim to fame, according to the article, is his R&D around alloys and heat treating protocols for the titanium industry. At age 92, he recently earned a lifetime achievement award from the International Titanium Association. Sherman’s research helped pioneer high volume production of titanium aerospace fasteners during the Cold War. He was hired at Howard Hughes’ aero- space company to work on the Surveyor, the first vehicle to land on the moon. Later he worked for Boeing on titanium fasteners. He still consults in the titanium industry, lending a helping hand in automotive parts for colleagues in the southern U.S. Henthorne Receives NACE Award Michael Henthorne, a 50-year member of ASM, came out of retire- ment managing U.S. forging compa- nies to write a paper, “The Slow Strain Rate Stress Corrosion Cracking Test - A 50 Year Retrospective,” which appeared in the NACE Corrosion journal and sub- sequently was awarded their Best Paper of the Year. He created the SSRT during his Ph.D. research at the Univer- sity of Newcastle, U.K. For the past 40 years, it has remained the most widely used test for studying stress corrosion cracking worldwide. Henthorne received his award at the NACE annual meeting in Phoenix in April. Schafrik Sherman Henthorne  MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Christopher C. Berndt, FASM, TSS-HoF, has been selected to lead the new Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre in Surface Engineering for Advanced Mate- rials (SEAM). The center was awarded funding by the ARC and matching partners totaling more than $8.39 million. The core Australian university partners are Swinburne Uni- versity, where Berndt is a distinguished professor, along with the University of South Australia, and RMIT University. Berndt is an ASM past president, TSS past president, and former editor of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology. Ryan Named Board Chair at Michigan Tech Brenda Ryan was selected by the Michigan Techno- logical University’s Board of Trustees to serve as their new chair. Ryan is president and owner of Ryan Industries Inc. in Wixom, Mich., and Alliance Industries LLC in Springfield, Miss. She earned a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engi- neering from Michigan Tech and a master’s in materials sci- ence and engineering from the University of Virginia. She joined the board in 2015, serving two years as vice chair. Governor Selects Schafrik for Grant Award Robert Schafrik, FASM, was selected as a recipient of the Gover- nor’s University Research Initiative (GURI) grant awards. The GURI pro- gram is one of Governor Greg Abbott’s priorities in recent legislation to bring the best and brightest researchers to Texas. Schafrik joined the University of Texas at Arlington in February. His expertise is being used to support the university’s technol- ogy commercialization efforts with corporate partners and start-ups to bring new technologies directly to consumers through the development of the Arlington Innovation Cen- ter. The university was awarded a matching GURI grant totaling $2 million. Beaman