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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 | O C T O B E R 2 0 1 8 4 4  IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM Julia Randall Weertman, FASM, Walter P. Murphy Professor Emerita of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 92 on July 31. She will be remembered as a dedicated teacher, pioneering researcher, and valued colleague. She was the first female student of the College of Science and Engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where she earned baccalaureate and graduate degrees. In 1987, she was appointed chair of Northwestern’s MSE department, becoming the first woman in the U.S. to head a materials science department. She was winner of the 2005 ASM Gold Medal and earned ASM Honorary Membership in 2011. She presented the ASM/TMS Distinguished Lec- tureship in Materials and Society at MS&T on “Economics, Materials and Materials Scientists” in 2012. Weertman was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband Johannes, who also taught at Northwestern, have been valued supporters of the ASM Foundation. Bruno C. De Cooman, vice president of R&D and Innovation at Novolipetsk Steel, died tragically in Moscow in August. He also served as a professor and director of the Materials Design Lab at the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea, and was a former professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and applied physics from Cornell University. A Fellow of AIST, De Cooman gave the AIST Adolf Marten Memorial Steel Lecture at MS&T17 in Pittsburgh on the topic “Mechanical Twinning in Formable Advanced Ultra-High Strength Steel.” Known worldwide as an expert on advanced steel processing and products, he organized the first International Conference on TRIP-Aided High Strength Ferrous Alloys in 2002. De Cooman was also a content contributor to various ASM Handbooks and journals. Prof. Hans M. Tensi, formerly at the Technical University of Munich, died after a long ill- ness. Known for his lasting contributions to the fundamentals of quenching technology, much of his work has been memorialized in “Theory and Technology of Quenching,” which he co- edited along with B. Lišcic and W. Luty. Tensi was a Fellow of ASM International and the Inter- national Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE). In 2001, both groups cohosted the International Conference on Quenching and Control of Distortion in Honor of Professors Lišcic and Tensi in Indianapolis. While serving on the IFHTSE Quenching and Cooling Committee, he was a key contributor in the development of ISO 9950:1995 and as a member of the ASM Quenching and Cooling Committee, his research was the basis for the develop- ment of the ASTM Standard D6482-06 coined the Tensi Method. He assisted his colleague Prof. Joseph Kaiser in developing the Kaiser Effect on the use of acoustic emission technology for materials characterization. Thomas M. Costello of North Canton, Ohio, passed away on August 13 at age 81. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1936 and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1965 with a B.S. degree in metallurgical science. He worked in research and development at Crucible Inc. for 27 years. He moved his family to Canton in 1983 and retired from Canton Drop Forge in 2001. He was a member of the ASM Canton-Massillon Chapter. Weertman Costello De Cooman Tensi