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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 | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 9 4 2 William E. Frazier, FASM, traveled to Maryland to be on hand for Prof. Dieter’s birthday celebration, representing ASM International and the ASMMaterials Education Foundation. MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Dieter Honored at 90 George E. Dieter, FASM, was looking spry, yet hum- bled, during a celebration in his honor at the University of Maryland (UM), on December 5, 2018, his 90th birthday. The event celebrated his career as a true legend and icon in the materials science profession. Prof. Dieter authored “Mechanical Metallurgy,” which became a primer for stu- dents for decades and went into a third edition. The fes- tive gathering combined briefings on a social engineering course Dieter championed along with the birthday cele- bration. At UM, students are required to reach out to non- profit organizations. During the party, Dean Darryll J. Pines announced that the governor of Maryland will name the materials engineering laboratory after Prof. Dieter. The uni- versity will make further announcements about the naming ceremony in the spring. tion by the Audubon Society, which presented him with its Joan Hodges Queneau Palladium Medal in 2015. Apelian is immediate past chair of the ASM Materials Education Foun- dation Board. Apelian Named WPI Innovator of the Year Diran Apelian, FASM, received Worcester Polytech- nic Institute’s (WPI) 2018 Innovator of the Year Award. He is known for establishing the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3) in 2010 and founding the Metal Pro- cessing Institute in 1996, both of which serve his passion for repurposing metal and other materials. Apelian, the Alcoa-Howmet Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WPI, is the first faculty member to receive the award, which was launched in 2011 to recognize graduates and friends of the university who have demonstrated exemplary accomplish- ments as innovators. The award was presented on Novem- ber 1, 2018, at a ceremony on campus, which included an address by Apelian, an internationally recognized authority on metallurgy and recycling. The work of CR3 led to recogni- Heintz MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Heintz Becomes Technical Fellow Amy Heintz, a research leader at Battelle, has been promoted to the newly created Technical Fellow posi- tion in the organization. She will col- laborate across industry, academia, and within Battelle to advance the company’s materials science-based offerings in ways that transform gov- ernment and commercial industries. She has 15 U.S. patents with more than 15 pending, and was named Battelle’s first female Inven- tor of the Year in 2016. Her research focuses on dissimilar interfaces, organizing materials to tune adhesion, adsorp- tion, and electron, phonon, or gas transport. Heintz earned a Ph.D. in polymer science and engineering from the Uni- versity of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently serves on ASM’s Finance Committee. Singh Receives Funding Dileep Singh, FASM, Argonne principal investigator and senior mate- rials scientist in the applied materials division, recently had his energy effi- ciency research project infused with $380,000 from the DOE Technology Commercialization Fund. Argonne and Capstone Turbine Corp. were awarded the funds to refine a high efficiency, fast charging/discharging latent heat thermal energy stor- age system for use in building applications and processing/ manufacturing industries. Singh is vice chair of ASM’s Jour- nal of Materials Engineering and Performance Committee. Singh