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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 9 7 5 MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Jones Receives Honorary Title RogerA.Jones,FASM, wasaward- ed the title of CEO emeritus by Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa. Jones announced his semiretirement as the company’s CEO, culminating 45 years of leadership and service to the vac- uum heat treating industry. A graduate of Hocking Technical College, Jones began his professional career in the heat treating industry at Abar Corp. Following that, he joined Vacuum Furnace Systems Corp. In 1983, he assisted in founding Solar Atmospheres Inc., serving as vice president until 1993. Jones was promoted to president in 2001 and CEO in June 2017. He has served as an ASM trustee and president of ASM’s Heat Treating Society. Teledyne Names Mehrabian Executive Chairman Robert Mehrabian, FASM, be- came the new executive chairman of Teledyne Technologies Inc. on the first of this year. In his new role, he will remain actively involved with the company with a focus on strategy, technology, mergers and acquisitions, and margin expansion programs. After nearly 38 years of operational leader- ship and integration of 59 company acquisitions, his employment contract has been extended an additional four years to December 2023. Mehrabian was the seventh president of Carnegie Mellon University from 1990 to 1997, and he is a lifetime member of ASM, and a member of the ASM Los Angeles Chapter. Smialek Retires from NASA Glenn James L. Smialek, FASM, recent- ly retired as a senior research scien- tist after 50 years with NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. He worked on high temperature oxidation of aerospace materials and contrib- uted to the widespread use of ultra-low 0.2% sulfur single crystal superalloy turbine blades. He authored nearly 200 journal articles, research papers, patents, and book chapters, including ASM Handbooks, for which he was awarded two NASAMedals for Exceptional Sci- Jones Mehrabian Smialek entific Achievement. He served in various roles in the ASM Cleveland Chapter, received its Distinguished Career Award, and last April presented the honorary Zay Jeffries lecture on “The Remarkable Performance of Protective α -Al 2 O 3 Scales.” Smialek received his Ph.D. in metallurgy and mate- rials science from Case Western Reserve University in 1981. Mahoney Joins Manufacturing Board William T. Mahoney, CEO of ASM International, was recently named a director on the board of the Intelli- gent Manufacturing Systems Interna- tional Inc. (IMSI). IMSI is a non-profit industry-led program established to advance manufacturing and help man- ufacturers research and adopt the next generation of processing technologies through the ManuVation program. Mahoney was one of several experts invited to join the reconstituted board in order to support the IMSI ManuVation and World Manufacturing Forum pro- grams. New board members were selected based on their experience in advanced manufacturing technologies, busi- ness development, education, and finance. Arroyave’s Machine Learning Funded by NSF Raymundo Arroyave is part of a Texas A&M engineering research team that is harnessing the power of machine learning, data science, and the domain knowledge of experts to autonomously discover new materi- als. Arroyave and his team developed an algorithm that can work with very little initial data, making it ideal for new materials research. Their autono- mous framework is capable of adaptively picking the best machine learning models to find the optimal material to fit any given criteria. Funded by the National Science Foun- dation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, their research aims to reduce the time and cost spent going from lab to market. Arroyave is currently chair of ASM’s Alloy Phase Diagram Committee. Arroyave Mahoney