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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 | A P R I L 2 0 1 9 2 9 in six departments by 1995. Edward H. Cooley, the founder and longtime pres- ident of investment casting giant Pre- cision Castparts Corp., served as OGI’s chairman of the board in the 1990s. Fourteen metallurgical research projects and $4M in funding came to- gether in 1991 to create the Oregon Metals Initiative, which OGI shared with Oregon State University [14] . Half the funding came from the United States Bureau of Mines (USBM) and the other half from state lottery revenue and the metals industries. OGI’s projects, led by Wood, included weld design prac- tices for railcars, contamination in cast parts, fatigue crack propagation in superalloy engine components, and modeling of alloy microstructures and properties. Devletian won a three-year con- tract with a U.S. Navy contractor worth $55K to design filler materials for weld- ing high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steels in 1991 [15] . HSLA steels were un- der consideration as a cost-effective substitute for conventional steels in both naval and aerospace applications. Devletian saw HSLA steels as having the potential to be welded with little or no pre-heating, and less stringent controls than higher-alloy steels. The American Welding Society awarded Devletian its 1990 A.F. Davis Silver Medal for outstanding contribu- tions to the progress of welding [16] . The award was based on a paper written by Devletian and two of his graduate stu- dents [17] . The team investigated electro- slag surfacing, a cladding method for maritime applications that improved corrosion resistance of the substrate and could be applied 80% faster than submerged arc methods. Wood stepped down as MS&E chairman temporarily in 1994 to devote his time to developing the Center for the Application of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Concepts at OGI [18] . His 16 years as department head was an OGI record. Meanwhile, OGI in- troduced a master’s degree in manage- ment in science and technology (MST) in conjunction with the Atkinson Grad- uate School of Management at Willa- mette University in Salem, Oregon. The MST program became the most popular on campus by 2001 [19] . Wood returned as MS&E chairman in 1995. Devle- tian served as chairman of the Oregon Chapter of ASM in 1995-1996. Other MS&E faculty in the late 1990s included professors David G. At- teridge, Martin Becker, and Paul Clay- ton; associate professors Lemmy I. Meekisho and Malgorzata “Margaret” Ziomek-Moroz; and assistant professors Milton R. Scholl and Jack McCarthy (d. 2011) [20] . Clayton also served as pro- vost and vice president for academic affairs, and as interim president brief- ly in 1998. Scholl and McCarthy earned their doctorates in MS&E at OGI in 1987 and 1996, respectively. Adjunct facul- ty included Prof. Khalid H. Khan of the University of Portland (UP), and the re- search staff included senior research en- gineer Robert Turpin. Before UP, Khan served as director of OGC’s electron mi- croscopy facility from 1975-1979. Atteridge brought in several DOE-funded projects and along with Meekisho developed computer model- ing efforts to supplement the research