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iTSSe TSS 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 U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 1 9 4 3 iTSSe TSS 3 SOCIETY NEWS ASM THERMAL SPRAY SOCIETY AWARDEES HONORED AT ITSC 2019 During the International Thermal Spray Conference (ITSC) in Yokohama, Japan, several Thermal Spray Society awards were presented during ceremonies held on May 27. Hall of Fame Awardees Two professors and an industry leader in thermal spray technology were inducted into the Thermal Spray Hall of Fame (HoF) at ITSC. Congratulations to the 2019 inductees: Chang-Jiu Li, FASM, is a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and vice director of State Key Laborato- ry for Mechanical Behavior of Materials. Li received his B.S. degree from the mechanical department of Xi’an Ji- aotong University in 1982. He received his master’s degree in engineering in 1986 and Ph.D. in 1989, both fromOsaka University, Japan. His research interests include coating mi- crostructure development and design for high performance applications, TBCs, and SOFCs. Li has published over 600 aca- demic papers and served as associate editor of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology since 2012. Li is recognized “for significant contributions to the glob- al thermal spray community in the understanding of coating formation, microstructural features and property relation- ships that permit high performance applications of thermal spray processes.” JavadMostaghimi, FASM, is apro- fessor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at theUniver- sity of Toronto and director of the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies. He received his B.S. degree from Sharif University, Iran, in 1974, and M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, in 1978 and 1982, respectively. Before joining the University of Toronto in 1990, Mostaghimi held positions at Pratt &Whitney Canada and the chemical engineering department at the Uni- versity of Sherbrooke in Quebec. He has done extensive simu- lations of the dynamics of droplet impact and solidification in thermal spray processes, as well as the design of novel DC and RF plasma torches. Mostaghimi is recognized “for pioneering the modeling of impact, spreading, splashing, and solidification of molten droplets in thermal spray that represent the most basic for- mation processes of coatings.” Richard Schmid, born and raised in South Africa, is the Metco chief tech- nology officer in the Oerlikon Surface Solutions Segment. Schmid graduated from the Uni- versity of the Witwatersrand, Johan- nesburg, with an engineering degree in metallurgy and minerals processing. In 1986, he moved to Switzerland to join Sulzer Corporate R&D in the Winterthur tribology group, while completing his Ph.D. at the Federal In- stitute of Technology in Zurich. In 2000, he moved to the U.S. as head of the Sulzer Metco Coatings Solution Organization division inWestbury, N.Y. In 2006, he returned toWinterthur as the chief technology officer of the Sulzer Metco division. Schmid is recognized “for innovative technical contribu- tions to abradable and tribological coatings, for development and commercialization of cascade plasma technologies, plas- ma spray PVD and leadership in thermal spray research, edu- cation and applications.” Li Mostaghimi Schmid The Yokohama Landmark Sky Garden provided a picturesque city view during the Tuesday networking event.