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FEATURE 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 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 5 2 HTS NAMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2019 The Heat Treating Society (HTS) board, at the recom- mendation of the HTS Awards and Nominations Commit- tee, named new officers including Lesley Frame to serve as vice president for the 2019-2021 term; Douglas Puerta and Robert Madeira to serve on the HTS Board for the 2019- 2022 term; Michael Brant to serve as emerging professional board member for the 2019-2020 term; and Noah Tietsort to serve a second term as student board member for the 2019-2020 term. Robert Cryderman has been reappointed to serve a second term as secretary during 2019-2021. Terms begin October 1. Continuing on the board are Benjamin Bernard, Chuck Faulkner (member), Marc Glasser (mem- ber), Fred Hamizadeh (member), Deidra Minerd (mem- ber), and Thomas Wingens (member). Jim Oakes becomes past president and Eric Hutton becomes president on October 1. Leaving the board are SteveKowalski (past presi- dent), JosephPowell (member), OlgaRowan (member),and Joseph Fignar (emerging professional boardmember). Eric Hutton is vice president of operations, Aerospace, Defense and Energy (ADE) North America East for Bodycote International. He is responsi- ble for sales and operations for Body- cote aerospace plants located in New England, Ohio, and South Carolina. Be- fore joining Bodycote ADE in 2015, he served as vice president of operations for Bodycote’s North American automotive businesses. His B.A. in marketing is from Bob Jones University, Greenville, H T EATING SOCIETY NEWS 4 S.C., and his M . S . M . from Walsh College of Accountancy, Troy, Mich. Hutton has 20 years of experience in commercial heat treating, and his background in the automotive and aerospace industries and executive experience with Body- cote provide a valuable foundation for being part of the HTS leadership. He has been involved with HTS activities for many years, including the Heat Treat Conference & Exposi- tion and HTS committees, and is a member of the ASM De- troit Chapter. Lesley Frame is an assistant pro- fessorinthematerialsscienceandengi- neering department at the University of Connecticut. Prior to UConn, she was an associate professor in technol- ogy management at the University of Bridgeport. Before her academic ca- reer, she spent five years at Thermatool Corp. in East Haven, Conn., as director of product develop- ment and manager of materials engineering and product development. Frame received her B.S. from the department of materials science and engineering at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the Universi- ty of Arizona (UA) in the same field. She remained at UA as a postdoctoral researcher with The Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy. In 2011, Frame conducted research at Car- diff University and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory as a Fulbright Scholar. Frame is chair of the Heat Treat Society Technology and Programing Committee and chair of ASM’s Women in Materials Engineering Committee. Douglas Puerta is CEO at Stack Metallurgical Group, Portland, Ore. Puerta earned his B.A. in chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College in 1995 and his M.S. in materials science andengineering fromLehighUniversity in 1997. He held engineering positions at Ion Bond, PMI, and Buehler Ltd., be- fore joining IMR Test Labs in 2002 as manager of metallurgical services and later was promoted to director of metallurgical engineering. In 2008, he became the laboratory director for IMR KHA – Portland. Puerta com- pleted a joint MBA program through Cornell University and Queen’s University in 2009. In 2017, he moved into manufac- turing as operations manager with Precision Castparts. He returned to heat treating in 2018 as CEO of the Stack Metal- lurgical Group. Puerta has served as chair of ASM’s Twin Tier Chapter, treasurer of the ASMOregon Chapter, and president of ASM’s Thermal Spray Society. One cannot overestimate the importance of numerical computermodeling capabilities inour highly digitizedworld. Some commercial software packages enable users to create highly specialized proprietary application software (apps), which can be included into equipment packages. Such apps are already a reality, because some induction manufactur- ers have incorporated proprietary software tools into their equipment packages. There is a strong indication that this tendency will continue to grow. The ASM Heat Treating Society’s Research and Devel- opment Committee currently is working on the Heat Treat R&D Roadmap 2030, which will help identify and categorize technology development pathways for cost efficient, envi- ronmentally friendly, and globally competitive heat treat technologies andmaterials. Valery Rudnev, FASM, IFHTSE Fellow Director, Science and Technology, Inductoheat Inc. (continued from page 2)