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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 3 5 Robert Madeira is vice president at Inductoheat Inc., Madison Heights, Mich. He attended Lyman Briggs Col- lege at Michigan State University. Fam- ily obligations led to an academic hia- tus, but he returned to school in 1991 and earned a masters in econometrics and finance from the University of De- troit Mercy College. Professionally, Ma- deira’s father-in-law, Robert Ruffini, encouraged him to leave corporate life and work with his start up, Fluxtrol. Madeira worked as a scientist, engineer, manufacturing engineer, and later in sales. Fluxtrol grew to a prosperous enterprise in a span of five years. Startup opportunities have been his passion ever since. They ranged from the growth of the Ad- vanced Applications team at TOCCO, to the reintroduction of Elotherm in America, and growing vital Induction Heating entities in China and Mexico for the InductothermGroup. Robert Cryderman is a research associate professor at Colorado School of Mines (CSM), Golden, Colo. He has been elected to serve on the HTS Board for a second consecutive two-year term as secretary. Cryderman has been as- sociated with the Advanced Steel Pro- cessing and Product Research Center at CSM as a research associate professor since 2013. He re- ceived B.S.E. (1968) and M.S.E. (1970) degrees in metallurgi- cal engineering from the University of Michigan and worked in the steel producing industry in various metallurgical roles until his corporate retirement in 2011. He began at Climax Molybdenum Company (Ann Arbor, Mich.) in 1965, moved to J&L Steel (Pittsburgh) in 1973, to CF&I Steel in 1982, and to Northstar Steel in 1996. Cryderman has published over 30 papers and received nine U.S. patents. Noah Tietsort is an undergrad- uate student studying materials sci- ence and engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is also a metallurgical engineer intern at Arconic Forgings, and was formerly an undergraduate research assistant at Case’s Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension Center. On campus, he has served on the executive board for the Case Engineers Council and the Undergraduate Materials Society. Tietsort’s interests in materials science include metallurgy, pyrometry, and ma- terials characterization. HEAT TREATING SOCIETY NEWS Michael Brant is a metallurgical engineer at Contour in Indianapolis, a thermal processor and system builder that specializes in induction and nitrid- ing heat treatment processes. Brant develops and improves heat treatment procedures for contract processing, as well as R&D applications, manag- es quality control for onsite metallur- gical testing, and leads the development and application of magnetic particle inspection. Michael has achieved a Level II Magnetic Particle Qualification of Nondestructive Testing and a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. He is excit- ed to accept the appointment as an Emerging Professional Member on the HTS Board of Directors in order to better serve his customers and provide better leadership to his team at Contour. M C CURDY RECEIVES 2019 GEORGE BODEEN HEAT TREATING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Daniel W. McCurdy, president, Automotive & General Industrial HT – North America & Asia, Bodycote, Montgomery, Ohio, is the recipient of the 2019 George H. Bodeen Heat Treat- ing Achievement Award. Established in 1996, the award recognizes distin- guished and significant contributions to the field of heat treating through leadership, management, or engineering development of substantial commercial impact. McCurdy is recognized “for leadership in the advancement of commercial heat treat- ment and metal joining across North America and around the world.” McCurdy graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1977 with a B.S. inmetallurgical engineering. During college, he held a co-op position at Xtek Inc. After graduating, he was hired there as a process metallurgist and had the opportu- nity to install one of the first commercially available oxygen sensors in a batch IQ furnace. In 1980, he moved on to Cin- cinnati Steel Treating as the plant’s quality manager, where he experimented with oxygen probes in depth. Eventually Cincinnati Steel Treating, through a new Instrument Sys- tems subdivision headed by McCurdy, developed a micro- processor-based instrumentation to allow the full potential of oxygen probes to be available to the North American heat treating community. This business was acquired from Cin- cinnati Steel Treating in 1983 by Marathon Monitors Inc. Mc- Curdy joined Marathon as the vice president of technology and oversaw the development of new instruments, as well