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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 | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 0 6 1 CHAPTERS IN THE NEWS Canada-Wide Virtual Event Dr. Diana Lados, FASM, current ASM Board of Trustee, was the featured speaker at the first-ever Canada-Wide Virtual Event using Ring Central/Zoom. Lados spoke on “Design of Cold-Spray 6061 Aluminum Alloys for Fatigue Crack Growth Resistance in Structural Components, Coatings, and Repairs.” Held on June 18, the event drew in participants from every ASM Cana- dian Chapter, as well as a few chapters in India. The session was so successful, the Canada Council is making plans to hold another in the future. Lados is the Milton Prince Higgins II Distinguished Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and the founder and director of the Integrative Materials Design Center, an industry-govern- ment-university consortium established at WPI. Brandywine Valley Hosts Dr. Gray The ASM Brandywine Valley Chapter held its Annual Joint ASM-ASME April meeting virtually using the Ring Cen- tral/Zoom platform. Chapter members gathered online on April 14 to hear Dr. Paul Gray present a talk on “Ceramic Matrix Composites at GE Aviation.” Gray is a senior mate- rials engineer at the company. In discussing the growth of the ceramic matrix composite (CMC) enterprise at GE Avia- tion, he explained that two separate technologies, pre-preg melt infiltration and chemical vapor infiltration, merged with the acquisition of Honeywell Advanced Composites by GE Energy in 2002. In 2007, GE Aviation acquired the CMC business and matured the technology leading up to the introduction of FAA-certified CMC stationary jet engine com- ponents in 2016. MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Tillack Honored by AWS Donald J. Tillack, FASM, was one of seven experts honored this past year as an American Welding Society Coun- selor. The recognition took place at the FabTech Show in Chicago in Novem- ber 2019. Tillack was recognized for his original contributions to AWS and the global welding and metallurgical communities for more than fifty years. He was a founding member of AWS subcommittees G2C and G2E, which published guides for joining stainless and nickel-based alloys. Tillack developed innovative solutions for welding nickel-based alloys. Monel Filler Metal 60 and welding and heat-treating procedures for Inconel x-750 and 718 are some of his most noteworthy con- tributions to the industry. Tillack has been chairman of the Welding Research Council Committee on “Welding Stain- less Steel and Nickel Alloys” for 15 years. He worked at Inco Alloys International for 30 years before starting his own firm, Tillack Metallurgical Consulting. He also serves as a consul- tant to the Nickel Institute. Persson Heads Up Berkeley’s Molecular Foundry Kristin Persson, a senior faculty scientist in the Energy Storage & Dis- tributed Resources Division within the Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and director of the Materials Proj- ect, has been named director of the Molecular Foundry. She will continue to hold an appointment as a professor of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley. The Molecular Foundry, a Nanoscale Science Research Center national user facility, serves over 1,000 aca- demic, industrial, and government scientists annually from all over the world through its user program. The Materials Project—which harnesses the power of supercomputers at Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Com- puting Center, customized machine-learning algorithms, and state-of-the-art quantum mechanical calculation methods—has grown under her leadership to serve more than 130,000 users. Before joining Berkeley Lab in 2008 as a research chemist, Persson worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after earning her doctorate in theoretical physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Lados Example of CMC turbine shrouds used on passenger planes and fighter jets. Courtesy of GE Aviation. Tillack Persson MEMBERS IN THE NEWS