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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 | J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 5 0 Contributor Spotlight Howard A. Kuhn, Ph.D., FASM University of Pittsburgh Dr. Howard Kuhn is an adjunct professor at the University of Pitts- burgh, Swanson School of Engineering, where he teaches courses in manu- facturing and additive manufacturing and performs research on additive manufacturing for tissue engineering. He also presents tailored professional development courses on powder metallurgy and additive manufacturing to industrial and government facilities. Kuhn is a Fellow of ASM International and a mem- ber of the ASM Failure Analysis Society and the Pittsburgh Chapter. His voluntary contributions to ASM publications include serving as a volume editor (with David L. Bourell, William Frazier, and Mohsen Seifi) of the recently released ASM Handbook, Volume 24: Additive Manufacturing Pro- cesses, and also Volume 8: Mechanical Testing and Evalua- tion (with Dana Medlin). He has contributed articles to ASM Handbooks Volume 7: Powder Metallurgy and Volume 14A: Metalworking: Bulk Forming, among others. He is an editor of the ASM book Handbook of Work- ability and Process Design (with George E. Dieter and S. Lee Semiatin) and serves as an instructor of the ASM education courses Powder Metallurgy for Additive Manufacturing and Metallurgy for Additive Manufacturing (with Daniel P. Den- nies). He also taught 3D printing to high school students at Materials Mini-Camp presented by the ASMMaterials Educa- tion Foundation. From 2003 to 2018, Kuhn was director of research at ExOne and a founding deputy director of America Makes (National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute) where he served as technical advisor, 2012-2018. He was vice president and chief technical officer at Scienda LLC, 2000-2002, and co-founder of Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC), a subsidiary of the University of Pittsburgh. He also co-founded Deformation Control Technology, a con- sulting firm serving the metalworking industry. While at CTC and as a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, Kuhn established and taught the first distance-learning courses between multiple sites for the university’s M.S. program in manufacturing systems engineering. At Drexel University (1966-1974) and the University of Pittsburgh (1975-1987), he developed courses in defor- mation processing, powder metallurgy, and engineering design. In 1984, Kuhn became the first recipient of the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. View the table of contents and abstracts for all the ASM Handbook volumes in the ASM Digital Library at dl. asminternational.org . If you are interested in becoming a volunteer author or editor for the ASM Handbooks series, contact handbooks@asminternational.org. WOMEN IN ENGINEERING This profile series introduces materials scientists from around the world who happen to be females. Here we speak with Tabitha H. Crocker, research engineer, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Birmingham, Alabama. What does your typical workday look like? My title of research engineer is a bit of a misnomer because I don’t do what people traditionally refer to as research. I mostly help contractors with technical questions, review drawings and plans, and calculate restraint lengths. I also do ductile iron pipe joint demonstrations and visit jobsites around the country to help contractors with the application of our products. Most recently, I’ve started doing some of our investigations on returned materials. What is your greatest professional achievement? I spearheaded the creation of a women’s resource group at my current company, which serves the water/ wastewater/oil and gas industries. I was drawn to creating a women’s group after I found a documentary online called “Hard Hatted Woman.” I don’t think women are well rep- resented in skilled trades and I really want to be an agent of change for that. I want women in manufacturing to feel like they have a voice and for them to be given opportuni- ties to gain leadership skills and fill management positions. Though I face my own challenges as a female engineer, I feel that I’m given more opportunities because of my status as an engineer. I want to be known as an advocate for women in skilled trades such as welding, and I want to do it by tak- ing advantage of my position as an engineer. Did you ever consider doing something elsewith your life besides engineering? Ironically, I never knew that I wanted to be an engineer until I became one! When I decided to go to college, it was because I wanted to be an astronaut. I had read somewhere that most astronauts were aerospace engineers so, on the college application, I checked the box for aerospace engi- neer and moved on. I had no clue what it meant until my second semester. What are you working on now? At the moment, I’m balancing my full-time position as a research engineer with going to back school. This month Kuhn Crocker WOMEN IN ENGINEERING