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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 | F E B R U A R Y / M A R C H 2 0 2 1 4 6 IN MEMORIAM George E. Dieter, Jr., FASM, died at age 92 on December 12, 2020. Dieter was professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, and dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland from 1977-1994. Born on December 5, 1928, in Philadelphia, he earned a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from Drexel Institute of Technology in 1950 and a Sc.D. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1953. After working as a research engineer at the E.I. DuPont Engineering Research Laboratory in Wilmington, Delaware, he turned his career to academia. Dieter was department head and dean of metallurgical engineering at Drexel University, 1963-1968. In 1973, he returned to Carnegie Mellon University to serve as director of their Processing Research Institute. After joining the fac- ulty of the University of Maryland (UMD) in 1977, Dean Dieter became a campus treasure, serving in various academic leadership roles, most recently as professor emeritus. A materials teaching lab in the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at UMD was recently named the George E. Dieter, Jr. Materials Instructional Laboratory. Dieter wrote two seminal books: Mechanical Metallurgy, now in its third edition and one of the standard texts still widely used to teach engineering; and Engineering Design (coauthored with Linda C. Schmidt), now in its sixth edition. He also was the volume chair of the ASM Handbook, Vol. 20, Materials Selection and Design, (1994-1997). Dieter served as an ASM Trustee from 1978 to 1981 and received numerous awards including ASM’s Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award (1986) and Albert Sauveur Achievement Award (1992). In 1993, Dieter was elected to the National Academy of Engi- neering for “contributions to engineering education in the areas of materials design and processing.” He was a member of the ASM Washington DC Chapter. See also “A Tribute to George Dieter” on pages 40-41 in this issue of AM&P. John E. Morral, FASM, age 81, passed away on December 21, 2020. Morral was born in Kokomo, Indiana, on August 3, 1939. He received his undergraduate and M.S. degrees in metal- lurgical engineering from The Ohio State University (OSU), graduating in 1965. He completed his doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969. Morral was employed by the University of Connecticut in 1971 as a professor and department head, retiring in 2003. He then moved to Columbus, Ohio, to chair the OSU Department of Materials Science and Engineering, retiring in 2012 and becoming an emeritus professor there. Following his second retirement, he accepted the position of editor-in-chief of ASM International’s Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion. After nine years, he was still serving the society in that role at the time of his death. He was the recipient of numerous awards for his many years of work. In 2018, he was honored by ASM with the J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award “for fundamental and applied research on topology of phase diagrams and theory of phase equilibria resulting in major advances in calculation and interpretation of phase equilibria and diffusion.” Morral was a long-time member of the Alloy Phase Diagram Committee. He was also a member of the ASM Columbus Chapter as well as ASM’s Failure Analysis Society, Heat Treating Society, International Metallographic Society, and the International Orga- nization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies. Dieter Morral IN MEMORIAM