In This Issue 43 President Collins Appoints Council Chairs 45 Board Nominations 46 Student Board Member Applications 47 Members in the News 50 Chapter News ASMNEWS 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 | A P R I L 2 0 2 1 Submit news of ASM and its members, chapters, and affiliate societies to Joanne Miller, editor, ASM News | ASM International 9639 Kinsman Road | Materials Park, OH 44073 | P 440.338.5455 | F 440.338.4634 | E joanne.miller@asminternational.org Contact ASM International at 9639 Kinsman Road, Materials Park, OH 44073 | P 440.338.5151 or 800.336.5152 (toll free in U.S. and Canada) | F 440.338.4634 | E MemberServiceCenter@asminternational.org | W asminternational.org ASMNEWS 6 3 6 Furr r Chairs N minating Committee 64 MD Corner 65 Inter ati nal Metallographic Contest 66 Emerging Professionals 68 Chapters in the News FURRER TO CHAIR 2021 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Members of the 2021 Nominating Committee have been selected and Dr. David U. Furrer, FASM, senior fellow discipline lead, Pratt & Whitney, was elected to serve as chair by the ASM Board of Trustees. Furrer has been a member of ASM International since 1985 and served as ASM trustee in 20102013 and as ASMPresident in 2019. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in metallurgical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a doctorate of engineering from the Universität Ulm in Germany. Furrer joined Pratt & Whitney in 2010 and leads the Pratt & Whitney Materials Discipline Chiefs and Materials Fellows in development of technical strategies, new materials and processes, and engineering standards and procedures. He is also responsible for the materials engineering discipline health relative to technical talent growth, sustainment, and succession planning. Prior to Pratt & Whitney, Furrer was chief of strategic materials and process technology and fellowof materials processmodeling at Rolls-Royce. Furrer is actively involved with ASM chapters, committees/ councils and Affiliate Societies and most recently helped to establish the formation of technically focused committees, such as the Residual Stress Committee, for ASM. Furrer is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and was installed as an ASM Fellow in 2003. ASM Officers Appoint Members In accordance with the ASM International Constitution, ASM president Diana Essock, FASM, vice president Dr. Judith Todd, FASM, and immediate past president Dr. Zi-Kui Liu, FASM, appointed nine members to the Nomi- nating Committee from among candidates proposed by chap- ters, committees, councils, and ASM Affiliate Society boards. The committee is responsible for selecting a nominee for vice president-trustee (one-year term) and for nominating three trustees (three-year terms). Members do not select a candidate for president of the Society, because Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution states that the office of president shall be filled for a period of one year by succession of the vice president. The 2021 Nominating Committee’s nominee for vice president will serve as ASM’s president in 2023. 2021 Nominating Committee Members Include: Dr. Andrew S.M. Ang, research engineer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (nominated by the Thermal Spray Society); Robert Goldstein, FASM, executive director of product development and strategic planning, Fluxtrol Inc., Auburn Hills, Mich. (nominated by the Heat Treating Society); Dr. M. Kamaraj, FASM, professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India (nominated by the Chennai Chapter); Dr. Guiru Nash Liu, FASM, senior experimental metallurgist, Progress Rail, LaGrange, Ill. (nominated by the Chicago Regional Chapter); Alexandra Merkouriou, project manager for Project Daedalus, University of Connecticut, Colchester (nominated by the Emerging Professionals Committee); Dr. Dongwon Shin, senior R&D staff member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn. (nominated by the Alloy Phase Diagram Committee); Hans Shin, laboratory director, Pacific Testing Laboratories Inc., Valencia, Calif. (nominated by the San Fernando Valley Chapter); Dr. John Smugeresky, FASM, chief technical officer, A MMaterials Consultants, Pleasanton, Calif., and senior member technical staff (retired), Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, Calif. (nominated by the Materials Properties Database Committee); Prof. Veronique Vitry, associate professor, University of Mons, Belgium (nominated by the IDEA Committee). The Nominating Committee will meet on April 14 and its recommended slate of officers will be published in the May/June issue of ASM News. ASMNEWS Furrer
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