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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 | M A R C H 2 0 2 2 5 3 Congratulations to these ASM Chapters celebrating milestones of serving local members! Akron—75 Years Bangalore—15 years Thank you for your commitment! We look forward to celebrating your future success! CHAPTERS IN THE NEWS CHAPTERS IN THE NEWS Ontario Hosts Mercedes Engineer The ASM Ontario Chapter held an exciting virtual event on February 2 as part of their World Class Speaker Series. They hosted Stephen Edge, the senior materials engineer of Mercedes High Performance Powertrains, to provide them with a rare look into the materials engineering that exists under the hood of the Mercedes F1 car. In his talk, Edge also conveyed the fast-paced world that the materials engineers at the company operate in. At top speed, they develop new engineering processes as well as characterize and introduce new materials to the powertrain. Cleveland Hears about Battery Material Members of the Cleveland Chap- ter learned about “The Role of Graphite in Lithium-Ion Batteries” during their online technical meeting on January 18. The speaker, Ryan Paul, is a car- bon materials scientist in the Carbon and Composites group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Paul described the fundamental role that graphite has in the workings of a lithium-ion battery and explained why graphite will not be soon replaced at large scale. The implications of natural and synthetic graph- ite availability and recyclability were also discussed. Paul MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Mudali Receives IIM Platinum Medal U. Kamachi Mudali, FASM, was awarded the prestigious Platinum Medal for 2021 from the Indian Insti- tute of Metals (IIM) for his outstand- ing contributions to the metallurgical profession over the past four decades. Mudali served as president of IIM, with its more than 10,000 members, during 2019-2020. He is listed among the top 2% of scientists from India working in the field of materials based on an analysis by Stanford Uni- versity. He is vice chancellor of VIT Bhopal University. Mudali is currently a trustee of ASM International, serving from2021 to 2024. He was previously chair of the ASM Chennai Chap- ter 2015-2017 and received their Distinguished Achievement Award. He is a fellow of 12 societies. Liu Named Fellow of TMS Zi-Kui Liu, FASM, Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of MSE at Penn State, has been named a Fellow of the Miner- als, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), the society’s highest honor. Liu is renowned for his seminal contributions to the fundamentals of thermodynam- ics and for developing computational approaches and tools for predictions of properties and design of materials. He was president of ASM International from 2019 to 2020 and received ASM’s J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award in 2014. Liu earned a bachelor’s degree in metallurgy from Central South University in China, a master’s degree in MSE from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and a doctorate in physical metallurgy from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Mudali Liu Upcoming Chapter Meetings Stay informed of future chapter meetings through announcements in ASM Connect. ASM members are welcome to attend any virtual/hybrid meetings of chapters even outside their geographic area. Learn more at connect.asminternational.org. CONNECT