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 | A P R I L 2 0 2 2 7 0 IN MEMORIAM Karl M. Prewo, FASM, of Vernon Rockville, Conn., passed away on February 9. He was born and spent his early childhood in the predominantly German speaking Yorkville section of New York City. Prewo pursued studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and received a doctorate from Columbia University. He had a 30-year career at United Technologies Research Center, during which time he was awarded 56 patents, two George Meadmedals for engineering achievement, and the Horner Citation. He became a Fellow of both the American Ceramic Society and ASM International and authored over 80 technical papers and four chapters in materials science books. Prewo also taught extension courses at UCLA, University of Maryland, and the University of Surrey, U.K. For many years, he participated in an advisory capacity to the U.S. Air Force and the National Materials Advisory Board. For his work with global, cooperative scientific programs, he was awarded the Ishikawa Carbon Prize for International Collaboration in Tokyo and the Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials at the University of Delaware. After retiring from United Technologies, he helped secure National Science Foundation funding to create the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing in Connecticut’s community college system. Prewo participated in establishing the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology and creating a multi-state National Aerospace Leadership Initiative for the U.S. Air Force to ensure that U.S. workers and companies were leaders in applying advanced manufacturing technologies. He was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering where he chaired the Economic Development Board. Prewo Smithsonian Exhibit Honors Elliott Amy Elliott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientist, was one of 120 women featured in a new exhibit, IfThenSheCan, at the Smithsonian to commemorate Women’s History Month. A life-size 3D-printed statue of Elliott, a manufacturing scientist, was on display in the Smithsonian Castle in Washington in March. The statues recognize women who have excelled in STEM fields and is the largest collection of women statues ever assembled. Elliott, who leads ORNL’s robotics and intelligent systems group, specializes in inkjet-based 3D printing of metals and ceramics. Her inventions have been licensed by industry and have won prestigious awards including two R&D 100 Awards. She also holds several patents and licenses including a method for 3D metal printing of aluminum boron carbide metal composites. Now a STEM mom, she was honored to be 3D scanned for the statue while expecting her first child. For more on these unique STEM statues, see the 3D PrintShop on page 72. Agarwal Elected AAAS Fellow Arvind Agarwal, FASM, professor and chair of Florida International University’s department of mechanical and materials engineering and director of the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute, was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). “Agarwal was elected for his distinguished contributions to advanced materials, plasma spraying and carbon nanotube composites, biomechanics, bioengineering, nanotechnology and graphene foam reinforced advanced materials for deicing, which is of great benefit to aerodynamics,” said Sudip Parikh, CEO and executive publisher of the AAAS Science family of journals. Agarwal obtained his Ph.D. in MSE from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1999, then worked as a materials scientist at Plasma Processes Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama, for three years before becoming an academic. He has authored more than 350 publications, edited four books and co-authored three, and holds 10 U.S. patents. Agarwal serves on editorial boards of six journals and has organized numerous symposiums on surface engineering and nanomaterials. Agarwal IN MEMORIAM Elliott and son John Luke next to her statue.
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