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 Y / J U N E 2 0 2 2 6 1 MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Pathak Nominated for Evaluation Board Udayan Pathak, FASM, chair of ASM International’s Pune Chapter, was nominated as an expert member on the Performance Appraisal Board (PAB) of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIRCMERI). CSIR is a network of 37 national research labs and 39 outreach centers, three innovation complexes, and five units with a pan-India presence, under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. The Prime Minister of India serves as president of the governing body. As a PAB member, Pathak will review and appraise the performance of the labs over the past five years. He will then inform the advisory board and governing body of the lab about the outcome of his review and suggest remedial measures to improve performance. Pathak is the first ASMmember to be nominated for this prestigious board under the Government of India. Frazier Honored by Philadelphia Chapter William E. Frazier, FASM, was presented with a special honor at the April 21 meeting of the ASM Philadelphia Chapter. He received the Adolph Schaefer Award for “Outstanding Achievement in the Science of Metals.” Frazier served as ASM President from 2016-2017. He is a Navy executive with nearly 40 years of experience in naval aviation materials science and engineering and is now president and principal consultant of Pilgrim Consulting LLC. Frazier also serves as editor of the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. His award was conferred following a technical talk entitled “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard: Past, Present, and Future,” presented by Philip M. Dehennis, the division head for quality assurance, metallurgy, and inspection at the Naval Foundry and Propeller Center in Philadelphia. MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Singh Receives Award from UMBC N.B. Singh, FASM, was honored during the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s (UMBC) 2022 Presidential Faculty and Staff Award ceremony on April 6. The university awarded the UMBC’s 2022 Research Faculty Excellence Award to Prof. Singh, of the department of chemistry and biochemistry, computer science, and electrical engineering for the recognition of excellence in research and contributions in teaching and mentoring. Singh is a previous recipient of ASM’s Engineering Materials Award for the “Development of Material for the Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter based Hyperspectral Imager for Homeland Defense Applications.” On hand for the April ceremony was UMBC President Dr. Freeman Hrabowski who is retiring in June. Lampman Retires from ASM Steve Lampman, senior content developer, is retiring from ASM International on June 10 after a long publishing career at the society that began in May 1988. For more than three decades, he has served as editor of the ASM Handbook series working with authors, volume editors, division editors, and reviewers. Lampman has been the authority on ASM technical content assets, making major contributions to all ASM Handbook volumes published since the late 1980s, and essentially driving several ASM technical books and data compilations. He also served as staff liaison to the ASM Handbook Committee. In 2016, Lampman was recognized as a Fellow of Alpha Sigma Mu at a ceremony held in Salt Lake City. Alpha Sigma Mu is the international professional honor society dedicated to encouraging and recognizing excellence in the materials engineering field. Pathak Singh Lampman Frazier UMBC provost Philip Rous congratulates awardee N.B. Singh (right).
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