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 3 6 6 IN MEMORIAM William A. (Bill) Owczarski, FASM, of Raleigh, N.C., died on December 25, 2022. He was 88. Born and raised in Adams, Mass., he received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and his master’s degree in metallurgical engineering and Ph.D. in metallurgy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Owczarski began his distinguished career with positions at Sprague Electric in North Adams, Mass., in 1955 and with General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1958. In 1962, he began a nearly 30-year span with Pratt & Whitney and United Technologies Corp. where he contributed to the development of materials, processes, and manufacturing methods used to produce jet engines. He was the author of more than 40 technical and policy papers and was issued 11 patents. He received the United Technologies Corp. George Mead Medal for Engineering Achievement and was named the Comfort A. Adams Honorary Lecturer of the American Welding Society. From 1987 to 1989, Owczarski served as a senior policy analyst and Industrial Research Institute Fellow in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. During his appointment, he served as chairman of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering and Technology Committee on Materials and was involved in other international science and technology policy issues. Following his White House appointment, Owczarski was the director of external technology development for United Technologies in Washington, was a research fellow with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and worked in the contract research division of Babcock & Wilcox in Washington before he retired in 1999. Owczarski
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