FEATURE ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | SEPTEMBER 2023 40 HEAT TREATING SOCIETY NEWS HTS NAMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2023 The Heat Treating Society (HTS) board, at the recommendation of the HTS Awards and Nominations Committee, named new officers including Chuck Faulkner to serve as vice president and Steven Ferdon to serve as secretary for the 2023-2025 term; new board members, Liang He, Michael Nappi, and Trisha Rouse to serve on the HTS Board for the 2023-2026 term. Ryan Van Dyke and reappointed Nicholas Hicks to serve as emerging professional board members for the 2023-2024. Justin Smith and reappointed Kiran Judd to serve as student board members for the 2023-2024 term. Terms begin October 1. Continuing on the board are Benjamin Bernard as president, Lesley Frame as immediate past president and treasurer, Allen Fuller, Robert Madeira, Hannah Noll, Doug Puerta, and Lee Rothleutner as members. Leaving the board are Eric Hutton, immediate past president, Deidra Minerd, secretary, Marc Glasser and Fred Hamizedah as members, Carlos Torres as emerging professional board member, and Agueda Garnica Long as student board member. Chuck Faulkner joined Quaker Houghton in 1983 and his current position is Commercial Development Manager – Heat Treatment. He currently serves as ASM HTS Board Member, ASM HTS Expo Committee Co-Chair, T&P Committee member, and Co-Chair Heat Treat Mexico. Faulkner has a bachelor’s degree in organizational management from Eastern College, St. Davids, Pa. Steve Ferdon leads the global organization responsible for materials science, tribology, and chemical engineering support to the Cummins fuel systems, turbocharger, and valve train systems product lines. After graduation from Purdue in 1982, Ferdon worked for Duke Energy in Charlotte, N.C., where he was responsible for welding technology, corrosion engineering, material specifications, and failure analysis, for the design and construction of nuclear and fossil power stations. From 1985 to 1992, he worked for Williams International, in Walled Lake, Mich., initially as a failure analyst and later as an MSE group leader, supporting the design and development of small gas turbine engines for defense and civilian aerospace applications. He moved to Columbus, Ind., in 1992 to join the new Cummins Faulkner 4 Fuel Systems Business as a technical specialist in the three-person materials science engineering organization that has grown into the Global Engineering Technology organization of today. Liang He works for Air Products and Chemical Inc. as an application engineer to develop gas application technologies for the metals pro- cessing industry. Before joining Air Products, he worked for the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Before his work at CHTE, He was a process engineer at Technology Center of Shougang Group and worked on projects to improve the continuous casting process. His primary research interest is in developing new technologies for the metals processing industry, including simulation software development on predicting carburizing/ carbonitriding processes, using cryogenic coolant for quenching, introducing smart technologies into metals process furnace operation. In 2021, he won the Prime Contributor Award with the paper “Understanding and Optimizing Nitrogen-Hydrogen Furnace Atmospheres for Annealing.” He has been serving on the HTS R&D committee since 2015. He received his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering in 2001 and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 2007 from Tsinghua University. Michael Nappi attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he had four co-op assignments with Allegheny Ludlum Steel, getting exposure to all aspects of stainless and specialty steel production as well as learning the appeal of a heavy industry environment. His first job after graduation was in jewelry manufacturing. His duties here involved working hands-on in the casting and fabricating of gold alloys for wire, sheet, and tubing. Nappi pursued a masters in engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, focusing on manufacturing systems. Upon graduation, he started at RBC Bearings, where within the first week he was troubleshooting distortion issues at a commercial heat treating supplier and leading efforts to install, train and manage a new batch IQ furnace line. Since those initial assignments, Nappi has always held positions centered around heat treating and estimates that he’s personally seen over 50 heat treating operations, and has developed numerous contacts throughout the industry. Ferdon He Nappi
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