HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | OCTOBER 2024 56 colleges. The winner will receive a plaque and a check for $2500. Paper submission deadline is March 1, 2025. George H. Bodeen Heat Treating Achievement Award ASM’s Heat Treating Society is currently seeking nominations for the George H. Bodeen Heat Treating Achievement Award, which recognizes distinguished and significant contributions to the field of heat treating through leadership, management, or engineering development of substantial commercial impact. Deadline for nominations is March 1, 2025. ASM HTS/Surface Combustion Emerging Leader Award The ASM HTS/Surface Combustion Emerging Leader Award recognizes an outstanding early-to-midcareer heat treating professional whose accomplishments exhibit exceptional achievements in the heat treating industry. The award, endowed by Surface Combustion, includes a check for $4000. The winning young professional will best exemplify the ethics, education, ingenuity, and future leadership of our industry. Deadline for nominations is March 1, 2025. For nomination rules and forms for all three awards, visit the Heat Treating Society website at hts.asminternational.org and click on Membership & Networking and Society Awards. For additional information, or to submit a nomination, contact Mary Anne Jerson at 440.671.3877 or email maryanne.jerson@asminternational.org. Seeking Nominations for EDFAS Awards The ASM Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society (EDFAS) established two awards to recognize the accomplishments of its members. The awards will be given at ISTFA 2025. Nominate a worthy colleague today! EDFAS Lifetime Achievement Award The EDFAS Lifetime Achievement Award was established by the EDFAS Board of Directors in 2015 to recognize leaders in the EDFAS community who have devoted their time, knowledge, and abilities to the advancement of the electronic device failure analysis industry. EDFAS President’s Award The EDFAS President’s Award recognizes exceptional service to EDFAS and the electronic device failure analysis community. Examples of such service include committee service, service on the board of directors, organization of conferences or symposia, development of education courses, and student and general public outreach. While any member of EDFAS is expected to further the Society’s goals through service, this award recognizes those who provide an exceptional amount of effort in their service to the Society. Nomination deadline for both awards is March 1, 2025. For rules and nomination forms, visit the EDFAS website at edfas.org, click on Membership & Networking and then Society Awards, or contact Mary Anne Jerson at 440.671.3877 or maryanne.jerson@ asminternational.org. THE FACE OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING This profile series features members from around the world at all stages in their careers. Here we speak with Renee S. Parente, program management director, technology and product engineering with AMD in Austin, Texas. What does your typical workday look like? I rarely have a day where I am working completely solo. I am always collaborating with peers and typically have one-on-one mentoring sessions. What part of your job do you like most? I enjoy helping others connect with each other and find the resources they need. What is your engineering background? I spent most of my career in device analysis labs doing electron microscopy. What attracted you to engineering? The amazing analysis tools and detective analysis work drew me to engineering. Best career advice, given or received: Listen when someone taps you on the shoulder as they may recognize strengths in you that you are not cognizant of within yourself. Tell us about your involvement with ASM. Volunteering is a priority for me. I strive to help others in all aspects of my life and hold myself accountable to assist in my priority areas. Having spent half my career working in electronic devices failure analysis (FA), it is important to me to give back to the international failure analysis community. I do this not only by serving on the Electronics Device Failure Analysis Society (EDFAS) board and the International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA) organizational committee but also by helping to run the EDFAS Lonestar chapter. These local chapter meetings are one of the best parts of my volunteer work for EDFAS. I really enjoy seeing the chapter’s members come together, FACE OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING Parente
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