HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | MAY/JUNE 2025 40 career with Boeing as a Technical Fellow. His career in the aerospace industry included working on projects such as the Space Shuttle Main Engine, National Launch System, National Aerospace Plane, Delta and Titan rockets, and the International Space Station. He also worked on commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 787, military aircraft including the F-18 and C17, and proprietary programs such as the X-37B Experimental Unmanned Space Plane. As a consultant, Dennies has worked on projects in construction, plumbing, food processing, land-based turbines, biomedical devices, fasteners, additive manufacturing, and power generation/energy. Dennies has given numerous technical presentations and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including two books. He collaborated with NASA as a reviewer/contributor for an AIAA book on additive manufacturing in 2022. He has been an active member of ASM for 48 years. Dennies served on the ASM Board of Trustees from 2006-2009 and as an ASM Education Foundation trustee, 2004-2006, where he championed the Materials Camp program. He participated in more than 50 Materials Camps over 20 years including the first one. He has been an instructor and developer of ASM courses for 25 years. Dennies is a past president of both ASM’s International Metallographic Society and the Failure Analysis Society. He was an editor/ contributor to the ASM Handbooks on Failure Analysis Volume 11 and 11A published in 2021. He has served on 13 different ASM journals, committees, and councils. Dennies has been on the LA Chapter executive committee for over 30 years. He is currently working on the Chapter’s 100-year anniversary celebration. Dennies has earned numerous technical and volunteer awards including the William Hunt Eisenman award in 2024, Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention Editor’s Choice Article award in 2021, George Roberts Award in 2011, Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention Best Paper Award in 2010, Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award by Orange County Engineering Council in 2005, Allan Ray Putnam Service Award in 2004, ASM Fellow in 2002, ASM Instructor of Merit Award in 2002, and the NASA Silver Snoopy Award in 1998. He was awarded the distinction of ASM Scholar while he was in college in 1978. Dr. Tirumalai Sudarshan, FASM Nominee for Vice President Tirumalai Sudarshan (Suds) is the president of Materials Modification Inc. He received his B.Tech. from IITM and M.S. and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He worked as a senior metallurgist at Ashok Leyland and later as the director of R&D at Synergistic Technologies in Virginia. For the past 38 years, he has been developing new technologies and applications related to surface engineering and nanotechnology. He has been active in various committees and is currently the chair of the ASM-IIM Lectureship Committee, chair of the Investment Committee, and member of the ASM Finance Committee. Sudarshan chaired the Surface Engineering Critical Technology sector at ASM and was founding chair of the Surface Modification Committee at TMS. He has been a member of IMR, JMEP, AM&P, and numerous awards committees at ASM International where he previously served as a trustee from 2014-2017. Sudarshan was the recipient of a Design News Award and R&D 100 award for the microwave plasma technique (Nanogen) and the Plasma Pressure Compaction (P2C) technique, as well as receiving the SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award. He served on numerous committees for the NSF, NIH, U.S. Army, Michigan Economic Development Council, National Research Council, Ohio Third Frontier, ASM International, and TMS. Sudarshan has served on the technical advisory boards of numerous companies over the past two decades. He is currently the editor of two journals, Materials and Manufacturing Processes and Surface Engineering, and previously worked on Materials Technology. He is a Fellow of ASM, IFHTSE, and IMMM, as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of IITM and previous member of the National Materials Advisory Board. He is the coauthor of 200 publications and coeditor of 36 books, holder of 38 patents, and has presented over 60 plenary and keynote lectures around the world. Mr. William Jarosinski, FASM Nominee for Treasurer William (Bill) Jarosinski is the director of R&D materials for Linde Advanced Material Technologies Inc. (previously known as Praxair Surface Technologies), where he has been employed for more than 30 years. He completed a B.S. in metallurgy and an M.S. in materials engineering at Purdue University while working as an intern in coating development and an engineer in powder processing. Additionally, Jarosinski completed his MBA with a concentration in finance at Butler University. His career continued with the development of advanced coatings and materials for aerospace, transportation, and industrial applications including energy, steel, paper, and oil and gas. Jarosinski has seven patents for materials and coatings, each with foreign equivalents. He has authored technical papers included in the proceedings of the International Thermal Spray Conference and more recently, peer-reviewed articles included in journals associated with Jarosinski Sudarshan BOARD NOMINEES
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