HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025 51 ASM Thermal Spray Society TSS President Andrew Ang, senior research engineer and senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and TSS vice president Komal Laul, senior principal engineer, Delta Air Lines, welcome reappointed Dominique Billieres, business development manager, Saint-Gobain Coating Solutions, and appointed Jonathan Gutleber, technical leader, Coating and Materials Development, Oerlikon Metco, and Andre O’Czerny, sales director, Thermal Spray Latam. Members serve a three-year term. Caleb Griffin, Ph.D. student, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and reappointed Emma Peleg, Ph.D. candidate, Stony Brook University, are student board members for a one-year term. ASM Seeks Vice President and Board of Trustees Nominations ASM is seeking nominations for the position of vice president as well as three trustees. The Society’s 2025 vice president and trustee elects will serve as a voice for the membership and will shape ASM’s future through implementation of the ASM Strategic Plan. Qualifications: Members must have a well-rounded understanding of the broad activities and objectives of ASM on a local, Society, and international level, and the issues and opportunities that ASM will face over the next few years. Further, they must also have a general appreciation for international trends in the engineered materials industry. Duties: The duties of board members include various assignments between regular meetings. Trustees also assume the responsibility of making Chapter visits and serving as a board liaison to ASM Affiliate Societies and various committees and councils. Guidelines: Nominees for vice president must have previously served on the ASM Board or served as the president of an ASM Affiliate Society Board. Those selected to serve as trustees should be capable of someday assuming the ASM presidency. Deadline for nominations is March 15, 2026. For more information, visit asminternational.org/vp-boardnominations or contact Leslie Taylor, leslie.taylor@asminternational.org or 440.338.5472. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2026 CLASS OF FELLOWS – FINAL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Deadline November 30 Criteria for the Fellow award are: • Outstanding accomplishments in materials science or engineering • Broad and productive achievement in production, manufacturing, management, design, development, research, or education • Five years of current, continuous ASM membership Many women and minority members are qualified to be named an ASM Fellow but have not been nominated. Please consider members to nominate who have not been honored as a FASM, yet whose accomplishments merit such recognition. Please help ASM to ensure that its Fellows reflect the diversity of the world that we serve. The deadline for Fellow nominations is November 30. To nominate someone, request a unique nomination form link from Christine Hoover at christine.hoover@asminternational.org. Ang Laul Billieres Peleg Gutleber Gri in O’Czerny ASM Nominating Committee Nominations Due December 15 ASM International is seeking members to serve on the 2026 ASM Nominating Committee. The committee will select a nominee for 2026-2027 vice president who will serve as senior vice president in 2027-2028 and president in 2028-2029. The Nominating Committee will also select three trustee nominees for 2026-2029. Candidates for this committee can only be proposed by a Chapter through its executive committee, an ASM committee or council, or an affiliate society board. Nominations are due December 15. For more information, contact Leslie Taylor at 440.338.5472 or leslie.taylor@asminternational.org, or visit asminternational.org/about-asm/governance/nominating-committee.
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