2006 Winner Raymond G. Morasse

Raymond Morasse is a member of the ASNT Board of Directors and is the quality manager for Hyspan Precision Products, which he also serves as their safety manager, corporate Level III and welding engineer. He has been with Hyspan for nearly 15 years, having begun his career as a radiographer in the shipbuilding industry in San Diego in 1973. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and also has a degree in quality and NDT. Morasse is an ASNT NDT Level III in ultrasonic testing.

Morasse has served on the Board of Directors of the San Diego Section since 1985, and currently serves as newsletter editor and awards chair. He has served as the chair of the San Diego Section three times, and has been a speaker on several occasions. Morasse is the chair of the Section Operations Council and is also the chair of the Section Management Division. He is on the Technicians Advisory Committee and has written and reviewed several articles for The NDT Technician newsletter. He has served on conference Host Committees for conferences held in Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas and Columbus. Morasse is an ASNT Fellow (2003), and has attended and presented at many Regional Planning Meetings and Section Leadership Conferences.

2006 Winner Emmanuel P. Papadakis

Emmanuel P. Papadakis is the president and principal of Quality Systems Concepts (QSC), a quality and NDT consulting firm. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1962 and also holds a master's degree in management from the University of Michigan. Before QSC, he was associate director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University. Prior to that, he managed quality control research at the Ford Motor Company, leading a group that expanded its work from research and development in NDT to include product quality research with statistical systems and financial analyses of NDT, culminating in quality concepts for new vehicles. He had previously worked at Panametrics, Inc., where he managed government research and development, private consulting, product development, and transducer design. Before that, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he worked on sonic and ultrasonic devices and associated fundamental studies on materials, wave propagation, measurement methods and NDT. He got his start in ultrasonics and NDT at the Watertown Arsenal during graduate work at MIT.

Papadakis is the author of the recently published book, Financial Justification of Nondestructive Testing: Cost of Quality in Manufacturing, in addition to 170 papers, 12 book chapters and several government reports. He has been guest editor for three books at Academic Press and holds nine patents. Papadakis was the 1979 Mehl Honor Lecturer for ASNT, which has also honored him with the 1993 Tutorial Award and with the title of Fellow in 1984. He was the recipient of the Biennial Award of the Acoustical Society of America in 1968. In addition to ASNT, he is a Fellow of IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He has held ASNT NDT Level III certification in ET, MT, PT, RT, and UT, has passed the exam for Lead Assessor for ISO-9000, and has been certified by the RAB as a Quality Systems Provisional Auditor. He has served as the technical editor of ASNT's journal Materials Evaluation since 1988.

2006 Winner Paul J. Zombo

Paul J. Zombo has been a member of ASNT since 1983, and is a member of the Central Florida Section. He is the head of nondestructive evaluation technologies for Siemens Power Generation in Orlando, Florida. Zombo holds ACCP Professional Level III certification for the pressure equipment sector in magnetic particle, radiographic and ultrasonic testing, and also holds ASNT NDT Level III certification in electromagnetic, magnetic particle and radiographic testing. He is the recipient of a number of patents relating to his work in several different areas of nondestructive testing.

About the ASNT Mentoring Award

Mentoring is an important activity that the Section Operations Council of ASNT honors by offering an award to outstanding mentors of the past and present. Realizing that mentors have probably touched every person in the Society at some time, this award may be presented to more than one honoree. The maximum number of recipients in any given year is five.

The award for outstanding mentor was established to recognize those people in the Society working to encourage others to reach goals they may have otherwise not sought, and to offer the rest of the membership an example of what they could be accomplishing by acting as mentors. The award is presented at the annual Fall Conference.

Congratulations to Raymond Morasse, Emmanuel Papadakis and Paul Zombo, winners of the 2006 Mentoring Award.

 

 

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