The American Society for Nondestructive Testing is pleased to announce the winners of the following awards. The award winners will be recognized at the 2009 Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show in Columbus, Ohio.

Philip D. Johnson
Honorary Member Award

The winner of the 2009 Philip D. Johnson Honorary Member Award is Hussein Sadek.

An Honorary Member is a person of acknowledged eminence in the domain covered by the Society or is one who has been recognized as a benefactor of the Society through services such as being a national officer. In 1990, the award was renamed in honor of Philip D. Johnson, who cofounded ASNT and nurtured it through its first three decades. This award is the highest which the Society bestows. No more than one Honorary Member may be elected during any one membership year. Honorary Memberships are presented for the life of the individual.

Charles N. Sherlock
Meritorious Service Award

The winner of the 2009 Charles N. Sherlock Meritorious Service Award is Emmanuel P. Papadakis.

The Charles N. Sherlock Meritorious Service Award provides recognition for an individual's outstanding voluntary service to the Society, through single or aggregate activities, though not necessarily in any single year. In 2004, the award was renamed in honor of its first recipient, Charles N. Sherlock.

ASNT Fellow Award

The 2009 class of ASNT Fellows is Marwan Basrawi, Anthony J. Gatti, Sr., Michael J. Ruddy, Israel Vásquez and David J. Vigne.

A Fellow of ASNT is an individual member of the Society who has demonstrated outstanding professional distinction and who has made continued significant contributions to the advancement of NDT in areas such as management, engineering, science, education, administration or planning.

ASNT Fellowship Award

The winners of the 2009 ASNT Fellowship Award are the Iowa State University (Nicola Bowler, advisor; Tianming Chen, student); Missouri University of Science and Technology (Reza Zoughi, advisor; Christyn Collum, student); the Pennsylvania State University (Joseph L. Rose, advisor; Jia Hua, student), the University of Pittsburg (Piervincenzo Rizzo, advisor; Xianglei Ni, student); and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (John C. Duke, Jr., advisor; Douglas A. Harold, student).

The ASNT Fellowship is a cash award granted to an educational institution to fund specific research in NDT at the postgraduate level (M.S. or Ph.D.). Academic institutions with graduate educational research programs are invited to submit proposals each year.

Engineering Undergraduate

The winner of the 2009 Engineering Undergraduate Award is Kimberly Ferguson, of Iowa State University.

The Engineering Undergraduate Award was created to provide an incentive to engineering undergraduate students enrolled in engineering programs accredited by ABET or its equivalent to choose NDT as their field of specialization.

Faculty Grant

The winners of the 2009 ASNT Faculty Grant are Norbert Delatte, of Cleveland State University, based on his proposal for a "Redesign of a Nondestructive Evaluation Course for Blended Learning," and John C. Duke, Jr., of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, based on his proposal for a "Design Course Module-Sustainable System Design."

The Faculty Grant is awarded to engineering faculty to be used to fund the revision or development of the NDT curriculum in an accredited engineering program.

Mentoring Award

The winners of the 2009 Mentoring Awards are Sreenivas Alampalli, Gary R. Elder, Greg A. Hudkins, George W. Johnson and Ricky L. Morgan.

ASNT established the Mehl Honor Lecture in honor of the outstanding research in the field of gamma radiography and countless other contributions by Robert F. Mehl. This honor is presented every odd numbered year by the Board of Directors to an outstanding person in the field of NDT. The lecture is presented at the ASNT Fall Conference.

Outstanding Paper Award, Materials Evaluation

The winners of the 2009 Outstanding Paper Award for Materials Evaluation are Pierre Servais, Nathalie Gerlach, Jason Habermehl, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo and Xavier Maldague for their September 2008 paper entitled, "Characterization of Manufacturing and Maintenance of Aerospace Composite Discontinuities Using Infrared Thermography," published in Materials Evaluation, Vol. 66, No. 9, pp. 955-965.

The purpose of the Outstanding Paper Award is to encourage a high degree of effort toward technical, educational or managerial achievement in NDT through publication in Materials Evaluation. Recipients of the award are selected on the merit of written contributions published by the Society during the previous calendar year. Selection is based equally on the material's originality, usefulness and clarity, and on the appropriateness and accuracy of its supporting material. The Awards Committee has the option of not conferring an award if it decides that no papers qualify in a given year. The award is presented during the Fall Conference.

Outstanding Paper Award, RNDE

The winners of the 2009 Outstanding Paper Award for RNDE are Igor Solodov, Klaus Pfeiderer, Daniel Döring and Gerd Busse for their paper entitled, "Nondestructive Evaluation of Anisotropy in Composite Materials via Acoustic Birefringence," published in RNDE, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 129-143.

The purpose of the Outstanding Paper Award is to encourage a high degree of effort toward technical, educational or managerial achievement in NDT through publication in RNDE. Recipients of the award are selected on the merit of written contributions published by the Society during the previous calendar year. Selection is based equally on the material's originality, usefulness and clarity, and on the appropriateness and accuracy of its supporting material. The Awards Committee has the option of not conferring an award if it decides that no papers qualify in a given year. The award is presented during the Fall Conference.

   

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