Newswise — The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) has announced leadership changes to the Society's Executive Committee. The shift in leadership, which occurs annually, enables materials science and engineering professionals to help determine the future course of the Society and its activities. The changes took place at the 138th TMS & AIME Awards Presentation during the 2009 TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition in San Francisco.
Ray D. PetersonPresidentRay Peterson, 2008 TMS Vice President, is director of technology for Aleris International, an aluminum company created from the merger of IMCO Recycling and Commonwealth Aluminum in December 2004. His goals for 2009 include improving the performance of TMS in three key areas - part-time member involvement, enhancing core group interaction, and providing strong member offerings at and away from meetings. Peterson hopes to encourage members to become more involved in the Society in hopes of them acting as session chairs, becoming members of technical committees, presenting papers, and even organizing symposia. He envisions the future of TMS as an organization that exists to serve members in every possible way. "Our meetings should be 'irresistible' to our membership and to those in our profession who are not members. We must examine each of our core constituencies, and develop focused lists of activities for everyone. We cannot be afraid to try new 'products' while maintaining our strong core."
Diran ApelianPast PresidentDiran Apelian, Howmet Professor of Engineering and Director of the Metal Processing Institute at WPI in Massachusetts, served as TMS President in 2008. His research interests and expertise are in materials processing, and specifically, solidification and net-shape manufacturing. He is credited for pioneering work in various areas of solidification processing: molten metal processing and filtration of metals; aluminum foundry engineering; plasma deposition; and spray casting/forming. Professor Apelian has more than 450 publications to his credit and 11 books, which he co-edited. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Acta Materialia Holloman Award and the Brimacombe Prize.
George T. (Rusty) Gray IIIVice PresidentRusty Gray is laboratory fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and a member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the U.S. National Academies. Gray has served as team leader of the Dynamic Materials Properties section, where he promoted dynamic structure/property research on materials within the U.S. Department of Energy. He will serve as TMS President in 2010 and TMS Past President in 2011.
Stanley HowardFinancial Planning OfficerStanley Howard is professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He is also the co-founder of Group V. Metals Inc., which licensed technology used to produce high-purity tantalum and niobium compounds. Howard received the Mineral Industry Educator Award in 2004 from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. He will guide the professional activities of TMS concerned with finances, audit, and investments.
TMS is the professional organization encompassing the entire range of materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic research and the advanced application of materials. Included among its 11,200 professional and student members are metallurgical and materials engineers, scientists, researchers, educators, and administrators from six continents. The mission for TMS is to promote the global science and engineering professions concerned with minerals, metals, and materials.
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