Newswise — September 1, 2011 – Warrendale, PA (USA) – Four newly elected members will officially assume their responsibilities on The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Board of Directors during the 141st TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition March 11-15, 2012 in Orlando, Florida.
The new board members will serve three-year terms and represent the academic and national laboratory sectors of the materials science and engineering community. The incoming 2012 TMS Board of Directors includes the following members:
Elizabeth Holm, Vice President
Holm has been a technical staff member of the Computational Materials Science and Engineering Department at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico for more than 19 years. She earned her bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in ceramics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a dual Ph.D. in materials science and engineering and scientific computing from the University of Michigan.
A previous member of the TMS Board of Directors, she served as publications director from 2008-2011, and chair of the Structural Materials Division from 2004-2007. Holm has also chaired the Chemistry and Physics of Materials Committee and the Computational Materials Science and Engineering Committee. She currently serves as vice chair of the Content Development and Dissemination Committee, and is a member of both the Women in Science Committee and the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Committee. Holm has also organized several international conferences. Her many honors and awards include being named as a Fellow of ASM International and serving as a member of the National Materials Advisory Board.
Robert W. Hyers, Financial Planning Officer
Hyers is an associate professor mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass). Before joining the UMass faculty, he was a staff scientist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Microgravity Materials Science. Hyers earned both his Ph.D. in materials engineering and bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from MIT.
As a member of TMS, Hyers served as chair of the Process Technology and Modeling Committee from 2007-2009, and was chosen as Young Leader for the Extraction & Processing Division in 2005. He has also been involved in several TMS technical committees and was a lead symposium organizer at both the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2005 conference and the TMS 2009 Annual Meeting and Exhibition.
Neville Moody, Programming Director
Moody is a staff member at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico who has given more than 100 invited presentations and has authored or co-authored over 170 publications, including invited reviews and a chapter in the encyclopedia, Comprehensive Structural Integrity. He earned a doctorate in materials science from the University of Minnesota.
A TMS member for 30 years, Moody has served on numerous committees and been the TMS representative to the MS&T conference. He co-organized three TMS-sponsored international conferences and several TMS symposia. He is a member of the board of review for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, and is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and ASM International.
David Bahr, Membership and Student Development Director
Bahr has been a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Washington State University since 1997. He earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in materials science, and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in materials science and engineering, from Purdue University. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 publications and is credited with five U.S. patents.
A TMS member since he joined as a student in 1990, Bahr currently holds a collection of leadership positions within the society. Namely, he has chaired the join ASM/TMS Mechanical Behavior Committee from 2004-2006 and been the TMS representative to the Materials Advantage student group since its inception. Bahr’s many honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the ASM International Bradley Stoughton Award, and the TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award.
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