Newswise — Vivekanand Sista, a graduate student at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Ill., was selected as the winner of the 2008 ASM Heat Treating Society/Bodycote Best Paper in Heat Treating contest.
The paper, entitled "Accelerated Bainitic Transformation During Cyclic Austempering," coauthored by Professor Philip Nash (TPTC IIT) and Satyam S. Sahay (Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India) also was entered in the Bodycote Prize Paper Competition in Manchester, UK, where Vivek was awarded one of two Runner Up prizes.
The ASM Heat Treating Society established the Best Paper in Heat Treating Award in 1997 to recognize a paper that represents advancement in heat-treating technology, or promotes heat-treating in some substantial way or represents a clear advancement in managing the business of heat-treating. The award is sponsored by Bodycote Thermal Process-North America.
The HTS/Bodycote Student Paper Contest is open to all students, in full time or part-time education, at universities (or their equivalent), and research and industrial establishments (or their equivalent). It is also open to those students who have graduated in the last 18 months and whose paper describes work completed while still a student.
For more information about HTS, visit http://www.asminternational.org/hts.
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