Newswise — March 30, 2015 – Warrendale, PA (USA) – The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) installed four new officers during the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, held March 15-19 in Orlando, Florida. The following individuals have joined the TMS Board of Directors:
Stanley Howard, 2015 TMS Vice President
Stanley Howard is materials and metallurgical engineering professor at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He has been a member of TMS since 1984, when the society was individually incorporated. Prior to that, he had been a member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME)—TMS’s parent organization—since 1966. His most recent TMS leadership positions include serving on the TMS Board of Directors as Financial Planning Officer from 2009 through 2012 and currently serving on the TMS Foundation Board of Trustees. He holds Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
Howard will serve a three-year term with TMS—as vice president in 2015, president in 2016, and past president in 2017.
Joy Hines Forsmark, Financial Planning Officer
Joy Hines Forsmark, technical expert at Ford Motor Company, has been a TMS member since 1998. She has served on the TMS Board of Directors as chair of the Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) and on the TMS Programming Committee. She was awarded the TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award in 2003 and the MPMD Distinguished Service Award in 2012. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.S. in Materials Science from Rice University.
Srinivas Chada, Programming Director
Srinivas Chada, component packaging engineer at Schlumberger HFE, has been a TMS member since 1988. He has served as the chair of the TMS Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division (EMPMD, now Functional Materials Division-FMD) and received the TMS EMPMD Distinguished Service Award in 2012. Chada holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India.
Amy J. Clarke, Membership & Student Development Director
Amy J. Clarke is scientist, Materials Science and Technology—Metallurgy Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She has been a member of TMS since 2007. Clarke received the TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award in 2008 and two TMS Young Leader International Scholar Awards in 2010 and 2013. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Michigan Technological University.
ABOUT TMS The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a member-driven international professional society dedicated to fostering the exchange of learning and ideas across the entire range of minerals, metals, and materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production, to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. For more information on TMS, visit www.tms.org.
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