Delbert E. Day, past president of The American Ceramic Society, recently retired from the University of Missouri-Rolla as Curators’ Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering, and Senior Investigator (formerly Director) of the Graduate Center for Materials Research. During his 44 year career as a university teacher and researcher, he published more than 320 technical papers dealing with the structure and properties of many types of glass, edited three books, and received 44 U.S. and foreign patents for sealing glasses, glasses for biological applications, glass microspheres for radiation therapy, dental materials, transparent composites, and refractories. He conducted the first U.S. glass melting experiments on the space shuttle and is a co-inventor of Glasphalt, which uses waste glass as the aggregate in asphalt paving. He is also co-inventor of special purpose glass microspheres, TheraSphere™, which are now being used to treat patients with inoperable liver cancer.

His numerous honors and awards include election to the National Academy of Engineering, the Presidential Award for Research and Creativity (University of Missouri), selection as the Nation’s Outstanding Young Ceramic Engineer (Schwartzwalder-PACE Award) by the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers, the Hosler Alumni Scholar Medal for Scientific Achievement (Pennsylvania State University), and the CEC Outstanding Educator Award from The American Ceramic Society. He has been elected a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society, the Society of Glass Technology (United Kingdom) and the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers. He is currently Chairman and CEO of MO-SCI Corp., a company he co-founded which manufactures special purpose glasses for the healthcare, electronics, transportation, aerospace, chemical and sporting goods industries.

Larry Hench is professor emeritus, Imperial College of Science & Technology, London. Prior to his move to England in 1995, he spent 32 years at the University of Florida where he was graduate research professor of materials science and engineering, director of the Bioglass® Research Center and codirector of the Advanced Materials Research Center. Hench completed B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ceramic engineering at The Ohio State University in 1964. In 1969 he discovered Bioglass®, the first man-made material to bond with living tissues. Bioglass is used to repair bones, joints and teeth. His more recent studies led to the development of a new generation of gel-silica materials including net shape-net surface micro-optics (Gelsil®), diffractive optics and porous optical matrices for environmental sensors, tissue engineering, and gene activation. Dr. Hench’s accomplishments have resulted in many international awards, ~550 research papers, 24 books and 25 patents.

An ACerS Fellow and a member of the Glass & Optical Materials Division, Hench has served as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He has received the Society’s Schwartzwalder-PACE award (1972), John Jeppson award (2000), and Kingery award (2002).

Shin-ichi Hirano is president of Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
He graduated from the Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, Nagoya University in 1965, and he received his Dr. of Engineering from Nagoya University in 1970, where he majored in inorganic chemistry. He joined the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a research associate and then associate professor (1970-1978) and Pennsylvania State University as a post doctoral fellow (1971-1972). He moved to the Department of Applied Chemistry, Nagoya University and was promoted to professor in 1983. Before being elected as President, he served as Director of the Research Center of Advanced Energy Conversion and Center for Cooperative Research in Advanced Science and Technology, University Senator, and Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering.

He has published 335 reviewed original papers, 61 reviewed papers and 24 books as author or coauthor. He issued 93 patents mostly in the field of ceramic processing. His research interests include chemical processing and characterization of ceramic powders, films and inorganic/organic hybrids as well as in-situ microstructure control of ceramics through chemistry.

He received the Richard M. Fulrath Award, as well as and awards from the Ceramic Society of Japan, the Chemical Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy, and the Japan Fine Ceramics Association, among others. He is a member of the Japanese Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society, where he is affiliated with the Basic Science and Electronics Divisions. He served as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and an editor of the Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan. Dr. Hirano has co-chaired many International Symposia for the Ceramic Society and is often an invited speaker. He has also served as presidents of the International Ceramic Federation (ICF) (1997-1999), the Ceramic Society of Japan (2003-2004), and the Asia-Oceania Ceramic Federation (2003-2005).

Robin W. Grimes is Professor of Materials Physics in the Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK. He received his BSc. in Mathematical Physics from Nottingham University UK, M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Keele UK. He held posts at the Royal Institution in London until joining Imperial College in 1995. In 2000 he was the Bernd T. Matthias Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2002 he was awarded the Rosenhain Medal of the Institute of Materials. He has authored over 150 journal publications. His research interest is in the application and development of computer simulation techniques to energy related materials, particularly for nuclear systems. He is a member of the Basic Science Division.

Michael J. Hoffmann is professor of ceramic materials and systems in the department of mechanical engineering at Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

He earned his diploma in technical mineralogy from the Technical University of Darmstadt (1985) and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Universität Stuttgart, Germany (1989). Before he joined the Universität Karlsruhe as a professor and managing director of the Institute of Ceramics for Mechanical Engineering, he was a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart from 1985-95. His research activities are focused on non-oxide structural ceramics as well as on ferroelectric ceramics. He received the Masing-Gedächnispreis of Deutschen Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (1993), the Dionýz Ilkovic Memorial Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2003) and is a member of the World Academy of Ceramics. Hoffmann has published over 100 technical papers and holds several patents.

He is a member of the Basic Science Division and the Engineering Ceramics Division and was the Technical Program Chair of the ACerS 107th Annual Meeting in Baltimore. In 1994, he received the Roland B. Snow Award.

Holterhoff received a Bachelor of Ceramic Engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1972. He joined Kohler Company upon graduation, and entered the refractories industry in 1978 with Kaiser Refractories. He joined Lehigh Cement in 1984 as Manager of Technical Services for CA cements, and continued with Heidelberger in 1998 after a corporate restructure.

Author of more than 20 papers, presentations, and technical articles, Holterhoff is the recipient of an ASTM Award of Merit. He is currently secretary of ASTM committee C08, Refractories, and a past chairman of the American Concrete Institute committee on Refractory Concrete. He is also past chairman of the Refractory Ceramics Division and the Northwest Indiana section of ACerS, where he was section counselor.

Camden R. Hubbard, Distinguished R&D Staff Member, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Hubbard received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa in 1971 and B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He leads the Diffraction and Thermophysical Properties Group and the Residual Stress User Center of the High Temperature Materials Laboratory at ORNL. Previously at NBS (now NIST) he developed Standard Reference Materials and Reference Data for X-ray and led programs for reference data on advanced ceramics.

Hubbard has published over 200 papers, 2 patents, and certified 6 SRMs. He is past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD). He was elected to Distinguished Fellow of the ICDD in 2006. He has been an ACerS member for over 25 years and a member of the Basic Science and Engineering Ceramics Divisions.

Toshihiro Ishikawa is Chief of the Inorganic Functional Materials Institute, R&D, at Ube Industries, Ltd., Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan, where he has worked since 1979.

He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Polymer Science from Osaka City University in 1977 and 1979, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Precursor Ceramics in 1992 from the University of Osaka Prefecture.

He is the author of 49 papers, the co-author of 51 papers, and holds 180 patents. He has received numerous awards, including one from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, in 1992, another from the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, in 2003, the Yamazaki Teiichi Prize in 2003, and the GSC Award from the Minister for the Environment in 2004.

Dr. Ishikawa has been a member of The American Ceramic Society and the Engineering Ceramics Division since January 1996. He served as a session chair for the 4th PACRIM meeting, the HTCMC 5, and the 105th Annual Meeting & Exposition of The American Ceramic Society. Dr. Ishikawa has reviewed papers for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and currently serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology.

Hyoun-Ee Kim is a Professor in the Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. He earned his B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Seoul National University in 1981, and his Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1987. Dr. Kim began his career in 1987 as a Development Engineer in the Metals and Ceramics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. From 1991 to the present, he has worked as a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University. In 2002 he was also appointed Director of the Research Center for Advanced Materials for Medical Implants (RCAMMI).

Dr. Kim has authored or coauthored more than 200 SCI papers, and he holds 31 patents. His primary fields of research are biomaterials and piezoelectric materials. He is a member of the Engineering Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society.

Jeffrey Kohli is the European New Products Manager, Environmental Technologies, at Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY. He received his Bachelor of Science and his Master of Science in Ceramic Engineering, and his Doctorate of Philosophy in Glass Science in 1991, all from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Dr. Kohli has been with Corning Incorporated since 1991, starting as a Senior Engineer - Corporate Engineering, moving to Senior Scientist and Project Leader, Manager of the Specialty Fiber and then Specialty Materials Development, and then to Program Manager, Environmental Technologies, before moving to his current position in 2006. Prior to his employment at Corning, he was with Schott Glass Technologies and Galileo Electro-Optics.

Dr. Kohli has authored or co-authored 22 published technical pieces in books, journals, and conference proceedings. He holds 16 US Patents, with 3 pending. His primary field of research is glass, glass-ceramics and optical materials. He is an active member of the ACerS Glass & Optical Materials Division and has held many Division offices.

Katsutoshi Komeya is professor of the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences at Yokohama National University, Japan. He holds a B.S. degree from Yokohama National University (1962), and a Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology (1977).

Dr. Komeya was employed by the Toshiba R&D Center and the Toshiba New Materials Laboratory as a ceramic researcher from 1962-89. He then held the position of associate professor for three years in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Yokohama National University. His research activities include applications development in nitride ceramics, especially silicon nitride, aluminum nitride and sialons. Komeya is the author or coauthor of more than 150 technical papers and 40 books, and he holds more than 200 Japanese and other patents. He received the Society’s Fulrath Award in 1984. Dr. Komeya is a member of the ACerS Engineering Ceramics Division.

Richard M. Laine is a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department, and Director of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Center (MSEC) at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1973, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Univ. of Delaware from 1973-74, and UC Santa Barbara from 1974-76.

Dr. Laine has worked at SRI International (1976-81); Professor MSE, University of Washington (1987-90); Professor MSE and Director MSEC, University of Michigan (90-present); and he founded Tal Materials (Nanocerox, 1996); and Mayaterials Inc. (2003). His major research interests include the synthesis and processing of inorganic/organic hybrid materials from cubic silsesquioxanes, and mixed-metal oxide nanopowders.

Dr. Laine is a member of ACS, Secretary General of Materials Secretariat (2000-2); MRS; ACerS, Vice Chairman and Chairman, Michigan Section (1994-5). His honors include Visiting Professor, Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (2001); Finalist in the Discover Awards, Discover Magazine, P. 72, June (2001); Invited Professor, Universita di Roma, “Tor Vegata,” (2000). He has given 202 invited talks since 1990, has 195 publications to his credit, has edited 10 books, and holds 33 patents.

Jacques Lamon is Director of Research at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) and leader of Mechanical Behavior of Composites group at LCTS (Laboratory for Thermostructural Composites, University of Bordeaux, France). A graduate of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines (ENSM, France), he received his Ph.D. from ENSM in 1978. After a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley (1981-1982), he served as research scientist at ENSM. He then joined Battelle Research Institute (Geneva, Switzerland) in 1985 as project leader. He received an award from Seymour Cray Company in 1990 for his work on "failure predictions and computations of failure probability of parts made of brittle materials".

Dr. Lamon has authored more than 200 technical articles (including 150 refereed journal articles, and conference proceedings articles) on ceramics reliability, and mechanical behavior of fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites. He has contributed to five books, to more than 15 testing method European standards (CEN). He was the editor of four conference proceedings, and special issues of the Composite Science & Technology and Annales de Chimie journals. Jacques Lamon is President of the French Society of Composites Materials (AMAC) and President-elect of the European Society of Composite Materials. He has been a member of The American Ceramic Society since 1983, and a member of the Basic Science and Engineering Ceramics Divisions.

Burtrand I. Lee is a Professor at Clemson University, Clemson, SC, where he has taught since 1986. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from Southern Adventist Univ., and his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the Univ. of Florida. Prior to his employment at Clemson, he was a Visiting Senior Researcher at Hitachi Research Lab, Japan in 1993, a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1989, and a Chemist at Biospherics in Rockville, MD from 1976-1977. Dr. Lee has received several awards including a Fulbright Scholar Award, the Clemson Board of Trustee Faculty Excellence Award, and the Lady Davis Fellow award.

Dr. Lee has published more than 170 technical papers and has edited books on ceramic and polymer processing. He holds several U.S. patents. His primary research field is fine particle synthesis, surface modification, and functional ceramic-polymer composites. He has co-organized many national and international technical symposia on materials and nano-processing, and has served as symposium co-organizer for numerous ACerS and PACRIM conferences. Dr. Lee is a member of the ACerS Electronics Division.

Yusuke Moriyoshi is a Professor of Inorganic Materials at Hosei University, Tokyo. He received both his M.S. (1965) and Ph.D. (1973) from Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT). He was a research associate and an associate professor at TIT from 1965 to 1976, except from 1974-1976 when he was a research associate at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Hosei University in 1994, he worked as a supervising researcher at the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials from 1976 to 1994.

His research interests are in sintering and related phenomena, ceramic processing, and ceramic microstructures. He is the author or coauthor of more than 180 technical papers, 9 books, and 25 patents. He is a member of the Basic Science Division of The American Ceramic Society.

David K. Peeler is a Senior Fellow Engineer at Savannah River National Laboratory/Washington Savannah River Company in Aiken, South Carolina.

Dr. Peeler received his Bachelor of Science degree in Ceramic Engineering from Clemson University in 1987, Masters of Science degree in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University in 1989, and Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from Clemson University in 1993.

Dr. Peeler then joined Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he served as the Project Lead for the Plutonium Immobilization Program and studied the effects of amorphous phase separation and crystallization on the durability of high-level waste glasses. In 1995, he joined Washington Savannah River Company and is currently a Senior Fellow Engineer at the Savannah River National Laboratory, where he serves as the Technical Lead for Glass Science Research Programs. Dr. Peeler's primary field of research focuses on glass formulation and alternative processing strategies to improve waste loading and melt rate for the Defense Waste Processing Facility. He received the Award of Excellence from WSRC's Liquid Waste Disposal Project in 2005 and the Best of Closure Award in 2004. Dr. Peeler has over 60 external or peer reviewed technical publications (130 internal technical reports) and has issued three patent disclosures.

He served as Program Chair, Secretary, Vice-Chair, and Chair for the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division of ACerS and as co-editor of two Transaction Series volumes. He is currently serving on the John Jeppson Award committee.

Kathleen Richardson is currently Professor and Director of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Dr. Richardson's degrees (B.S. [1982], M.S. [1988] and Ph.D. [1992]) are from the NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Kathleen joined Clemson in January 2005, following her previous post as Associate Professor of Optics, Chemistry and MMAE at the University of Central Florida's College of Optics and Photonics, where she worked for 13 years.

Dr. Richardson's research includes numerous domestic and international programs related to infrared glasses and their photo-structural changes and stability. She has also conducted research at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics on ion-exchange strengthened laser glass, passive and active liquid crystal-based optics and sol gel-derived materials.

Dr. Richardson has authored more than 85 refereed publications, proceedings and book chapters, holds 3 patents, and has presented more than 25 invited lectures. She has been active in ACerS since 1985, currently serves as Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division (GOMD), is Vice President of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE), and has organized and chaired numerous domestic and international meetings within her discipline. She is a recognized world leader in infrared glass research, and is a Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology (2002).

Lester F. Rickard received his B.S. from New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) in 1965 and his MBA from Canisius College in 1976.

He was employed by Buffalo China, Inc. from 1964-2004 and during his 40 years there he held the positions of Development Engineer, Process Engineer/Project Engineer, VP Glost Operations, VP/Technical Director, Manager Quality Assurance, and Senior Process Engineer. He served in the US Army from 1967-1969. He is currently retired and living in Hamburg, NY.

Mr. Rickard has received numerous awards and honors from the NYSCC and from the Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology at Alfred University. He served as President (1980-1982) and Board Member (1974-1998) of the Ceramic Association of New York. He was a member of the ASTM Committee C – 21 from 1975-2004.

Mr. Rickard has been a member of The American Ceramic Society since 1969, and a member of the Whitewares & Materials Division, as well as the Western New York Section. He was on the Presidents Council of Industrial Advisors from 1986-2002.

Robert W. Schwartz is professor of ceramic engineering at the University of Missouri – Rolla.

He received his B.S. in science education and M.S. in chemistry from North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in ceramic engineering from the University of Illinois. Prior to joining UMR in 2002, he held positions as associate and assistant professor at Clemson University, senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and engineer at B.F. Goodrich. Dr. Schwartz conducts research on piezoelectric and dielectric materials. He has authored or co-authored 90 technical papers and holds two patents.

Dr. Schwartz is a member and current Vice-Chair of the Electronics Division and serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

Michael K. Cinibulk is a Senior Materials Research Engineer in the Ceramics Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. He is responsible for technical program management and leads basic and applied research on processing and characterization of fiber coatings and fiber-matrix interfaces for oxidation resistant ceramic-matrix composites.

Dr. Cinibulk received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Following his graduate work he spent two years on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. Prior to joining the government in 2000, he was affiliated with the in-house research program at AFRL as an employee with UES, Inc. (1994-2000). Between undergraduate and graduate studies, he was a researcher in the Materials Laboratory at SRI International. Mike has authored or coauthored over 60 publications and patents.

Dr. Cinibulk has been a member of the Basic Science Division of the American Ceramic Society since 1987. He has served as session chairman and organized symposia and topical sessions for several Society meetings. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and Materials Letters.

Title: Development of Oxide Fiber Coatings for Oxide and Non-Oxide Composites
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Yoshihiko Imanaka received a B.S. in Metallurgy from Kyushu University, Japan, an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from Kyushu University. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan, working on R&D relating to microelectronic packaging materials, electro-ceramics and the metallization of ceramics. In particular, he was involved in the development of a Multilayered Ceramic Circuit Board with Copper Conductors for Fujitsu mainframe computers. His current interest is in the Embedded Ceramic Passive Technology of Printed Wiring Boards (PWB) for future RF-module substrates. He has published 30 authored technical papers, 35 authored patents, six co-authored books, and Multilayered Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics (LTCC) Technology, published by in 2004.

He is a member of the Ceramic Society of Japan, The American Ceramic Society, and the Materials Research Society. Currently, he is a senior researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories and a member of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization project of Nanostructure Forming for Advanced Ceramic Integration Technology in the Japan Nanotechnology program.

Title: Embedded Ceramic Passive Technology for RF-Module Substrates
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Yuji Iwamoto is a Chief Researcher, Group Manager of Hybrid Process Group, and Group Leader of Hydrogen Separation Membrane Project at Materials Research and Development Laboratory of Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC), Nagoya, JAPAN.

He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science from The University of Tokyo and holds a B.S. and M.S. in organic chemistry from The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University. Since joining JFCC in 1990, he has focused on the development of ceramic materials through chemical design of metal-organic precursors. As a researcher from JFCC, he worked at Precursor Design Group, Fine Ceramics Research Association, Synergy Ceramics Laboratory (1995 – 1999). He then worked in the research group of Prof. Dr. Ralf Riedel, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (1999 – 2000). He has authored or coauthored more than 60 publications and holds 20 patents. His current research topic at JFCC is development of ceramic membranes for high-temperature separation of hydrogen.

Dr. Iwamoto is a member of the Engineering Ceramics Division.

Title: Precursors-derived ceramic membranes for high-temperature separation of hydrogen
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Susan Trolier-McKinstry is a professor of ceramic science and engineering, and director of the W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University. Her main research interests include dielectric and piezoelectric thin films, the development of texture in bulk ceramic piezoelectrics, and spectroscopic ellipsometry. She obtained B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Ceramic Science at Penn State, and on graduation, joined the faculty there. She has held visiting appointments at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

She is a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the Materials Research Society. She is past-president of both Keramos and the Ceramics Educational Council, and is co-chair of the committee revising the IEEE Standard on Ferroelectricity. She has served as vice-president for ferroelectrics of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC), and was an elected member of that group's administrative committee. She is currently the President–Elect of the IEEE UFFC. Over the past several years, she has served as an organizer for the Fall 2003 MRS meeting, and the US-Japan Seminar on Dielectric and Piezoelectric Ceramics. She is the recipient of the Robert Coble Award of The American Ceramic Society, the Wilson Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Excellence in Research from Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the Materials Research Laboratory Outstanding Faculty Award, and a National Science Foundation Career grant.

Title: Microcontact printed thin films for capacitors
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Koji Watari is a group leader in the Advanced Sintering Technology Group, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Nagoya, Japan, and guest professor of Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan.

He received his B.S., M.S., and D.Eng in Materials Science and Engineering, all from Nagaoka University of Technolgy. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked at the National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya (NIRIN), Japan as a research scientist from 1990 to 2000, and he also worked in the Materials Research Laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University, PA, from 1998 to 1999. Watari has authored more than 150 publications and holds 20 patents in the materials engineering field.

Dr. Watari's main research field is the processing and characterization of advanced ceramics. He developed high thermal conductivity ceramics (Si₃N₄, AlN) and thick film sintering technology. He received the Young Scientist Award of the Ceramic Society of Japan in 1997, Academic Award of the Nagai Science and Technology Foundation in 2002, and six "best paper" awards from international conferences.

He has been a member of The American Ceramic Society since 1991, and has co-organized a number of symposia at the PACRIM meetings.

Title: Densification and Grain Orientation in Ceramic Thick Film by Centrifugal Sintering
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Hiroaki Yanagida is Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo. He has held many prominent positions including President and CEO of Techno-search Inc., Vice President of the Engineering Academy of Japan, Director General of Nagoya City Science Museum, and Vice President of the Science System Center of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Dr. Yanagida was President of Nagoya Institute of Technology until January 2004. Prior to that he was the Director General of the Research Institute of Japan Fine Ceramics Center, a professor of Ceramic Science at The University of Tokyo. He has published more than 400 papers and more than 30 textbooks and popular science books, particularly in the field of functional ceramics and R&D philosophy.

Dr. Yanagida received the Purple Ribbon Medal from the Emperor of Japan in 1998 and Doctrat Honaris Causa from the University of Limoges 2005. He was awarded the Distinguished Researcher Award of the Ceramic Society of Japan and Distinguished Young Researcher awards from the Ceramic Society of Japan and the Chemical Society of Japan. He is a past president of the Ceramic Society of Japan and a Charter Member of the Academy of Ceramics.

Yanagida was made a Fellow of ACerS in 1985, and he delivered Orton Memorial Lecture in 1986. He became a Distinguished Life Member of the Society in 1998. Dr. Yanagida is affiliated with the Basic Science Division.

Steven Ogunwumi is a Research Associate in the Crystalline Materials Research group at Corning Incorporated in Corning, NY.

Steven received his B.S. in chemistry from Lock Haven University and earned his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Purdue University. He then joined Corning in 1997, where he utilizes his material chemistry and catalysis background to advance R&D of new ceramic compositions. He also focuses on building fundamental understanding of the interactions between catalyst and ceramic supports for exhaust emissions remediation. In 2005, he was promoted to Research Associate based on his innovative contributions, leading to a ceramic diesel filter currently in manufacturing. In 2005, Dr. Ogunwumi received the Lloyd Ferguson Young Scientist Award bestowed by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers to a “recipient showing early promise who has demonstrated the potential to sustain a productive scientific career”. Steven currently holds 9 patents and 7 publications. Additionally, he has written more than 25 internal technical reports.

Steven has been a member of ACerS since 2005 and is also a member of NICE.

Toyota CRDL has designed and developed novel photocatalysts active under visible light illumination on a new concept of anion doping, such as nitrogen into substitutional site of titanium dioxide. The new developed technologies are 1) nano-size TiO-N powders production processes by mixing and heating of TiO₂ and urea powders, 2) high dispersion techniques of the nano-size powders in solvent for slurry and 3) binder techniques of coating solution for low cost and stable production.

The visible light photocatalysts are already used on textile fabrics of deodorant cloths, and interior materials (wallpaper, films, floor etc.) for antifouling and neutralizing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) harmful to human health. The materials are also utilized for teeth whitening by visible light. Toyota CRDL is working intensively to improve the activity of the visible light photocatalysts and to apply the materials inside a vehicle.

Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY is the winner of the 2006 Corporate Technical Achievement Award (CTAA) for their development of EAGLE^{2000 ™} Glass Substrates for Liquid Crystal Displays.

Glass has been a core component enabling the information age, and Corning Incorporated has played a key role in the development of many of the necessary glass technologies. Their recent development of EAGLE²⁰⁰⁰ has had a profound impact on LCD panel manufacturing, by making possible very large generation substrates.

The characteristics of EAGLE²⁰⁰⁰ (low density, low CTE, advanced thermal properties, and high chemical durability) have also enabled the production of increasingly affordable, lighter, thinner, and finer-resolution high-performance displays. Corning's achievement represents a major leap in Liquid Crystal Display technology.

George Bugliarello, President Emeritus (having served as president from 1973 to 1994), University Professor and former chancellor (1994 - 2003) of Polytechnic University, is an engineer and educator with a broad background ranging from fluid mechanics to computer languages, the environment, biomedical engineering and science policy. He holds a Doctor of Science degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was awarded honorary degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Trieste, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Pace University, Trinity College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Bugliarello is now serving a four-year term as Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Engineering, of which he has been a member since 1987. He is a lifetime National Associate of The National Academies and currently serves as chair of the National Academy of Engineering Council's International Affairs Committee.

Paul F. Becher, Corporate Fellow and Research Group Leader of the Ceramic Science and Technology Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is currently researching mechanisms controlling microstructural evolution and properties (especially mechanical and thermal behavior) of ceramic systems across multiple length scales.

Dr. Becher is a past president of The American Ceramic Society (1999-2000) and Fellow (1979), a Ross Coffin Purdy Publications Award recipient (1988), a Robert Browning Sosman Memorial Lecturer (1988) and associate editor of the Journal (1988-Present). He received the Alexander Von Humbolt Foundation Research Award (1991), is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science, a member of the World Academy of Ceramics, a member of National Materials Advisory Board (2003-Present), a Distinguished Materials Science and Engineering lecturer at the Pennsylvania State University (2003), a recipient of the International Inventors Hall of Fame Advanced Technology Award, the 1987 Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inventor of the Year and a recipient of the Federal Laboratories Consortium Special Award of Excellence.

Dr. Becher holds a Ph.D. in Ceramics from North Carolina State University as well as a M.S. and B.S. from the University of Missouri-Rolla in Metallurgical Engineering.

I-Wei Chen, Skirkanich Professor of Materials Innovation at The University of Pennsylvania began his ceramic research by studying martensitic transformations in zirconia nano crystals, which led to work on transformation plasticity, superplasticity, fatigue, grain growth and sintering in various oxides and nitrides. He is currently interested in nanotechnology of ferroelectrics, thin film devices, and nano particles for biomedical applications.

Dr. Chen first served the American Ceramic Society as Program Chair of the Basic Science Division in 1989 and has since chaired several ACerS committees. He is an ACerS Fellow (1991), recipient of its Ross Coffin Purdy Award (1994) and Edward C. Henry Award (Electronic Division, 1999), and author of 90 papers in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society (1986-2006). He also received the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists (1997), is ranked among the Most Cited Materials Scientists in 1990-1994 (24th in total ISI citations, 7th in citations per paper), and is currently listed in the ISI Directory of Most Cited Authors (Materials).

Dr. Chen received a Ph.D. in Metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an M.S. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University.

Edward Boulos is a former Senior Corporate Fellow of Ford Motor/Visteon Corporations, Glass Division and leader of their glass R&D float glass melting group (1985-2005). He has held positions as Senior Scientist for Anchor Hocking Corp., OH (1980–1984), Research Scientist at both Catholic Univ. of America, Washington D.C. and American Univ. in Cairo, Egypt. He now works as a consultant.

Dr. Boulos holds a Ph.D. in Ceramics (1971) and a Professional Degree (1997), both from the Univ. of Missouri-Rolla; and an M.S. in Materials Science from the American Univ. in Cairo.

Dr. Boulos is a three time recipient of the Henry Ford Technological Award. He holds 30 US patents, 40 publications and is co-editor of two books. He served on the Liaison Board of The Center for Glass Research (1988-2002) and was elected president in 1992. He also served on the Executive Board of the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (1999-2005), and was elected president in 2003.

Dr. Boulos is the recipient of the 2005 Toledo Glass and Ceramic Award. He is a Fellow of ACerS (1990) and has served as Chairman of the Glass and Optical Materials Division (1996). He also served as Program Chair and Symposium Organizer (1991-1993).

Yoshikazu Suzuki is an assistant professor at the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Japan (2003-present).

He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Chemistry from Osaka University in 1998. He worked as a researcher at NIRIN and AIST, Japan (1998-2003). During 2002-2003, he served at the headquarters of METI, Japan as a technical official and national project manager to draft Japan's strategy for nanotechnology and materials. He has authored and co-authored more than 110 papers and 8 patents on ceramic processing. His research focuses on 1-D nanomaterials for energy applications, uniformly porous composites with 3-D network structure, and in-situ processing for new composite systems. Recently, he wrote a book entitled, "Fine Ceramics Technical Strategy from MOT." Dr. Suzuki is a recipient of the Award of Advancement, The Ceramic Society of Japan (2001).

An ACerS member, affiliated with the Engineering Ceramics Division, he and his colleagues organized a symposium, "In-situ processing for New Composite Systems" at The ACerS 107th Annual Meeting & Exposition. He also served as a guest editor of International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology.

Roy W. Rice received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Washington in 1957 and 1962, respectively. Mr. Rice was employed as the Director of Materials Research, W. R. Grace & Co. from 1984-1994, and worked at the Ceramics Branch of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory from 1968-1984. Prior to that he spent 13 years at The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington He currently consults from his home in Alexandria, VA..

Mr. Rice has more than 300 publications to his credit, mostly in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He is the author of 3 books, co-editor of 4 books, and he holds approximately 30 patents.

Roy has served on a number of ACerS committees and was a longtime reviewer for ACerS, and other, publications. He was an active member and officer of the Baltimore/Washington Section of ACerS, and is a member of the Basic Science Division. He was elevated to Fellow of the Society in 1972.

Mufit Akinc is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University, serving as department chair from 1995-2006, and is also a Senior Ceramic Engineer at USDOE, Ames Laboratory.

He holds B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey, and a Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from Iowa State University. He joined ISU in 1981 and has held his current rank since 1988. Professor Akinc's research in ceramics has produced 135 papers and seven patents. He served as Vice Chair of the University Materials Council and has been a member of the executive council since 2002. He received the MSE Department's Outstanding Service Award in 2004 and the ISU Alumni Association's Faculty Citation Award in 2001.

Dr. Akinc became a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society in 1996. He is a member of the Basic Science and Engineering Ceramics Divisions, the Ceramic Educational Council and NICE. He served as a member of the President's Faculty Advisory Board in 1997, as an associate editor of the Journal from 1994-96, and was on the nomination committee for the Basic Science Division in 1986.

Chuanping Li is a Senior Research Engineer of Saint-Gobain High Performance Materials at the Northborough R&D Center in Northborough, Massachusetts. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Materials Engineering from Hunan University, China, in 1983 and 1987 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Iowa State University in 2004. Upon receiving his B.S., Chuanping worked at various industrial and academic positions in the field of materials. Before moving to Iowa State University/Ames Lab, he served as the director of the Materials Research and Testing Center at Hunan Light Industrial College, China, from 1996 to 1999.

Dr. Li is the author/co-author of 19 technical papers. His primary fields of research are Structural Ceramics, Glass/Ceramic components, and Ceramic Processing. He has been a member of the American Ceramic Society since 1997, affiliated with the Basic Science Division.

Igor Levin is a materials research scientist in the Ceramics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg MD. Dr. Levin joined NIST in 1997 as a guest scientist and became a member of the staff in 2002. He received a Dipl. Eng. Degree (honors) in Metallurgy from the Polytechnical Institute in St. Petersrburg (Russia) in 1987, and M.Sc. (1994) and D.Sc. (1997) degrees in Materials Science from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Levin was a Minerva Fellow with the Electron Microscopy Group of the Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung (Stuttgart) in 1995, and a Visiting Scientist at the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2004. His research focuses on structure-properties relations in bulk and thin film electronic ceramics with a particular emphasis on the analysis of crystal structures, phase transitions and defects in these materials. Dr. Levin has published over 70 technical papers in major peer-reviewed international journals.

Virginia Lea Miller is currently a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate in the RF Electronics Branch at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland.

She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, in 2001. She then attended graduate school at Princeton University, where she received a M.A. in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006. She conducted her graduate studies under the guidance of Robert J. Cava and her research focused on the magnetic and electrical properties of transition metal chalcogenides for use in various solid state devices. As an undergraduate, she participated in the NSF sponsored Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Working in the Ceramics Division at NIST, she studied the phase relations, crystal chemistry and dielectric properties of several ceramic oxides for potential use in wireless communication devices.

Taki Negas is Vice-President of Technology, Refractron Technologies Corp., Newark, NY.

He received an AB (Geology) from Washington University in St. Louis; MS (Geology) from Miami University of Ohio; and Ph.D. (Mineralogy) from Ohio State University. From 1966-68, he was a National Bureau of Standards (NBS)/National Research Council Postdoctorate Fellow at NBS, Gaithersburg, MD, and became a Research and Supervisory Scientist at NBS (1968-83). From 1983-96, he was Vice-President of Engineering at Trans-Tech, Inc., Adamstown, MD, and from 1996-2005, Technical Director of TCI, Inc., Hagerstown, MD. He has over 75 technical publications and 6 patents and received the Department of Commerce Silver Medal for materials research.

A member of the Basic Science and Electronics Divisions of ACerS, he is a Fellow of the Society and former coeditor of Phase Diagrams for Ceramics and of Ceramic Transactions (Vol. 53). He received the ACerS Corporate Technical Achievement Award in 1993. His research interests emphasize the structure-processing-properties cycle of electronic and structural ceramics.

Terrell A. Vanderah is a Research Chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, Ceramics Division, in Gaithersburg, MD. Prior to joining NIST in 1994, she worked as a Research Chemist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, CA; as an Instructor at Cerro Coso Community College (CA); a Lecturer at The University of Connecticut, and as a Clinical Chemist in West Germany, among other positions.

Dr. Vanderah received her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of Maryland (1977) and her Ph.D. in Solid State Chemistry from The University of Connecticut (1985). Her research interests include phase equilibria of electronically interesting ceramic oxide systems; inorganic non-molecular solid-state chemistry with emphasis on synthesis, crystal chemistry, and interrelationships of crystal structure, chemical composition, and physical properties.

Dr. Vanderah has authored, co-authored, or edited 105 technical papers/books and she is Editor-in-Chief of the ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams. Dr. Vanderah received the Alan Berman Research Publication Award in 1995, Naval Research Laboratory, and the Naval Weapons Center Technical Director’s Award for Outstanding Technical Accomplishment in 1988. She is a member of the Basic Science and Electronics Divisions of ACerS.

Victor Joseph Tennery worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN from 1974-1994. During his 20 years there, he held various positions including Research Ceramist, Group Leader and Section Head. He retired in 1994 after serving for 10 years as the Director of the High Temperature Materials Laboratory. Prior to joining ORNL, he taught for many years at the University of Illinois.

He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1954, 1955, and 1959 respectively.

Dr. Tennery has served as an ABET visitor for the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers since 1985. He is an Emeritus member of The American Ceramic Society, and a member of both the Basic Science and Engineering Ceramics Divisions. He served as Vice President of the Society from 1989-1990. He is an active member of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), a Charter Member of Committee C-28, and active on many subcommittees.

Dr. Tennery is the author or co-author of more than 135 papers and technical reports, and one book. He has received numerous awards including an Appreciation Award from ASTM, Fellow of NICE, Distinguished Merit Award from the Univ. of Illinois, and Fellow of ACerS, to name just a few.

Thomas O. Mason is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He received his B.S. in Ceramic Science from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Hannover, Germany, his entire career has been at Northwestern University, including service as assistant department chairman from 1987-1992.

Mason is a highly cited researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information, having authored or coauthored approximately 250 technical papers in the areas of electroceramics, defect chemistry, and electrical characterization methods, including cement-based materials and composites.

Mason is a member/academician of the World Academy of Ceramics and a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society. He is a member of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers and of the Ceramic Educational Council (past-president). Mason served as vice president of the American Ceramic Society (1995-1996) and is affiliated with the Basic Science, Electronics, and Cements Divisions. He received the Schwartzwalder-Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering Award in 1990 and the Richard M. Fulrath Award in 1994.