Dr. Stephen Freiman graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a B. ChE. and an M.S. in Metallurgy. After receiving a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida in 1968, Dr. Freiman worked at the IIT Research Institute and the Naval Research Laboratory. He joined NIST (then NBS) in 1978. From 1992 to 2002 Dr. Freiman served as Chief of the Ceramics Division at NIST. Prior to his leaving NIST to start a consulting business in 2006 (Freiman Consulting Inc.), he served for four years as Deputy Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory.

Dr. Freiman has published over 150 papers focusing on the mechanical properties of brittle materials. He was the first Chairman of the ASTM Subcommittee addressing brittle fracture and a past Chair of the VAMAS steering committee. For his outstanding scientific work, he was awarded the Bronze Medal in 1982 from the Department of Commerce and the Silver Medal in 1987. He is the author of more than 90 Archival Publications, 31 Book Chapters, and 31 non-archival publications.

In The American Ceramic Society, he served as Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division, member and Chair of the Program and Meetings Committee, Treasurer, and President. He is a Fellow of the Society. In addition to these official posts, Dr Freiman has been active in assisting in the organizing and running of technical meetings for the Society. These include the Fourth Pacific Rim Meeting on Advanced Ceramics, 2001, and the 1st International Congress on Ceramics, Toronto, Canada, 2006.

Dr. Robert S. Roth is a Scientist Emeritus with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (formerly NBS, The National Bureau of Standards) in Gaithersburg, MD.

Dr. Roth received a B.A. in Geology from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA in 1947 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from the University of Illinois in 1950 and 1951. Before arriving at NBS in 1951, Bob worked as a field assistant for the U.S. Geological Survey and as a Research Associate at the Univ. of Illinois Engineering Experimental Station. While at NIST he became Chief of the Solid State Chemistry Section in the Ceramics Division of what is now the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory. Bob is a prolific publisher of manuscripts describing phase equilibria, crystal chemistry, and crystal structure analyses, and has authored or coauthored over 225 technical papers. He is considered the world’s leader in the phase equilibria and crystal chemistry of ceramic oxides. He received both the Silver and Gold medals from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce for distinguished achievement in the federal service. Bob also received the Wilhelm R. Buessem award from the Center for Dielectric Studies, and is a fellow of both the Geological and Mineralogical Societies of America. In 2003 he achieved recognition as an ISI “Most Highly Cited” author, one of only three scientists from NIST with this distinction.

Bob Roth is a Fellow and Emeritus Member of The American Ceramic Society and is a member of the Basic Science Division. He was the Sosman Memorial Lecturer in 1991 and also the recipient of the John Jeppson Award (1995) and the Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award (2003). He joined the Society in 1959, has been a reviewer for the Journal of The American Ceramic Society since 1960, and served as an associate editor from 1989-2005. Bob served as a member of the Publications Committee (1979-1980) and is an ad-hoc member of the Phase Equilibria Program committee (1980-present). Since 1980, Bob has been the Senior Editor of the volumes published by The American Ceramic Society entitled “Phase Equilibrium Diagrams” (formerly “Phase Diagrams for Ceramists”), which have provided an enormous benefit for the global ceramics community.

Dr. Kenneth H. Jack

From 1941-57 he taught chemistry at Newcastle, conducted metallurgical and crystallographic research for BISRA at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and worked as a research engineer at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. In 1957 he became Research Director of Thermal Syndicate Ltd. at Wallsend, and was also a co-founder of an associated company NELAS, which led to a professorship at Newcastle in 1964. There he established the Wolfson Research Group for High-Strength Materials, covering metals, ceramics and glasses. After retirement in 1984, Dr. Jack continued research as a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow and then as a consultant to the Cookson Group.

From 1957-64, Jack’s manufacture of the world’s purest silica, “Spectrosil”, necessary for the contamination-free melting of silicon, was vital in producing the silicon “chip”. In 1961 he made the first British laser-quality ruby and, with a Newcastle hospital, developed the first British laser ophthalmoscope for pinning back detached retinas. Jack may be best known to metallurgists for his discovery of metal-nitrogen GP zones and their applications in “high-nitrogen” steels; or perhaps to ceramists, for his prediction and then production of new engineering ceramics, the “sialons”, both crystalline and vitreous.

Dr. Jack is the author of nearly 200 papers and 12 patents. His 19 major awards included honorary membership of the Société Française de Métallurgie, the Materials Research Society of India, and the Ceramic Society of Japan. In 1989, he was selected to give The American Ceramic Society’s Sosman Memorial Lecture.

Dr. Fritz Aldinger studied chemistry and physical metallurgy at the Universität Stuttgart, Germany, graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur in 1965, and completed his doctorate in 1967. He then worked for ten years as postdoc and group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, including an intermediate time (1970) as visiting scientist at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, USA. In 1978 he joined W.C. Heraeus GmbH in Hanau, and in 1985 Hoechst AG in Frankfurt, heading the corporate research division. In 1992 he was appointed director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung and professor of ceramics at the Universität Stuttgart.

Fritz Aldinger has more than 680 publications and he holds several patents. His primary fields of research are structural and functional ceramics, thermochemistry and phase studies, computational phase studies, powder technology and sintering, thermolysis of preceramic compounds and bio-inspired oxide deposition.

He has received numerous awards, including Fellow of the Academy of Ceramics (1994), Skaupy Price (1997), Jubilee Tesla Medal (1998), Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria (2000), full member of the International Institute for the Science of Sintering, Belgrad (2002), and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria (2002). Fritz Aldinger has been an ACerS member, and member of the Engineering Ceramics Division, since 1995.

Dr. William Fahrenholtz earned his B.S. (1987) and M.S. (1989) degrees in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. (1992) in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. From 1993 until 1999, Bill was a research professor at UNM. Since 1999, he has been at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Bill has published over 60 papers on the processing and characterization of mullite, ceramic-metal composites, ultra-high temperature ceramics, and cerium oxide based coatings. In 2003, he received a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has also won four UMR faculty excellence awards for a combination of research, teaching, and service.

Dr. Fahrenholtz currently serves as a member of the ACerS Publications committee and chair of the Education Integration Committee. He is a reviewer for both the Journal of The American Ceramic Society and the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology. Previously, he was an officer of the Ceramic Educational Council and the New Mexico Section.

Dr. Amit Goyal Dr. Amit Goyal is a Distinguished Staff Scientist and a Battelle Distinguished Inventor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has published over 300 technical papers and is an inventor on 52 issued patents. He has given 8 plenary talks, 125 invited presentations and has published over 30 invited papers and book chapters. He has also co-edited many books.

Dr. Goyal is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the World Innovation Foundation (WIF), the American Society of Metals (ASM) and the Institute of Physics (IOP). He has received numerous national & international awards of excellence over the years. Select awards within the last year include a 2007 R&D100 Award, a 2007 MICRO/NANO 25 Award also from R&D100 Magazine, the University of Rochester's 2006 Distinguished Scholar Medal, the 2006 ASM-IIM Distinguished Lecturer Award, the 2006 Nano 50 Award from NASA's NanoTech Briefs Magazine and the 2006 UT-Battelle Excellence in Technology Transfer Award.

He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of NanoTech Briefs and the Journal of the Korean Institute of Applied Superconductivity and is also a member on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Materials Research, Journal of the American Ceramics Society and Superconductor Science & Technology.

Professor Stuart Hampshire is Chair of Materials Science at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He received a B.Sc.Tech. degree with honours in Ceramics from the University of Sheffield, England in 1972 and worked in the refractories industry before getting his Ph.D. degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on Sintering of Nitride Ceramics. He remained at Newcastle as a post-doctoral research associate, undertaking some of the first research on Oxynitride Glasses, which is his primary research area today. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of Rennes and ENSCI, Limoges, France and the National Industrial Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.

Professor Hampshire has a distinguished record of publication: 130 peer-reviewed ISI journal papers, 9 books/proceedings, 5 commissioned chapters in reference texts, contribution to the Dictionary of Materials and Manufacturing, 60 conference proceedings papers and 2 patents. In June 2007, he was presented with the Stuijts Award of the European Ceramic Society.

Professor Hampshire is a member of the World Academy of Ceramics. He is affiliated with the Engineering Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society.

Dr. Randall Hay received a B.A. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Geomechanics from the University of Rochester in 1979. He then worked as a Petroleum Engineer for Texaco in Louisiana for two years. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics (Rock and Mineral Physics) from Princeton University in 1986, and did post-doctoral work at M.I.T. For the past 20 years he has been with the Ceramics group at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, OH. He is presently a Senior Materials Research Engineer.

Dr. Hay's research concentrates on fiber-matrix interface development in ceramic fiber-matrix composites, with a heavy emphasis on fiber coating processes, characterization, solid-state reactions, oxide deformation mechanisms, and basic interface science. Dr. Hay holds several patents related to fiber coating and thin films, and has published 80 journal articles.

Dr. Wayne Huebner is Professor of Ceramic Engineering and Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Missouri – Rolla. He is an alumnus of UMR, having received his B.S. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1987. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, and moved back to UMR in 1991.

The author of over 85 papers, monographs and book chapters, he has been actively involved in the preparation and characterization of electronic ceramics. Much of his research is focused on the use of dielectrics, ionic and mixed conductors, piezoelectrics, electrostrictive materials for multilayer capacitors, solid oxide fuel cells, gas separation membranes, and phased linear array transducers for intravascular imaging.

Dr. Huebner has received UMR's Faculty Excellence Award five times, the Outstanding Teacher Award four times, and was named the Outstanding Faculty Member in Ceramic Engineering five consecutive years. In 1994 he received the Karl Schwartzwalder-Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering Award, given to the nation’s Outstanding Young Ceramic Engineer. He is a member of the Academy of the School of Mines and Metallurgy, and an Honorary Knight of St. Patrick. He has been a continuous member of the Electronics Division of The American Ceramic Society since 1983, serving in many capacities including all offices of the Ceramic Educational Council, an organizer of various symposia, and Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

Dr. Setsuro Ito is a Fellow in the Research Center of Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan. He earned both his BS and MS degrees in Industrial Chemistry from Shizuoka University in 1969 and 1971, and his Ph. D. in Engineering from Kyoto University in 1979. He joined the R&D division of Asahi Glass Co. as a researcher in 1984 and became a Fellow in 1995. Before joining Asahi, he was a research associate for the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, 1974-1984. He was a postdoctoral associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1980-1982.

Dr. Ito has authored or coauthored more than 120 scientific publications and more than 50 patents including published applications. His research includes the development of new glasses for mechanical, electrical and optical applications, and the design and analysis of their glass structures by using molecular dynamics simulations.

He received the 58th Ceramic Society of Japan Award for academic achievements in 2004. He is a member of the ACerS Glass & Optical Materials Division.

Dr. Walter Krenkel holds the chair of the department of Ceramic Materials Engineering at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and is also in charge of the project group “Ceramic Composites” of the Fraunhofer Society in Bayreuth. He received his diploma degree in aeronautics and aerospace and his Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Before joining the University of Bayreuth in 2004, he was head of the department Ceramic Composite Structures at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart and head of the DLR-Center of Excellence “CMC Lightweight Structures”.

Professor Krenkel’s main research work involves the development and qualification of novel structural ceramics for their use in lightweight structures. He holds 30 patents worldwide, is author of more than eighty papers, and has edited several books.

Professor Krenkel has been a member of the Engineering Ceramics Division since 2000 and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology. In 2002 he was honored with the Karl Heinz Beckurts-Prize for his successful transfer of basic research to industry. He is also organizing and chairing diverse international conferences and symposia.

Dr. Karren More is a Distinguished Research Staff Member in the Materials Science & Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, and is Group Leader of The Microscopy Group. Karren has been involved in the microstructural characterization of ceramic materials during much of her career at ORNL.

Karren received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University. Karren has been part of the research staff at ORNL since 1988 and she received her Ph.D. in 1992. During her tenure at ORNL, she has been involved in numerous U.S. Dept. of Energy ceramic research programs, which have focused on SiC and Si₃N₄ for engine applications, such as continuous-fiber ceramic matrix composite combustor liners for stationary gas turbines, environmental barrier coatings, oxidation behavior of ceramic materials, and more recently, on PEM fuel cell materials.

Dr. More has been a member of The American Ceramic Society since 1986, when she made her first scientific presentation during the Annual Meeting. She is a member of the Basic Science Division and has organized the Ceramographic Exhibit and Competition at the Annual Meeting every year since 2000.

Dr. Sharmila Mitra Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She joined the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department of WSU in 1997 after working as Post Doc. at Rutgers University and Assistant Professor at Polytechnic University, NY.

Her current research interests are in nano-materials, surface and interface phenomena, and multidisciplinary materials education. She has over 100 papers and reports in this area and has obtained over 3 million dollars in research funding from federal agencies such as NSF, DOE, AFOSR, AFRL, NASA, OBOR, as well as industry such as Proctor & Gamble. She serves on several review panels and boards, including the Exec. Committee of the ASM-Dayton Chapter, Editorial Advisory Board of Met. Trans., and several community outreach organizations. She is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, and Who's Who in Science & Engineering.

Dr. Mukhopadhyay has organized several symposia for ACerS and TMS, and has served as Chair of the Awards and Honors Committee, Divisional Secretary and Program Chair for the Electronics Division. She is currently the Vice-Chair of the Electronics Division.

Dr. S. K. Sundaram is Chief Materials Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington. He received his AIICeram from Indian Institute of Ceramics in 1983, his MTech in Materials Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in 1986, and his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994. From 1987-90, he was employed by Tata Research, Development, and Design Centre (India).

Dr. Sundaram is internationally recognized for interdisciplinary research in the areas of millimeter/THz wave technology, nanomaterials/toxicity, integrated infrared photonics, and materials in extreme environments. He has won numerous awards and honors, including two R&D100 awards. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton. As an AAAS Fellow, he was honored for his "leadership and innovative contributions to a diverse cross-section of materials sciences, particularly new tools for synthesis and characterization of novel materials, diagnostics, and nanomaterials." He has authored or coauthored over 75 publications and 1 patent.

Sundaram is a member of the Nuclear & Environmental Technology, Glass & Optical Materials and Basic Science Divisions, NICE, CEC, and Keramos.

Dr. Veena Tikare is a Computational Materials Scientist in the Advanced Nuclear Concepts Dept. at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. She received a Bachelors degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Ceramic Engineering, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. Since 1995, Veena has worked at Sandia developing science-based models for simulating microstructural evolution. Prior to joining Sandia, Veena worked at NASA’s Glenn Research Center from 1989 to 1995 where she conducted research in ceramic processing and testing.

Dr. Tikare has authored and co-authored 50 papers in journals and conference proceedings, presented 23 invited, and over 70 contributed papers at national and international conferences, organized several symposia, and supervised several graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Veena received the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from Georgia Tech and Professional Accomplishment and Presidential Quality Awards from Sandia National Laboratories.

Veena has been a member of the ACerS Art and Basic Science Divisions since 1984. She currently serves as a Program Chair for the Basic Science Division. She was the 2002 recipient of the Karl Schwartzwalder-PACE Award.

Dr. Dwight Viehland is a member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. He received bachelor and master degrees from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. His research includes phase transitions, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, magnetostriction, and magnetoelectricity. Since joining Virginia Tech, Dwight and his research group began a new area of research that involves the development of novel materials/composites with large magnetization-polarization exchanges.

Dr. Viehland has published over 300 refereed journal articles, together with about 4500 citations; holds a number of issued patents; and has been the PI of about 7M$ in research funding during his career. He has previously served as chair of the Electronics Division, co-chaired the ACerS Cocoa Beach Meeting, and will serve as the ACerS representative on the MS&T Program Coordinating Committee in 2008.

Dr. Ki Hyun Yoon is a professor of ceramic engineering at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

He received his BSc and MS in chemistry from Yonsei University and Ph.D. in ceramic engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

His research covers the processing and electrical behavior of the microwave dielectric and ferroelectric materials. Dr. Yoon has authored and co-authored more than 420 refereed papers and 8 book chapters, and holds 18 patents. He has graduated 144 M.S. and 36 Ph.D. students.

Dr. Yoon is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, the Asia and Pacific Academy of Materials, and the World Academy of Ceramics. He is past president of the Korean Ceramic Society, and the Korean Union of the Chemical Science and Technology Societies. He has been an ACerS member since 1971, and is a member of the Electronics Division.

Dr. Masahiro Kato is Chief Specialist at the Toshiba Corporation in Japan. He received his B. S. (1989), M. S. (1991) and Ph. D. (2000) degrees in the field of inorganic material science from Waseda University. He joined Toshiba Corporation in 1991 and has worked in Corporate Research and the Development Center, studying inorganic materials such as structural materials or CO2 absorbent ceramics. He was promoted to the position of Research Scientist in 1998 and Senior Research Scientist in 2006.

Dr. Kato is the author of 17 technical papers and coauthor of 36 papers, and he holds 36 Japanese patents and 5 US patents. His primary field of research is inorganic material science. Dr. Kato has been a member of both the Basic Science and Nuclear & Environmental Technology Divisions.

Dr. Nitin P. Padture is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU). He received a B.Tech. from IIT-Bombay, an M.S. from Alfred University, and a Ph.D. from Lehigh University, which was followed by a 3-year post-doc position at NIST. He served on the University of Connecticut faculty for 10 years before moving to OSU in 2005.

Dr. Padture is the author of about 100 journal publications, 6 of which have garnered 100+ citations each. He is also the inventor of 3 patents. Padture’s teaching and research interests are in advanced ceramics and nanomaterials. He is a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. Padture is currently a Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research.

Affiliated with the Basic Science Division of the Society, he is a Fellow, and recipient of the Roland B. Snow Award and the Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars. Padture is an Associate Editor of the Journal (1998-present), and he served as a Basic Science Division program co-chair (2000-01).

Dr. Takeshi Shimada is a Senior Researcher in the Advanced Electronics Research Laboratory of Hitachi Metals, Ltd, Kumagaya, Saitama, Japan. He received his B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from Kinki University in Japan, and his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 1990 and 1994 respectively.

Dr. Shimada joined Sumitomo Special Metals Co. and worked on the development of microwave dielectric materials in the R&D division. Sumitomo Special Metals (NEOMAX) and Hitachi Metals merged in 2007, and he is now researching semiconductive ceramics at Hitachi Metals. His current interest is in the development of environmental materials, especially lead free PTC ceramics working at high temperatures of more than 150 C.

He has published 21 technical papers, co-authored 10 books, and holds 24 patents. He has received awards from CerSJ and from JSPM in Japan.

Dr. Lance L. Snead received his undergraduate degrees in nuclear engineering and physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, receiving his doctoral degree in 1992. He then joined the Metals and Ceramics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he is now a Distinguished Research Staff Member.

Dr. Snead’s primary area of research is on the effects of radiation on materials for nuclear reactors, with particular emphasis on silicon carbide composite, graphite fiber composites, and monolithic ceramic materials.

He has published extensively, with over one hundred journal articles to his credit, and he has received several professional society awards for his published works. Dr. Snead has been an active member of The American Ceramic Society since 1991.

Dr. Satoshi Wada is an associate professor of Material Science and Technology at the University of Yamanashi. He obtained his B.S. degree in Metallurgy from Ibaraki University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Material Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has held positions at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the University of Yamanashi.

His main research interests include dielectric and piezoelectric nanoparticles, ceramics and single crystals, nano-structure induced enhanced property, and domain engineering in ferroelectric materials. He has authored more than 200 publications, co-authored 6 books in the material science field, and holds 10 patents.

He is a member of The American Ceramic Society, the Materials Research Society, the Ceramics Society of Japan, the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Physical Society of Japan, the Chemical Society of Japan, Catalysis Society of Japan, and the Society of Powder Technology. He co-organized a symposium at the MS&T’06 Conference (2006, Cincinnati), the 8th International Symposium on Ferroic Domains and Micro- to Nanoscopic Structure (2004, Tsukuba), and IUMRS-ICAM 2003 (2003, Yokohama). He received the Best Presentation Award of MRS-Japan in 1996, the JCerSJ Best Manuscript Award of the Ceramics Society of Japan in 1997, the Young Scientist Award of Electroceramics Division in 1999, and the PFEIL Award in 2005.

Dr. George H. Beall is a Research Fellow (retired) in the Science and Technology Division of Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY.

He joined Corning in 1962 after receiving his Ph.D. in Geology from M.I.T in 1962. He also holds degrees (BSc. in Physics and MSc. in Geology) from McGill University. Positions held at Corning include Research Geologist (1962-66), Manager of Glass-Ceramic Research (1966-76), and Research Fellow (1976-2002). He was a Courtesy Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University from 1980 to 1995.

Dr. Beall has authored or co-authored about 80 technical papers and holds 107 U.S. patents. He has co-authored one book and co-edited another. He received the Distinguished Inventor Award from the Central New York Patent Law Association in 1989, the Chemistry of Materials Award from the American Chemical Society in 1995, and the Corning ACS Section’s Sullivan Award in 1997. He also received the 2001 Achievement Award from the Industrial Research Institute.

Dr. Beall is a Fellow and Distinguished Life Member of The American Ceramic Society. He is a member of the Glass and Optical Materials Division. He received the Division’s George Morey Award in 1988, and the Society’s John Jeppson Award and Samuel Geijsbeek Award, both in 1993. He delivered the Edward Orton Memorial Lecture in 1996. Dr. Beall gave the Stookey Lecture of Discovery in May 2007.

Dr. Beall’s primary field of research involves the controlled crystallization of glass. Related glass-ceramic products include Keraglas® radiant cooktops, machinable glass-ceramics (Macor®), Visions® cookware, Cercor® industrial heat-exchangers, and Pyroceram® tableware.

Dr. Christopher B. DiAntonio has been a Senior Member of Technical Staff and a process engineer in the Ceramics and Glass department at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, since September 2003. He was originally hired in July 2001, after completing his graduate degree, as a post-doctoral appointee involved in research and development projects for Dr. Kevin Ewsuk in the Ceramic Processing and Inorganic Materials department.

In 1997 he graduated with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, in 1999 with an M.S. in Ceramic Engineering and Science, and in 2001 with a Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering, all from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. As part of his graduate studies he was a research assistant under Dr. Steven Pilgrim and Dr. Walter Schulze. He was also employed as a process engineer by CertainTeed Corporation (1996) as part of a co-op/work experience.

Dr. DiAntonio has authored or coauthored at least 15 technical papers. His primary field of research is electronic ceramics. He was elected a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Keramos, and as a post-doc he served as president of the New Mexico Section of The American Ceramic Society.

OSRAM SYLVANIA
Environmental Achievement: Development of a new incandescent lamp, known as elogic™ mini.

Osram Sylvania wins the ACerS 2007 Corporate Environmental award for the introduction of a new and improved incandescent product called elogic™mini, a small bulb that can make a big difference. elogic™ mini is a combination of unique attributes, a lead free product with an almost 30% smaller size, yet 50% longer in life while still compatible with standard and dimming fixtures. elogic™ mini is the only incandescent product to meet the California 2008 light bulb standards a full year ahead of time. The smaller product size allows for significant savings in manufacturing material such as glass, copper wire and recycled paper packaging material. Additionally, less truckloads required for transportation leads to lower fuel consumption and less CO₂ emission. elogic™ mini/Soft White light bulbs strike a favorable balance between giving consumers warm incandescent light and satisfying their growing environmental conscience.

Advanced Cerametrics, Inc., Lambertville, NJ
Technical Achievement: Development of a Technology to Produce Flexible Ceramic Fiber and Ceramic Fiber Composites for Energy Harvesting and Active Structural Control.

Advanced Cerametrics (ACI) has developed a process to make ceramic fiber from nearly any ceramic material. The process, originally developed to make high temperature superconducting materials into fiber form, has been expanded to produce fibers for self-powered smart structures, micro-power supplies for wireless sensors, reinforcements for bone cement, high purity fuel cell separators, high temperature hypersonic missile components, and various medical applications. The fiber process adapts rayon fiber technology using the cellulose rayon as a fugitive carrier to form the ceramics into near-theoretical maximum density materials that exhibit the desirable properties of ceramics (thermal, chemical, electrical, mechanical), while eliminating the negative properties of brittleness and weight. The breakthrough application of the ceramic fibers is high efficiency energy harvesting/active structural control using otherwise wasted ambient mechanical energy (e.g. vibration) as the source for electric power generation.

Dr. John H. Gibbons, schooled in physics (Ph.D. Duke, 1954), did experiments for 15 years (mostly at Oak Ridge) in nuclear structure, with emphasis on neutron capture reactions key to understanding nucleosynthesis of heavy elements inside stars. His growing interest in energy resource conservation and environment resulted in his undertaking work on technologies for increased efficiency throughout the system of providing energy services.

He was the first Director of the U.S. Office of Energy Conservation (1973-1974) and led related studies at The National Academies and OTA. He directed the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) (1979-1992) and then moved to the White House as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (Science Advisor to the President), and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

Since leaving government in April 1998, Dr. Gibbons has served as Compton Lecturer at MIT (1998-1999), Senior Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering (1999-2000), and as President of Sigma Xi (2000-2001). He serves on a number of Boards and Committees in both the public and private sectors. He is Chairman of the Board of Population Action International. He has received numerous national and international awards and is author of about 100 publications, including This Gifted Age: Science and Technology at the Millennium.

He has 309 Publications to his credit, has co-edited 14 books, and holds 17 patents. Dr.Tuller’s professional activities include serving as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Electroceramics (1997-), Series Editor of Electronic Materials: Science and Technology (1994-), Co-founder of Boston MicroSystems (1997-), pioneer in SiC MEMS-based sensor technology, and Organizer and Chairman of the 1st International Conference on Electroceramics (ICE-2003)

Dr. Tuller has received numerous awards, including elevation to Fellow of The American Ceramic Society (1984), Fulbright Award (1989/90), Sumitomo Electric Industries Chair (1991-97), von Humboldt Award (1997-02), docteur honoris causa, University of Provence, Marseille, France (2004), F.H. Norton Award (2005), and election to the World Academy of Ceramics (2006).

Dr. David Alan Payne is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

David Payne graduated with a B.Sc. in Ceramics from the University of Leeds (1963), an M.S. in Physics with Chemistry from Williams College (1967), and a Ph.D. in Solid-State Science from The Pennsylvania State University (1973). Prior to joining the University of Illinois in 1974, he was employed by the Northern Electric Company (1963-65), Sprague Electric Company (1965-67), and Erie Technological Products (1967-73). His research interests are electroceramics. He has published over 275 technical papers and holds 10 patents. Major awards include: Fellow, Institute of Materials (1993-); International Academy of Ceramics (1989); International Prize, Japanese Fine Ceramics Association (2001); Senior Member IEEE (2002), and Ferroelectrics Recognition Award, IEEE-UFFCS (2004).

Professor Payne is affiliated with the Electronics Division: Secretary (1995), Programs (1996), Chair Elect (1997), Chair (1998), and Advisor (1999-). Society committees he has served on include CEC (President, 1991), Orton Lecture (Chair, 1994), and Jeppson Award (1999-01). Other awards include: Fellow (1979), Fulrath (1986), Henry (1995), and CEC Outstanding Educator (2003).

David W. Richerson is currently Adjunct Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his B.S. in Ceramic Engineering in 1967 from the University of Utah and his M.S. degree in Ceramic Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1969.

Mr. Richerson worked in industry for 22 years, first at Norton Company, then at Garrett Turbine Engine Company, and finally as Vice President at Ceramatec. Mr. Richerson was an early pioneer in using fractography and grain boundary engineering to achieve substantial improvements in the room temperature and high temperature properties of hot pressed silicon nitride. Later he made contributions to reaction bonded and sintered silicon nitride, to understanding of contact stress, to ceramic matrix composites, and to solid oxide fuel cells. In 1991 Mr. Richerson established his own consulting company and also began teaching at the University of Utah as an Adjunct Professor.

Mr. Richerson has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited 10 books, 21 final government reports, 14 book chapters, 61 technical papers, and 5 patents. Mr. Richerson has been a member of ACerS throughout his career, has been on the Board of Directors, and continues as a member of the Basic Science and Engineering Ceramics Divisions of ACerS, and of NICE and CEC. He established the Education Committee for ACerS, was its Chair from 1991-2001, and coordinated a variety of outreach activities.

Dr. R. Edwin García is an Assistant Professor in Materials Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (2005-present).

He earned his Physics degree at the National University of Mexico in 1996, his Masters in Materials Science (in 2000) and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. Edwin García held a postdoctoral appointment at the Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, before being appointed to his current position in August 2005.

His research includes the theoretical and numerical modeling of materials of complex microstructural features, such as ferroelectric films for actuators and random access memory applications, as well as materials and devices for alternate energy sources and energy-efficient technologies. Examples include rechargeable lithium battery electrode materials, solid oxide fuel cells, thermoelectric oxides for thermal energy recovery in nanodot, nanowire, and polycrystalline form, and energy-efficient geometries for the development of phosphor-free Solid-State-based Light Emitting Devices.

Dr. García has been a member of the Basic Science Division of The American Ceramic Society since 1999. He organized the Symposium “Discovery and Optimization of Materials through Computational Design” at this year's MS&T 2007. He is also currently a co-organizer of the ACerS Daytona Beach 2008 Symposium Basic Science of Multifunctional Ceramics.

Dr. Denis A. Brosnan

Dr. Brosnan received degrees in Ceramic Engineering from Iowa State University (1972) and Clemson University (BS-1967 and MS-1968). After research positions in refractories, Dr. Brosnan worked in product development in technical ceramics. At mid-career, he joined the faculty of Clemson University. As a University researcher, Dr. Brosnan has authored 62 peer-reviewed publications and eight chapters or monographs, to include one book published by The American Ceramic Society. He holds 11 U.S. patents including one that fundamentally changed the field of restorative dental materials. His current research interests are manufacturing and environmental concerns in clay bricks and restoration of historic masonry buildings.

Dr. Brosnan has been a member of the Society since 1964, and he is currently a member of the Structural Clay Products and Refractory Ceramics Divisions. He is a Fellow of the Society.

Dr. Lorenz Holzer

He received an M.Sc. degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Bern, Switzerland in 1995, a Ph.D. in Mineralogy and Isotope Geology from the University of Bern and Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, RSA, and his Dr. phil. nat. from the University of Bern, Switzerland in 1998.

His primary areas of research are the quantitative microstructure analysis of cementitious and ceramic materials, and development of a high resolution 3D-microscopy method with focused ion beam (FIB-nanotomography). His research places special emphasis on complex 3D structures such as porous networks and their relationship with permeability- and durability-aspects of cement pastes. His investigations include granular textures in dense suspensions by means of cryo-FIB-nanotomography in the context of agglomeration- and dispersion-processes. Dr. Holzer is the author of 35 technical papers.

Dr. Beat Münch, a scientist in the area of applied image modeling, is currently employed in the field of 3D analysis in material science at Empa, Dubendorf, Switzerland.

He holds an MS degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in technical science from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He has worked in miscellaneous interdisciplinary research areas in medical imaging at ETH Zurich, UCSF San Francisco, as well as at the University of Zurich. In 2000, he began working at Empa.

His special expertise encompasses computer-based quantitative evaluation and structural analysis of 3D image volumes from grey level and color images from various imaging techniques such as CT, MRI, SEM, optical microscopy and photography. In addition, he is a specialist in color science. Current projects include the morphological and topological analysis of microstructures in cement based materials via FIB-nanotomography and CT, as well as automated colorimetric assessment of fair-faced concrete surfaces.

Dr. Markus Wegmann is employed as a failure- and materials-analysis engineer for Sulzer Innotec in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Dr. Wegmann received a bachelors degree in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1992, a masters degree in materials science and engineering (ceramics) from the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, in 1995, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (materials and metallurgy) from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK in 2003.

From 1996 to 1999, and again from 2002 to 2006, he was employed as a scientist in the Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research), Dübendorf, Switzerland, where he was involved in various R&D activities in the field of ceramics processing. He has authored or co-authored 15 peer-reviewed papers on various aspects of ceramics processing and is member of the Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Sigma Mu and Keramos honor societies. Markus Wegmann was recipient of a Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the ACerS 96th Annual Meeting (1994).

Dr. Robert J. Flatt has been principle scientist and head of inorganic chemistry in Corporate Research at Sika Technology (Zürich, Switzerland) since 2002.

He obtained a Ph.D. (1999) in materials science, and a chemical engineering diploma (1994) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Before joining Sika Technology, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University for two and a half years.

Dr. Flatt has authored more than 40 publications in the area of materials science of construction materials and conservation of cultural heritage. His main topic of research is the use of dispersing admixtures in concrete. In 2003, he was awarded the RILEM Robert L’Hermite Medal in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of such admixtures in cement and concrete.

He has been a member of the Cements Division of The American Ceramic Society since 2000. He is also a 2005 alumni of the Young Leaders conference of the American-Swiss foundation.

2005
“Assessment of the La-Mn-O System”
Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion 26 (2) 131-151 (2005)
N. Grundy, M. Chen, B. Hallstedt, L.J. Gauckler

Dr. A. Nicholas Grundy

Dr. Grundy received his MS from the University of Basel and the ETH in Zurich in Mineralogy and Geophysics in 1999. He then joined the Institute for Nonmetallic Materials at the ETH in Zurich, where he worked on the thermodynamics and defect chemistry of solid oxide fuel cell materials, earning his Ph.D. in 2003. He continued his research at the ETH for two more years, setting up and running a lab for thermal analysis, supervising a master thesis, and securing funding and supervising two Ph.D. students to continue the research on thermodynamics of solid oxide fuel cell materials. He joined the Centre de Recherche in 2005.

His current research interests are linking the viscosity, structure and thermodynamics of silicate melts and the thermodynamic modeling of borosilicate systems.

Dr. Ming Chen

Ming Chen received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996. In 1999, he received his Master of Science degree in material science from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was awarded the degree Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He has been working at Risoe National Laboratory since 2005 and will be named Research Scientist in August 2007.

He has authored or coauthored 11 papers, published in scientific journals, and he is co-inventor on two patents. His research field focuses on phase equilibria in oxide systems and on solid oxide fuel cells.

Dr. Bengt Hallstedt is a Researcher in Materials Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He studied metallurgy and materials science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. After graduation in 1984 he worked for three years for Sandvik Steel, in Sandviken, Sweden, developing high temperature stainless steels. He pursued his Ph.D. degree in Stockholm, studying under Mats Hillert, John Ågren and Bo Sundman. These studies mostly concerned the thermodynamic evaluation of oxide phase diagrams, using the Calphad methodology.

After earning his Ph.D. he went to the group of Ludwig J. Gauckler at ETH Zürich, Switzerland in 1993. There he continued with Calphad evaluations of phase diagrams for Bi-based high temperature superconductors and SOFC related materials. In 2003 he joined the group of Jochen M. Schneider at the RWTH Aachen University where he is pursuing Calphad-related work on a wide variety of alloy systems and other materials.

He has published about 55 scientific papers, most of them on thermodynamic phase diagram evaluations. His current research interests include the thermodynamic evaluation and use of phase diagrams to understand the formation of microstructure and to pursue alloy development.

Dr. Ludwig Gauckler received his Diploma in Physics from The University of Stuttgart and his Ph.D. (1976) with a thesis on Si-Al-O-N ceramics, which he performed at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research with Prof. Petzow. He then worked as a Post Doc at the University of Michigan prior joining Swiss Aluminum/Lonza where he was responsible for new ceramic product and process development. Since 1988, Ludwig Gauckler has been a Professor for Materials at ETH Zurich.

Prof. Gauckler’s interests range from colloid chemistry over perovskites for HTSC and mixed ionic and electronic conductors and thermodynamic modeling of multicomponent phase equilibria to materials for medicine.

He has published more than 200 scientific papers and holds 20 patents. Prof. Gauckler is on the board of directors of several high tech companies and owner of CERION Ltd.

Dr. Winnie Wong-Ng

Dr. Wong-Ng received her B.S. in chemistry from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the Louisiana State University, and her post-doctoral training from the University of Toronto. Since joining NIST in 1988, she has been a principal investigator in projects pertaining to phase equilibria, crystallography, crystal chemistry, metrology, and properties of technologically important materials. She received a Bronze Medal from the US Department of Commerce in 2002 for her superconductivity research, and the 2004 McMurdie Award for her contributions to the Powder Diffraction File. She is a fellow of the International Centre for Diffraction Data. She served as the treasurer and secretary for the US National Committee for Crystallography from 2000-2003. Currently she is a board member of the Applied Superconductivity Conference. She has published about 250 scientific papers and book chapters.

Dr. Wong-Ng has been a member of the Electronics and Basic Science Divisions for about 20 years and is an ACerS Fellow. She has co-organized more than twenty ACerS affiliated symposia. She was the chair of the Electronics Division from 2005-2006.

Dr. Zhi Yang

Dr. Yang received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at Yunnan Normal University in 1986. He also earned a Masters degree at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Peking University in 2000. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences for two years. After spending three years as a guest research scientist in the Ceramics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), he has since been a professor at the Yunnan Normal University.

His research interests are in the area of novel synthesis, crystal structure, and crystal chemistry and properties of inorganic compounds. Dr. Yang has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers. He is an active member of the Chinese X-ray Society, and is also a member of the International Centre for Diffraction Data.

Dr. Lawrence Cook

Dr. Cook received his A.B. from Princeton University, his M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. All of his degrees are in geology. Following his formal education, he held a post-doctoral position in electron microprobe analysis at Indiana University. He joined NIST in 1974, and served as director of the Phase Diagrams for Ceramists Data Center, where he was involved in developing the joint NIST/ACerS phase equilibria program. He was editor of three volumes of the Phase Diagrams for Ceramists series. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator of numerous applied research projects in ceramics. Currently he is working on the development of MEMS nanocalorimeters for the characterization of thin-film interfacial reactions. Dr. Cook has received two Department of Commerce Bronze Medals. He has published about 125 technical papers.

Dr Cook has been a member of the ACerS Basic Science Division since 1976, and has organized several symposia. In 1992, he received the Nuclear Science Division Best Paper award for his research on the Li₂O-Al₂O₃ phase diagram.

Julia Frank is currently a third-year student at the Northern Illinois University College of Law. She obtained a bachelor of science degree in Geology from the University of Maryland at College Park. While an undergraduate student, she worked as a part-time research assistant in the Ceramics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Upon graduation, she continued to work as a guest researcher at NIST for one year, mainly working on phase equilibria of high-temperature electronic materials.

Julia has co-authored 21 scientific publications. After the completion of her scientific training at NIST, she decided to venture into law. She hopes to apply her scientific background to the practice of law in the near future.

At Northern Illinois University College of Law, Julia is a member of the Law Review, the Asian American Law Student Association, The Federalist Society, The Justinian Society, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Society, for which she won an award for advancing to the Regional Competition in Mediation. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.

Dr. Kathryn V. Logan

Professor Logan was a Program Manager and Materials Engineer at the Army Research Office (1998-00) and Army Corps of Engineers (2000-01). She has received a number of awards and honors including the ECD Mueller Lecture (1999); the Langley Colloquium (2005) and listings in a number of Who’s Who publications.

Development of Self-Propagating High Temperature Synthesis (SHS) technology has resulted in eighteen patents worldwide. Professor Logan’s present research focuses on the design of/with multi-functional materials.

A Member of The American Ceramic Society since 1967 and Fellow, she has held executive offices leading to ECD Chair (1994), NICE President (1999), Board Director (2000-2005) and ACerS President in 2003. Dr. Logan has served on a number of national boards and committees concerning ceramics and materials related issues and has been an ABET evaluator since 1995. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and a member of Keramos, Sigma Xi, Gamma Beta Phi, and the (International) Academy of Ceramics.

Dr. Alexis G. Clare

Dr. Clare has over 70 publications and is very active in both The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) where she is on the Board of Directors, is a past Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division, and a Past President of The National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE). She is also a member of The Society of Glass Technology, where she is the founder of the North America Section, and she is also a past Commissioner for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Clare is also a past member of the Coordinating Technical Committee for the International Commission on Glass (ICG) and has just recently been approved as the U.S. Representative on the ICG Steering Committee.

Clare has won several awards, both local and international, including a SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Karl Schwartzwalder-PACE award from NICE and ACerS, and the Vitorio Gottardi Prize for Glass Science from the ICG.

Surendra P. Shah

Professor Shah has received many awards including the Swedish Concrete Award, ACI Anderson Award, RILEM Gold Medal, ASTM Thompson Award, ASCE Charles Pankow Award, and Engineering News Record's News Maker Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was recently named one of the top ten most influential persons in the concrete industry by Concrete Construction.

Besides teaching at Northwestern, he has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and served as a visiting professor at MIT, University of Sidney, Denmark Technical University, University of Singapore, Darmstadt Technical University, and LCPC, Paris. He is currently an honorary professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnical University.