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Appendix G: Committee Biographies
Pages 155-166

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... , the American Helicopter Society (AHS) , and the National Technical Association (NTA)
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... To improve science awareness of public school students and the quality of science education in his hometown, he has been a member of the Committee on Science Education of the Citizens for Wellesley Public Education; its charter was to enhance and enrich science education of public school students through strong support of the Wellesley public schools science faculty and by obtaining donations of scientific equipment.
From page 157...
... He has made two invited presentations at the Gordon Research Conference on Coatings and was a session chair on aqueous corrosion. He was the plenary lecturer at the FATIPEC 2000 Congress in Turin, Italy, and an invited keynote speaker at EIS 2001.
From page 158...
... Dr. Chong is a fellow of ASM International and a member of TMS, AIAA, SAE, SME, SWE, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Tau Beta Pi.
From page 159...
... He is the author or coauthor of more than 160 scientific publications, primarily in the areas of environmental degradation of materials and electrochemical processing of semiconductor interconnects. He is a recipient of NACE's Whitney Award for his contributions to corrosion science and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award.
From page 160...
... He is a fellow of NACE International, the Electrochemical Society, and ASM International. He has received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for Senior U.S.
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... During that time, she chaired two NMAB materials forums and was chair of the NMAB Workshop on Education and Workforce in Materials Science and Engineering. She has served on the National Institute of Standards and Technology evaluation board and on the Assessment Panel for Materials; is on the organizing committee of the National Space and Missile Materials Symposium; is a member of NRC committees; and currently serves on the evaluation board for materials science and technology at the Sandia National Laboratories.
From page 162...
... He has served on a number of committees at the National Academies, including several committees on science education, and he also served on the Center for Education advisory board. He is a member of the organizing committee for the NRC's Corrosion Education Workshop and the Com mittee on Teacher Preparation Programs in the United States.
From page 163...
... He was a faculty member in mining engineering at Penn State from 1967 to 1987 and for the following 6 years at the University of Kentucky, where he was also chair of the Department of Mining Engineering. While at Kentucky, he participated in an interim management team for the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research, where he was assistant director for clean coal fuels.
From page 164...
... degrees in materials science and engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests focus on the relationship between materials structure and composition and their environmental degradation or corrosion properties, including hydrogen embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking, localized corrosion, and passivity.
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... He is director of four laboratories at the University of Michigan: the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory for Surface Modification and Analysis, the High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory, the Irradiated ­ Materials Testing Laboratory, and the Materials Preparation Laboratory.


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