2008 Winner Ward D. Rummel

ASNT Fellow Ward D. Rummel was honored with the Philip D. Johnson Honorary Member Award at the 2008 ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show. Rummel is president and trustee of D&W Enterprises, Ltd., a consulting service specializing in NDT engineering, materials science, industrial process quality assurance and failure analysis. A longtime member of ASNT, Rummel was named Outstanding Member of the Colorado Section for 1970-1971, and was named a Fellow of the Society in 1976. He was a member of the original committee that established the ASNT Level III certification program and wrote original examinations as well as served as proctor for examinations in Korea, Taiwan and India.

In 2002, Rummel received ASNT's Robert C. McMaster Gold Medal Award. In 2003, he received the highest civilian award the United States Air Force Materiel Command bestows, the John W. Lincoln Award and Gold Medal. He is the only NDT professional to be recognized with this award. Rummel recently received the Colorado Engineering Council's Gold medal, being cited "for his exemplary contributions to the profession of Engineering and in particular to Materials Science and the development of non-destructive testing methodologies." Rummel retired after 35 years of service with Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) in 1996. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing and was selected to deliver that organization's first Distinguished Honorary A.K. Rao Memorial Lecture in 2006.

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