2008 Winner Ronald L. Brosio
Ronald
Brosio is a quality engineer at Aerojet in Sacramento, California, where
he has been employed since 1998. He has also served as a quality engineer
for Verticom, an ISO manager for Pauli and Griffin, an NDT specialist,
NDT instructor and manager of the NDT Division at the Mare Island Naval
Shipyard, and a manager, inspector and radiation safety officer at Testing
Engineers, Inc. Brosio served in the US Army from 1963 to 1965. He received
his bachelor of science degree from Southern Illinois University in
1976, and a master's degree from the Consortium of California Universities
and Colleges in 1977. Brosio studied NDT at the US Navy's Mare Island
Naval Shipyard, and holds Level III certification in ET, LT, MT, PT,
RT and UT.
Brosio has been an active member of ASNT since 1968, and
has been particularly involved with the Golden Gate Section, which he
has served as secretary since 2006, president from 1978 to 1979 and
2003 to 2004, vice president from 2003 to 2004, and chair from 1979
to 1980 and 2004 to 2005. Brosio has also been involved with the American
Society for Quality since 1973, and served as the president of the Redwood
Empire Section of that organization from 1996 to 1998.
2008 Winner Kirsten Green Lipetzky
Kirsten
Lipetzky has worked as a materials engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare
Center Carderock Division since 2000. Before that, she was an associate
research scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Center for NDE from
1996 to 2000. She received her B.S. in materials science and engineering
from Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and an M.S. degree in materials
engineering from Brown University in 1989. Lipetzky received a Ph.D.
in materials engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1993, after which she
did postdoctoral work as a faculty research assistant at the University
of Maryland at College Park until 1994. She received an M.S. in engineering
management from George Washington University in 2007.
Lipetzky has been an active member of ASNT since 1996.
She served as chair of the Chesapeake Section from 1998 to 1999, vice
chair from 1997 to 1998, and secretary from 1996 to 1999. At the national
level, Lipetzky has been a member of the Research Council since 1997.
She has also been a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials
and the American Welding Society since 2001.
2008 Winner David S. Morgan
David
Morgan has just recently started working as a quality assurance specialist
and lead NDT Level III at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland,
Ohio. Before that he worked as an engineering specialist in quality
assurance and NDT at Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems in Akron, Ohio
since 1985. From 1966 to 1985, Morgan worked as an NDT technical specialist
at Babcock and Wilcox in the Nuclear Equipment Division, and from 1967
to 1970, he was enlisted in the US Navy. He received his bachelor's
degree in business management from Hiram University in 1986, and has
taken numerous NDT courses, beginning in 1971. Morgan holds ACCP Professional
Level III certification in MT, PT, RT and UT, and ASNT NDT Level III
certification in ET, LT, MT, PT, RT and UT. Morgan has been an ASNT
member since 1977, and an active member of the Cleveland Section since
1983, serving as secretary, treasurer, vice chair, chair, director and
Section Level III.
2008 Winner David L. Spooner
David
Spooner has been a consultant since 2001 for companies including Wartsila
Defense, Si-Tech, Munson NDT Consultants and Luna Innovations. Prior
to this, he worked as an NDE supervisor at Mid Atlantic Tank Inspection,
NDE Level III for Dominion Resources Virginia Power, manager of NDE
services for Virginia Corporation of Richmond, senior NDT technician
and power plant mechanic for Virginia Power, piping designer and draftsman
at J.J. Henry Company Naval Architects, and nuclear quality control
inspector at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. He served
in the US Navy from 1955 to 1965, where he learned skills in machining,
basic nuclear engines and nuclear operation. Spooner holds ASNT NDT
Level III certification in MT, PT, RT and UT. He has been a member of
ASNT since 1980, a full member of the Certification Management Council
from 2002 to 2008 and chair of the Hampton Roads Section from 1995 to
1996.
2008 Winner Sharon Vukelich
Sharon
Vukelich has been a member of ASNT since approximately 1984. Prior to
1992, she was involved in the Miami Valley Section. She was the 2005-2006
ASNT president, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors
as well as an officer of the Technical and Education Council and as
a member of the Research Council and the Section Operations Council.
Vukelich is presently a distinguished research engineer
at the University of Dayton Research Institute. At the Institute, she
is working with nondestructive testing of aging aircraft and propulsion
systems; she continues as a leading expert on the USAF Engine Structural
Integrity Program. She retired in January 2003 after 21 years as the
chief of the Advanced Engine Projects Integrated Product Team at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base. In this capacity, she managed 19 engineers. She was
a primary author of the NDE reliability standard used by the military.
She has a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan
and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
She has worked as an aerospace and NDE engineer for over 30 years.
2008 Winner Paul Zayicek
Paul
Zayicek is a project manager at EPRI, and has been employed there since
1996. Prior to working at EPRI, he was a senior technician at J.A. Jones
Applied Research Com-pany from 1981 to 1996, and worked at General Electric
Company from 1976 to 1981. He graduated with a bachelor's of science
degree in business management from the University of Phoenix in 2006,
and has an associate's of science degree in electrical technology, which
he received in 1976. Zayicek has been a member of ASNT since 1979, and
has been active in the Charlotte Section, serving as secretary/treasurer
(1996 to 1997), vice chair (1997 to 1998), chair (1998 to 1999) and
on the board of directors (1999 to the present).
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