2008 winner Claudia V. Kropas-Hughes is currently the deputy division chief of the Technology Transition Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside of Dayton, Ohio. She has been employed at Wright-Patterson since 1989, where she has also held the positions of materials engineer and nondestructive evaluation research leader for the Air Force Research Lab. Before her career at Wright-Patterson, Kropas-Hughes worked as the senior NDE engineer for the Aerojet Solid Propulsion Company in Sacramento, California. She is the professional program chair for ASNT's T&E Council, and is also a co-chair of the Miami Valley Section. Kropas-Hughes holds two bachelor's degrees, an M.S. in electrical engineering from California State University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. She is the recording secretary for ASTM's E07 Committee on NDT, and the Radiology Subcommittee chair. Kropas-Hughes is also a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Society of Women Engineers.

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