2009 winner Michael L. Turnbow is the general manager of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Inspection and Test Organization. He is responsible for NDT, quality control, metallurgy, chemistry, equipment performance testing and instrumentation engineering services for TVA’s power plant fleet. He has been certified by ASNT as a Level III in four methods since 1977. He has been involved with numerous ASNT committees, is the past chair of the Nashville and Chattanooga Sections, has been a member of the ASNT Board of Directors and served as president of the Society in 1995–96. He is currently the director of ASNT Region 6 and a member of the Standards Development Committee, serving as the US delegate to ISO TC/135/SC 7 and convenor of Working Group 7 for the development of international NDT personnel qualification and certification standards. He is a recipient of ASNT’s Fellow Award, Tutorial Citation and Mentoring Award. He is also the current chair of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Integration Committee, responsible for the oversight of the EPRI NDE Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Center provides services, research and development to the electric power industry.

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