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Outstanding Paper Award, Materials Evaluation

Pierre Servais, Jason Habermehl, Xavier Maldague, Nathalie Gerlach and Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo are the winners of the 2009 Outstanding Paper Award for their article, “Characterization of Manufacturing and Maintenance of Aerospace Composite Discontinuities Using Infrared Thermography,” published in the September 2008 issue of Materials Evaluation.

2009 Winner Pierre Servais is a captain in the Belgian Air Force and has worked as a Level III NDT consultant since 2007 for the Belgian Air Force Academy. He was an NDT squadron commander at the Academy from 2000 to 2007 and an F16 flight commander from 1997 to 2000. He was stationed at the Florennes Air Force Base from 1995 to 1997 as an Air Force officer. Servais has been an Air Force engineer since 1990, earned his master’s in aerospace engineering from the Air Force Academy in 1995 and graduated from the University of Brussels with a Ph.D. in materials science engineering in 2007. He holds Level III certification in ET, MT, PT, RT and UT from the International School of Aerospace NDT. He is a recent member of ASNT and a lifetime member of the Belgian Association for NDT (BANT). Servais served on BANT’s Aerospace NDT Board from 2000 to 2007.

2009 Winner Jason Habermehl is a technical specialist at Olympus NDT. He has four years of experience in NDT related research and application development. He has a B.S. degree in engineering and an M.S. degree in materials science from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada.

2009 Winner Xavier Maldague earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Laval University in 1989, and has been a professor in the electrical and computing engineering department there since. He has been a member of ASNT since 1991, has served on the Handbook Development and Infrared/Thermal Committees since 1999, and was a member of the Research Council from 1997 to 2009. Maldague has been registered with the Quebec Professional Engineers Association since 1985, has been a Steering Committee member of SPIE since 1996 and of QIRT since 1994, and is a member of both CINDE and IEEE Canada.

2009 Winner Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo is currently a postdoctoral fellow for the Canada Research Chair in Multipolar Infrared Vision (MIVIM). He obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2005 in the Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory at Laval University, and an M.S. in mechanical engineering at the same University. He earned a B.S. in mechanical-electrical engineering from the Universidad Regiomontana in Monterrey, Mexico. Ibarra is the author or co-author of more than 90 journal and conference papers in the field of infrared thermography. His main interests are in signal and image processing for the nondestructive testing of materials by infrared vision.

2009 Winner Nathalie Gerlach (not pictured)

Outstanding Paper Award, Research in Nondestructive Evaluation

Daniel Doring, Igor Solodov, Gerd Busse and Klaus Plfeiderer are the winners of the 2009 Outstanding Paper Award for their article, “Nondestructive Evaluation of Anisotropy in Composite Materials via Acoustic Birefringence,” published in Vol. 19, No. 3 of RNDE.

2009 Winner Daniel Döring has been a research assistant for the Institute of Polymer Testing at the University of Stuttgart in Germany since 2004. He graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Munich in 2004.

2009 Winner Igor Solodov has been an NDT professor at the University of Stuttgart at the Institute for Polymer Testing since 2006. He worked as a professor in the department of acoustics at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University from 1989 to 2006. Solodov received a degree in physics from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State in 1968, and a Ph.D. in physics in 1971.

2009 Winner Gerd Busse has been a professor at the University of Stuttgart since 1989. Prior to that he worked as a research assistant at both the University of Regensburg and the Universität der Bundeswehr, and was a visiting professor at Emory University in Atlanta. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Freiberg, Germany, in 1972.

2009 Winner Klaus Pfleiderer is currently working at GM in Rüsselsheim, Germany, in the Division of Engineering. He holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart.

About the Outstanding Paper Award

Pierre Servais	Jason Habermehl	Xavier Maldague	Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo
Daniel Döring	Igor Solodov	Gerd Busse	Klaus Pfleiderer

 

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