The American Society for Nondestructive Testing is pleased to announce the following winners. These award winners will be recognized at the 2011 Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show in Palm Springs, California.

ASNT Fellow Award

A Fellow of ASNT is an individual member of the Society who has demonstrated outstanding professional distinction and who has made continued significant contributions to the advancement of nondestructive testing (NDT) in areas such as management, engineering, science, education, administration or planning.

The 2011 class of ASNT Fellows is Gary L. Balestracci, Brenda L. Collins, Gregory A. Garcia, David R. Griffin, George M. Hopman, Frederick (Skip) Hoyt, David A. Mandina, William D. Meade, Eddywayne Messmer, Marybeth Miceli, Lawrence H. Strouse and Mark F. A. Warchol.

ASNT Fellowship Award

The ASNT Fellowship award is a cash award granted to an educational institution to fund specific research in NDT at the postgraduate level (M.S. or Ph.D.). Academic institutions with graduate educational research programs are invited to submit proposals each year.

The winners of the 2011 ASNT Fellowship Award are Michigan State University (Lalita Udpa, advisor; Gerges Dib, student); Georgia Institute of Technology (Rosario A. Gerhardt, advisor; Ricky L. Whelchel, student); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Oral Buyukozturk, advisor; Justin G. Chen, student); Pennsylvania State University (Joseph L. Rose, advisor; Cody J. Borigo, student); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Henrique Reis, advisor; Megan McGovern, student).

Charles N. Sherlock Meritorious Service Award

The Charles N. Sherlock Meritorious Service Award provides recognition for an individual’s outstanding voluntary service to the Society, through single or aggregate activities, though not necessarily in any single year. In 2004, the award was renamed in honor of its first recipient, Charles N. Sherlock.

The winner of the 2011 Charles N. Sherlock Meritorious Service Award is Michael J. Ruddy.

Faculty Grant

The Faculty Grant is awarded to engineering faculty to be used to fund the revision or development of the NDT curriculum in an accredited engineering program.

The winners of the 2011 ASNT Faculty Grant are Ivan Bartoli and Antonios Kontsos of Drexel University, based on their proposal for a “Revision of Undergraduate/Graduate Course CIVE 615: ‘Infrastructure Condition Evaluation via NDT’” and Salvatore Salamone of State University of New York at Buffalo for his proposal for a “Revision of Graduate Courses CIE500S ‘Introduction to Nondestructive Evaluation.’”

Mentoring Award

The award for outstanding mentor was established to recognize those people in the Society working to encourage others to reach goals they may have otherwise not sought and to offer the rest of the membership an example of what they could be accomplishing by acting as mentors. With the understanding that mentoring may take many forms, the following eligibility categories have been established: individual, group and indirect. The individual category is for people who assist one or more individuals to reach goals in the NDT industry that they may have not otherwise attained. The group category is for people who provide positive guidance to a group, such that a goal of significant value to ASNT or to the NDT industry is achieved by that group. The indirect category is for people who provide mentoring opportunities for others by creating an environment that fosters and encourages such relationships with positive outcome.

The winners of the 2011 Mentoring Awards are James S. Davis, Darrell W. Harris, Stuart A. Kleven, Paul A. Meyer and Marybeth Miceli.

Outstanding Paper Award, Materials Evaluation

The purpose of the Outstanding Paper Award is to encourage a high degree of effort toward technical, educational or managerial achievement in NDT through publication in Materials Evaluation. Recipients of the award are selected on the merit of written contributions published by the Society during the previous calendar year. Selection is based equally on the material’s originality, usefulness and clarity, and on the appropriateness and accuracy of its supporting material. The Awards Committee has the option of not conferring an award if it decides that no papers qualify in a given year. The award is presented at the ASNT Fall Conference.

The winners of the 2011 Outstanding Paper Award for Materials Evaluation are Hegeon Kwun, Sang Kim and Glenn Light for their paper titled, “Improving Guided Wave Testing of Pipelines with Mechanical Attachments,” published in Materials Evaluation, Vol. 68, No. 8, August 2010, pp. 927–932.

Outstanding Paper Award, RNDE

The purpose of the Outstanding Paper Award is to encourage a high degree of effort toward technical, educational or managerial achievement in NDT through publication in RNDE. Recipients of the award are selected on the merit of written contributions published by the Society during the previous calendar year. Selection is based equally on the material’s originality, usefulness and clarity, and on the appropriateness and accuracy of its supporting material. The Awards Committee has the option of not conferring an award if it decides that no papers qualify in a given year. The award is presented at the ASNT Fall Conference.

The winner of the 2011 Outstanding Paper Award for RNDE is Shant Kenderian for his paper titled, “Phase and Dispersion of Cylindrical Surface Waves,” published in RNDE, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2010.

Philip D. Johnson Honorary Member Award

An Honorary Member is a person of acknowledged eminence in the domain covered by the Society or is one who has been recognized as a benefactor of the Society through services such as being a national officer. In 1990, the award was renamed in honor of Philip D. Johnson, who cofounded ASNT and nurtured it through its first three decades. This award is the highest that the Society bestows. No more than one Honorary Member may be elected during any one membership year. Honorary Memberships are presented for the life of the individual.

The winner of the 2011 Philip D. Johnson Honorary Member Award is William W. Briody.

Young NDT Professional Award

The purpose of the Young NDT Professional Award is to recognize individuals whose initial career contributions exemplify high standards of excellence in the areas of professional achievement and meritorious service. The award is given to supervisors, educators, managers, researchers, consultants, developers and others who are ASNT members with five to ten years of involvement in the NDT industry. Award applicants must be sponsored by a local ASNT section, council or national committee. The Awards Committee has the option of not conferring an award if it decides that no individual qualifies in a given year.

The winners of the 2011 Young NDT Professional Award are Huidong Gao and Ches Weeks.

   

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