Below is a summary of your chapter's activities for 1999/00. We have compiled the main features of each chapter meeting along with the winners of various awards, other activities and events which took place outside of regular meetings, the names of persons serving on the executive committee as well as other persons and organizations that played a prominent role in this year's activities.
| Meetings | Officers | Sponsors | Education | Events | Membership |
September 8, 1999 - Regular Chapter Meeting
Sponsors: Schwein-Christensen, Lafayette
Location: Blake's, Walnut Creek
Speaker: Witold Liliental
Affiliation: Nitrex Metal, Inc., St. Laurent, Quebec
Title: A Modern Approach to Nitriding and Related Processes
Download/view the summer Newsletter (pdf document)
Download/view September's Newsletter (pdf document)October 13, 1999 - Plant Tour
Sponsors: Grabber Construction Screws
Location: Harvy O. Banks Pump Plant, Byron
Speaker: Chuck Morones
Affiliation: California Department of Water Resources
Title: Tour of the Harvy O. Banks Pump Plant
Download/view October's Newsletter (pdf document)November 10, 1999 - Regular Chapter Meeting
Location: Blake's, Walnut Creek
Speaker: Fritz B. Harris
Affiliation: Metal Improvement Company, Rocklin
Title: Laser Shock Peening
Download/view November's Newsletter (pdf document)December 1999 - No Meeting this Month
Download/view December's Newsletter (pdf document)January 12, 2000 - Joint Meeting with AWS and ASNT
Sponsors: Testing Engineers, Inc.
Location: Franchesco's Restaurant, Oakland
Speaker: Dr. Brian Bay
Affiliation: U. C. Davis/U. C. Davis Medical Center
Title: 3D Radiographic Imaging
Download/view January's Newsletter (pdf document)February 4, 2000 - Failure Analysis Seminar
Sponsors: Golden Gate Chapter of ASM International
Location: PG&E
Organizer: Paul Tibbals, P.E.
Affiliation: San Ramon
Title: Failure Analysis in Industry
 | First Session - Dr. Steve Paterson, Ph.D., Aptech, San Jose, CA Welds and Welding-Related Failures |
| Second Session - Mr. Paul Tibbals, P.E., PG&E, San Ramon, CA Actual Uses of Phase Diagrams in Failure Analysis: Those Classes Pay Off After All! |
| Third Session - Mr. Douglas Godfrey, Wear Analysis, San Rafael, CA, Failure Analysis of Lubricated Equipment - How to Recognize Different Kinds of Wear |
| Fourth Session - Dr. Stafford, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso, High Temperature Failures |
| Fifth Session - Dr. Dennis McGarry, Ph.D. FTI-SEA, Columbus, Failures In Steels In Impact Service |
March 8, 2000 - Joint Meeting with NACE
Location: Blake's, Walnut Creek
Speaker: Andrew Olander, P.E.
Affiliation: Dow Chemical Company, Pittsburg
Title: Applications and Failures of Exotic Materials in Chemical Process
Environments
Download/view March's Newsletter (pdf document)
April 12, 2000 - Community College Student Awards Night
Location: Blake's, Walnut Creek
Speaker: Tim Dyer, Technology Manager for Materials Research in the Hardware
Affiliation: SpeedFAM-IPEC Corporation, Chandler, AZ
Title: Materials Applications in Chemical Mechanical Planarization
Download/view April's Newsletter (pdf document)
May 10, 2000 - University Student Awards Night
Location: Blake's, Walnut Creek
Speaker: Guna Selvaduray, Professor
Affiliation: Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, San Jose State
University
Title: Metals and Metallurgy in Microelectronic Packaging
Download/view May's Newsletter (pdf
document)
June 14, 2000 - Spouse's Night and Membership Awards Meeting
Sponsor: Gordon Lakso, Materials and Methods, Lafayette
Location: Blake's, Walnut Creek
Speaker: Rebecca Weiss
Affiliation: Denver Mint
Title: How the US Mint Manufactured 22 Billion Coins in 1999
Download/view June's Newsletter (pdf
document)
The executive committee for 1999/00 was:
Chair: Gordon Lakso, P.E., Materials and Methods, Layfayette
Vice-Chair: Paul Tibbals, P.E., PG&G, San Ramon
Secretary: Andrew Olander, P.E., Dow Chemical Company, Pittsburg
Treasurer: Gary Schmidt, Chevron
Publicity: Paul Tibbals, P.E., PG&E, San Ramon
Membership: Rich Stellina, P.E.
Program Coordinator: Mike Meier, Ph.D., U. C. Davis
Sponsors: Hossein Arbabi, Ph.D., P.E., Testing Engineers
Career/Education: Jay Dorst
Sacramento Valley Liaison: Mike Meier, Ph.D., U. C. Davis
Long Range Planning/Historian: Jerry Fritzke, P.E.
SFBAEC Representative: Chuck Morones, P.E.
Arrangements: Lisa Thomas, Berkeley Engineering and Research, Berkeley
Student Representatives: Valeska Schroeder, Ph.D. student, U. C. Berkeley
John Dorn Award: This award is given to a Ph.D. student in the last year of his or her studies. This year the award went to Sam McFadden from U. C. Davis.
Scholastic Achievement Award: This award is given to outstanding students from U. C. Berkeley and U. C. Davis. This year awards were given to: Dan Jones, Aditi Risbud, Justin Curtis, Nathan Mara from U. C. Davis and Hayley Lam from U. C. Berkeley.
Outstanding Community College Student Awards: This award is given to outstanding students in academic and technical programs at regional community colleges. Two nominations from each school are considered. This year the awards were given to:
| Diablo Valley College: Adam Lewis and Ryan Moore, Glenn Snyder and Peri Sakellariou |
| City College of San Francisco: Heather Folsom and Susan English |
| Solano Community College: Yang-Son Kwon and Guillermo Herrejon |
| Los Medanos College: Richard Sobilo and Tammy Romo |
Membership Awards: Each year at the end of our season we recognize the various achievements of members from our chapter. This year the following awards were presented during the June meeting:
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| 15 Years: |
| 25 Years: |
| 60 Years: |
| Life Awards: |
Sustaining Members - Sustaining members are ...
| Coulter Steel and Forge Co., Emeryville, member since 1957 |
| Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical, Pleasanton, member since 1957 |
| Primex Technologies, San Leandro, member since 1978 |
| Testing Engineers, Inc. |
| Thermo-Fusion, Inc., Hayward, member since 1984 |
| University of California, Davis, Shields Library, member since 1981 |
| Wyman Gordon Investment Castings, San Leandro Division, San Leandro, member since 1979 |
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