Below is a summary of your chapter's activities for 2003/04. 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 | Events | Membership | Obituaries |
October 15, 2003 - Regular Chapter Meeting
Location: Golden Willow Chinese Restaurant, Concord
Speaker: Paul Tibbals, P.E.
Affiliation: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Title: Phase Diagrams and Metallurgical Principles in Failure Analysis - They Finally Come in Handy in the Real World!
Download/view October's Newsletter (pdf document)November 12, 2003 - Joint Meeting with NACE
Sponsors: ChevronTexaco
Location: Francesco's Restaurant, Oakland
Speaker: Steven Murray, Ph.D., P.E.
Affiliation: Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
Title: Engineering in Litigation - How engineering knowledge and experience may be used to develop foundation and present evidence and expert testimony in the courtroom
Download/view November's Newsletter (pdf document)January 14, 2004 - Regular Chapter Meeting
Location: Golden Willow Chinese Restaurant, Concord
Speaker: Terry McNelley
Affiliation: Naval Post-graduate School, Monterey
Title: Friction Stir Processing
Download/view January's Newsletter (pdf document)February 11, 2004 - Chapter Forum Meeting
Location: Francesco's Restaurant, Oakland
Title: An open forum for discussing materials news and events in our region, chapter activities and membership needs, etc.
Download/view February's Newsletter (pdf document)March 10, 2004 - Regular Chapter Meeting
Sponsors: LECO, Corp.
Location: Golden Willow Chinese Restaurant, Concord
Speaker: Pat Palumbo
Affiliation: LECO, Corp.
Title: Glow Discharge Spectroscopy
Download/view March's Newsletter (pdf document)May 5, 2004 - Joint Meeting with ACerS and U. N. Reno, Student Awards Night
Sponsor: LECO Corp. (Pete Miller) and OLI (Pat McKenzie)
Location: Sudwerks Restaurant and Brewery, Davis
Speaker: Nat Saenz
Affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: Metallography of Meteorites, Moon Rocks, Composites, and Other Unusual Materials
Download/view May's Newsletter (pdf document)June 9, 2004 - Spouse's Night and Membership Awards Meeting
Sponsor: ChevronTexaco
Location: Scott's Restaurant, Walnut Creek
Speaker: Janet Pape
Affiliation: California Department of Transportation
Title: The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span: What Lies Beneath?
Download/view June's Newsletter (pdf document)
The executive committee for 2003/04 was:
Chair: Mike Meier, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Secretary: Jon Mazur, Anamet, Inc.
Treasurer: Krista Heidersbach, Ph.D. and Andrew O'Connor, ChevronTexaco
Membership: Rich Stellina, retired
Sponsors: Paul Tibbals, P.E., Pacific Gas and Electric
Newsletter: Mike Meier, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Internet: Paul Tibbals, P.E., Pacific Gas and Electric
Program: Andrew Olander (chair), Gary Schmidt, Andrew O'Connor, Jay Dorst, Bruce Sherman
Arrangements and Attendance: Chuck Morones, P.E., California Department of Water
Student Chapter Liaison: Mike Meier, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
U. C. Davis Student Representative: Andrew Nissan, senior
Historian: Jerry Fritzke, P.E.
Our chapter sponsors help us pay our bills for each meeting and the costs of
printing and mailing out our newsletter and meeting announcements. Our
sponsors for the 2003/04 year were:
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John Dorn Award: This award is given to a Ph.D. student in the last year of his or her studies. This year there were no nominations.
Scholastic Achievement Award: This award is given to outstanding students from U. C. Davis and U. N. Reno. This year awards were given to: Chris Faconti, Andrew Nissan, Jennifer Sween, and Tammy Tamayo, all from U. C. Davis. This was the first year we had invited U.N. Reno to participate in these awards and unfortunately they were not able to get their nominations in in time.
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: Thomas Welch Brown, Caleb Lemler (Instructor: Dave Johnson) |
| Los Medanos College: Angelica Louise Martinez, Warren Wilson (Instructor: Andy Ochoa) |
| Yuba College: Allen Cupples, Tim Mallen (Instructor: Steve Klein) |
Poster Competition
The Student Night meeting held in Davis was a joint meeting with the Northern
California Section of the American Ceramic Society. ACerS sponsored a
research poster competition. There were five entries, each receiving a
copy of Richerson's book "The Magic of Ceramics". There were three winners
of the competition:
| 1st Place: Harpreet Singh, Reverse Micelle Synthesis of Zirconia Nanopowders |
| 2dn Place: Shailaja Varma, Synthesis and Characterization of Nanophosphours |
| 3rd Place: Lilian Davila, Understanding the Medium-range Order of Fused Silica under High Pressure |
Sponsoring a Student's Attending ASM Materials Camp
Late in the 2002-2003 year ASM contacted us to let us know that a high
school student from our area, Alan Luu from San Francisco wanted to attend
Materials Camp in Seattle during the summer of 2003 but that he needed some
financial support. The chapter sponsored him for the cost of his round
trip air fare, but asked that he come to one of our meetings during the
following year to give us a report. We were unable to get Alan to one of
our meetings this year so we have asked him to write us a brief report that we
could include in a newsletter and/or or web site.
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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Sustaining Members - Sustaining members pay slightly higher membership fees, most of which is returned to the Chapter and are used to fund local projects and events. Our sustaining members for the 2002/03 year were:
| California Saw and Knife Works |
| ChevronTexaco Energy and Research |
| Consolidate Engineering Labs |
| Primex Technologies |
| 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, member since 1979 |
Eugene (Gene) Leighton Kemper, Sr, passed away peacefully on April 9th, 2004 at the age of 79. Memorial services were held on April 22, 2004 in Chico. Gene was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He later attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a degree in metallurgical engineering. He was internationally recognized as an expert in industrial thermal processing and was a member of the American Society of Metals.
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