APPENDICES

APPENDIX A. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE OF PANEL MEMBERS

Name:            Merton C. Flemings (Panel Chair)

Affiliation:     Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Address:         Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
                 Bldg 8-407, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139

Dr. Flemings is Toyota Professor of Materials Processing in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main research areas are solidification processing and foundry technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an honorary member of the Japan Foundrymen's Society, the Japan Iron and Steel Institute, and the Japan Society for Metals. He has published widely in the field, including the books Foundry Engineering (John Wiley) and Solidification Processing (McGraw Hill).

Name:            Diran Apelian

Affiliation:     Director, Metals Processing Institute, 
                 Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Address:         Worcester Polytechnic Institute
                 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609

Dr. Apelian is Howmet Professor of Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and director of WPI's Metals Processing Institute. He recently completed a six year tour of duty as provost of WPI. He received his B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from Drexel University and his Sc.D. in materials science and engineering from MIT. He worked at Bethlehem Steel's Homer Research Laboratories before joining Drexel University's faculty in 1976. At Drexel he held various positions, including professor, head of the Department of Materials Engineering, associate dean of the College of Engineering, and vice-provost. He joined WPI in 1990 where he oversees the metal processing activities, including three consortia in aluminum casting, powder metallurgy, and semisolid metal processing. He is credited with pioneering work in various areas of solidification processing, including molten metal processing and filtration of metals, aluminum foundry engineering, plasma deposition, and most recently, spray casting/forming. Dr. Apelian is the recipient of many distinguished honors and awards, has over 250 publications to his credit, and serves on several technical and corporate boards.

Name:            Dennis A. Bertram

Affiliation:     Senior Vice President, Amcast Automotive

Address:         300 Galleria Office Center, Suite 203
                 Southfield, MI 48034

Mr. Bertram is senior vice president of operations for Amcast Automotive headquartered in Southfield, MI. The group has annual sales of $160 million and is part of Amcast Industrial Corp., headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. He is responsible for all manufacturing operations of Amcast Automotive. He has been with Amcast Automotive for 17 years and has held various positions from manufacturing engineering to general management. His prior experience was with the central foundry division of General Motors (now Powertrain), where his responsibilities included plant engineering, production, and maintenance. He has a B.S. (Mechanical Engineering) from the General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich.

Amcast Automotive is a major supplier of performance critical aluminum components for braking, suspension, steering, and driveline systems including wheels. Many components are supplied fully machined and assembly plant ready. Amcast is a leader in automotive conversions to lightweight materials. It employs a number of casting processes to meet the exact needs of these highly engineered applications.

Name:            Dr. H. Wayne Hayden

Affiliation:     Manager, Engineering Materials Section
                 Metals and Ceramic Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Address:         Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation
                 P.O. Box 2008, 4500-S
                 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6152

Dr. Hayden is the manager of the Engineering Materials Section of the Metals and Ceramics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is administratively responsible for research groups involved in melting and casting, deformation processing, joining, mechanical properties, fracture mechanics, corrosion, and computational modeling. He has numerous publications in the areas of materials processing, powder metallurgy, alloy development, superplasticity, deformation, and fracture and stress corrosion cracking. He is a co-author of a widely used metallurgical textbook that has been translated into several languages including Japanese. He holds numerous U.S. and foreign patents, covering wrought ferrite/austenite stainless steels, superplastic nickel-based alloys, aluminum processing, hydrometallurgical processing of copper ores, production of metallic uranium, and the copper-cored composite materials presently used for U.S. coinage. He graduated from MIT with B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. degrees in metallurgy. He was a co-recipient of the ASM Marcus A. Grossman Young Author Award and was awarded the "Inventor of the Year" award in 1993 by the International Hall of Fame in recognition for his work in the field of metallurgy.

Name:            Paul H. Mikkola

Affiliation:     Director, General Motors Powertrain Casting Operation

Address:         77 West Center Street, Saginaw, MI 48605

Mr. Mikkola, technical director of advanced casting development at General Motors Corp., directs casting development activities in four U.S. locations. He has worked in varied capacities for General Motors in manufacturing, engineering, and research during his 28 year career, which included an assignment at Hughes Aircraft in California. He is a fellow of ASM International and a member of the American Foundrymen's Society, the Foundry Educational Foundation, the North American Die Casting Association, and the Society of Automotive Engineers. He serves on engineering advisory committees at both Michigan Technological University and the University of Virginia. A past president of the Saginaw Country Club and ASM International, Saginaw Valley Chapter, he is currently vice president of the Foundry Education Foundation. He has published a number of papers on metal casting and materials during his career and holds three patents. He graduated from Michigan Tech (B.S.) and the University of Wisconsin (M.S.) and received an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1989.

Name:            Thomas S. Piwonka

Affiliation:     Director, Metal Casting Technology Center,
                 University of Alabama

Address:         Metal Casting Technology Center
                 The University of Alabama
                 P.O. Box 87201
                 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0201

Before joining the University of Alabama, Dr. Piwonka spent 25 years in the casting industry at General Motors Corp., Kelsey-Hayes Co., and TRW Inc. in positions ranging from production engineer to research manager. He is a graduate of Case-Western Reserve University and received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Piwonka is a member of the American Foundrymen's Society where he serves on five technical committees, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, ASM International (member of the Advisory Technical Awareness Council and on the editorial committee for Advanced Materials and Processes), and the Electric Power Research Institute Foundry Advisory Council. He is a key reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. He was general chairman of the Sixth International Conference on Modeling of Casting, Welding, and Advanced Solidification Processes. He has authored more than 60 technical papers and has seven patents.