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HEAT TREATING SOCIETY NEWS
HTS NAMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2017
The Heat Treating Society (HTS) board, at the recom-
mendation of the HTS Awards and Nominating Committee,
named new board members including
Robert Cryderman
and
Joseph Powell
to serve on the HTS Board for the 2016-
2019 term, and
Blake Whitley
to serve as student board
member for the 2016-2017 term.
Olga Rowan,
who served a
partial term on the board, has been reappointed to serve a
full term during 2016-2019 and
Hannah Noll
has been reap-
pointed to serve a second term from 2016-2017 as a young
professional boardmember. Terms begin September 1. Con-
tinuing on the board are
Stephen Kowalski
(president),
Jim
Oakes
(vice president),
Roger Jones
(past president),
Timo-
thy De Hennis
(member),
Eric Hutton
(member),
Nathan
Chupka
(member),
Michael Pershing
(member), and
Craig
Zimmerman
(member). Leaving the board are
Stephen
Mashl, FASM
(member),
Jin Xia
(member), and
Zbigniew
Zurecki, FASM
(member).
Rachel Sylvester,
who has com-
pleted a one-year term as a student board member, will stay
on as ex officio for one year.
Robert Cryderman
is research
associate professor of the Advanced
Steel Processing and Products
Research Center at the Colorado
School of Mines. He received BSE
and MSE degrees in metallurgical
engineering from the University of
Michigan and has over 45 years of
experience in the steel producing
industry. While employed at Climax
Molybdenum Co., he was the first to publish a paper that
characterized the martensite-austenite constituent in low
carbon sheet steels using transmission electron microscopy.
Cryderman worked at LTV Steel in Pittsburgh and Aliquippa,
Pa., before moving to CF&I Steel in Pueblo, Colo. There he
startedupproduction of headhardened rails. At Gerdau Spe-
cial Steels in Monroe, Mich., he was the technical leader in
developing and commissioning a new, world class bar heat
treating and inspection facility. Cryderman has published
over 30 technical papers, has been awarded nine patents,
andhas servedHTS as a technical reviewer and session chair.
JosephPowell
is president and
owner of Akron Steel Treating Co.
(AST) in Ohio and president and part
owner of IQ Technologies Inc. He has
over 32 years of experience in com-
mercial heat-treating operations.
Powell is one of the developers of the
IntensiQuench process for 3D heat
treating processes for steels, as well
as IQDI for intensively quenched duc-
tile iron and DFIQ for “direct from the forge IntensiQuench.”
AST performs Nadcap heat-treating services in vacuum, con-
trolled atmosphere, and molten salt furnaces for over 1200
different metalworking companies. Powell has a B.S. in
industrial management and a J.D. degree in law (both from
University of Akron, Ohio). In addition to his membership
with HTS, he is also an active member of the Metal Treating
Institute and the Forging Industry Association Technical
Committee and serves as a STEM school advisor with Akron
City Schools.
Blake Whitley
is pursuing a
Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering in
the Advanced Steel Processing and
Products Research Center at the Col-
orado School of Mines. His research
focuses on the effects of advanced
thermomechanical processing and
heat treatment on the microstruc-
ture and properties of steel. He also
earned a B.S. in metallurgical and
materials engineering at the University of Alabama. His
industrial background includes consulting work with Gen-
eral Motors and serving as ametallurgical engineering intern
at Alstom in Chattanooga. Whitley received the Alpha Sigma
Mu Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award (2012) and
numerous fellowships and scholarships. He served as a stu-
dent boardmember on the ASM International Board of Trust-
ees and president of his local Material Advantage Chapter in
2012. In addition, Whitley is a member of the ASM Rocky
Mountain Chapter Executive Committee (2012-2016), junior
mentor at the ASMEisenmanMaterials Camp, and teamcap-
tain of the 1st place Materials Bowl Team at the TMS Annual
Meeting in 2015.
Olga Rowan
is senior engineer
in Advanced Materials Technology,
Caterpillar Inc. Rowan received her
Ph.D. in materials science and engi-
neering from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in 2007, where she was an
activemember of the Center for Heat
Treating Excellence. She joined Cat-
erpillar in 2007 working in heat treat
R&D, gear heat treat production sup-
port, and supplier development. Areas of expertise include
gas atmosphere and vacuumheat treat, energy andbusiness
case analyses for new capital introduction, and heat treat
process control and optimization. She is a member of ASM,
active in the Peoria chapter and on the national level. She
served as a co-chair of the ASMEmerging Professionals Com-
mittee and as a member of the ASM Education Committee.
She has also been an active volunteer andworkshopmentor
in the ASM Materials Camp, Central Illinois area, since 2008.
Rowan co-authored two articles in the
ASM Handbook
, Vol
4A,
Steel Heat Treating Fundamentals and Processes
, and has
published 18 peer-review journal articles and conference
publications.
Hannah Noll
earned her B.Sc. in metallurgical engi-
neering from Missouri University of Science and Technology
in 2010, and her M.E. in materials science and engineering
at North Carolina State University in 2015. After graduating