2016 Winners
Best in Show – Jacquet-Lucas Award
Quantitative Characterization of Fracture Features in Titanium Alloys (Class 2)
Vikas Sinha
UES, Inc.
Beavercreek, OH
Sushant Jha
Universal Technology Corp.
Dayton, OH
Adam Pilchak, Reji John, and James Larsen
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH
William Porter, III
University of Dayton Research Institute
Dayton, OH
The DuBose-Crouse Award
Heat Tinting Used for Identification of Titanium and Titanium Alloy Phases (Class 1)
Derek Barnes
Product Evaluation Systems
Latrobe, PA
George L. Kehl Award
Cooking with Clad (Class 3)
Amanda Ruschel and Daniel Weinstock
Lehigh University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Bethlehem, PA
Class 1 – Light Microscopy, All Materials
First Place
Heat Tinting Used for Identification of Titanium and Titanium Alloy Phases
Derek Barnes
Product Evaluation Systems
Latrobe, PA
Second Place
Flowforming of Austenitic Stainless Steel
Don Susan, Alice Kilgo, and Shelley Williams
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM
Class 2 – Electron Microscopy, All Materials
First Place
Quantitative Characterization of Fracture Features in Titanium Alloys
Vikas Sinha
UES, Inc.
Beavercreek, OH
Sushant Jha
Universal Technology Corp.
Dayton, OH
Adam Pilchak, Reji John, and James Larsen
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH
William Porter, III
University of Dayton Research Institute
Dayton, OH
Second Place
Advanced Microstructural Analysis of Additively Manufactured Alloy 718
Giacomo Bertali
The School of Materials, The University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Third Place
Metallography & Microanalysis Enable Z Testing of High Strength Steel Plate
Eric Lynch, Keith Taylor, and Matthew Werner
SSAB
Muscatine, IA
Honorable Mention
Atomic Behavior of the Nano Fuel Cell
Takeshi Daio
Osaka University
Osaka, Japan
Honorable Mention
Kinetically Activated Bainite (KAB) Steels
Peter Kirbiš
Metal Ravne d.o.o, Darja Jenko
Laboratory of Applied Surface Science
Slovenia, Europe
Class 3 – Student Entries – All Materials (Undergraduate Students Only)
First Place and the George L. Kehl Award
Cooking with Clad
Amanda Ruschel and Daniel Weinstock
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Second Place
Untapped Potential
Donny Stires and Conor Smith
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Third Place
Chomping at the Bit!
Ally Fraser and Rachel Weckselblatt
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Honorable Mention
How They’re Linked
Michael Pires and Joshua Smeltzer
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Honorable Mention
Enhancing the Grain Boundary and Second Phase Strengthening
Zhangwei Wang
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Honorable Mention
Recrystallization of Fe36Ni18Mn33Al13 Alloy
Margaret Wu
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Class 4 – Artistic Microscopy (Color)
First Place
Micro Tumbleweeds
Dale Hensley and Bernadeta Srijanto
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Second Place
Aluminum-Lithium Alloy Friction Stir Weld
Harold Clatyor and Stephen Hales
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA
Third Place
Blue Coral Rust
Dale Hensley and Bernadeta Srijanto
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Honorable Mention
Tungsten Filament Wire Crystal Growth
Sheri Neva
SEAL Laboratories
El Segundo, CA
Honorable Mention
Cotton Candy Last Stage Recrystallized
Sheri Neva
SEAL Laboratories
El Segundo, CA
Honorable Mention
New Planet 2K16
R.Nagalakshmi
Welding Research Institute
Tamilnadu, India
Honorable Mention
Blue Parrott
Peter Kirbiš
Metal Ravne d.o.o, Darja Jenko – Laboratory of Applied Surface Science
Slovenia, Europe
Honorable Mention
Texas Heat Tint
Mitchell Trevino
Stress Engineering Services
Houston, TX
Class 5 – Artistic Microscopy (Black and White)
First Place
Sponge Coral Rust
Dale Hensley and Bernadeta Srijanto
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Second Place
Zebra Stripe Slag Inclusions in Tensile Specimen from Pattern Welded Sample
Adam Haskins
METL
Phoenix, AZ
Third Place
Chaos from Order
Michael Deagen
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Honorable Mention
White Cast Iron
Sheri Neva
SEAL Laboratories
El Segundo, CA
Honorable Mention
Fruit Fly Eye
Sheri Neva
SEAL Laboratories
El Segundo, CA
Honorable Mention
Monolith
Eric Hahn
University of California San Diego – Materials Science and Engineering
La Jolla, CA
Honorable Mention
Ferritic Stainless Steel
Michael Morgan
Faurecia Emission Control Technologies
Columbus, IN
Honorable Mention
The Rocket
Derek Barnes
Product Evaluation Systems
Latrobe, PA
