ACRC 2006 Merton C. Flemings and Ray H. Witt Awardees
Prof. Carl R. Loper and Dr. Raymond Donahue
The Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) of the Metal Processing Institute (MPI) is pleased to announce the winners of the Merton C. Flemings and Ray H. Witt Awards for 2006. Each year the ACRC recognizes two individuals who have made significant contributions to the metal casting industry. These awards were presented on May 25, 2006 during the Spring meeting of ACRC.
The Merton C. Flemings Award
The Merton C. Flemings Award, established in 1991, is given to an individual who significantly contributed to our understanding of solidification processing fundamentals, which have been applied commercially in the foundry industry. This year's recipient is Prof. Carl Loper.
Carl R. Loper, Jr. retired from his position as Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and still serves as an Adjunct Professor of Materials at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He obtained BS, MS and PhD degrees, was employed as a Plant metallurgist at Pelton Steel Castings Co. and a Research Metallurgist at Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. prior to his joining the University of Wisconsin. He is also a registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Loper has written and lectured extensively, with well over 400 technical and scientific publications, several patents and the co-author of a well known text, Principles of Metal Casting. During his tenure he has served as mentor to a host of graduate students who are now spread all over the United States as well as the entire world. The close relationship developed between Prof. Loper and his students has enabled continued personal discourse well after graduation. In this respect he has received the highest honors of the Foundry Educational Foundation (Distinguished Key Professor, E. J. Walsh Award). Dr. Loper has been internationally recognized for his engineering and scientific contributions, particularly metallurgical/materials manufacturing and in cast metals technology. He is an Honorary Life Member of the American Foundry Society (Howard Taylor Award, Penton Gold Medal, Hoyt Memorial Lecture), a Fellow Member of the American Society for Materials, and a member of the American Welding Society (Adams Memorial Award).
Ray H. Witt Award
The Ray H. Witt Award, established in 1999, is given to an individual for his/her leadership in the aluminum casting industry, for investing resources to broaden the technology base; for introducing advanced concepts and techniques; for encouraging the education and training of new talent and for inspiring others to advance the industry through technical achievement. This year the award was given to Raymond Donahue of Mercury Marine.
Raymond Donahue is Sr. Director Advanced Materials & Foundry Technology at Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation, and in that position is responsible for bringing new casting technologies to Mercury Marine. He has been with the company 34 years and has served in several technical and management positions. Dr. Donahue has over 30 U.S. patents in the casting area but is most proud of what has been implemented at Mercury Marine through team efforts with his ideas. Besides his own active research activities, he has given much of his time to promoting and advancing the U.S. metal casting industry. He served first as a member and then as its chairman on the original Department of Energy Metal Cast Advisory Board created in 1990 by Congress under PL101 to advance the competitiveness of the metal casting industry. After 15 years Dr. Donahue continues to serve in a leadership capacity with the Department of Energy 's efforts to advance the metal casting industry and now is a member of the DOE Industrial Oversight Panel, that evolved from the Metal Casting Advisory Board. The DOE effort with his leadership has produced a Vision document and a Roadmap document to address the research needs of the metal casting industry with industry/academic partnerships that have funded more than $50 million in casting research and have provided the casting industry with university trained graduates. Dr. Donahue is a Fellow of ASM and a Mercury Fellow, and has received the AFS Hall/Heroult Scientific Merit Award (in 1999) from AFS Division 2 Aluminum, the Lost Foam Technical Achievement Award (in 2000) and the Technical Contribution Award (in 2004) both from AFS Division 11 Lost Foam. He also received the Merton C. Flemings Award from ACRC (in 2001) and the AFS John A Penton Gold Metal in 2005.
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