IIW 2017 Annual Report

Spotlight on New Chairs

Doug Kautz

Ing. Doug Kautz is a senior engineer at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has managed several engineering and tech- nology groups at this laboratory and previously worked at Lawrence Liver- more National Laboratory and Rockwell International. He is a member of, and has served as an officer on, several standing technical committees on additive manufacturing and high energy beam welding, and is the chair of the AWS Welding Handbook Committee. He holds degrees from the Colora- do School of Mines in metallurgical engineering.

Akio Hirose

Prof. Akio Hirose, a Doctor of Engineering, holds the chair of Manufacturing Science, Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He is also the Director of the Ja- pan Welding Society and Director of the Japan Laser Processing Society. His areas of expertise and research include microjoining and nanojoining, joining of dissimilar light metals to steels, and damage-free processes for the joining of materials.

Hee Jin Kim

Dr Hee Jin Kim has worked at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technolo- gy (KITECH) since 1991, after previously spending seven years at Hyundai Heavy Industries. He holds a PhD degree in Materials Science and Enginee- ring from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has contributed greatly to welding science and engineering by authoring and co-authoring over 150 technical papers in the area of welding metallurg.

Satoru Asai

Prof. Dr Satoru Asai worked for the Toshiba Corporation from 1980 until mo- ving to the Osaka University in 2015. During that time he developed high-ef- ficiency welding process and automatic welding system with sensors for the power generation sector. His current research activities include arc physics, sensors for control, monitoring for arc process and quality control.

David Grewell

Dr David Grewell works at Iowa State University USA as a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. He is the Director of the NSF Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites, m,a Board Member of the Ultrasonic Industry Association, Society of Plastics Industry and So- ciety of Plastics Engineers, as well as a Fellow within the Society of Plastics Engineers. He holds 14 patents, has numerous publications including two books and has received numerous honours and awardss.

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