IIW 2019 Booklet of Awards

THOMAS MEDAL Sponsored by the American Welding Society

Rewards an individual who has been involved in IIW/ISO international standards activities and can deliver a lecture on the incorporation of global studies into the standardisation for welding technologies.

Mr Douglas Kautz (USA) received his degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Co- lorado School of Mines. He has a long history working on standards in the United States and then providing input to similar international standards. He is active in four ISO/TC44 working groups through ANSI and AWS related commit- tees that comment for the United States on ISO standards. Kautz is also chair of the AWS Welding Handbook Committee and chairs committees for two volumes of the Materials Processing Handbooks, pertinent to the welding and metalworking industries. He is a member and past Chair of the AWS High Energy Beam Welding and Cutting Committee and currently serves on the subcommittees for electron beam and laser beam welding and cutting. As the US Delegate to Commission I Additive Manufacturing, Surfacing, Thermal Cutting and Allied Processes since 2009 and Chair since 2017, Kautz is now focusing on adop- tion of standards in the additive manufacturing industry.

019 AWARDS FOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO IIW

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