IIW 2018 Awards booklet

FELLOW OF IIW

Dr Stephen Liu (USA) holds the American Bureau of Shipping Chair Professorship at Colorado School of Mines (CSM). He received BS and MS degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) and his PhD degree from CSM. Liu worked previously as a steel metallurgist and Assistant Professor in Manufacturing at the Pennsylvania State University. Liu has received many prestigious honours including the Adams Lecture Award, Savage Award, Spraragen Award, McKay-Helm Award, Peaslee Award, Jennings Award, and IIW Jaeger Lecture and Halil Kaya Gedik Awards, amongst others. In 2015 he received the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Oil and Gas Engineering Award. He was elected Fellow of the AWS in 1978 for his ability to bring clarity to complicated concepts and as a leading expert in the field of welding and weld metallurgy. He is also a Fellow of ASME, ASM and the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals, and a Chartered Professional Engineer. Liu has served as US Delegate to IIW Commission XVII Brazing, Soldering and Diffu- sion Bonding, and participated in several other Working Units.

Outstanding accomplishments by Mr Chris Smallbone (Australia) have generated techni- cal, economic and social impacts which have significantly advanced the science, techno- logy and application of welding around the world. Through his unique and pioneering innovations he led the successful growth of the national welding institutes in two countries, both South Africa (SAIW) (1978-1993) and Australia (WTIA) (1995-2013), to world-class standards. In parallel, he worked voluntarily to build up other successful not-for-profit industry organisations to meet South African and Austra- lian needs in technology transfer, NDT, pressure equipment, skills, qualification and certi- fication, and professional development. Smallbone’s extensive voluntary work in leadership roles across all facets of IIW since 1974 has helped improve the quality of life of people globally, for example through IIWWorking Group Regional Activities and the inception and implementation of the IIW WeldCare Programme. He is an IIW Past-President (2005-2008) and recipient of prestigious welding industry awards, honours and fellowships from many countries and organisations including the IIW Walter Edström Medal for ‘his remarkable and distinguished contributions to the IIW and the international community’.

2018 AWARDS FOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO IIW

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