IIW History 1990-2015

need to have conformity in their use across all areas of expertise in IIW. It entailed a detailed and exhaustive exercise to ensure, from a welding perspective, that everyone was using the correct terminology, whether in written standards, documents, research papers or in any other forms of communication used by IIWWorking Units. The importance of C-VI to the other Commissions can be gauged by the fact that it was one of the first set up by IIW in 1948 with the express mandate to compile a Multilingual Collection of Terms , the first book of which was for the gas welding section in 1952. 38 Prof. Pavel Stular (Slovenia) was a stalwart of C-VI and after becoming Chair in 1976 he also took on the role of editor and publisher of the collection, leading to him being awarded the prestigious Edström Medal in 1989. Mr Dietmar Rippegather (Germany), Chair of C-VI 2002-2011, together with Ms Sheila Thomas (UK) with responsibility for IIW’s thesaurus, also did outstanding work in the collection of terms obtained from international, regional and national standards in order to avoid the duplication of much

work through its multiple language modern databases. Dr Glenn H. Ziegenfuss (USA) was to continue the excellent work of C-VI when he succeeded Rippegather as Chair in 2011. Dolby, who became Chair of SG-RES in 1989, was a significant contributor to the early work of this group and was to identify priority areas for research in Europe, for instance, in a period where research funding was problematic. He also highlighted a list of drivers from an industry workshop held in the USA in 1998 that he believed to be appropriate for developing countries. 39 These drivers were leading to specific trends in research and technology needs that had changed in emphasis over the previous five years – changes

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that research institutes and other research organisations needed to be acutely aware of. The influence of SG-RES was to be ever constant through the presence of Prof. Dr- Ing. Luisa Quintino (Portugal) who completed three three-year terms as Chair of SG-RES in 2012. The group’s main aim was to foster welding research and collaboration between international researchers and this was largely achieved through meetings of the group which occurred each year at Annual Assemblies. These meetings had a significant role in not only collating information about research that was being done by IIW members but also in providing guidance regarding identification for new directions in research as well as the promotion of latest developments through colloquia and other such activities. Prof. Dr-Ing. Jan Pilarczyk, of the Polish Welding Institute, was another solid contributor to the work of SG-RES and was to emphasise the difficulties of a developing country in conducting research. He highlighted the problems in such countries of obtaining

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