INDUSTRY NEWS Personals Dennis Dotson, chairman, Dotson Iron
Castings, Mankato, Minn., was appointed to the advisory board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Project.
Esco Corp., Portland, Ore., made
Jim O’Brien its vice president, global supply chain.
Diran Apelian, Howmet professor of mechanical engineering at the Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., was awarded the 2010 National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies.
Industry Faces Obituaries
ada, died Sept. 10. He was 83. Grove began his career in the metalcasting industry as an apprentice at the R. Mc- Dougall Co. in 1941. From 1943-46, he served with the Royal Canadian Navy. After World War II, he returned to the R. McDougall Co., and in 1949, he ac- cepted a position with Clare Brothers Foundry. He joined Western Foundry Co. Ltd. in 1961 and remained with the company until his retirement from the industry. A member of AFS since 1965, Grove served in the Director’s Class of 1984. He was active in the AFS Ontario Chapter, where he served as chairman.
Jaime Martinez, Guadalajara, Mexico, Lee Grove, Wingham, Ontario, Can-
died Sept. 17. He was president of the Mexican Foundry Society western region.
Roy Westcott, New Palestine, Ind.,
died Sept. 26. He was 75. Westcott was associate professor emeritus of mechanical engineering technology and taught metalcasting and manu- facturing for the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) for many years. He was a member of the American Foundry Society (AFS), a faculty advi- sor to the IUPUI AFS student chapter and a Foundry Educational Foundation key professor.
Viggo Haastrup, Holsterbro, Denmark,
died Oct. 10. He was editor of Stoberiet, a Danish Society of Foundrymen publica- tion, for more than 10 years.
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UWM Professor Rohatgi: Existing Equipment Soon Will Make Nano-Castings Professor Pradeep Rohatgi is optimis-
tic about the prospects of nanostruc- tured materials in metalcasting. And he should know—he was recently made the head of a University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee (UWM) research center that is working on developing the materials. “Foundries could start making these
modern products without having to update their equipment,” Rohatgi said. The Center for Advanced Materi-
als Manufacturing (CAMM) at UWM is working with several companies to de- velop an infrastructure for scaling up the production of nano-materials, which are embedded with atomic-scale particles to make them cheaper, lighter and stronger. In addition to being named head of
CAMM, Rohatgi recently received the 2010 Innovative Research Award in Tribology from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is a Wiscon- sin and UWM distinguished professor of engineering. He received a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Banaras Univ., Varanasi, India, in 1961, a master’s in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 and a doctorate in materials science from the school in 1964.
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Rohatgi received a doctorate in materials science from MIT in 1964. MODERN CASTING / December 2010
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