Standards organization ASTM has named new directors who will serve on the organization’s board of directors. The new directors are Christina Lomasney, Brent Stucker, James Simnick and Jun Sasaki.

Christina A. Lomasney, president, CEO and co-founder of Modumetal in Seattle, Wash., a manufacturer of nanolaminated coatings, claddings and alloys, will serve a three-year term on the ASTM International board of directors.

An ASTM member since 2003, Ms. Lomasney works on Committee B08 on Metallic and Inorganic Coatings, where she is chairman of Subcommittee B08.16 on Nanostructured Coatings and a member of several other B08 groups. She previously served as founding chair of Subcommittee E54.03 on Decontamination, part of Committee E54 on Homeland Security Applications.

Ms. Lomasney’s professional work has focused on structural and corrosion-resistant coatings, specializing in materials science, metals and alloys, electrochemistry and advanced composites. She is the named inventor of patented materials and processes for environmental remediation and nanostructured materials production and applications.

Before co-founding Modumetal, Ms. Lomasney founded composite materials company Isotron Corp. in 2001, which developed technologies for use in environmental and industrial decontamination and recovery. For more than a decade, she has worked on advanced materials technologies, starting in the Phantomworks division of the Boeing Co.

Under her leadership, Isotron and Modumetal have been recognized with the Innovation Pioneer Award from IHS in 2012, ACA’s Luis Villalobos Innovation Award in 2010, as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 10 Technologies of the Year in 2009 and with the Mayor’s Seattle Small Business Award in 2007.

Outside ASTM, Ms. Lomasney is a board member of the Science and Engineering Business Association and a commissioner on the Washington Economic Development Commission. She holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also carried out graduate studies in applied physics.

Brent Stucker, Ph.D., chief executive officer and a co-founder of 3DSIM LLC, a company focused on commercializing algorithms for predictive modeling of additive manufacturing (3D printing) processes, has been named a director on the ASTM board.

Dr. Stucker is former and first chairman, from 2009 to 2014, of Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing Technologies, where he now is a member at large on the executive subcommittee. In 2010, he received the Robert J. Painter Memorial Award from ASTM and SES – The Society for Standards Professionals, for his work in advancing standardization efforts in the field of additive manufacturing.

In 2012, Stucker received the Industry Achievement Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for his work as F42 chairman. He has also been recognized with the prestigious DINO Award from the Additive Manufacturing Users Group for his contributions to selective laser sintering technology in 2005, the University of Rhode Island Outstanding Research Award in 2000 and the Albert E. Carlotti Faculty Excellence Award in 2001.

In addition to 3DSIM, Stucker is also the Clark Chair of computer-aided engineering and a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Louisville, Ken. He held faculty positions at Utah State University and the University of Rhode Island, and was a visiting professor and Fulbright scholar at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland before joining the University of Louisville in 2010.

Co-author of the textbook Additive Manufacturing Technologies, Dr. Stucker has written or co-authored more than 150 technical publications and is a named inventor on numerous pending and issued patents. He has presented at many conferences around the world and sits on leadership committees for several journals and international conferences. Dr. Stucker has served as a member of the Information Science and Technology advisory board for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Rapid Technologies & Additive Manufacturing Steering Committee of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Dr. Stucker holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

James J. Simnick, Ph.D., a senior technical adviser in the global fuels technology department at BP America Inc. in Naperville, Ill., has joined the ASTM International board of directors for a three-year term.

A 2012 Award of Merit recipient, Dr. Simnick has been an ASTM member since 1995. He is currently first vice chairman of Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels and Lubricants and has been section vice chairman of Subcommittee D02.A0.01 on Gasoline and Gasoline-Oxygenate Blends since 2001. D02 has recognized Simnick with an Award of Appreciation and two Awards of Excellence.

In addition to D02, Simnick is a member of Committees D03 on Gaseous Fuels, E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action and E60 on Sustainability. He recently served a term on the ASTM Committee on Technical Committee Operations.

Dr. Simnick has 35 years of experience in both technical and management roles in refining technology, marketing and fuels technology. In a career that began in 1979 with Amoco Corp., now BP America, Simnick has moved from engineering positions to his current senior adviser role, which he assumed in 2013.

Outside ASTM, Dr. Simnick is a board member of the Coordinating Research Council and co-chair of its Performance Committee, which includes programs to determine the effects of ethanol and biodiesel on vehicle engine performance. He was co-chairman of the U.S. Department of Energy’s U.S. DRIVE (Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle Efficiency and Energy Sustainability) Partnership Program Hydrogen Delivery Technical Team, where he has been a member since its inception in 2003.

Dr. Simnick, who earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering at Purdue University, represents BP on the Energy-side DOE Fuels Operations Group for the U.S. DRIVE Partnership. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and SAE International.

Jun Sasaki, Ph.D., general manager of the Control Research Laboratory at the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) in Futtsu, Japan, also has been named a director on the ASTM International board for a three-year term.

An ASTM member since 2005, Dr. Sasaki currently serves as producer vice chairman of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys, where he also is a member of several A01 subcommittees. In addition, he is a member of Committee A05 on Metallic-Coated Iron and Steel Products and its subcommittee on sheet specifications.

NSSMC manufactures a wide variety of steel products. As general manager of the Control Research Laboratory, his position since 2012, Dr. Sasaki leads corporate research on control technologies and represents his company in executive subcommittee activities of ASTM Committee A01. He previously had been general manager of the Control and Instruments Research and Development Division and senior manager for the Research and Development Planning Division for Nippon Steel. He also held positions with Nippon Steel USA Inc., the U.S. subsidiary in New York, New York, as vice president of technologies.

The principal author of several scientific journal papers, Dr. Sasaki holds three patents. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Keio University in Kanagawa, Japan, and his doctorate in mechanical engineering from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. While a master’s degree student, Sasaki was a visiting research student at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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