Day: February 11, 2019

Jiann-Yang Hwang (MSE) has been awarded the 2019 Extraction & Processing Division Distinguished Service Award and the 2019 AIME James Douglas Gold Medal Award.

The TMS Extraction & Processing Division Award Committee and the SME Mineral and Metallurgical Processing Division Executive Committee have awarded Hwang the 2019 Extraction & Processing Division Distinguished Service Award and the 2019 AIME James Douglas Gold Medal Award.

The Extraction and Processing Division Distinguished Service award recognizes an individual whose continuous service to TMS Extracting & Processing Division activities has clearly facilitated the Society’s capability to serve its EPD-oriented members and their supporting organizations.

The AIME James Douglas Gold Medal award recognizes distinguished achievement in nonferrous metallurgy, including both the beneficiation of ores and the alloying and utilization of nonferrous metals. The awards will be presented in March 2019.

Lawrence Sutter (MSE) has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award and Innovation in Concrete Award.

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) Board of Direction, awarded ACI’s Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award and the ACI Foundation’s Jean-Claude Roumain Innovation in Concrete Award to Sutter “for outstanding leadership of Committee 232 – Fly Ash in Concrete” and “In recognition of your leadership in concrete materials education and research which has advanced the knowledge of deicer interaction, utilization of fly ash and alternate cements, and the nature of the air-void system to overall improve the sustainability and durability of concrete”, respectively.

Award and presentation will be held March 24, 2019.