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In accordance with the ASTM International bylaws, we are pleased to announce the slate of candidates selected by the society's Nominating Committee for election to ASTM offices for terms commencing Jan. 1, 2015: chairman of the board - one-year term; vice chairman - two-year term; and six directors - three-year terms. The election is official when the ballot closes on Dec. 5.

This election is administered via the ASTM website. Emails will be sent to ASTM members containing links for accessing the online ballot. If you do not have access to the Internet, you may request a hard copy of the ballot from Maureen Houck at 610-832-9594. Whether using the website or hard copy, remember that the deadline for receipt of all ballots is Dec. 5.

2015 Chairman of the Board

Ronald J. Ebelhar

Ronald J. Ebelhar, P.E., G.DE. is a senior principal with Terracon in Cincinnati, Ohio. Terracon is a multi-disciplinary engineering firm that provides services locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, Ebelhar joined McClelland Engineers in Houston, Texas, as a staff engineer in 1977, working in various roles in the geotechnical laboratory, information technology and marine geosciences groups. From 1987 to 1996, he served as division manager and then as vice president for Rust Environment & Infrastructure (and its predecessors, S&ME, Westinghouse and SEC Donohue) in Cincinnati, Ohio, before taking the position of vice president with H.C. Nutting in 1996. He assumed his current role when Terracon purchased H.C. Nutting in 2007.

As a project manager for geotechnical and environmental engineering projects worldwide, Ebelhar has provided design, consulting and forensic engineering services for commercial, industrial, transportation, waste disposal and public utility projects; geotechnical engineering design and construction, including site soil response under seismic, cyclic and dynamic loading; and marine geosciences and engineering field explorations. He is a registered professional engineer in eight states.

Ebelhar, who joined ASTM International in 1980, is immediate past chairman of Committee D18 on Soil and Rock. An ASTM fellow and 2003 Award of Merit recipient, Ebelhar has received several awards from D18, including R.S. Ladd Standards Development Awards for ASTM D7400, Test Methods for Downhole Seismic Testing, and ASTM D4648, Test Method for Laboratory Miniature Vane Shear Test; the Woodland G. Shockley Award; the A. Ivan Johnson Outstanding Achievement Award; two Special Service Awards; and the Committee D18 Technical Editor's Award for STP 1213 on Dynamic Geotechnical Testing II. He also received a Service Award from the ASTM Committee on Technical Committee Operations, on which he served a two-year term. He has served on the ASTM board of directors since 2010. In addition to his ASTM work, Ebelhar is a fellow and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Diplomate, Geotechnical Engineering, in the Academy of Geo-Professionals.

2015-2016 Vice Chairman of the Board

D. Thomas Marsh

D. Thomas Marsh is president of Centrotrade Minerals and Metals Inc. in Chesapeake, Virginia, a distributor of and technical advisory company for rubber, latex and chemicals. In his position, which he has held since 1999, Marsh directs day-to-day operations; provides technical, regulatory and standards organization oversight to sister groups in Europe and Asia; and administers material specifications and contracts.

An ASTM International member since 1990, Marsh currently serves as chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee and of Committee D11 on Rubber; he is also a member of Committee F23 on Personal Protective Equipment. He served a term on the ASTM Committee on Technical Committee Operations from 2007 to 2009. He received a Distinguished Service Award from Committee D11 in 2007 and a Service Award from COTCO in 2009.

Marsh began his career as a technician for General Latex and Chemical Corp. in Ashland, Ohio, and then worked as a latex chemist for Abbott Laboratories from 1981 to 1987. He became laboratory and technical services manager for Ansell Inc. in Troy, Alabama, and then president of the Ore and Chemical Corp. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he managed daily operations and implemented ASTM testing for natural rubber and latex. He was vice president of Microflex Corp., Reno, Nevada, before joining Centrotrade.

In addition to ASTM International, Marsh is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Management Association, the Ohio Rubber Group and the Rubber Trade Association of North America, where he is a member of the board of directors and a past president. He is also a U.S. voting delegate to Technical Committee 45 for Rubber and Rubber Goods of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and served a term on the board of directors of Vystar Corp. from 2012 to 2013.

Marsh holds a general sciences degree from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and a bachelor's degree in business management from Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia.

Director 2015-2017

Lawrence D. Carbary

Lawrence D. Carbary is an industry scientist on the facade engineering and architectural design team, high performance building solutions, for Dow Corning Corp. in Midland, Michigan, a global company that provides silicone materials, technical support and customer service.

Currently chairman of the ASTM International Committee on Technical Committee Operations, Carbary has been an ASTM member since 1999. He is chairman of two subcommittees in Committee C24 on Building Seals and Sealants, C24.30 on Adhesion and C24.87 on International Standards, and he serves on several other C24 subcommittees. In addition, he is a member of Committee C16 on Thermal Insulation.

Carbary has been recognized for his ASTM contributions with the Award of Merit and accompanying title of fellow in 2007 and the Lou Toporcer Hall of Fame Award in 2005. The Award of Merit honored Carbary's technical and leadership contributions to the committee related to developing consensus standards and publishing technical information in support of the sealants industry. The Hall of Fame Award recognized his service in stimulating research, promotion of knowledge and service to the building industry in voluntary standardization. He also received a 2002 Award of Appreciation from C24.

Since his 1982 graduation from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, with a B.S. in chemical engineering, Carbary has worked for Dow Corning Corp. He currently works on the development and application of silicone adhesives, sealants and coatings used in the commercial construction business. He was responsible for opening the firm's first regional testing laboratory in California and built a construction technical service team in South Korea.

Co-author or author of numerous technical papers about curtainwall sealing and related topics, Carbary recently co-chaired the Fifth Symposium on Building and Construction Sealants and Adhesives, sponsored by ASTM Committee C24 and the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures.

Director 2015-2017

John R. Logar

John R. Logar is director of radiation sterilization at Johnson & Johnson Sterility Assurance, Raritan, New Jersey, a global healthcare products manufacturer and provider of related services to the consumer, pharmaceutical and medical markets.

Logar, an ASTM International member since 2001, currently serves on the ASTM Committee on Technical Committee Operations. He is also chairman of Committee E61 on Radiation Processing and of Subcommittee E61.01 on Dosimetry. The committee organized in 2012. E61 previously had been part of Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications, and Logar was E10 vice chair from 2010 to 2012. Committee E10 honored Logar with the Peter D. Hedgecock Award in 2010 for his contributions to the development of radiation processing standards.

At Johnson & Johnson Sterility Assurance, Logar leads and has oversight for sterility assurance operations for radiation sterilized products and responsibilities for quality assurance of radiation sterilization processes; he also ensures compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. Logar began his career as a quality assurance manager at SteriGenics in 1996; he then was a senior technical manager and a director of radiation dosimetry for SteriGenics International. In 2008, he became manager and then associate director of research and development, for sterilization, science and technology at Ethicon Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. He assumed his current role in 2013.

Outside ASTM International, Logar is a member of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards, the Radiation Process Simulation and Modeling User Group, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). At ISO he is convener of Working Group 3 on Dosimetry for Radiation Processing in Technical Committee 85 on Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Technologies and Radiological Protection. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey.

Director 2015-2017

Christina A. Lomasney

Christina A. Lomasney is president, CEO and co-founder of Modumetal in Seattle, Washington, a manufacturer of nanolaminated coatings, claddings and alloys.

An ASTM International member since 2003, Lomasney is a member of Committee B08 on Metallic and Inorganic Coatings, where she is chairman of Subcommittee B08.16 on Nanostructured Coatings and 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, as well.

Lomasney 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, 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.

Outside ASTM International, Lomasney is a board member of the Science and Engineering Business Association and a commissioner on the Washington Economic Development Commission. Lomasney was named among the Top Innovators of 2008 by Seattle Magazine. Under her leadership, Isotron and Modumetal have been recognized with the Innovation Pioneer Award from IHS Cera 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.

Lomasney earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also carried out graduate studies in applied physics.

Director 2015-2017

Jun Sasaki

Jun Sasaki, Ph.D., is general manager of the Control Research Laboratory at the Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) in Futtsu, Chiba, Japan. NSSMC, the world's leading integrated steel producer, manufactures a wide variety of steel products.

An ASTM International member since 2005, 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.

As general manager of the Control Research Laboratory, his position since 2012, Sasaki leads corporate research on control technologies and represents his company on the executive subcommittee of ASTM Committee A01. He previously had been general manager of the Control and Instruments Research and Development Division for Nippon Steel from 2009 to 2012. He also held positions with Nippon Steel as vice president of technologies at the U.S. subsidiary in New York, as senior manager for research and development planning, and as senior researcher for Central Research and Development Labs.

The principal author of several scientific journal papers, 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.

Director 2015-2017

James J. Simnick

James J. Simnick, Ph.D., is a senior technical adviser in the global fuels technology department at BP America Inc. in Naperville, Illinois, an international corporation that produces fuels, heat, chemicals, energy and lubricants.

A 2012 Award of Merit recipient, Simnick has been an ASTM International 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 previously recognized Simnick with an Award of Appreciation and two Awards of Excellence.

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

Outside ASTM, 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. He also represents BP on the Energy-side DOE Fuels Operations Group for the U.S. DRIVE Partnership. In addition, Simnick is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and SAE International (formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers).

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.

Simnick earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Director 2015-2017

Brent Stucker

Brent Stucker, Ph.D., is the Clark Chair of computer-aided engineering and a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He is also CEO and co-founder of 3DSIM LLC, a company focused on commercializing algorithms for simulating additive manufacturing processes.

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 International 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 "Dinosaur Award" from the Selective Laser Sintering 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.

Co-author of the textbook Additive Manufacturing Technologies, Stucker has written or co-authored more than 100 technical publications and is a named inventor on numerous pending and issued patents. He also has presented at many conferences around the world and sits on leadership committees for several journals and international conferences. He is a member of the Information Science and Technology advisory board for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Stucker held other faculty positions, at Utah State University and the University of Rhode Island, before joining the University of Louisville in 2010. He had also been a visiting professor and Fulbright scholar at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland. 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.