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MEMBER RECOGNITION

Bradley Stoughton Award

The Lehigh Valley Chapter of ASMI established the Bradley Stoughton Award in 1944. It recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of engineered materials.
Bradley Stoughton (1873-1959) was President of ASM in 1942. His distinguished career included teaching and administrative positions at MIT, Columbia University, and Lehigh University, where he served as Head of the Department of Metallurgy and Dean of Engineering for 35 years. In addition, he was a consulting metallurgist for 21 years.

Dr. Stoughton gave his time without stint to his students, guiding and inspiring them to many outstanding metallurgical achievements. His intimate knowledge of theoretical and practical problems in the manufacture of steel led him to an international reputation in the field.

2010 Bradley Stoughton Award Winner: Dave Wert

Dave Wert holds a B.S. in Metallurgy from Penn State University, having graduated in 1981. He has been employed in the Research and Development Lab at Carpenter Technology Corporation for the past 28 years, spending the entire time in the area of Alloy Development. He started his career working on Tool and Alloy Steels, and holds 2 patents on hot work die steels. Dave then focused on high strength/high toughness steels, and is the inventor/co-inventor on 4 patents in this area, including AerMet 100, AerMet 310, and Pyrowear 675 Stainless alloys. Returning to the tool steel area, Dave worked in the area of P/M High Speed Steels, and holds a patent for Carpenter Maxamet Alloy, a H.S.S. capable of hardness of HRC 70. For the past 8 years, he has been working in the area of Stainless Steels. Dave is currently listed as the co-inventor for 2 patent applications in this area, which include a modification to improve fatigue-resistance of Carpenter Custom 465 Stainless Alloy, and a new high strength stainless strip alloy. Also, in the past year and a half, along with his alloy development/customer service function, Dave has been devoting some of his time to getting Carpenter's new RSL (Rising Step Load) test machine installed and running.

Bradley Stoughton Award Winners