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MEMBER RECOGNITION

Outstanding Young Member Award

Since 1973, the Lehigh Valley Chapter of ASM has given an "Outstanding Young Member Award" to the most qualified young member in the chapter. To be qualified for the award, the outstanding young member must be 35 years of age or younger on January 1 of the year awarded, promote the field of materials in some manner, and provide service to the chapter through involvement in activities. Please contact Dr. Wojciech Misiolek with any nominees for this award or feel free to fill out the nomination form at the following link:

Nomination Form

Lehigh Valley Chapter of ASM
2009 Outstanding Young Member Tom Nizolek

Tom is a Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate student at Lehigh University. He is a highly accomplished and driven student and is a Dean’s Scholar, PC Rossin Junior Fellow and a member of the ASM Lehigh Valley Chapter Executive Board. Since Freshman year, he has worked on several research projects at Lehigh. He is the winner of the prestigious Jacquet-Lucas Award (2008) for his paper— “Metallography of a modern pattern-welded steel knife blade”, published in AM&P Magazine in Feb 2009. He is the first solo-undergraduate student to ever win this honor. He has been fabricating knives with blades made of pattern-welded steel for the past several years. Tom and his team also won The George Kehl Plaque for their poster titled—“A Metallographic Investigation of a Bi-metallic Diesel Exhaust Valve”. He has also served as the Lehigh Valley Chapter’s Young Member chair for the last two years and has done an excellent job recruiting students for Materials Advantage while at Lehigh.

Outstanding Young Member Award Winners