SOCIETYNEWS AWS Elects National and District Officers for 2013 Thomas J. Lienert director-at-large WELDING JOURNAL 73 David J. Landon vice president David L. McQuaid vice president Robert G. Pali treasurer Nancy C. Cole president Dean R. Wilson vice president Sean P. Moran director-at-large The American Welding Society elected its incoming slate of national and District officers Nov. 12 in Las Vegas, Nev., during FABTECH. The officers take their posts on Jan. 1, 2013. Nancy C. Cole was elected president. An AWS Fellow and Life Member, she has served three terms as a vice president. Before forming her own company, she was program manager and contract manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. At ABB Combustion Engineering, she developed welding electrodes, fluxes, and flux cored wires, where she was awarded three patents. Cole served as chair of the AWS Technical Activities, Fellows, and C3 Brazing and Soldering Committees. She has received the AWS Honorary Member, Dr. René Wasserman, and McKay-Helm Awards. Dean R. Wilson was elected to a third term as a vice president. Wilson is president of Well-Dean Enterprises, a company related to health, safety, and welding products and industry consulting. Earlier, he was director of welding business development at Jackson Safety Products, and served as president/owner of Wilson Industries from 1987 to 2007. He has worked on numerous AWS standing committees, including WEMCO (An Association of Welding Manufacturers) where he served as chair in 2005. David J. Landon was elected to serve a second term as a vice president. Since 1992, he has worked as manager of welding engineering and missions support at Vermeer Mfg. Co. and is an AWS Senior Certified Welding Inspector. Previously, he operated Landon’s Welding Services performing failure analyses, inspections, and welder training. Earlier, he worked as a welding engineer for Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. He has served on many AWS technical committees and as a Delegate to the IIW Commission XIV, Welding Education and Training. David L. McQuaid was elected to his first term as a vice president. Currently, he heads D. L. McQuaid and Associates, Inc., which he founded in 1999. He has chaired the AWS D1 Structural Welding and the Technical Activities Committees. At American Bridge Div. of U.S. Steel Corp., he served as senior welding engineer and corporate engineer. In 2009, he received the American National Standards Institute Finegan Standards Medal for his outstanding contributions to industrial standards. Robert G. Pali was reelected treasurer. He is vice president, secretary, and COO of J. P. Nissen Co. Pali is currently vice chair of the AWS Finance Committee and a member of the AWS Publications, Expositions, and Marketing Committees. He has served on the WEMCO (An Association of Welding Manufacturers) executive board, National Nominating Committee, and numerous subcommittees and presidential task forces. From 1965 to 1978, he worked for Bethlehem Steel Corp. in analytical chemistry and plant operations research. In 2006, he received the AWS National Meritorious Award. Thomas J. Lienert was elected to serve as a director-at-large. He is a Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) and a technical staff member, Materials Science Technology Div., at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Lienert is a Principal Reviewer and member of the AWS Technical Papers Committee, and chairs the AWS Welding Handbook chapters on Friction Stir Welding and Stainless and Heat-Resisting Steels, and is on the C6 Committee on Friction Welding and the AWS Higher Education Committee. Lienert is also vice chair of the Education Committee, and serves on the Technical Activities Committee. Sean P. Moran has been elected to serve as a director-atlarge. He is a welding engineer at Weir American Hydro in York, Pa. Earlier, he served as a business development manager and a welding engineer at Hobart Brothers Co., an ITW company. He has worked ten years as a welding instructor in both public and private institutions, is a Certified Welding Inspector, Certified Welding Educator, and Certified Welding Supervisor. Moran is a vice chair of the Education Scholarship Committee and the Volume 3 Handbook Committee, is chair of the Product Development, and a member of the D1 Committees.
Welding Journal | January 2013
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