Awards, Scholarship & Sustaining Members

Materials Camp is weeklong academic camp for highly motivated inquisitive students, with math and science aptitude, entering their junior or senior year in high school. The students are organized into small groups and teamed with a Volunteer Faculty "Materials Mentor" who works with them throughout the week. A variety of experiments and lab activities such as metallography, mechanical testing, light microscopy, fractography, scanning electron microscopy, image analysis, and chemical analysis are used. ASM Hartford has sponsored participants each year since the inception of the camp in 2000. Each endowed scholarship provides in perpetuity the funds needed to send one student to Materials Camp each year. Our fifth sponsored student will attend the 2004 Eisenman Materials Camp in Materials Park , OH on August 9-15, 2004 . Greg and his parents will be our guests at this meeting. We will review the video from the 2002 Materials Camp.

The 2004 Arthur E. Focke LeaderShape Award sponsors six ASM student members each year to attend the LeaderShape Institute. Student leaders are offered a unique way to meet the changing needs of a diverse world and to develop skills that will benefit them personally and will be valuable to the companies and industries in which they will work. Through the encouragement of ASM Hartford, Juan Villegas, President of the UConn ASM/TMS Student Chapter, applied for and was chosen to attend the LeaderShape Institute this summer.

The 2004 ASM Hartford Scholarship was awarded to Brandon Berke at the UConn School of Engineering Awards Banquet on April 19, 2004 . The Chapter Scholarship goes to an undergraduate who is enrolled in the Department of Metallurgy & Materials Engineering, nominated by the faculty and selected by our Executive Committee. Brandon and his parents will be our guests.

Sustaining members are a critical part of the success of ASM-Hartford. They provide both a continued core presence at Chapter activities, and an increased level of financial support. In return, they enjoy the goodwill and camaraderie, and the satisfaction of helping to educate young materials scientists. We honor our sustaining members by having their representative as our guest. Five Sustaining Members mark their 5 or 15 year Awards milestones this year.

Individual members are, and always will be, the strength of ASM Hartford. ASM has existed to provide a means for exchanging information and professional interaction. Today, our role has expanded to serve the technical interests of metals and materials professionals all over the world with providing information and interaction remaining as our main purpose. This is why we’d like to hear your thoughts about the future of ASM – what we can do better in terms of chapter member services, what new aspects of our profession we should spotlight and how we should present the rewards of a materials engineering career to the next generation of young engineers. Each year on Awards Night, we recognize those members, who mark their 5, 15, 25 and Lifetime Awards during the year with a small token in celebration of these milestones.