SOCIETYNEWS BY HOWARD WOODWARD woodward@aws.org AWS Elects National and District Officers for 2014 WELDING JOURNAL 75 David J. Landon vice president David L. McQuaid vice president W. Richard Polanin director-at-large John Bray vice president Dean R. Wilson president The American Welding Society has elected its incoming slate of national and District officers, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Dean R. Wilson was elected president. He is president of Welldean Enterprises, a provider of health, safety, and welding products and industry consulting. Earlier, he was director of welding business development at Jackson Safety Products and president of Wilson Industries from 1987 to 2007. He has worked on numerous AWS standing committees, including WEMCO, An Association of Welding Equipment Manufacturers, where he served as chair in 2005. David J. Landon was elected to a third 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 and 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 second term as a vice president. He heads D. L. McQuaid and Associates, Inc., which he founded in 1999. He has chaired the 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 many contributions to industrial standards. John Bray was elected to serve his first term as a vice president. A past chair of the Houston Section, he most recently served as Dist. 18 director. Bray is with Affiliated Machinery, Inc., in Pearland, Tex., where he has served as president for the past 18 years. W. Richard Polanin, a recent Dist. 13 director, was elected to serve as a director-at-large. Polanin is a professor and program chair of Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Illinois Central College and president of WRP Associates. He is an AWS Certified Welding Inspector, Welder, and Welding Educator, and is a SME Certified Manufacturing Engineer. He has served as chair of the Peoria Section, and a member of the AWS D16 Committee on Automated and Robotic Welding, and AWS Robotic Technician Certification Committee. Robert Roth, president and CEO of RoMan Mfg., Inc., was elected to serve as a director-atlarge. Roth serves on the Finance Committee, is a past chair of WEMCO (An Association of Welding Equipment Manufacturers), and serves on a number of RWMA (Resistance Welding Manufacturing Alliance) subcommittees. Harland Thompson was elected to serve a second term as Dist. 2 director. Thompson is senior project engineer and welding supervisor for Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Inc., in Melville, N.Y. Prior to joining UL in 2006, he worked in engineering and quality assurance positions at Belle Transit Div., the Long Island Railroad, Thompson Transit Services, Ronkonkoma, N.Y.; and LTK Engineering Services. Carl Matricardi was elected to continue serving as Dist. 5 director. He is founder and president of Welding Solutions, Inc., in Lawrenceville, Ga. In the welding industry for 38 years, he is an AWS Certified Welding Inspector and Welding Educator, and vice chair of the Atlanta Section. Matricardi worked as a shipyard welder before earning his master’s degree in education. He has taught welding and manufacturing processes in colleges and state universities, and served as an expert witness. D. Joshua Burgess was elected Dist. 8 director. He has Robert Roth director-at-large Harland Thompson Dist. 2 director Carl Matricardi Dist. 5 director
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