PERSONNEL — continued from page 96 Caterpillar Names Project Manager Caterpillar, Inc., has assigned Jacob Shorey to Sosnowiec, Poland, to serve as project manager for the expansion of a heavy fabrications and welding factory. Shorey, an AWS member, was hired into Caterpillar’s Jacob Shorey Manufacturing Professional Development program in 2006 as its first welding engineering technology graduate. Prior to this assignment, he has held several roles and assignments in welding engineering and manufacturing. ABB Appoints Executive Committee Member ABB, Zurich, Switzerland, a power and automation technology group, has appointed Greg Scheu as an executive committee member responsible for the group’s acquisition integration efforts and to take over responsibility for the North American business portfolio. Enrique Santacana, currently country manager in the United States and regional manager in both the North and South America regions, will focus on growth in South America. Obituary James H. Walker James H. Walker, 86, AWS president 1986–1987, died Nov. 21 in the San Antonio, Tex., area. He served in both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force with active duty in Iwo Jima. Following discharge from service, he received his degree in metallurgy from Oklahoma State University. He worked at Brown and Root, Livingston Shipyard, Ingalls Shipyard, and J. Ray Mc- Dermott where he traveled many James Walker times to Russia to consult on pipeline welding projects. He also served as an account executive with Miller Electric Mfg. Co., in Houston, Tex. 98 JANUARY 2014 WeiJie Zhang WeiJie Zhang has received the prestigeous IIW Henry Granjon Prize in Category D, Human-Related Topics, in recognition for his paper, Modeling of Human Welder Behavior. Zhang received his master’s degree in electrical engineering/control from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2007, then joined the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 2008 as a research assistant and PhD candidate in the Welding Research L aboratory. His research interests include sensors, arc welding processes, and system identification and control. He has published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed publications including the Welding Journal, Measurement Science and Technology, and Manufacturing Science and Engineering Transactions of ASME. Five of his papers studying human behavior during welding operations have been published in the Welding Journal Rese ar ch Sup - plement. The paper he submitted at 2012 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics was ranked in the top ten of more than 300 papers submitted. His biography as a promising welding researcher was featured in the May 2012 Welding Journal. Damian J. Kotecki Damian J. Kotecki, AWS president 2005–2006, has received the International Institute of Welding Yoshiaki Arata Award. This lifetime achievement award “is presented to a person who has made extraordinary achievements in fundamental research in welding science and technology and its allied processes, which have been recognized as significant contributions to the progress of welding engineering and related fields.” The award, sponsored by the Japanese Delegation to the IIW, has been presented annually since 1994 to pay tribute to the career of Prof. Dr. Yoshiaki Arata who devoted years to the development of ultrahigh energy density heat sources and their applications to welding, cutting, and other thermal materials processing. WeiJie Zhang Member Milestones Damian Kotecki
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