Stephen P. Gaydos, associate technical fellow with The Boeing Company - St. Louis, Mo., has been elected chairman of ASTM Committee F07 on Aerospace and Aircraft, which includes approximately 125 members responsible for 47 standards published in the Annual Book of ASTM Standards.

Gaydos lives in St. Louis, Mo.

In addition to leading F07, Gaydos is chair of Subcommittee F07.04 on Hydrogen Embrittlement. Gaydos also works on ASTM Committee G01 on Corrosion of Metals and the Joint ASTM/NACE Committee on Corrosion. He joined ASTM International in 1997.

As a material and process engineer for Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems Division, Gaydos evaluates and specifies surface treatments for metals to improve the corrosion resistance of military aerospace vehicles. He works on environmentally friendly surface treatment alternatives to those containing cadmium and chromium, and he investigates improved tests to measure corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement of metals for aerospace applications.

Before joining the Boeing staff, Gaydos held positions as a metallurgist with Consolidated Aluminum and as a chemist with Petrolite. He graduated from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, with a bachelor of science in chemistry, and from the University of Missouri, Rolla, with a master of science in metallurgical engineering.

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