Committee D11 on Rubber has honored John S. Dick, senior engineer, applications, for Alpha Technologies in Akron, Ohio, with the Committee D11 Distinguished Service Award. The committee cited Dick "For over 25 years of dedicated and distinguished service to Committee D11 in the development and maintenance of international standards for the rubber industry and for outstanding leadership on numerous subcommittees, most notably D11.45," the U.S.A. Committee for International Standards on Rubber.
An ASTM International fellow and Award of Merit recipient, Dick works on many ASTM groups, including several in Committee D11, and in Committees D20 on Plastics, D24 on Carbon Black, and F09 on Tires. He has represented the United States as a delegate to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for more than 20 years. He joined ASTM International in 1979.
Outside ASTM International, Dick is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Society of Rheology, and the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and a Certified Quality Auditor. Dick is also a representative to the Rubber Manufacturers Association and is recognized in Who's Who in America.
Dick has more than 30 years of experience in the rubber industry, first with B.F. Goodrich and then with Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. until 1991 when he joined Monsanto's Rubber Instruments Group, now Alpha Technologies, as a senior marketing technical service specialist. Dick is a rubber chemist, analyst and rheologist.
Author of more than 60 journal and magazine articles about rubber technology, he has also written four books on the topic. He received the Monsanto Master Technical Service Award in 1994, the ACS Rubber Division Best Paper Award in 1995, and Appreciation Awards from the University of Akron and the University of Wisconsin for teaching rubber compounding and testing courses.
Dick earned his bachelor's degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his master's degree from the University of Akron.
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