ASTM International Committee E04 on Metallography awarded the 2006 Mary R. Norton Memorial Scholarship for Women to Erin A. Boyle, a graduate student studying engineering materials at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. Her thesis is "Microstructural Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Carburized Low Alloy Steels."

Boyle is also a resident of Windsor, Ontario.

The scholarship, established in 1975, encourages female college seniors or first-year graduate students to pursue the study of physical metallurgy or materials science, with emphasis on relationship of microstructure and properties.

Boyle is a student member of ASTM International, ASM International, the Foundry Educational Foundation and the Society of Automotive Engineers. She also earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Windsor.

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