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Carol Pollack-Nelson, Ph.D., owner of Independent Safety Consulting LLC (Rockville, Maryland, USA), will serve a three-year term on the ASTM International board of directors.

Pollack-Nelson is also a human factors psychologist specializing in consumer product safety. She provides guidance to stakeholders on a wide range of product safety issues including foreseeable use and anticipated hazards.

The ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) has announced one of the industry’s first certificate programs. The course will be March 10-12 at Auburn University in Alabama (USA).

Bonnie McWade-Furtado, associate research and development scientist at Cabor Corp. (Billerica, Massachusetts, USA), will serve a three-year term on the ASTM International board of directors. 

Cabot Corp. is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company. 

McWade-Furtado has been with Cabot Corp. since 1993 when she joined the company as a research associate. She assumed her current role in 2000. 

Michael J. Brisson, technical adviser at the Savannah River National Laboratory (Aiken, South Carolina, USA), will serve a three-year term on the ASTM International board of directors.  

Savannah River National Laboratory, an applied science facility and national laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, focuses on environmental management, national and homeland security, and energy security. 

Brisson has been with Savannah River National Laboratory since 1988, having previously served as a chemist at Beecham Products. 

Francine Bovard, senior technical specialist with Arconic (New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA), will serve a three-year term on the ASTM International board of directors.  

Arconic engineers and manufacturers lightweight materials and the company’s aluminum, titanium, and nickel products are used for diverse applications worldwide. 

Bovard has been with Arconic for 28 years, having previously served as a technical specialist with Alcoa and a technician with Sandia National Laboratory. 

The ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence will host its third workshop on additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, Feb. 10, at the Union Complex at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). 

The one-day event aims to help attendees gain a comprehensive understanding of the entire process chain for additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing), including:

Today, global standards organization ASTM International and the Global Unmanned Traffic Management Association (GUTMA) signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at helping air traffic managers leverage standards to integrate drones into airspace systems worldwide.

Today, global standards organization ASTM International and TÜV SÜD, a German testing and certification organization, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop programs aimed at speeding adoption of and trust in Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. This strategic partnership supports knowledge sharing and the growing use of Additive Manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) technologies across many industry sectors.

The ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence and America Makes will jointly launch ASTM’s first Specialty Workshop Series on Additive Manufacturing Data Management and Schema on Dec. 9 in the Washington, D.C., area.

La semana pasada, Ciudad de México firmó un memorando de cooperación (MOC, por sus siglas en inglés) con el desarrollador de estándares mundiales, ASTM International. El acuerdo se encuentra específicamente enfocado en estándares reconocidos a nivel internacional y mantenidos por el comité de parques de diversión y atracciones de la organización.