ASTM International Committee B10 on Reactive and Refractory Metals and Alloys has honored Anand Garde, Ph.D., consulting engineer at Westinghouse Electric Co., Hopkins, South Carolina, with the Award of Merit and title of fellow.

The Award of Merit is ASTM’s highest organizational recognition for individual contributions to standards activities. Committee B10 recognized Garde for his outstanding committee leadership as a past chairman as well as his dedication to the promotion of the committee through standards development and symposia events.

As chairman of the B10 Symposium Subcommittee, Garde organized and chaired two ASTM symposia on Zirconium Use in the Nuclear Industry, which were held in China and India. An ASTM member since 1986, he has received several other awards from B10, including the John H. Schemel Best Paper Award at the 1998 Zirconium Symposium, and three Awards of Appreciation for his overall symposium contributions as chair and organizer. Garde is also a member of Committee G01 on Corrosion of Metals.

Garde is a zirconium metallurgist with 40 years of industrial experience in nuclear materials. He has been a consulting engineer at Westinghouse since 2000. Prior to that, he held various principal and engineering roles during a 23-year tenure at Combustion Engineering (later ABB Inc.) in Windsor, Connecticut. During that period he was also an adjunct faculty member at the Hartford, Connecticut, branch of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he taught several graduate-level mechanical and materials engineering courses.

Outside ASTM, Garde is a member of ASM International, the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and TMS, the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. He holds a B.Tech. in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, an M.S. in metallurgical engineering from Syracuse University, and earned his Ph.D. in material science from the University of Florida. Garde is the author of more than 70 technical publications and holds ten patents.

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