Jan 08, 2015

Jun Sasaki, Ph.D., general manager of the Control Research Laboratory at the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) in Futtsu, Japan, has been named a director on the ASTM International board for a three-year term.

An ASTM member since 2005, Sasaki currently serves as producer vice chairman of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys, where he also is a member of several A01 subcommittees. In addition, he is a member of Committee A05 on Metallic-Coated Iron and Steel Products and its subcommittee on sheet specifications.

The world’s leading integrated steel producer, NSSMC manufactures a wide variety of steel products. As general manager of the Control Research Laboratory, his position since 2012, Sasaki leads corporate research on control technologies and represents his company in executive subcommittee activities of ASTM Committee A01. He previously had been general manager of the Control and Instruments Research and Development Division and senior manager for the Research and Development Planning Division for Nippon Steel. He also held positions with Nippon Steel USA Inc., the U.S. subsidiary in New York, New York, as vice president of technologies.

The principal author of several scientific journal papers, Sasaki holds three patents. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Keio University in Kanagawa, Japan, and his doctorate in mechanical engineering from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. While a master’s degree student, Sasaki was a visiting research student at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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