Apr 01, 2005

The inaugural Founding Committee Award of ASTM International Committee A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys has been given to consultant Albert S. Melilli, of Winchester, Mass., and to Andrew Van Echo, of Potomac, Md.

The award, the most prestigious presented by A01, has been conferred on Melilli and Van Echo "in recognition of the highest level of leadership and exemplary contributions to ASTM's Founding Committee in the development and promotion of voluntary consensus standards."

Melilli, an ASTM International fellow, Award of Merit winner, and Society member since 1971, works on many A01 subcommittees as well as Committee B02 on Nonferrous Metals and Alloys. A user vice-chair of the main committee, Melilli is currently the technical contact for a number of steel specifications and test methods in the standards development process. In addition, he has served as an editor for the Special Technical Publication resulting from an A01 symposia.

A graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo., with a metallurgical engineering degree, Melilli has concentrated on the selection, application, development and properties of materials and processes. Before beginning his consultancy, Melilli worked as manager of materials and process engineering for General Electric and then as a laboratory manager for Raytheon.

Outside ASTM International, Melilli is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, the American Bureau of Ships, and the American Society for Metals International.

Van Echo, retired from his position of senior scientist and metallurgical engineering at the U.S. Department of Energy (formerly the Atomic Energy Commission--Energy Research and Development Administration) in Washington, D.C., has been an ASTM International member since 1946. He is an ASTM fellow, and has been honored with a 1973 Award of Merit, a 1975 Honorary Member Award, and a 1980 Committee Merit Award. Van Echo has served as deputy chair and chair of A01 as well as chair of the former Committee A10 on Iron-Chromium, Iron-Chromium-Nickel, Stainless Steel, and Related Alloys, which is now part of A01. Van Echo is a lifetime member of ASTM International and a lifetime member of the American Society for Metals International; he is also a past member of other committees and subcommittees, and a number of other technical societies.

Van Echo earned his B.Sc. degree in metallurgical engineering from Ohio State University. While a student, he gained professional experience at the Battelle Memorial Institute, then later at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., the University of Chicago (the Manhattan Projectthe nuclear atomic project), and Joslyn Stainless Steels, before joining Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), now the U.S. Department of Energy. He assumed his position with the AEC in 1963.

Throughout his career, Van Echo concentrated on nuclear materials for defense applications and energy use; steel materials, including stainless steels, related alloys, and carbon alloy steels; and nonferrous materials, including tungsten, vanadium, zirconium, molybdenum, and aluminum alloys.

 

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