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Paul H. Adler SM ’81 Alfred Aho Ariya Akthakul SM ’98, PD ’03, PhD ’03 Malwina Allen ’52, SM ’53, PhD ’60 Samuel M. Allen SM ’71, PhD ’75 Carl J. Altstetter ScD ’58 Arthur H. Aronson ’58 Wubin Bai PhD ’16 Chester L. Balestra ’65, ScD ’71 Max Batres ’96 John S. Benjamin ’61, SM ’62, ScD ’65 John E. Blendell SM ’76, ScD ’79 David F. Bliss SM ’81 John B. Blum SM ’77, PhD ’79 J. Robert Booth ScD ’72 Tracy Barnum Braun ScD ’74 Bill Brids Ignatius L. Britto PhD ’82 William E. Brower, Jr. PhD ’69 Caryl B. Brown SM ’95 Paul E. Brown ’56, SM ’57, ScD ’61 Susan Ipri Brown SM ’95 Leonard J. Buckley SM ’81, PhD ’86 Kathleen A. Buontempo T. David Burleigh SM ’80, PhD ’85 Brian Bussey Daniel P. Button PhD ’83 Mayra Caceres Gary M. Carinci PhD ’89 Bonny J. Schwenke Carmicino ’86 Kathleen Cavanagh-Dobkin Anita Cham Edward S. Chang Irene Yin-Ting Chang PD ’11, PhD ’11 Jenny C. Chang Wai-Kit Chang SM ’96 Andrew Chen SM ’91, PhD ’95 Katherine C. Chen PhD ’96 Sherrie Chen Jeremy Cheng ’01 June F. Cheng ’99, SM ’00 Yet-Ming Chiang ’80, ScD ’85 Brymer H. Chin ’74 Grace Chin Patrick K. Chin ’85 David R. Chipman ’49, ScD ’55 Uma Chowdhry PhD ’76 Edison C. Chu SM ’96 Kuo Chin Chuang PhD ’65 Michael J. Cima William S. Coblenz SM ’77, PhD ’81
Ellen M. Cohen Aliki K. Collins PhD ’87 Alexandra N. Corella ’10 Elisabetta Cortesi ’87, SM ’98 Jeanne L. Courter PhD ’81 David C. Cranmer SM ’78, PhD ’81 Joan H. Cranmer SM ’81 Mary E. Cross SM ’80 Jianyi Cui PhD ’07 Brit J. d’Arbeloff SM ’61 Shannon L. Dahl ’99 Vivek R. Dave SM ’91, PhD ’95 Anna Davol Peter Davol Daniel B. Dawson SM ’67, ScD ’73 Mark R. De Guire PhD ’87 Irene R. Dhosi Robert C. Dobkin ’65 Richard Dobkowski Carl L. Dohrman PhD ’08 Mary C. Doswell SM ’82 Joseph M. Driear ScD ’80 Charles S. Dudney PhD ’78 Nancy J. Dudney PhD ’79 David C. Dunand PhD ’91 George L. Durfee ’54 Andreas T. Echtermeyer SM ’85, PhD ’88 Jonathan Mark Edward MEng ’08 John W. Elmer ScD ’88 Robert S. Feigelson SM ’61 Marc A. Finot ScD ’96 Frederick B. Fletcher ScD ’72 Jessica A. Forbess ’97, MEng ’00 Robert A. Frank ’83, SM ’85, ScD ’89 Douglas W. Fuerstenau ScD ’53 Robert J. Furlong, Jr. SM ’77 Charles J. Gasdaska SM ’78, PhD ’86 Ralph G. Gilliland PhD ’68 Emilio Giraldez Paredes PhD ’86 Stacy Holander Gleixner ’92 Daniel S. Gnanamuthu MTE ’72 Brage Golding, Jr. PhD ’66 Cuiling Gong SM ’96, PhD ’99 Robert S. Goodof ’72, SM ’73 Frank E. Goodwin SM ’76, ScD ’79 Dodd H. Grande SM ’83, PhD ’87 Martin L. Green PhD ’78 Carol Grunsfeld John M. Grunsfeld ’80 Sarah Grunsfeld ’18 Honglin Guo PhD ’98 Carol A. Handwerker ’77, SM ’78, SCD ’83
Bernardo Hasbach Perla Hasbach Lucy Hazlegrove Wilbur Hazlegrove Pui T. Ho PhD ’90 Eric Richards Homer PhD ’10 Peter Yaw-Ming Hsieh SM ’99 Lily Huang ’88, SM ’89 Philip Michael Iannaccone MEng ’99 Jeri A. Ikeda ’87, PhD ’92 Pablo Isla Shyh-Hua E. Jao SM ’88, PhD ’90 Mark H. Jhon ’01 Timothy V. Johnson ScD ’87 Janet L. Jozwiak ’82 Harold Kahn PhD ’92 Karsten August Kallevig ’99 Alexandra G. Kat PhD ’92 Theodoulos Z. Kattamis SM ’63, ScD ’65 Allan P. Katz ’69 Robert Nathan Katz ’61, PhD ’69 Bart Kavanaugh Thomas E. Kazior PhD ’82 Ashish S. Kelkar SM ’01 Bart B. Kelleher SM ’99 Joan E. Kertz SM ’01 Jack Keverian ’50, SM ’51, SCD ’54 Satbir S. Khanuja PhD ’96 Heinz Killias PhD ’64 Yong-Kil Kim PhD ’88 Linda E. Kimerling Lionel C. Kimerling ’65, PhD ’69 Christopher G. King ’82 James Klopper Gerald A. Knorovsky ScD ’77 David B. Knorr SM ’77, ScD ’81 Iwao Kohatsu PhD ’71 William Kuhlman PD ’07, PhD ’07 Kaplesh Kumar ScD ’75 Shuba Kumar SM ’96 David M. Kundrat ScD ’80 Charles R. Kurkjian ScD ’55 Melody M.H. Kuroda ’98, SM ’01 Raymond K.F. Lam ScD ’88 Thomas Andrew Langdo AF ’97, PhD ’01, MBA ’19 Amelia M. Lapena ’94 Timothy Tin-Ming Lau ScD ’09 Arthur K. Lee SM ’80, PhD ’84 Chieh-feng Lee MEng ’07 Cindy Lee Jason S. Lee ’14 Jonq-Ren Lee PhD ’95 Yin Ling Leung Hannah A. Levy ’17 Charles A. Lewinsohn ’87 Kathy Hsinjung Li ’05, MEng ’06 Qiong Li SM ’88 Yawen Li PhD ’05 Daniel J. Lichtenwalner PhD ’90 Ching-Te Lin SM ’96, PhD ’98 David D. Lin ’06 Ulf H. Lindborg ScD ’65
Jifeng Liu PD ’07, PhD ’07 Jeri A. Loynachan Ralph E. Loynachan Dennis D. Lu Michael D. Lubin ’52, PhD ’67 Charles E. Lyman PhD ’74 John P. Lynch Jr ’52 Bruce A. MacDonald SM ’61, PhD ’64 William D. MacDonald PhD ’93 Sanjeev Makan SM ’97 Kira E. Marciniak ’99 Vincent P. Martinelli ’85, SM ’86 Thomas O. Mason PhD ’77 Lawrence J. Masur SM ’82, PhD ’88 Douglas M. Matson PhD ’96 Robert L. McCormick SM ’82, PhD ’85 May Chin McGrew Michael E. McHenry PhD ’88 Kevin Patrick Meehan MBA ’01, SM ’01 Hiroshi Menjo SM ’85 Howard Messing ’73 Reid A. Mickelsen ScD ’63 Timothy John Milakovich PhD ’15 Sanjiv Mittal ScD ’83 Chuan Hui Lionel Moh PhD ’17 Francois R. Mollard SM ’60, ScD ’67 Lina Janavicius Morales ’82, SM ’84 Adele Morrissette Margaret S. Mulcahy William M. Mulcahy Henry J. Nusbaum PhD ’77 Ylva Kristina Olsson SM ’07 Solar C. Olugebefola ’99, PhD ’07 Elizabeth J. Opila PhD ’91 Robert I. Park ’87 Tae-Soon Park PhD ’02 Neil E. Paton PhD ’69 John R. Pavlish ’07 Patricia A. Powers Paul K. Predecki SM ’61, PhD ’64 Daniel T. Quillin ’89 Livia M. Racz ’89, PhD ’93 David V. Ragone ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’53 Krishna Rajan ScD ’78 Lesley N. Raven Paul A. Raven Dennis W. Readey ScD ’62 William H. Rhodes ScD ’65 Carl R. Ribaudo SM ’82 William L. Robbins PhD ’72 McDonald Robinson ScD ’67 Alan R. Rosenfield ’53, SM ’55, ScD ’59 Myrna S. Ross Shaibal Roy Martha Ruest Katherine C. Ruhl
Robert C. Ruhl PhD ’67 Joseph C. Runkle ’71, SM ’72, ScD ’78 Scott Ivan Rushfeldt MEng ’05 Anil K. Sachdev ScD ’77 Betty J. Saks Jack P. Salerno PhD ’83 Richard Samara Srikanth B. Samavedam PhD ’98 K.K. Sankaran PhD ’78 Catherine Marie Bambenek Santini PhD ’02 John T. Santini, Jr. PhD ’99 Yasushi Sawada SM ’90 Howard T. Sawhill SM ’81, PhD ’85 Martin F. Schlecht ’77, EE ’80, SM ’80, ScD ’82 Howard Schneider ’79 Arlene Schnitzer Ronald J. Selines ’70, SM ’71, ScD ’75 Catherine J. Sellmyer David J. Sellmyer Jane C. Sewell John W. Sewell Ann Shen William M. Sherry PhD ’78 James D. Shields ’71, SM ’72 Jenny A. Shmuel ’04, PhD ’09 Raj N. Singh ScD ’73 Martin W. Skelton ’08 John H. Smith ScD ’64 Marian Bamford Smith ’59 Matthew F. Smith ’58 Zoe A. Snape ’15 David B. Snow ’63, ScD ’71 Eric Sorenson SM ’95 Daniel Knight Sparacin PhD ’06 Edward S. Sproles, Jr. ScD ’76 Dean E. Stinn Terri L. Stinn Richard W. Strachan SM ’62, PhD ’67 Krista Suazo Mark Suazo Anne Symchych Joy Szekely Andrew R. Takahashi ’99, SM ’07 Peter Tarassoff ScD ’62 Edwin L. Thomas John A. Timoshenko ’64 Joshua S. Trauner ’97 Raymond T. Tung John C. Turn, Jr. PhD ’79 Nancy Hao-Jan Twu PhD ’15 Johannes M. Uys ScD ’59 Leo F.P. Van Swam SM ’70, ScD ’73 Thomas Vasilos ScD ’54 Fred Walz Hao Wang PhD ’04 Jennifer Wang ’14 Lorraine C. Wang ’97 David O. Welch SM ’62 Bruce W. Wessels PhD ’73 Thomas R. White ’69
Michaela Emilie Kurt Wiegel PhD ’03 Thomas R. Wolfe Brian S. Wolkenberg SM ’00 Lenny Wong Wai-Ling Wong Frank Woo Grace K. Woo John E. Woodilla Jr ’58, PhD ’67 Eric John Wu PhD ’02
Yuhong Wu PhD ’03 Thomas A. Yager PhD ’80 Man F. Yan ’70, ScD ’76 Keelan K. Yang ’94, MBA ’02 Guhua Yao MEng ’06 James Andrew Yurko PhD ’01 Nicole S. Zacharia ’01, PhD ’07 Jiuhong Zha Weixian Zhong MEng ’10 Michael C. Zody ’90, SM ’94
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For the Love of Metallurgy: An Appreciation of Stu Uram, 1934–2019 Originally from Pennsylvania, Stu Uram, ’56,
to buy a machine, and you needed to hire three
Sc.D. ’59 had never heard of MIT before the dean
engineers to run it because there was no
of his high school noticed his aptitude for the
software. When I retired, you could buy one for
sciences and recommended that he consider
less than $1,000. I ran out and bought a 3D
applying. “Dean Adams was a great influence on
printer, and I started in the corner in the kitchen
my life, and he said, ‘MIT is the place for you’.”
making 3D prints of turbine plates.” A lifelong
The Department of Materials Science and
inventor, Stu’s recent ventures focused on
Engineering is grateful to this early mentor for
creating 3D-printed molds for industrial
steering Stu toward MIT, as we mourn the end of more than six decades of friendship with him. Stu discovered an early love for metallurgy at MIT, where he was deeply influenced by Professor Howard Taylor. He continued on to do his doctoral work following a summer of work at the American Brake Shoe Company, where he met a young Merton Flemings ’51, ScD ’54. “We became friends that summer, and then at the end of the summer I went back to MIT to do graduate work, and Mert was offered the job as
Stu Uram, Mert Flemings, and Chris Schuh
the assistant professor.” Stu became Mert’s first advisee, working on directional solidification in
ceramics. “I tell people I have to figure out what
ingots. This work propelled him into the casting
I'm going to do when I grow up.”
industry, which led to the aircraft turbine industry. Ultimately Stu founded Certech, which
DMSE and MIT are grateful to Stu for his many
manufactured ceramic cooling cores for Boeing
years of generous support, including the
747 engines with factories in New Jersey,
creation of an endowed fellowship ,an endowed
Pennsylvania, and England.
scholarship, and support for the renovated forge and foundry named in honor of his
Following the sale of Certech and his retirement,
longtime friend Merton Flemings. “MIT changed
Stu found time to pursue another area of
my life. It gave me the opportunity to meet
interest: 3D printing. He had seen early versions
someone like Mert Flemings, without whom I
of the technology in the 1980s and become
might never have started a technical business or
interested: “In those days, you needed $100,000
gone into the foundries.”
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