IFI Honors Meade, Raymond & Tudor With Soaring Eagle Awards
IFI Honors Meade, Raymond & Tudor With Soaring Eagle Awards
John Wolz
The Industrial Fasteners Institute presented its fourth Soaring Eagles Awards to Patrick Meade, Dr. Louis Raymond and William Tudor.
Meade, the former CEO of High-Shear Aerospace Fasteners, was given the Ward Leadership Award for “resolution of issues facing the aerospace fastener manufacturing industry as well as unending support” the IFI’s aerospace division.
Raymond was given the Trowbridge Technology Award for advancement of fastener application engineering. Raymond was honored for “significant contributions toward the understanding of hydrogen embrittlement, through years of research into accelerated methods for measuring threshold stress and the development of the incremental step load technique as a practical means for quantifying and controlling hydrogen embrittlement in fasteners.”
Tudor, of General Motors, received the Case Meritorious Service Award for “lasting support related to the importance of automotive fastener application engineering as well as technical leadership” as a member of the Fastener Advisory Committee for the U.S. Fastener Quality Act.
The Soaring Eagles selection committee seeks nominations from the industry. Committee members this year were: chair Jennifer Johns Friel, Tony Tumbarello, Mike Lawler, Jim VanIngen and Ed Koneczny. Web: industrial-fasteners.org �2006 FastenerNews.com
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