The Award

IFHTSE Fellowship recognises individuals who have made outstanding, globally recognised and significant contributions to the development of heat treatment or surface engineering. The citations are characterised by brevity, since these honoured individuals are well known globally in the field. Fellow presentation plaques are kindly provided by Houghton International.

Fellows

2002 appointments

• Dr Bernd Edenhofer, Ipsen Industries International GmbH, Germany

  In recognition of invaluable contributions over 30 years to the fundamentals and practice of thermochemical heat treatment technologies

• Dr Kiyoshi Funatani, IMST Inst, Japan

  In recognition of the industrialisation of diverse surface engineering technologies in the automotive sector

   

   

• Professor George Krauss, Colorado School of Mines, USA

  In recognition of a lifetime contribution to the carburising of steels

• Academician Lei Tingquan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

  In recognition of outstanding fundamental contributions to the microstructure and properties of steels

   

   

   

• Dr T S Sudarshan, Materials Modification Inc, USA

  In recognition of the global communication of surface engineering as an emerging interdisciplinary subject

2003 appointment

• Professor Tom Bell, University of Birmingham, UK

  In recognition of his unique combination of crucial contributions to progress in heat treatment and, over the last twenty years, his central role in the foundation, growth, and global understanding of surface engineering as a family of concepts and processes of increasing scientific, industrial, and economic significance.

   

2004 appointment

• Academician XU Binshi, CMES Surface Engineering Research Institute, China

  In recognition of the exceptional foresight demonstrated by his early recognition of the critical importance of surface engineering in what has proved to be the spectacular industrial and economic development of China.

2005 appointment

• Dr George Totten, Totten Associates, USA

  In recognition of his extensive contribution, over many years, to the global spread of knowledge of heat treatment process development especially in the field of quenching, to the understanding of process chemistry, and recently to the better and more widespread use of modelling and simulation.

   

2006 appointments

• Prof. Sabine Denis, Ecole des Mines Nancy, France

  In recognition of globally acknowledged leadership in the development of mathematical modelling principles and practices and their application to the benefit and advancement of heat treatment and surface engineering science and technology.

   

• Prof. Tatsuo Inoue, Kyoto University, Japan

  In recognition of globally acknowledged leadership in the development of mathematical modelling principles and practices and their application to the benefit and advancement of heat treatment and surface engineering science and technology.

   

• Prof. Tamás Réti, University, Györ, Hungary

  In recognition of globally acknowledged leadership in the development of mathematical modelling principles and practices and their application to the benefit and advancement of heat treatment and surface engineering science and technology

   

   

2007 appointments

• Prof Peter Mayr, formerly IWT Bremen, Germany

  In recognition of a wide range of research and development contributions to many aspects of heat treatment, most notably in the study of distortion

• Dr Zoltán Kolozsváry, SC Plasmaterm SA, Targu Mures, Romania

  In recognition both of globally acknowledged industrial-scale practice in the field of plasma nitriding, and of his enormous contributions to the heat treatment and surface engineering community manifest in his presidency of IFHTSE for 1998-99 and his dedicated, successful and long-term service as its Treasurer

   

2008 appointments

• Prof Johann Grosch, TU Berlin, Germany

  In recognition of the impact made by his seminal research and teaching in the vitally important fields of material strength and thermochemical processes, and by his many contributions to publishing and conference activity in those fields

• Academician PAN Jiansheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  In recognition of long-term contributions to, and encouragement of, the study and dissemination of modelling and simulation in heat treatment and surface engineering

   

   

2009 appointments

• Prof FAN Dongli, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, China 
  In recognition of long-term dedication to research on, and application of, energy-saving and environmentally benign heat treatment technology, as well as his role in promoting the present high visibility of the Chinese contribution to the heat treatment community globally

 

• Prof Michiharu Narazaki, Utsunomiya University, Japan 
  In recognition of his leadership in, and his own immense contribution to, the international development of knowledge, standards, procedures and modelling in the field of quenching, cooling, transformations, quench distortion and residual stress; he was also one of the first to use acoustic analysis to study boiling phenomena

 

• Prof Heinz-Joachim Spies, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany 
  In recognition of his outstanding contributions to education and research in heat treatment and surface science and technology generally, and in particular to answering the consequent demands placed on materials development

2010 appointments

• Prof Cemil Hakan Gür, Middle East Tech University, Ankara, Turkey 
  In recognition of his dedicated and tireless work in ensuring the coordination and completion of the multinational work enshrined in the publication ‘Handbook of thermal process modelling of steels’, already recognised as a milestone in its field

•  Prof Lauralice Canale, EESC-USP, São Carlos SP, Brazil 
  In recognition of the key role she has played over many years in ensuring the global visibility of work in heat treatment and surface engineering in Latin America in general and in Brazil in particular