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Dennis M. Dimiduk TMS Director/Chair, Structural Materials Division

Dennis M. Dimiduk is a laboratory fellow and principal materials research engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. He joined the Metals, Ceramics & Nondestructive Evaluation Division in 1977 as a student, beginning his career in structural materials research and engineering.

Throughout the early 1980s, Dimiduk performed research on alloy development, phase transformations, and strengthening mechanisms in high-temperature superalloys. Dimiduk and his colleagues performed work on titanium aluminides and refractory intermetallics that opened an approach toward surpassing the use temperatures and realizing weight reductions relative to the nickelbased alloys in advanced engines in the 1990s. Dimiduk received a B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Wright State University in 1980 and completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 and 1989, respectively, while working for the Air Force.

For the past two decades, Dimiduk has led an internationally recognized team investigating advanced metals and simulation methods. He has authored or co-authored more than 170 technical papers and has 13 patents. Dimiduk is a member of the editorial board for Intermetallics and is an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University. Dimiduk received the AFSC Waterman Award for Science in 1991, the Charles J. Cleary Award for scientific achievement in 2004, and five “Star Team” awards from the Air Force Office of Science Research. He was elected a Fellow of ASM International in 1997 and Fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory in 1998. He received the Carnegie Mellon University Alumni Achievement Award in 2008.

Dimiduk has been a TMS member since 1995. He has served on the High Temperature Alloys and Titanium committees and has organized numerous symposia. From 2001–2004, he was a Structural Materials Division (SMD) representative on the Programming Committee and continues as a member-at-large. He worked to establish the Advanced Characterization and Testing Committee in 2005 and is a member of that committee. In addition, Dimiduk served as a TMS representative to the MS&T Joint Programming Committee. He is Vice Chair of SMD and serves on numerous award committees.