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TMS to Install Hydro Aluminum’s Wolfgang Schneider as 2012 President
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Patti Dobranski
Communication Specialist
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Telephone: 800-759-4867, ext. 218 (U.S. and Canada only)
Direct: 724-814-3122
pdobranski@tms.org
TMS to Install Hydro Aluminum’s Wolfgang Schneider as 2012 President
January 4, 2012 – Warrendale, PA (USA) – The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) will install aluminum researcher, industrialist, and professor Wolfgang Schneider as the 56th president during the TMS 2012 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando, Florida March 11-15, 2012. He is currently serving as vice president of TMS and has been a member of the Society for 18 years.
Schneider is the head of the research and development center of Hydro Aluminum Rolled Products Business in Bonn, Germany and is also a professor of metallurgy at the Technical University of Berlin. He said he looks forward to increasing the society’s focus on innovation and continuing education as the 2012 TMS president.
“I am proud to serve the society in this position as an international member,” he said.
Schneider received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in foundry technology, as well as his doctorate in metallurgy, from the Technical University of Berlin. He has published more than 140 technical papers and is named as an inventor in nine patents.
As a member of the Society, Schneider served as chair of the TMS Light Metals Division from 2007-2010 and on the TMS Board of Directors from 2003 to 2006 in the membership development area.
He has also volunteered in various other capacities for TMS since 1997. His service included: Cast Shop Technology Symposium subject chair, Aluminum Committee chair, Strategic Advisory Committee member, and Nominating Committee member.
Schneider has also received several Society awards, including the TMS Light Metals Award in both 1990 and 1995.
He was also an active in a number of other societies, such as the German Society of Material Science DGM and the German Foundrymen Society VDG.
About TMS
TMS is the professional organization encompassing the entire range of materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. Included among its professional and student members are metallurgical and materials engineers, scientists, researchers, educators and administrators from more than 70 countries on six continents. For more information on TMS, visit our Web site at: http://www.tms.org
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