Monday, May 11th, 2009
National Officers Night & Awards Night
Technical Chair: Sunniva Collins
5:45 Social Hour
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Presentation: Maritime Archaeology—Preserving the CSS H.L. Hunley
Jon D. Tirpak – Executive Director, Advanced Technology Institute (ATI)
Jon D. Tirpak, ASM Trustee, FASM, is executive director, program manager, and principal investigator at the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI). Prior to his 12 years at ATI, he was the net shape program manager for the corporate technology laboratory at Aeroquip Corp. (1993-96) and program manager at Universal Technology Corp. (1989-93). He served with the U.S. Air Force from 1982-88, and for two years was a program manager for the USAF Ballistic Missile Office. During his tenure as chairman of the ASM Federal Affairs Committee, Tirpak worked to ensure that the committee's activities were aligned with the ASM Strategic Plan. Through his efforts with the American Metalcasting Consortium and Forging Industry Association’s Department of Defense Manufacturing Consortium (FDMC), he has worked to balance the need for modernizing older, workhorse industries while promoting the development of emerging technologies and the materials that make them possible. Tirpak has also served as program manager for the Defense Logistics Agency's PROFAST (Procurement Readiness Optimization - Forging Advanced Systems Technologies) Program and On-Demand Manufacturing Program, and the U.S. Army's Vanadium Technology Program. He is presently the Forging Advanced Systems Technologies (FAST) Program Manager.
An ASM Fellow, Tirpak received his bachelor's in metallurgical engineering from Lafayette College and his master's in materials engineering from the University of Dayton. He is a member of the ASM New Products & Services and Events Committees, and has served as secretary of the ASM Dayton Chapter. Beyond ATI and ASM International he does what his children and wife, Angie, do!
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