IFHTSE Medal   |   IFHTSE Fellowship   |   IFHTSE Young Author Award

IFHTSE Medal

The Award

The IFHTSE Medal is awarded for distinguished achievement. It is made possible by the support of SC Plasmaterm SA, Romania.

Awards to date:

This first award of the Medal recognised a wide and multidisciplinary range of globally visible contributions, over more than 30 years, to heat treatment and surface engineering.

Bell has influenced progress from the viewpoints of materials science, materials engineering, design engineering, tribology, economics, and environmentally benign process development.

He was one of the originators of the concept and term ‘surface engineering’ and remains one of its foremost promoters. In academic life his effective teaching has produced graduates now contributing to progress in this field in many countries.

In addition to his contributions to IFHTSE over many years, particularly as a member of its Executive Committee, Bell was twice President – for 1983-1984 and for 2000-2001. He was appointed Fellow of IFHTSE in 2003.
 

Primarily, the award recognised the enormous contribution made by Wyss to international communication and collaboration through his seminal work as the Secretary of IFHTSE from its foundation in 1971-72 until 1988. In that period, and especially in the early days, his dedication, charm and easy ability in German, French and English ensured a successful launch for the Federation. He wrote the constitution, inspired the early meetings, encouraged his collaborators and fostered fruitful East-West relations. Without him, it is unlikely that the venture would have been so fruitful.

Wyss combined his organisational and administrative skills with a successful materials engineering career in industry. Originally graduating in chemistry before he was 20, he began work in 1939 at Von Roll-Stahlwerke, Gerlafingen, where he concentrated on steel hardenability and hardenability testing. In 1952 he moved to Maag Zahnräder AG, Zürich. As manager of the metallurgical laboratory and heat treatment workshop, he led the development of the Eintropfverfahren technology (a drip-feed method using liquid hydrocarbons). Known commercially as the Carbomaag Process it brought him many international patents. Significant publications resulted from his industrial work and he was a frequent contributor to AWT’s Wiesbaden Härterei-Kolloquium and other conferences.

In 1982, AWT awarded him the Adolf Martens medal. He was President of the Swiss Society for Heat Treatment in 1953, when he was only 30, and was appointed Honorary President in 1972. He is also an Honorary Member of the Association Technique de Traitement Thermique (ATTT), France. He is Honorary President of IFHTSE.
 

George Krauss’ contributions to education and research in the metallurgical and materials engineering community are extensive and significant at all levels. Foremost, he is a teacher’s teacher, committed to educating new metallurgical engineers and the continuing updating of practising engineers. In addition to the numerous students he has influenced over the years, his teaching accomplishments are most obvious in his classic textbook ‘Steels – processing, structure, and performance’. This text, along with his numerous other publications, has formed the basis of many courses. His educational efforts have been recognised in many teaching awards, including the Albert Easton White Award from ASM in 1999.

His vision for the steel industry led to the development of the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center in 1984, an industry/university cooperative that continues today as the most successful programme of its kind in the world. Research in the centre emphasises heat treating and surface processing of steels.

His research on steels is extensive. Of particular note is his work on the relationship between microstructure and properties of low-temperature tempered high-carbon steels. This research refined the understanding of the fracture behaviour of martensitic steels, critical to the understanding of the fracture behaviour of carburised steels. The research also led to new alloying and process methods that have been adopted globally. His achievements have been recognised in several awards, including the Adolf Martens Medal for 1990 and the Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture Award from ASM in 2000. He is a Fellow of ASM, a Distinguished Member of the Iron and Steel Society of AIME, and an Honorary Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan. He has contributed significantly to professional associations in the metals and heat treating industries, most notably as President 1989-90 of the International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering, of which he is a Fellow, and as President of ASM International.

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IFHTSE Fellowship

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.

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 filed of ion 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

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IFHTSE Young Author Award

Objective

Conditions and eligibility

• This Award is made for a paper presented in a main oral session of an IFHTSE Congress.
• Eligible papers must be presented in person by the candidate author.
• In the case of a paper with multiple authorship, therefore, an author who is a candidate for the Award must be the author named in the programme as the presenter (but who need not necessarily the first-named author of the paper) who also satisfies the age criterion.
• By 'young' or 'younger' is to be understood an author aged 35 or less at the time of acceptance of the paper in the programme by the Congress organising committee

Benefits for the winner

• Free registration
• Cash assistance with travel and accommodation costs (subject to the availability of funding)

Procedure

The criteria recommended for use in judging and assessing are:

• Scientific and technical merit
• Standard of presentation (making due allowance for the fact that the paper may not be presented in the author's native language)
• A suitable balance of science and technology (or 'good science in technological development')
• Novelty of scientific approach or novelty of process treatment

Awards made to date are:

Awards made to date are:

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