W. James Bover

W. Brian JamesHoeganaes Corporation, Riverton, NJ 08077
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James, W.B., "Recent Developments in Ferrous Powder Metallurgy Alloys", International Journal of Powder Metallurgy, Vol.30, No. 2, 1994, p. 157.

James, W.B., "High Performance Ferrous P/M Materials for Automotive Applications", Metal Powder Report, Vol.46, No. 9, 1991, p. 26.

W. James Bover, section head of Quality Assurance for ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc., Clinton Township, Annandale, N.J., has been named chairman of the 571-member ASTM Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants.In his current capacity he oversees the Internal Quality Assurance Unit supporting regulatory studies and the QA team supporting environmental and petroleum laboratories for ExxonMobil affiliates worldwide.

A resident of Scotch Plains, N.J., he has more than 22 years of experience with ExxonMobil, having first worked in analytical research and development and then in environmental toxicology and chemistry before assuming his current assignment.Bover has been a laboratory quality assurance consultant for more than 17 years, providing guidance and tools to assist company and contract laboratories in developing and improving quality control programs.

Bover received his doctoral degree in analytical chemistry from Clarkson University.Upon graduation, he began a tour with the U.S. Army as a signal corps officer and a technical intelligence analyst before joining Exxon in 1978.He became a member of ASTM in 1983 and, has been active and has held positions in a number of D02 subcommittees and still serves as the chairman of the D02.92 subcommittee on Interlaboratory Cross-Check Programs.

In 1995, Bover became a member of the ASTM Committee on Standards (COS) and then chairman of its Form and Style Subcommittee.He was a member of the ASTM Board of Directors from 1997 to 1999 before his appointment as the Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee.He has received the Committee D02 Award of Excellence in 1993 and the ASTM Award of Merit in 1997.In 1999 he received the ASTM and Standards Engineering Society (SES) Robert J. Painter Memorial Award for leadership in developing standards.

In addition to ASTM, Bover is a member of the American Petroleum Institute working group on sediment and water.He is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

D08 ON ROOFING, WATERPROOFING AND BITUMINOUS MATERIALS

The period will also include public recognition of the work done by the technical programme committee co-chairmen, Ford Motor's Russell Chernenkoff and Hoeganaes Corporation's Brian James in pulling together the complex mix of technical sessions, special interest programmes and a symposium on hard materials.

The conference program committee is chaired by Russell A. Chernenkoff, Ford Motor Company, and W. Brian James, Hoeganaes Corporation.

Dr. W. Brian James to be Given ASTM Award of Merit

Dr. W. Brian James, manager of application engineering for the International Business Unit at Hoeganaes Corp. in Cinnaminson, N.J., will be given a 2001 ASTM Award of Merit and the accompanying title of Fellow.The award, the highest Society honor given to an individual for participation in ASTM standards activities, recognizes James' outstanding contributions to ASTM Committee B09 on Metal Powders and Metal Powder Products in materials, test methods, near fully dense materials, and in the overall technical leadership and operation of the committee.

Soon after joining ASTM in 1986, James helped to bring about the formation of Subcommittee B09.11 on Near Full Density Powder Metallurgy Materials for an industry area not being addressed.James has been chairman of B09.11 since its inception, and he has been instrumental in the development of powder forged steel parts standards by the group.James is also chairman of Task Group B09.05.01 on Soft Magnetic Materials, which has been organized to work on a topic of interest to B09 and to ASTM Committee A06 on Magnetic Properties, of which James is also a member.

James is an active participant in standards development work and interlaboratory studies throughout B09, and he has also been an important contributor to the work of B09.01 on Terminology.In addition, he has participated in the powder metallurgy activities of the International Organization for Standardization.

In his professional engineering work, James has concentrated on dispersion hardened zirconium alloys, powder forged ferrous materials, high performance ferrous powder metallurgy materials, training programs for ferrous powder metallurgy materials, and spherical carrier particles for xerography.

Prior to joining the staff at Hoeganaes Corp., James was an engineer first at Round Oak Steel and later at GKN Technology, both in the United Kingdom.James earned a B.Sc. with honors and a Ph.D., both in metallurgy, at the Institute of Science and Technology of the University of Manchester, Manchester, England.

D04 ON ROAD AND PAVING MATERIALS

ASTM Symposium on Constructing Smooth Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements (HMA) to Be Held in December 2001

An ASTM Symposium on Constructing Smooth Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements will be held Dec. 4, 2001, at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, Dallas, Texas.Sponsored by ASTM Committee D04 on Road and Paving Materials, the symposium is open to all interested individuals.

W. James Bover, Chairman ofFinance and Audit Committee

W. Brian James, FAPMIHoeganaes Corporation