The Edward Orton, Jr. Memorial Lecture is presented by the invited lecturer at the ACerS Annual Meeting/MS&T. The lecture is named for benefactor and visionary General Edward Orton, Jr. who was a founder of The American Ceramic Society and started the first Ceramic Engineering education program in America at The Ohio State University in 1894.
The nominee to be chosen should best represent the past tradition of the Orton Lecturer and provide the Society with a learned lecture at its Annual Meeting. The Lecturers should have national recognition in a field related to the interest of the membership of the Society. The Lecturer should be an accomplished speaker and communicate well to the mixed audience (members and visitors). The choice of Lecturer may be from within or outside of the Society. The Committee on the Orton Memorial Lecture shall select the Orton Lecturer.
Nomination Process
Nominations should include one (1) letter of nomination, a CV of up to ten (10) pages and no more than three (3) letters of support.
Contact
Erica Zimmerman
ezimmerman@ceramics.org
Award Winners
Tatsuki Ohji
Dr. Tatsuki Ohji is a Visiting Professor, Yokohama National University (YNU), Japan and Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech), Japan. He is also a Program Manager, Defense Innovation Science and Technology Institute (DISTI), Ministry of Defense, Japan, and an Emeritus Research Councilor, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He served as the President of the American Ceramic Society during 2019-2020.
He obtained his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from NITech and Ph. D. in inorganic materials engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has authored more than 380 papers and 20 book chapters, edited more than 40 books and conference volumes. He has chaired more than 50 international conferences and symposia. His research interests include properties characterization of ceramics and related materials and their microstructural design for better performance.
A Fellow of ACerS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ASM International, the European Ceramic Society (ECerS) and the Ceramic Society of Japan (CerSJ), and an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the Distinguished Life member (ACerS’s highest honor), W. David Kingery Award, John Jeppson Award, Samuel Geijsbeek PACRIM International Award, and ECD Mrityunjay Singh Bridge Building Award all from ACerS, Richard Brook Award from ECerS, Special Contribution Award from the Chinese Ceramic Society, Bhagat Memorial Lecture Award from the Indian Ceramic Society, Honour Medal of Aurel Stodola from the Slovak Academy of Science, Lee Hsun Lecture Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academic Achievement Award from CerSJ. He is a Governor of Acta Materialia Inc. and an Editor of “Journal of the American Ceramic Society” and “Ceramics International”.