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
Young-Wook Kim
Dr. Young-Wook Kim is professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Seoul, South Korea. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and a B.S. in ceramic engineering from Yonsei University. Before joining the University of Seoul in 1996, he worked as a senior research scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
Professor Kim has made seminal contributions to the field of the microstructure control, and mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of dense and porous SiC ceramics, and the processing of electrically conductive SiC ceramics. His contributions include development of (i) a heat-resistant SiC ceramics up to 1600 oC, tough SiC ceramics, and superplastic SiC ceramics via microstructure control, (ii) new processing strategy to fabricate microcellular ceramics and SiC foams via polymer processing route, (iii) a mechanism for N-doping during grain growth in SiC ceramics, and (iv) new processing strategy for producing fully ceramic microencapsulated fuels by pressureless sintering route. He has authored or co-authored more than 340 journal articles and holds more than 60 issued patents.
He received the John Jeppson Award, Samuel Geijsbeek PACRIM International Award, Global Star Award, and Global Ambassador awards from ACerS and Richard Brook Award from the European Ceramic Society (ECerS). He is a fellow of ACerS, honorary fellow of ECerS, academician of World Academy of Ceramics. In addition to being a founding member of the ACerS Korea Chapter, Kim is chair of the Engineering Ceramics Division and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology.