SAMPE announces 2024-2025 cabinet and directors members

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE, Diamond Bar, Calif., U.S.) announces the following members as officers of the organization’s global executive cabinet and board of directors assuming the 2024-2025 term.

The 2024-2025 SAMPE global executive cabinet officers are:

• Global president – Yiping Qiu, Ph.D., FSAMPE, professor and director, Shanghai Key Laboratory, College of Textiles, Donghua University
• Global immediate past president – Tsuyoshi Ozaki, Ph.D., president and director, Composites R&D Company Ltd.
• Global executive vice president – Allan Crasto, Ph.D., FSAMPE, senior advisor, research initiatives, University of Dayton Research Institute
• President, North America region – German Reyes-Villanueva, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn
• President, Europe region – Conchúr Ó Brádaigh, Ph.D., vice president and head of faculty, School of Engineering, The University of Sheffield
• President, China region – Xiaosu Yi, Ph.D., FSAMPE, professor, China Carbon Composite Innovation Center 
• President, Japan region – Kiyoshi Uzawa, Ph.D., professor, Innovative Composite Materials R&D Center, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
• Global secretary – Rebekah Stacha, CAE, CEO, SAMPE 

The 2024-2025 SAMPE global board of directors are:

Past Presidents:

• Europe past president – Luigi Torre, Ph.D., FSAMPE, professor, Material Engineering Center, University of Perugia
• North America past president – Jerome Berg, technology and development manager, Northrop Grumman, Aeronautics Systems

North America region:

• Robert Brushaber, director of materials science and engineering, Texas Research Institute Austin Inc.
• Stephen Scarborough, product development manager, Air Liquide
• Scott Stephenson, director, JSS Composites LLC, and senior advisor of 47G UAMMI Institute
• Paul Wienhold, principal professional staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

Europe region:

• Arnt Offringa, FSAMPE, director, Global Tech Center Netherlands, GKN Fokker
• Guy Larnac, Ph.D., R&T technical coordinator, Ariane Group

China region

• Zhenghua Cao, Ph.D., professor and director, Composite Material Center of AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, AVIC Composite Corp. Ltd.
• Yan Li, Ph.D., FSAMPE, professor and dean, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University 

Japan region

• Kazuto Tanaka, Ph.D., professor, Doshisha University 

Congratulations to SAMPE’s dedicated volunteers for their continued service to its members and the industry.