KATHY FERGUSON Kathy Ferguson is a materials engineer who has spent her career working in the field of NDT. Ferguson joined Boeing in 2008 where her broad background in NDT, failure analysis, and materials selection allowed her to support multiple airplane programs including the F-22, 787, 737, 777X, P-8, and the 767 Tanker programs. She has been a role model and mentor to students and colleagues in the field of NDT for her entire career. Ferguson has received numerous tech- nical achievement awards, including a Boeing Meritorious Invention Award, and she currently holds five US patents in a variety of different technologies. Ferguson has served continuously for 13 years on the Board of Directors for the Pacific Northwest Section of ASNT. She served as chair for three years, ensuring that the Section continued winning Gold recognition in the ASNT President’s Award program. During that time, she was honored for her years of mentoring women and students pursuing careers in NDT with the 2018 ASNT Advancement of Women in NDT Recognition and the 2019 ASNT Mentoring Award. She has encouraged countless students with her message that NDT is the “Ultimate Superhero Career” because NDT saves lives before catastrophes strike and makes the world a safer place. She encourages every member to recognize the contributions that they have made in making the world a safer place. To that end, she has nominated numerous Pacific Northwest Section members resulting in them winning the following ASNT awards: Lou DiValerio Technician of the Year Award, Robert C. McMaster Gold Medal Award, three ASNT Fellow Awards, two Mentoring Awards, and the Advancement of Active Military and Veterans in NDT Recognition Award. Ferguson launched a “Building Connections” initiative, which helps students to network with other ASNT section members and to advance their NDT careers. Ferguson mentors high school and college students by making STEM presentations about NDT and orga- nizes student tours of aerospace compa- nies in the Seattle area. She served on the 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019 Program Committee for the Pacific Northwest Section NDT of Composites Conference. Ferguson has been a role model to NDT students at Clover Park Technical College, many of whom she encouraged to join ASNT and later hold leadership positions on the Pacific Northwest Section board. She was part of the leadership team that created the Pacific Northwest Section David Hall Student College Scholarship Fund, which encourages students to pursue careers in NDT. She also consistently serves on the Scholarship Committee, Radiation Safety Committee, NDT of Composites Planning Committee, and the annual Pacific Northwest Section Golf Tournament Committee, which provides funding for the scholarship fund. Ferguson began her NDT career working for the Naval Aviation Depot in Jacksonville, Florida, after graduating with a degree in materials engineering from the University of Florida. While there, she mentored fleet and depot technicians in the appropriate techniques to use for inspecting airplanes for cracks and corrosion. She later joined a large chem- ical manufacturing plant in Pensacola, Florida, as the lead metallurgist, where she established an SNT-TC-1A certifica- tion program for plant NDT inspectors. She also began Ferguson Consulting Services, which provided failure analysis support in litigation matters involving industrial and aircraft accidents. Ferguson has spent her entire career mentoring students, technicians, and engineers in NDT and supporting the vision of ASNT. Her primary goal has been to help others build greater connections and form a more meaningful bond with ASNT. ANITA GREGORIAN Anita Gregorian graduated with a master’s degree in materials engineering from the California State University in Northridge. The focus of her studies was on corrosion and vapor phase inhibitors in pipelines and other industrial struc- tures. Immediately after graduation she became a member of the NDT team at The Aerospace Corp. based in the Los Angeles area, providing technical oversight of space missions to military, civil, and commercial customers. Her position at The Aerospace Corp. neces- sitates knowledge and experience in materials, physics, and NDT to provide mission-critical solutions. Gregorian has SOCIETYNEWS |SCOPE S NEWLY ELECTED DIRECTORS J U L Y 2 0 2 3 • M A T E R I A L S E V A L U A T I O N 89 2307 ME July dup.indd 89 6/19/23 3:41 PM

extensive experience in reviews and audits. Her expertise is also called upon in emergency on-site inspections of space hardware and failure investigations. In her role, she regularly interacts with NDT practitioners on the manufacturing floor, assisting with inspections, new technique development, and transfer of knowledge toward practical applications. Working with aerospace and govern- mental contractors across the United States has given Gregorian insight on the needs of NDT technicians, training, and certifications. This experience is the drive behind her ASNT NDT Level III and IRRSP certifications, Society volunteer work, and urge to serve on the ASNT Board of Directors. In addition to her ASNT certifications, she is also certified in Cathodic Protection for the Association for Materials Protection and Performance. Furthermore, Gregorian strongly believes that the circumstances of the past few years have demonstrated the importance of supply chains to meet national security demands. Manufacturers competing for contracts are increasingly integrating new materials, composites, additively manufactured parts, and NDE 4.0 into their processes. In this rapid progression in industry, new NDT applications often lag due to time required for validation and reliability. Both Gregorian’s responsibilities at work as well as the topic of her PhD research focus on these issues—closing the gap between the NDT world and industry. BRIAN J. MCKENNA Brian J. McKenna graduated from Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in 1998 and worked his way up to Level II status in MT, PT, UT, and RT. He spent several years of his career in the construction industry, working in California, Alaska, and even for some time in the Middle East. In December 1998, McKenna started the company Engineering &Inspections in Hawaii, which began with three employees and grew to 18 full-time employees. In January 2007, the company opened its Pennsylvania office with three employees, and it grew to 75 employees before the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2022, the company opened its Tulsa opera- tions with six employees. Engineering &Inspections International offers all the basic NDE services along with computed radiography, digital radiography, phased array ultrasonic testing, and automated ultrasonic testing. McKenna was also instrumental in helping start the Hawaii Section of ASNT and served as its president for many years before leaving Hawaii. SATISH S. UDPA Satish S. Udpa, PhD, serves as a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University (MSU) as well as Campus Mobility Director. Prior to reverting to his current position in October 2019, he served in many admin- istrative capacities at MSU including Acting President, Executive Vice President for Administration, Dean of the College of Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. MSU is one of the premier land grant universities with an enrollment of more than 50 000 students and more than 12 000 faculty and staff. He also served as the President of the Michigan State University Foundation. Udpa was the Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University and a faculty member at Colorado State University before joining MSU in 2001. Udpa has worked in the area of NDT since the early 1980s. He has focused his energies on developing a variety of sensors for NDT applications together with tools for modeling and devel- oping them. The NDT systems and the algorithms he has developed for analyzing data generated by sensors are used extensively in industry. He has published extensively, holds 10 patents in the field of NDT, and was the tech- nical editor of the Nondestructive Testing Handbook, Vol. 5: Electromagnetic Testing, third edition, published by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. He served as the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and the regional editor of the International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics until recently. His students have gone on to pursue highly produc- tive careers in industry and academia. As Mobility Director, he has champi- oned major initiatives to catalyze several mobility-related activities on campus, including the first autonomous (self- driving) bus on campus. Udpa is a Fellow of ASNT, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He currently serves as a member of the Michigan Governor’s Council on Future Mobility and Electrification. SCOPE |SOCIETYNEWS 90 M A T E R I A L S E V A L U A T I O N • J U L Y 2 0 2 3 2307 ME July dup.indd 90 6/19/23 3:41 PM