SCOPE | SECTIONNEWS GOLDEN GATE S A N F R A N C I S C O, C A 21 AT T E N D I N G 2 9 J U N E 2 0 2 2 Ñ The Golden Gate Section held its first in-person meeting in two years at the Livermore Valley Open Campus in Livermore, California. The meeting featured the Section’s annual Vendors Fair. METRO NEW YORK/ NORTHERN NEW JERSEY R O C K V I L L E C E N T R E , N Y 5 AT T E N D I N G 27 J U LY 2 0 2 2 Ñ The Metro New York/Northern New Jersey Section held a virtual officers meeting to discuss Section business, including dates and meeting topics for the upcoming program year, social events, and company sponsors. NORTH ATLANTIC S H E F F I E L D, U N I T E D K I N G D O M 8 AT T E N D I N G 4 J U LY 2 0 2 2 Ñ The North Atlantic Section held a virtual meeting to discuss Section busi- ness. It included reports from Section Chair Thomas Fletcher, Section Treasurer Jason Neill Taylor, and Regional Director Mark A. Ormrod. The meeting closed with a technical presentation from Jack Lamberts of Dolphitech on live defect detection and sizing. OLD DOMINION R I C H M O N D, VA 15 AT T E N D I N G 2 8 J U LY 2 0 2 2 Ñ The Old Dominion Section attended a Richmond Flying Squirrels baseball game at the Diamond in Richmond for its first meeting of the 2022–2023 program year. SHENZHEN S H E N Z H E N , C H I N A 2 9 AT T E N D I N G 19 A U G U S T 2 0 2 2 Ñ The Shenzhen Section held a meeting at the Nanshanyungu Industrial Park in Shenzhen. The meeting featured a presentation by host Yan Rongming on the mission, structure, services, and prod- ucts of ASNT, as well as the benefits of individual membership. After the presen- tation, Yan answered questions from attendees. | SPOTLIGHTGOLDENGATE The Golden Gate Section held its first in-person meeting in two years, which included the Section’s annual Vendors Fair. 76 M AT E R I A L S E V A L U AT I O N • N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 2

ZHAN ZHANG 2022 New NDT Professional Recognition winner Zhan Zhang received his BS in engineering physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2005, and his MS in nuclear engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011. Currently, Zhang is a research scientist in the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University and leads the research labs in digital X-ray radiography and computed tomography. He also has been serving as chair of the Iowa Section of ASNT from 2018 to 2021 and is now volunteering as Regional Director of ASNT Region 13. Before he joined Iowa State University, Zhang had been working as a verification and validation engineer in the nuclear industry for four years. His research interests include NDE for additive manufacturing, digital radiography and tomography, digital twin and data fusion, material character- ization, and nondestructive inspection of pipelines, especially corrosion under insulation (CUI). He also actively leads and participates in industrial standard development in ASTM E07 and F42 committees. ABOUT NEW NDT PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION The New NDT Professional Recognition is given to indi- viduals whose initial career contributions exemplify high standards of excellence in the areas of professional achieve- ment and meritorious service. This is the debut year for this recognition. AWARDS&HONORS | SCOPE NOMINATE ASNT is currently accepting nominations for the following awards: 50-Year Member Recognition, Fellow of ASNT, and George C. Wheeler Excellence in Personnel Certification Recognition. Nominations for the 50-Year Member Recognition, Fellow of ASNT, and George C. Wheeler Excellence in Personnel Certification Recognition must be received on or before 5 March 2023. Visit asnt.org/awards for more information. Questions? Contact Heather Cowles at hcowles@asnt.org at 1-614-384-2444 or by email at awards@asnt.org. The incorrect photo of Christopher Kube was published in the October 2022 issue of Materials Evaluation. Kube is a recipient of ASNT’s 2022 ASNT Fellowship Award as part of the Pennsylvania State University team (Christopher Kube, PhD, advisor Anubhav Roy, student). The correction has been made to the digital edition. Materials Evaluation regrets the error. CHRISTOPHER KUBE Christopher Kube, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State University and co-founder of the Penn State Ultrasonics Laboratory (PennSUL). Prior to joining Penn State in 2018, Kube was a contract researcher at the US Army Research Laboratory, where he specialized in the nondestructive characterization of additively manufactured parts and structural health monitoring for fatigue awareness in rotorcraft vehicles. In 2014, Kube received his PhD in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he studied the influence of residual stress and deformation on the scattering of ultrasound from inhomogeneities. Kube’s research interests include experimental and theoretical modeling of resonant ultrasound, acoustic microscopy, nonlinear ultrasonics, and ultrasonic scattering. Currently, he is leading several active research efforts spanning the use of ultrasound to monitor melt pool dynamics in the 3D printing of metals, constitutive modeling of soft and deformed piezoelectric materials, and the combined influences of texture and residual stress on the resonant behavior of additively manufactured parts. Kube has authored or co-authored 33 peer-reviewed journal articles and is listed as an inventor on two patents. In 2015, a collabo- rative article with the University of Windsor received the Outstanding Paper recognition from ASNT’s journal Research in Nondestructive Evaluation. | CORRECTION N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 2 • M AT E R I A L S E V A L U AT I O N 77