2024-2025 SAMPE Global Executive Cabinet and Global Board of Directors Announced

July 3 2024, DIAMOND BAR, CA – The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process  Engineering (SAMPE) is pleased to announce the following members as officers of the 2024-2025  Global Executive Cabinet and Board of Directors:    

2024-2025 SAMPE Global Executive Cabinet 

• Global President – Yiping Qiu, PhD, FSAMPE, Professor and Director, Shanghai Key Laboratory, College of Textiles, Donghua University 

• Global Immediate Past President – Tsuyoshi Ozaki, PhD, President and Director, Composites R&D Company, Ltd. 

• Global Executive Vice President – Allan Crasto, PhD, FSAMPE, Senior Advisor, Research Initiatives, University of Dayton Research Institute 

• President, North America Region – German Reyes-Villanueva, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn 

• President, Europe Region – Conchúr Ó Brádaigh, PhD, Vice-President & Head of Faculty, School of Engineering, The University of Sheffield 

• President, China Region – Xiaosu Yi, PhD, FSAMPE, Professor, China Carbon Composite Innovation Center   

• President, Japan Region – Kiyoshi Uzawa, PhD, Professor, Innovative Composite Materials R&D Center, Kanazawa Institute of Technology 

• Global Secretary – Rebekah Stacha, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, SAMPE   

2024-2025 SAMPE Global Board of Directors 

Past Presidents: 

• Europe Past President – Luigi Torre, PhD, 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, 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, PhD, R&T Technical Coordinator, Ariane Group   

China Region  

• Zhenghua Cao, PhD, Professor and Director, Composite Material Center of AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, AVIC Composite Corporation Ltd. 

• Yan Li, PhD, FSAMPE, Professor and Dean, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University   

Japan Region 

• Kazuto Tanaka, PhD, Professor, Doshisha University   

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