Don E. Bray, P. E., presented the Mehl Honor Lecture at the Fall National Conference of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing in Phoenix in October. The keynote presentation, "Fixing the Impedance Mismatch in Engineering Education," showed how technology transfer in nondestructive evaluation has slowed in the last 50 years, preventing many innovative research concepts from reaching the application stage. The cause of this technology transfer fault is felt to be the absence of NDE in engineering education. Bray is a Fellow of ASME and a former chairman of the NDE Engineering Division. He recently resigned from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University to enter private research.

Marcus B. Crotts, P.E., was elected vice president of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) for 2000. Crotts, a former ASME vice president, is currently serving on the board of directors for the SME Education Foundation. In 1987, he was elected to the SME College of Fellows, and in 1986 he was recognized with the organization's Joseph A. Siegel Award. He is a partner in Crotts & Saunders Engineering of Winston-Salem, N.C. Crotts was vice president of ASME's Region IV (Blue Ridge Region) from 1967-69.

Richard J. Goldstein, P.E., a former president of ASME, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering. This honor is bestowed only upon foreign members who have made exceptional contributions to engineering. The academy comprises the United Kingdom's most eminent engineers of all disciplines. Goldstein received the honor at a Royal Academy dinner in London in November. Goldstein, an Honorary Member of ASME, was ASME president from 1996-97. He is currently vice chairman of the ASME Committee on Past Presidents and the ASME representative to the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer.