Clarence De Silva, Ph.D., P.E., recently received the Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award from ASME's Dynamic Systems and Control Division. The award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated sustained outstanding research contributions as a mechanical engineering professional to fields relating to dynamic systems and control. Silva, an ASME Fellow, is a mechanical engineering professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is also the past chair of and a current advisor to the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division. He has held a number of other Society positions within the division as well as the British Columbia Section. He has been an ASME member since 1979.

Joe Greenslade has accepted the position of director of technology for the trade association the Industrial Fasteners Institute (IFI). Greenslade is well known within the fastener industry for having written on technical subjects in industry publications and from his long representation of the fastener industry on a number of national and international fastener standards organizations. A gradate of Texas A&M University, Greenslade was manager of corporate engineering and development for Camcar-Textron, plant manager of the Camcar's Drilltite division, and general manager of Rockford Headed Products before he founded his own company, Greenslade and Co., where he worked for 29 years. He currently serves on many ASME standards teams, including ASME B.1 and B.18 Committees, and a number of subcommittees and working groups. He has been a member of ASME since 1997.

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