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SAMPE 2019 | Charlotte

The Society for the Advancement of Material

An honorary session honored Dr. Katie Thorp.

and Process Engineering held its first annual

Katie was a technical leader in high temperature

event at the Charlotte Convention Center.

polymers, composites, metamaterials, biomaterials

The event drew 252 exhibiting companies &

and processing science. The session showed

brought together 3,316 attendees - engineers,

how Katie's philosophy, passion, and hard work

scientists, & professionals from throughout the

towards advancing technical progress is still being

advanced materials & processes industry. The 2019
program featured more than 150 technical paper
presentations, a forum for exchange & debate, eight
quality tutorials & inspirational featured presentations
led by esteemed researchers & thought leaders. Two of
the most attended tutorials covered CMH-17 Civil Aircraft
Certification certifications technologies relative to materials,
process

control,

structural

substantiation

&

other

pertinent

considerations. These were presented by key FAA instructors.

felt today.
"Our

spring

conference

and

exhibition

at

Charlotte was gratifying in many ways," says
Karin Anderson, SAMPE North America President
and Associate Technical Fellow of The Boeing
Company. "Not only was this our first event in
Charlotte, we were also presenting several new
innovative programming options to continue to
inspire professionals for our next 75 years." SAMPE

The event opened with a keynote address by The Boeing

engaged almost 500 engineering students with

Company's Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Greg Hyslop, who shared

various ways to showcase their skills and gain

his perspectives on how the community SAMPE represents can

exposure; SAMPE Student Symposium, SAMPE

leverage and maximize world-changing impacts. On the last

Bridge Building Competition, SAMPE Additive

day, Jeff Andrews, Vice President of Competition at Hendrick

Manufacturing Contest, SAMPE Fuselage Building

Motorsports gave his view into where composite materials are

Contest, Student Poster Competition, SAMPE

being utilized in today's current NASCAR race cars to enhance the

Leadership Awards Program and SAMPE Young

performance, safety, cost and time.

Professional Leadership Awards. In support of

The Technical Program featured a special track on SAMPE Material
Forecast Forum findings that discussed different technology
sectors and the relevancy to future advanced materials and
processing technology development within the next 75 years.

personal and professional development, for the
first time, SAMPE 2019 featured a collaborative,
diverse and inclusive Learning Series, created for
both emerging and established leaders.

Each year at SAMPE several outstanding individuals are recognized for their achievements and contributions through
the SAMPE Young Professional Emerging Leadership Awards and the Outstanding Technical Paper Awards programs:
SAMPE Young Professional Emerging Leadership Awards:
* Filippo Cellini, Ph.D., Research Scientist, New York University
* Ryan Curry, Program Manager, Swift Engineering
* Konstantine Fetfatsidis, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, Make Composites, Inc. - 2019 Young Professional of the Year
* Alice Havill, Chief Operating Officer, Vartega Inc.
* Alison Lake, Lead Materials Application Engineer, GE Aviation
* Maggie McKenney, Business Development Engineer, Bostik
* Rassel Raihan, Ph.D., Research Scientist III, University of Texas at Arlington
* Furkan Ismail Ulu, Research Assistant, North Carolina A&T State University
* Hao Wu, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, KAI, LLC
* Timotei Centea, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California - 2019 Young Professional
of the Year (deceased)
SAMPE Outstanding Technical Paper Awards:
* 1st place: "Multiscale Approaches to Formation of Thermoplastic Prepreg Short Carbon Fiber" - Drexel University
* 2nd place: "Reliable Optimized Structures with High Performance Continuous Fiber Thermoplastic Composites
from Additive Manufacturing (AM)" - Arevo, Inc.
* 3rd place: "Spring Frame Press Fabrication of Aerospace Production Components" - The Boeing Company

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