Dr. Anoush Poursartip has played an international leadership role in the advancement of composites processing science and technologies in academe and the aerospace industry.  He is a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.  He joined UBC in 1984 after gaining a B.A. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.  Working closely with two colleagues, he directs the Composites Group at UBC, an interdisciplinary research group from Materials Engineering and Civil Engineering, with facilities in the state-of-the-art Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory. Dr. Poursartip has been a long-standing member of the Executive Council of the International Committee on Composite Materials, including serving as Executive Secretary and President.  He has been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Composite Materials and Composites Part A.  He is also a World Fellow and Life Member of ICCM and has won two Outstanding Performance Awards from The Boeing Company.

Dr. Tsu-Wei Chou

Dr. Tsu-Wei Chou is the Pierre S. du Pont Chair of Engineering at the University of Delaware. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the National Taiwan University, an M.S. in materials science from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in materials science from Stanford University. Dr. Chou has served as a visiting professor at universities and research institutes throughout the world, and he has performed composites technology assessments in Europe and Asia for ONR and ARO, respectively. He has also authored over 300 archival journal papers and book chapters in these areas. Dr. Chou is the author of Microstructural Design of Fiber Composites (Cambridge University Press), co-author of Composite Materials and Their Use in Structures (Elsevier-Applied Science), and the editor of several other books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Composites Science and Technology.  Dr. Chou is a fellow of six professional societies in engineering and materials, and he has received the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award and the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of ASME, ASC’s Distinguished Research Award, and UD’s Francis Alison Medal. He has also been recognized by ISI as a “Highly Cited Researcher.”