The MPIF Outstanding Technical Paper Award, renamed in honor of Howard I. Sanderow (click to view a brief video) in 2009, was established in 1993 to recognize authors of manuscripts for excellence in scientific and technical written communications from those papers presented and submitted for publication from the annual technical conference organized by the Metal Powder Industries Federation and APMI International; to enhance the quality of technology transfer in the PM literature by increasing the professional level of papers submitted for the annual technical conference; and, to enhance and promote the science and technology which is fundamental to powder metallurgy products, processes and materials.

Eligibility for the award is open to authors of papers of original and unpublished work submitted and presented for publication in the proceedings of the conference or special proceedings. Transfer of copyright agreement is to be submitted with the original manuscript to MPIF. Eligible authors must follow established guidelines regarding manuscript preparation, review and submission in order for the paper to be considered for the award.

Paper excellence is measured using a system of four quality standards: (1) the paper is scientifically or technically new, innovative or is a constructive review; (2) has clear presentation in writing, organization, graphics and format and has professional integrity; (3) has clear industrial application and (4) has long-term value.

Recipients

2010

"On the Development of an Aluminum PM Alloy for 'Press-Sinter-Size' Technology"
D. Paul Bishop, Christopher D. Boland, Rich L. Hexemer, Jr., and Ian W. Donaldson

2009

"Influence of Chemical Composition and Austenitizing Temperature on Hardenability of PM Steels"
Peter K. Sokolowski and Bruce A. Lindsley

2008

"Development of a Dual-Phase Precipitation-Hardening PM Stainless Steel"
Chris Schade, Tom Murphy, Alan Lawley and Roger Doherty

2007

"High Frame Rate Analysis of the Spray Cone Geometry during Close-Coupled Gas Atomization"
A.M. Mullis, N.J. Adkins, Z. Aslam, I. McCarthy and R.F. Cochrane

2006

"Dimensional Control in Cu-Ni Containing Ferrous PM Alloys"
Bruce Lindsley and Thomas Murphy

2005

"Rolling Contact Fatigue of Surface Densified Gears”"
Roger Lawcock

2004

"Fatigue Crack Growth of Fe-0.85Mo-2Ni-0.6C Steels with a Heterogeneous Microstructure"
George B. Piotrowski, Xin Deng, Nikhilesh Chawla, Kalathur S. Narasimhan and Michael L. Marucci

2003

"Finish-Turning of Hardened Powder Metallurgy Steel Using Cryogenic Cooling"
Zbigniew Zurecki, John H. Frey and Ranajit Ghosh

2002

"Design for Rolling Contact Fatigue"
Klaus Lipp and Gottfried Hoff man

2001

"Effect of Porosity on the Hardenability of P/M Steels"
Süleyman Saritaş, Roger D. Doherty & Alan Lawley

2000

"Dense Nanoscale Single- and Multi-Phase Ceramics Sintered by Transformation Assisted Consolidation"
James Colaizzi, William E. Mayo, Bernard H. Kear & Shih-Chieh Liao

1999

"In Situ Strength Evolution of P/M Compacts in Response to the Combined Effects of Time and Temperature During Sintering"
Gregory A. Shoales and Randall M. German

1998

"Grain Growth Inhibition in Liquid Phase Sintering Nanophase WC/Co Alloys"
Rajendra K. Sadangi, Larry E. McCandlish, Bernard H. Kear and Purnesh Seegopaul

1997

"Developing P/M Gear Tooth and Bearing Surfaces for High Stress Applications"
Peter K. Jones, Keith Buckley-Golder and Derrick C. Sarafinchan

1996

"Investigations into High Temperature Creep of Micro-crystalline Dispersion Strengthened Copper Alloys"
Christa Sauer, Thomas Weissgaerber, Wolfgang Puesche, Gerhard Dehm, Joachim Mayer and Bernd Kieback

1995

"High Performance Microencapsulated Powders for Various P/M Applications"
David E. Gay

1994

"High Density Processing of High Performance Ferrous Materials"
Howard G. Rutz and Francis G. Hanejko

1993

"Speeding Technical Solutions In Particulate Technology with Design of Experiments and Related Statistical Methods"
Charles I. Whitman