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TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD
           
 

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KaZaK's Technical Advisory Board is comprised of highly distinguished professionals in the composites engineering and materials sciences field. Joining Dr. Jerome P. Fanucci on the Board are leaders in industry and academia who will advise KaZaK on all facets of the engineering process, from conception to design to manufacture. The Technical Advisory Board will meet with KaZaK regularly to offer advice and insight into the business of composites manufacturing and will add depth to KaZaK's already stellar engineering team.
 
           
  adams Dr. Donald F. Adams
Donald F. Adams is the founder and President of Wyoming Test Fixtures, Inc., a company specializing in the design and fabrication of mechanical test fixtures for the composite materials community since 1988. He is also Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming where he was Director of the Composite Materials Research Group for 27 years.

His industry experience includes Northrop Aircraft Corporation, Hawthorne, California (3 years), the Aeronutronic Division of Ford Motor Company, Newport Beach, California (4 years), and the Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California (5 years). He joined the University of Wyoming in 1972.

Dr. Adams received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois (1957), his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California (1960), and his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois (1963).

Dr. Adams has been involved full-time in composite materials analysis, testing and design for over 45 years. He headed a very active interdisciplinary composite materials research group at the University of Wyoming, involved in a broad range of government and industry programs. Dr. Adams continues to serve on a number of national committees and review boards, and has been on the editorial boards of four prominent composite materials journals. He is very active in the test methods committees of ASTM and Composite Materials Handbook CMH-17. He has extensive consulting experience with industry and government agencies, has presented many seminars, tutorials and multiple-day short courses both in the United States and elsewhere, and has published extensively in the journal literature.

           
  Vaughan Dr. James G. Vaughan
Dr. Vaughan received s B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Vanderbilt University.  After working several years in industry, he joined the University of Mississippi in 1980.  He has over 150 journal publications and serves on several editorial review and advisory boards.  Dr. Vaughan is the director of the graduate program in materials science and engineering at the University and teaches courses associated with mechanical, physical and electrical properties of materials, and their selection and use in engineering applications.  His main research focus is in pultrusion manufacturing and mechanical testing of composites.  In addition to numerous departmental and School of Engineering awards, he has been honored as the University Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year in 1991, the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1991, and was named Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1998.  He presently serves as the Interim Director of the Center for Manufacturing Excellence (CME), a new center focused on educating undergraduate students in accountancy, business and engineering to become the next generation of leaders in manufacturing.