Michael Walmer Receives 2014 REPM Distinguished Achievement Award

Landisville, PA (September 5, 2014) —Four Distinguished Achievement Awards were presented at the 23rd International Workshop on Rare Earth and Future Permanent Magnets and Their Applications, held in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 17-21 August 2014. The award recipients were Professor Rex Harris from the University of Birmingham in the UK; Dr. Takahiko Iriyama, General Manager of Electromagnetic Materials Research at Daido Corporate R&D Center in Japan; Professor Y. C. Yang from Beijing University in China; and Michael H. Walmer, President and CEO of Electron Energy Corporation in the United States.

The awards were presented by Professor George Hadjipanayis, Workshop Chair, in recognition of their significant contributions to the field of permanent magnets. “The REPM Workshop Organizing Committees have been presenting this Distinguished Achievement Award only to those with important and long-standing contributions to the field of permanent magnets,” said Professor Hadjipanayis of the University of Delaware. This workshop was initiated by Karl J. Strnat in 1974 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Since then there have been 23 workshops hosted around the world. These meetings are now held every two years, giving an opportunity for scientists, engineers, researchers, and academics from all over the world to share their research results on the development of future, more powerful permanent magnets.