H.H. Uhlig Award

NACE H.H. Uhlig Award

The H.H. Uhlig Award is given in recognition of outstanding effectiveness in post-secondary corrosion education at the undergraduate or graduate level as exhibited by an educator who excites their students through outstanding and innovative teaching in corrosion. To qualify, nominations must be received within 10 years of the nominee entering the field of education. An educator may qualify who has effectively conveyed and instilled in students the principles and applications of corrosion science and technology, and has stimulated students to enter professional pursuits in defining and mitigating corrosion problems.

2021 Recipient(s): James T. Burns

Professor Burns received a B.S degree from the United States Air Force Academy in Engineering Mechanics with a Mathematics minor in 2002 and completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia. He also has served as an Aircraft Battle Damage Engineer and Assistant Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) manager for the C-130 and as a Research Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory. His research focuses on the intersection of metallurgy, solid mechanics, and electrochemistry.

Burns is an Associate Professor in the Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, USA

Past Recipients

2020 - Marc Singer
2019 - Joey Kish
2018 - Dr. Homero Castaneda-Lopez
2017 - Dr. Brian J. Connolly
2016 - No recipient
2015 - No recipient
2014 - Y. Frank Cheng
2013 - Amir Eliezer
2012 - Nick Birbilis
2011 - Dr. Thomas Ladwein
2010 - Noam Eliaz
2009 - No recipient
2008 - Sannakaisa Virtanen
2007 - Srdjan Nesic
2006 - Pedro Castro– Borges
2005 - Patrik Schmuki
2004 - Alison Davenport
2003 - No recipient
2002 - R.G. Buchheit Jr.
2001 - No recipient
2000 - G.S. Frankel
1999 - R.G. Kelly
1998 - No recipient
1997 - J.R. Scully
1996 - B.A. Shaw