Dr. Gao was nominated by the Injection Molding Division.  In addition to his prolific research in terms of his publication record and research funding, his main contributions lie in his insightful studies and discoveries pertaining to injection molding machine control.  This includes the development of a novel two-dimensional control scheme that takes into account and makes use of short-term (within cycle) and long-term (cycle-to-cycle) process behaviors as well as monitoring and control of process behaviors and part quality through the  integration of sensor and machine control.  One of his patents has been licensed to major injection molding machine manufacturers.

Dr. Kazmer was nominated by the Injection Molding Division.  He has developed an outstanding, original, and creative research program of high caliber in the fields of injection molding control and monitoring, molding simulation, and most recently, self-assembly of a ternary polymer system.  His publications and inventions cover the fundamental and practical aspects of synergistically related and yet technologically different fields.  He conceived the DynamicFeedTM real-time, multi-point melt control system to address limitations of the injection molding process.  He also contributed to a commercial, on-line control system for injection molding, designing architecture and underlying algorithms for Moldflow Intelligent Process ControlTM (IPC), which incorporated an expert system, design of experiments and statistical process control system into an integrated, on-line platform. Elements of the IPC project were commercialized for Moldflow Plastics XpertTM (MPX).

Dr. Sehanobish was nominated by the Engineering Properties & Structure Division.  His work was critical to the development of lifetime prediction concepts for polymer parts at Dow.  He was an early developer of hot water and other pipes - some of the toughest pipe resins in the industry.  He is also a pioneer in the development of all plastic door panels, partnering with the GM Saturn division.  When metallocene based homogeneous catalysis resulted in a new polymer family, Kalyan pioneered the development of elastomer modified TPOs and still holds some of the early patents in this field.  He has made measurable impacts both to Dow plastics businesses and to the scientific community, has helped launch numerous high profile polyolefins products at Dow, and contributed to many of the predictive mechanics models that are in use for describing plastics deformation and damage.