About

Board of Directors

The SAMPE Foundation is governed by a volunteer board of directors drawn from across the SAMPE community, dedicated to advancing K-12 STEM education in materials and process engineering.

Honorary Leadership

Honorary Chair

JD
Honorary Chair
Jeff Dahlgren
President/CEO — Airtech International
Member, SAMPE Los Angeles Chapter
Foundation Officers

Officers

Chair
Ted Lynch
Director/Founder — Strategic Marketing Innovations (SMI)
SAMPE Past President  ·  Baltimore/Washington Chapter
President
Leslie Cohen, PhD
SAMPE Fellow  ·  Lubin Award Winner  ·  Los Angeles Chapter
Treasurer
John Moylan
Technical Director — Element Materials Technology
Member, SAMPE Los Angeles Chapter
Program Administrator / Secretary
Joseph Ingalls
Business Unit Manager & Educator of Science
Allied Signal
Board Members

Foundation Directors

John Unser
Technology Impact Manager — IACMI
Composites Applications Group  ·  Tennessee Valley Chapter
Paul Marks
Argosy International
Member, SAMPE Los Angeles Chapter
Ali Yousefpour
National Research Council Canada
Member, SAMPE Eastern Canada Chapter
Arnt Offringa
Director, Global Technology Center Netherlands — GKN Aerospace
Member, SAMPE Benelux Chapter
Avner Ben-Bassat
President & CEO — Palatine Corp.
Member, SAMPE Benelux Chapter
Brent Strong, PhD
Professor Emeritus — Brigham Young University
Member, SAMPE Utah Chapter
James Johnson
Retired Professor of Chemistry — Sinclair Community College
Member, SAMPE Midwest Chapter
Rich Caruso
 
Member, SAMPE Boston Chapter
Gary Bond
Senior Technical Fellow — Pratt & Whitney
Member, SAMPE Tennessee Valley Chapter
Charlotte Salaun Petel
3M France
Member, SAMPE Benelux Chapter

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