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ROBERT E. SCHAFRIK SR.
Pages 376-379

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From page 377...
... . In the Air Force Bob advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1984 and was assigned increasingly responsible positions, including division chief of Air Superiority Headquarters, AF Systems Command, Andrews AFB (1984–87)
From page 378...
... . In 1997 he joined GE Aviation in Cincinnati, where he rose to general manager of the Materials and Process Engineering Department, heading the unit responsible for developing leading-edge materials, characterizing material properties, ­ selecting materials for specific applications, preparing specifications, and ensuring an adequate global materials industrial base to support the company's NPI and legacy turbine engines. He and his team reduced the development time for new materials such as low rhenium turbine blade alloy, high-temperature cast-and-wrought disk alloy, and titanium ­aluminide turbine blade alloy, and expanded the use of com posite applications in engines.
From page 379...
... . His involvement with other professional activities included the Gordon Research Conferences, Theoretical Foundations of Product Design and Manufacturing, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, IEEE, TMS, and Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.


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