Composites Research Journal Contacts CRJ Staff Editorial Peer Review Board ACMA Board of Directors ACMA Staff CRJ Staff Publisher Tom Dobbins Editor Melinda Skea Technical Editor Bob Lacovara Assistant Editor Caitlin Felker Editorial Peer Review Board John Busel John Busel is Director of the Composites Growth Initiative of American Composites Manufacturers Association, focusing on promoting composites by educating and raising awareness in the consumer and trade press, leading industry programs in market expansion, and developing new market opportunities for the composites industry. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Market Development Alliance (MDA) of the FRP Composites Industry, which involved developing civil engineering and construction markets by providing technical leadership to industry project teams. Mr. Busel has over 24 years of experience in market development, composites design, tool engineering, manufacturing, and research and development of thermoset and thermoplastic composite materials. He has held positions in engineering and manufacturing for Boeing Wichita, Martin Marietta Aerospace, and Brunswick Composites, and was Manager of Market Development with the SPI Composites Institute, interfacing with government, academia, and industry. Mr. Busel holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bradley University and is a member of the American Concrete Institute and American Society of Civil Engineers. He serves as the current Chairman of ACI Committee 440 - FRP Reinforcement, the largest committee in ACI. Mr. Busel has authored numerous papers and spoken at many construction industry events educating and promoting FRP composites to end-users. He is active on several standard development committees for FRP composites and has served on the editorial board for ASCE’s Journal of Composites for Construction. Mr. Busel has been an active member of ACMA’s Technical Papers Committee for many years. Robert Arthur Haberlein, Ph.D., QEP Robert Haberlein is the owner of Engineering Environmental Consulting Services in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Haberlein got his start in reinforced polymers in 1983 as the managing engineer at Cobalt Boats, a composite boat manufacturer in Neodesha, Kansas. After returning to graduate school, he supported himself by working as a part-time consultant for each sector of the reinforced polymers industry. After receiving his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1991, Dr. Haberlein decided to work as a full-time consultant to the composites industry on environmental and occupational issues. Since then, he has performed every type of analysis, test, model or investigation that is required of the composites industry by EPA or OSHA. He has also testified as an expert witness in numerous legal proceedings. Since 1997, Dr. Haberlein has worked continuously as a technical consultant to ACMA on a wide range of regulatory issues. Dave Herzog David Herzog is the Director of Research and Technology at Interplastic Corporation’s laboratory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, overseeing research and development. He is known as an industry expert in vinyl ester and corrosion products. He is a member of the Pultrusion Industry Council, NACE and ACS. Over his career he has written over 20 technical papers and presented them at a variety of technical conferences, including ACMA, SPI, MACM, CFA and No-Dig. He currently serves as ACMA’s Technical Papers Committee Chair. Mr. Herzog has worked 24 years in the composites industry, spending his whole career at Interplastic Corporation. Mr. Herzog has held a variety of technical positions, including Group Leader of Vinyl Ester Resins, Manager of Corrosion and Specialty Resins, and Assistant Technical Director. Mr. Herzog is a native Minnesotan, with an undergraduate degree from Carleton College and a MS in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. He started with Interplastic Corporation shortly after graduation. Ellen Lackey Dr. Lackey is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mississippi (UM). She also holds a certified composites technician instructor (CCT-I) certification from the American Composites Manufacturers Association. She has been involved with composite materials research for the past sixteen years. During this time, she has conducted projects related to mechanical and physical property characterization of polymeric composites, microscopy, and development of composite manufacturing techniques. Bob Lacovara Robert Lacovara, CCM, CCT-I, is Technical Director of the American Composites Manufacturers Association. He has spent 25 years lecturing and teaching various aspects of the composites industry, with both the technical background and work experience that have made him an expert in composites manufacturing and a well-rounded, dynamic lecturer. Mr. Lacovara served as President of the Fiberglass Fabricators Association, the ACMA’s predecessor, in 1986. Mr. Lacovara has published over 80 articles and technical papers in addition to delivering over 200 lectures including conducting of an annual course at the National Defense University. He was instrumental in the development of Composites Certification Technician (CCT) programs at ACMA, authoring many of the educational materials used by the composites industry today. Mr. Lacovara has served as the General Manager of Structofab, Inc. producing aircraft and transportation components; Operations Manager of Viking Yacht Co; and is the former President of ComTech Associates. He holds a B.S. from Glassboro (Rowan) University. As a recipient of the ACMA President's Award, he has been in the FRP industry for over forty years and maintains a diverse series of activities across the industry. Terry McCabe Terry McCabe is Business Manager of Vinyl Esters and Engineered Resins with Interplastic Corporation. As a long-time industry professional, Mr. McCabe was inducted into the ACMA Hall of Fame at COMPOSITES & POLYCON 2006. Eligibility for the Hall of Fame requires at least twenty years of service to the industry and a lasting impact that is forever felt by industry professionals. Mr. McCabe began his 37-year career in composites in Australia, where he vacuum-bagged insulated shipping containers in the late 1960s. He moved into the commercial resins division of Interplastic in 1968, quickly advancing to Chemist, Technical Director, Director of Technical Marketing, and finally to his current position. Mr. McCabe and Everett Pearson of Tillotson-Pearson worked together to conceptualize the current industry standard of using vinyl ester skin coats for marine composites to eliminate osmotic blistering. Mr. McCabe has presented technical papers at composites symposiums in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, the Far East and South Africa. He has served on countless committees and as director of the Composites Fabricators Association (CFA), now ACMA. Mr. McCabe served as the Chair of ACMA’s Technical Papers Committee for many years; he passed the Chair to David Herzog in 2006 but continues to serve as an active committee member. Will McCarvill Dr. McCarvill received a Masters in Material Science from the University of Connecticut in 1973 and a PhD in Polymer chemistry from the same institution in 1977. He started his industrial career at the Hercules Inc. Research Center in Wilmington Dewhere he was project manager for polyolefin thermoplastic product development. He migrated to the Hercules aerospace facility near Salt Lake City where he was manager of resin development for filament winding and prereg. During his tenure Hercules 8552 and 8551-7 resin were commercialized. The main focus of development was super tough epoxy thermoset materials. When the Hercules composite materials division was sold to Hexcel corporation, he went to Dublin California where he was Research and Technology Manger for resin and prepreg development. After leaving Hexcel he established a consulting company, Commercial Chemistries. Currently he is Chief Scientist for Rocky Mountain Composites which is devoted to commercializing innovative low cost composite fabrication techniques for aerospace application including the Spectrum all composite business jet. His areas of expertise include matrix resins, prepregging processes, materials testing, and structure fabrication. Jim Vaughan Dr. James G. Vaughan is a F.A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Mississippi. He also serves as director of the CMRG (Composite Materials Research Group) at the university which he established in 1986. Since 1986, Dr. Vaughan has developed the CMRG into an internationally recognized academic research facility examining composite material manufacturing optimization, especially pultrusion, and the testing of composite materials. He has worked with many material suppliers and manufacturers to improve the pultrusion process and has placed many of his students in the composites industry. Dr. Vaughan has published over 150 papers and has presented technical papers at the SPI-CI, CFA, and ACMA conferences continuously since 1987. Several of these papers were awarded the best paper of the pultrusion section and best paper of the conference. He is a member of the Pultrusion Industry Council.

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