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Dickie to Receive

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By: KERRY PIANOFORTE

Editor, Coatings World

Dickie to Receive
FSCT 2004 Heckel Award
The Federation of Society for Coatings Technology (FSCT) has announced that Ray A. Dickie, editor of JCT Research and JCT Coatings-Tech, has been named the recipient of the George Baugh Heckel Award, the organization’s highest honor. Present-ation of the Heckel Award will be made at the opening session of the Federation’s 82nd annual meeting, which will be held at McCormick Place North in Chicago, IL on Oct. 24. The George Baugh Heckel Award recognizes an individual whose contributions to the organization have been outstanding.
Dickie has served the FSCT for many years as a member of both the publications committee and editorial review boards of the journal of coatings technology, and was named technical editor and chair of the editorial review board in 1997. Dickie’s career at Ford Motor Co. began in 1968. He was a corporate technical specialist when he retired from Ford in 2000.
While at Ford, Dickie’s research interests centered on automotive paints, polymer blends and composites, structural adhesive and related areas of polymer science. His technical contributions included new approaches to a wide range of automotive coatings (corrosion-resistant primers, water-based topcoats, electron beam cure coatings) and fundamental investigations of coating adhesion and degradation mechanisms. In addition, he led research on the use of structural adhesive bonding for automotive applications including body construction.

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