LIA begins accepting nominations for William M. Steen Award

The Laser Institute of America, Orlando, Fla., has announced it has begun accepting applications for the William M. Steen Award for significant developments in laser material processing, named after one of the early pioneers in the subject. The award will be presented at ICALEO 2020, Oct. 19-22, 2020.

Laser material processing is one of the growth points in modern manufacturing. To bring focus to the many developments taking place and to promote new ideas, the LIA is making awards for the top three ideas of the year as adjudicated by a prize-giving panel.

Qualifying developments should have experimental proof of concept in the use of lasers or monitoring of laser processes and should fit one of the following criteria:

• Open a new area of application for lasers.
• Be of benefit to manufacturing with lasers.
• Solve a problem either particular or general by the use of lasers.
• Show some novel sensing system by using optics or when monitoring laser processes
• A development in photochemistry.
• A development in phototherapies.
• A development in 3D printings with lasers

Entries should be submitted here before Aug. 1, 2020.