Howard Pickering Joins Ranks of Emeritus Faculty
 
  After 10 years as a research scientist at US Steel, Dr. Howard W. Pickering joined Penn State in 1972 as Associate Professor of Metallurgy.  During the next 35 years he gained a reputation as one of the world’s foremost experts in electrochemistry and metals corrosion.  A PhD graduate of the renowned Fontana Lab at Ohio State, Howard established research collaborations in Germany. Japan, England and Egypt.  He served for 20 years as the North American Editor for the Journal of Corrosion Science and served on many committees for the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and TMS-AIME.  At Penn State Howard served for five years as Chair of the Metallurgy program and for almost 20 years organized the Penn State Read Conference on Electrodeposition.  

A prolific researcher, Dr. Pickering has published over 350 papers, graduated more than 30 MS and over PhD students, and welcomed over 40 post-doctoral students and scientists to his lab.  In recognition of his many contributions to the fields of corrosion engineering and electrochemistry, Howard was named Fellow of both NACE and ECS and was presented with ASM’s highest recognition with the Lifetime of Distinguished Membership Award.  In addition Howard received the top awards in his field with the Uhlig Award from ECS and the Whitney Award from NACE as well as many others.  As a result of his stature in the field of materials science and engineering Howard was named Distinguished Professor of Metallurgy at Penn State in 1990.

After 35 years on the faculty Dr. Pickering has decided to retire.  Like many of the emeritus faculty in MatSE, Howard will continue to have an active presence in the department as he continues to oversee his research program, works on a book on corrosion engineering and electrochemistry, and teaches MatSE 421- Corrosion Engineering and MatSE 597 – Professional Development.  Join me in congratulating Howard on an outstanding career and for all he has done for MatSE and Penn State (pickering@matse.psu.edu ).  Of course, we congratulate him on his ‘retirement’ but I dare say we won't notice a change with all of the activities above.
 
Thank you Howard.
Gary L. Messing