Essentials of Advanced Composite Fabrication and Repair

Louis C. Dorworth is the Direct Services Manager for Abaris Training Resources, Inc., where he currently manages all marketing and training activities worldwide. By trade, he is a composite materials and process (M&P) specialist with experience in research and development (R&D), manufacturing engineering, tool design/engineering, tool fabrication, and repair. Louis has been involved in the advanced composites industry since 1978, starting in aerospace as a toolmaker and part-time M&P technician at Lear Fan in Reno, Nevada, after which he has continued in the industry for more than four decades. Louis has been associated with Abaris since its inception in 1983 and began his teaching career at Abaris in 1989. Louis has been a professional member of the Society for the Advancement of Material & Process Engineering (SAMPE) since 1982 and a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) since 1997. He currently serves as an advisor to the SAMPE Technical Excellence Subcommittee for Bonding and Joining, is a member of the Thermoplastics Technical Committee, and is an advisor to conference and workshop steering committees within these technical organizations.

Ginger Gardiner has worked in the composites industry since 1990. She has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and began her career as a technical marketing representative in DuPont's Composites Division for KEVLAR and NOMEX products in aerospace and marine applications. After leaving DuPont, Ginger formed Vantage Marketing Services, providing market and product development consulting for companies such as Hoechst-Celanese and Ciba-Geigy, and also developed and marketed technical conferences. She also wrote articles for several magazines, including Professional BoatBuilder, and began writing for Composites Technology and High Performance Composites magazines in 2006. She has worked as Senior Editor and Senior Technical Editor of the now combined CompositesWorld magazine since 2013.