Panel Members: Nancy Mann from Rockwell International Science Center (an expert in statistics, especially extreme value statistics), Ed Lenoe from Army Mechanics and Materials Research Center (with expertise in reliability and ceramic turbine development), Tom Derkacs of TRW (he's been using ultrasonics to detect defects in ceramics), Roy Rice from the Naval Research lab (an expert on fracture initiating defects in ceramics), Norm Tallan from the Air Force Materials Laboratory (with a major interest in ceramics for structural applications), and John Schuldies from Aresearch (the NDE expert at Aresearch with a lot of experience using current NDE techniques).