passed away on May 1, 2018, 11 days short of being 90 years old.He was an early pioneer in the application of splines to Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), which provides the mathematical basis for the use of computers to design, engineer and manufacture products and complex systems.My first encounter with Prof. Boehm's work was in early 1981. I was new to CAGD and particularly interested in developing rational B-spline technology for use in engineering applications. Upon discovering his 1980 paper: "Inserting new knots into B-spline curves," my first impression was: what a beautiful work. It was short, just three pages, elegantly simple and clear, but eminently useful. The applications were immediately clear: curve/surface division, modification by means of control point refinement, decomposition into Bezier and other polynomial forms, and rendering sets of curves compatible for the purpose of surface constructions such as lofting, just to name a few. This paper had a profound influence on my work.

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This study describes a dip-coating method for applying an active material to commercially available intermediate modulus carbon fibers (CFs). A suite of tools were developed to assist with the handling and coating of CF tows to create disc electrodes. CF electrodes were fitted into 2025-type coin cells, for electrochemical analysis, first to determine their performance as anodes. Specimens of CFs were dip-coated with a slurry consisting of lithium iron phosphate, carbon black, and polyvinylidene fluoride, then dried, and fitted into half-cells to analyze the cathode performance. A cyclic voltammetry sweep was performed on each half-cell to determine suitable cycling potential limits, followed by galvanostatic cycling for a minimum of 30 cycles. Measured capacities for anode and cathode half-cells yielded 92 and 52.3 A h kg −1 , respectively. A full-cell with CFs in both electrodes was assembled and tested, revealing a capacity of 24.7 A h kg −1 after 30 cycles. Finally, both the anode and cathode were examined with a scanning electron microscope to establish a benchmark (anode) to compare surface topologies and to analyze the quality of the active material applied via dip-coating (cathode).