George K. Lucey Jr. (born November 13, 1937) was a Branch Chief at the U.S. Army Harry Diamond Laboratories who also served the U.S. Army Materiel Command as the Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Thrust Area Manager for Soldering Technology. Career He entered the US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories as a mechanical engineer student trainee in 1959 and retired in 2001. As a Senior level Branch Chief, he was an inventor named in 14 Patents and in 1982 was decorated by the Commanding Officer as Inventor of the Year for contributions that lowered the production cost of artillery fuzes. He also served as manager of multimillion-dollar programs, one example being the first production of the M734 Multi-Option Mortar Fuze for war reserves. In the field of manufacturing science, he managed the US Army ManTech Thrust Area for Soldering Technology, which was responsible for reducing the cost of Army electronic systems on a national scale by introducing new technologies into industrial base soldering lines. He coordinated the national ManTech mission with activities having common interests and willing to share results, namely Small Business Innovative Research soldering programs supported by the Air Force, Navy ManTech programs, Department of Defense study groups for Soldering Standard 2000, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense, Tri-Service Quality Assurance personnel, University professors, and major defense contractors willing to serve as test beds in no-cost Cooperative Research and Development Agreements. For these accomplishments he received the US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories’ John A. Ulrich Award for Managerial Leadership, 1989. He identified the gaps in scientific research that were inhibiting productivity on soldering lines by sponsoring Sandia National Laboratories to conduct symposia with 50 renowned scientists from academe, industry, and government and publish three textbooks to serve as roadmaps for future research: The Mechanics of Solder Alloy Interconnects, The Mechanics of Solder Alloy Wetting and Spreading, and Solder Mechanics. He supplied copies of these textbooks to graduate level classes at nine universities and encouraged the writing of additional textbooks by the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) as a means of inserting other DOD Critical Technologies into the curricula of a new graduate degree in electronics manufacturing. His vision and in-kind help was instrumental in formulating a successful educational program at CALCE, funded by DARPA in 1994-97, leading to a comprehensive graduate engineering curriculum in electronic products and systems. Today, this program is internationally recognized as one