F. Kenneth Iverson Chair Professor in Steelmaking Technologies and Director of the Kent D. Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center
Dr. Ronald J. O’Malley, the F. Kenneth Iverson Endowed Chair of Steelmaking Technologies at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is a leading authority in steelmaking practices and research. Dr. O’Malley is also director of the Kent D. Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center at Missouri S&T, with expertise in process metallurgy, continuous casting, high-temperature thermochemistry, metal-slag-gas systems and reaction kinetics in those systems.
Dr. O'Malley joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri S&T in January, 2014. Prior to that, he worked for 25 years in the steel industry, working for Nucor Steel for 11 years as a Chief Metallurgist and for 14 years as a Principal Research Engineer at Armco / AK Steel. In both roles, he conducted process / product development and research in the areas of carbon and specialty steel production.
Dr. O’Malley earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in materials engineering from Drexel University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology, serving as AIST's President from 2019-2021. Dr. O’Malley was awarded the AIST's Distinguished Member and Fellow status in 2012, was made an honorary member of AIME in 2021, received AIST Presidential Citations in 2010 and 2013, was the recipient of the AISE Benjiman Fairless award, the ISS Charles Herty Jr award, the Kent D. Peaslee award, and the Richard J. Fruehan award. He is currently a lecturer for several AIST short courses and the Brimacombe continuous casting course, is a mentor for the AIST Foundation Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award and serves on the selection committee for the Elliott Lectureship Award.
Dr. O’Malley has a broad range of interests that include: steelmaking, continuous casting, solidification & heat transfer, interfacial phenomena, thin slab & strip casting, mold fluxes & slags, steel manufacture, and quality defects & causes.
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About Ronald J. O'Malley
Dr. Ronald J. O’Malley, the F. Kenneth Iverson Endowed Chair of Steelmaking Technologies at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is a leading authority in steelmaking practices and research. Dr. O’Malley is also director of the Kent D. Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center at Missouri S&T, with expertise in process metallurgy, continuous casting, high-temperature thermochemistry, metal-slag-gas systems and reaction kinetics in those systems.
Dr. O'Malley joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri S&T in January, 2014. Prior to that, he worked for 25 years in the steel industry, working for Nucor Steel for 11 years as a Chief Metallurgist and for 14 years as a Principal Research Engineer at Armco / AK Steel. In both roles, he conducted process / product development and research in the areas of carbon and specialty steel production.
Dr. O’Malley earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in materials engineering from Drexel University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology, serving as AIST's President from 2019-2021. Dr. O’Malley was awarded the AIST's Distinguished Member and Fellow status in 2012, was made an honorary member of AIME in 2021, received AIST Presidential Citations in 2010 and 2013, was the recipient of the AISE Benjiman Fairless award, the ISS Charles Herty Jr award, the Kent D. Peaslee award, and the Richard J. Fruehan award. He is currently a lecturer for several AIST short courses and the Brimacombe continuous casting course, is a mentor for the AIST Foundation Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award and serves on the selection committee for the Elliott Lectureship Award.
Dr. O’Malley has a broad range of interests that include: steelmaking, continuous casting, solidification & heat transfer, interfacial phenomena, thin slab & strip casting, mold fluxes & slags, steel manufacture, and quality defects & causes.
| January 2014 - Present | Director, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Kent D. Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center | |
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| January 2014 - Present | F. Kenneth Iverson Chair Professor in Steelmaking Technologies, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ Materials Science and Engineering | |
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| October 2002 - December 2013 | Chief Metallurgist, Nucor Steel | |
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| July 1988 - October 2002 | Principal Research Engineer, Armco/AK Steel | |
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| July 1984 - July 1988 | Staff Engineer (Molten Metal Processing), Alcoa | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2022 - Present | Optical Fiber EAF Refractory Lining Temperature Monitoring for Safety and Operating Efficiency |
| SFSA-DLA Steel Performance Initiative - STAR7 | |
| Role: PI | |
| $436,435 | |
| 2021 - Present | Application Intelligent Dynamic EAF Advisory System (IDEAS) for Improving EAF Operating Efficiency |
| DOE - DE-EE0009392 | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Praxair, Inc, Big River Steel, Commercial Metals Company, Gerdau North America, Nucor Steel, CIX, Inc., Arizona State University | |
| $7,489,095 | |
| 2021 - Present | High Temperature Optical Fiber Interferometer Mold Gap Measurement for Use in Foundry and Continuous Casting Molds |
| SFSA-DLA - SPI016 | |
| Role: PI | |
| $243,385 | |
| 2020 - Present | Grid-Interactive Steelmaking with Hydrogen (GISH) |
| DOE - DE-EE0009250 | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Danieli, Nucor, Steel Dynamics, Gerdau, Praxair, Air Liquide, Voest Alpine | |
| $5,529,669 | |
| 2020 - Present | Novel High Resolution In-Line Sensors for Steel Manufacturing |
| DOE - DE-EE0009119 | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): AISI, SSAB, Stelco, Algoma | |
| $2,470,072 | |
| 2019 - 2021 | Production of Zero Defect Slabs through SM Technologies: Novel Fiber Optic Based In-Line Sensors for Continuous Casting |
| DOE CESMII - DE-EE0007613 Sub-Award No 4550 | |
| Role: co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): ArcelorMittal USA, LLC; Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Purdue University Northwest | |
| $336,473 | |
| 2013 - 2018 | Operational Reconfigurability of Constrained Moving-Boundary Processes through Agile Motion Planning with Application to Steel Continuous Casting |
| NSF GOALI - 1300907 | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Joseph Bentsman - University of Illinois PI, Ronald OMalley Co-PI, Brian Thomas, Co-PI. | |
| $383,000 | |
| 2009 - 2013 | Hybrid Control of Continuous Casting for Whale and Crack Prevention |
| NSF GOALI - 0900138 | |
| Role: co-PI | |
| $306,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2023 - Present | Board of Directors, AIME | 2019 - 2021 | President, Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) |
Honors and Awards
- Lecturer: Brimacombe Continuous Casting Course, April 2016
- AIST Jerry Silver Award for Best Paper, May 2015
- AIST Presidental Citation, May 2013
- AIST Distinguished Member and Fellow Award, May 2012
- AISE Benjamin F. Fairless Award, May 2012
- ISS Charles Herty Jr. Award for Best Paper, March 21-24, 1999
- MCWASP Best Experimental Paper Award, June 7-12, 1998
- AIST Richard J. Fruehan Award, 2018
- AIST Kent D. Peaslee Award, 2018
- AIST LRTOC Best Paper Award, 2017
- AIST LRTOC Best Paper Award, 2018
- STIS 3rd Int Conf on Iron & Steelmaking Keynote Lecture, IIT Kanpur India, 2017
- AIST Jerry Silver Award, 2023
- MTI Designated Professional , Jan 2023.
- 100th Anniversery How Memorial Leture Award, 2023
Courses
- Transport Phenomena
- Deformation Processing
- Steelmaking
- Kinetic Theory for Materials
| 1983 | Ph. D. in Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
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| 1978 | B.S. and M.S. in Materials Engineering, Drexel University | |
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Materials Science and Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
284 McNutt Hall
Rolla, MO 65409-0340
Phone:(573) 341-7683
Fax:(573) 341-6934
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