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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Links
Contact Information
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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