John Speer Named to John Henry Moore Chair at Colorado School of Mines
08/06/2013 - The Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) announced that Professor John Speer has been named as the John Henry Moore Distinguished Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.
Speer received his D.Phil degree from University of Oxford in 1983 and then worked as research engineer and supervisor at Bethlehem Steel Corp. until 1997 when he joined the MME department at CSM. He has been instrumental in helping the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center (ASPPRC) develop into a world class research center focused on the physical metallurgy of steel. He and his students and colleagues have made high quality contributions to the technical literature of steel including his invention of the quenched and partitioning process. This innovative process is currently being implemented by several steel companies worldwide as it allows for the production of high strength steels with higher ductility as compared to standard processing methods.
In June 2013, Prof. Speer was appointed as the director of the ASPPRC at CSM. He is the third director of this internationally recognized center. He replaced Prof. David Matlock, who was the co-founder of the Center with Prof. George Krauss in 1984, and served as director since 1993. Under Matlock's direction ASPPRC has grown into one of the most successful industry-university cooperative research centers in the world. Presently there are 30 sponsoring companies for the center activities.
