Junior Faculty Award Mentors
The following professors have offered to participate as mentors for the AIST Foundation Junior Faculty Award. Feel free to contact them to request their assistance.
Laura N. Bartlett, Missouri University of Science & Technology, AIST Foundation Steel Professor
Areas of Interest:
Steel casting, liquid metal processing, and solidification phenomena
Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations
Microstructure/mechanical property relationships
Development of advanced high strength steels
Emmanuel De Moor, Colorado School of Mines, AIST Foundation Steel Professor
Areas of Interest:
Ferrous physical metallurgy
Thermodynamics
Steel product metallurgy
Direct reduced iron
Nilesh Kumar, The University of Alabama
Areas of Interest:
Processing-microstructure-mechanical property correlation in advanced metallic materials such as advanced high strength steels
Additive manufacturing
Hybrid manufacturing
Friction stir welding and processing of advanced metallic materials
Stress corrosion cracking
High-temperature plastic deformation (Creep and creep-fatigue)
Micro-mechanisms of plastic deformation in ultrafine grained and nano-crystalline metallic materials (such as Al alloys, Mg alloys, High entropy alloys, next generation steels, Ti-alloys, Ni-base superalloys)
Paul C. Lynch, Penn State University- Erie, The Behrend College, AIST Foundation Steel Professor
Areas of Interest:
Steel Casting
Processing and Properties of High Strength Steels
Microstructure Development in High Strength Steels
Ronald J. O'Malley, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Areas of Interest:
Steelmaking, continuous casting, solidification & heat transfer
High temperature physical chemistry, thermodynamics & kinetics
Interfacial phenomena, gas-liquid & gas-solid reactions
Thin slab & strip casting, mold fluxes & slags
Steel manufacture, quality defects & causes
Jingjing Qing, Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
Areas of Interest:
- Steel heat treatment
- Steel microstructure
- Solidification of steel
- Green manufacturing and sustainability
Von L. Richards, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Areas of Interest:
Casting and liquid metal processing
Paul G. Sanders, Michigan Technological University, AIST Foundation Steel Professor
Areas of Interest:
Alloy (Fe, Al, Ni, Cu) and process design using computational methods and pilot-scale experiments coupled with adaptive optimization
Project-based undergraduate design course development and teaching
John G. Speer, Colorado School of Mines
Areas of Interest:
Steel microstructure
Product development
Brian G. Thomas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Interest:
Metals processing simulation, focusing on continuous casting of steel and related processes
Clean steel production
Modeling of multiphysics/multiscale phenomena including solidification, fluid flow, and stress analysis
Brian Webler, Carnegie Mellon University, AIST Foundation Steel Professor
Areas of Interest:
Liquid steel refining and non-metallic inclusion control
Solidification and microstructure development after casting
Additive manufacturing of ferrous alloys
Applications of machine learning in metallurgy
Mingzhu Xu, Georgia Southern University, AIST Foundation Steel Professor
Area of Interest:
Steel melting, treating and solidification
Steel microstructure
Steel heat treatment
Casting process simulation
Process improvement
Chenn Q. Zhou, Purdue University Calumet
Areas of Interest:
Simulation and visualization
Combustion
Multiphase reacting flows
Heat transfer
Fluid flows
Air pollution control