Metallurgy — Processing, Products & Applications Technology Committee Meeting
6 May 2025 • Music City Center, 102A • Nashville, TN, USA
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- Chair’s opening remarks – Shannon Clark <Noon>
- Appoint minute-taker
- Antitrust guidelines
- Membership and attendance
- Review minutes of previous meeting
- AIST Staff Announcements
- Main agenda items
- Present Technology Committee awards – Awards Chair Matt Enloe and Kent D Peaslee Chairs Sunday Abraham.
- Kent D. Peaslee Panel
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, during the Kent D. Peaslee Memorial Session. This session will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. in Room 207A in the Music City Center. The winning paper is “Recent Advances in Automated Inclusion Analysis at United States Steel Corporation”, Scott R. Story, United States Steel Corporation, Eric A. Day, United States Steel Corporation, Michael S. Potter, RJ Lee Group
The Metallurgy Awards will be presented at MS&T25
September 28 – October 1, 2025, in Columbus, OH
- AIST Adolf Martens Award Lecturer
Dr. Dengqi Bai, Principal Research Engineer, SSAB Americas
Title:
- Jerry Silver Award
Title: “Effect of Dewpoint on the Evolving Radiative Properties of Advanced High-Strength Steel During Intercritical Annealing”
Authors: Fatima K. Suleiman, Nishant S. Narayanan, Kyle J. Daun, University of Waterloo.
- Gilbert R. Speich Award
Title: “Microstructure Response to Intermediate Reheating in Hot Strip Processing”
Authors: P. Uranga, U. Mayo, CEIT, M. J. Merwin, United States Steel Corporation, Research and Technology Center
- Richard J. Fruehan Award
Title: "Development of an improved inclusion assessment approach for steels"
Authors: Amrita Bag, Bikram Konar, Michael J. Gaudet, Evraz, Keyan Miao, Stelco
- Review Mission Statement
MISSION: To advance the knowledge of ferrous metallurgy and support the global ferrous metallurgy community by providing forums for the exchange of information and ideas.
- Nominations for Board of Director Level Awards—Distinguished Member and Fellow, Sendzimir Award, Fairless Award and Steelmaker of the Year nominations
- BOD representative is Siddhartha Biswas, Big River Steel
- Develop committee objectives for next year
- Meeting Locations
- Technical Topic to be discussed and possible presenters
- Conferences/Webinars
- International Rolling Conference (IRC)16-18 September 2025, Hyatt Regency DFW, Dallas, TX USA
- Microalloying ’25: International Symposium on Microalloying, 2–5 June 2025, The Hythe Vail, Vail, Co, USA
- Long & Forged, June 2026, Vail (TBD)
- Webinars Visit: https://www.aist.org/conference-expositions/webinars
- Elect New Officers
- Chair: Mario Buchely, Missouri S&T
- Vice Chair (MS&T 2025 Representative): Yash Injeti, Big River Steel
- MS&T 2026 Representative: Venkata Natarajan, Big River Steel
- Papers Chair: *Nominee Needed
- Digitalization Liaison: *Nominee Needed
- Awards Chair: Matthew Enloe, SDI
- YP Chair: Ahsan Munna, SDI
- Decarbonization Liaison: Igor Vieira, Nucor
MS&T 2025 Representative: Yash Injeti, Big River Steel
MS&T 2026 Representative: Venkata Natarajan, Big River Steel
- Present Chair Plaques – Pictures Outside Meeting Room
Discussion items
- MS&T 2025
Plenary Lecture Schedule
AIST Adolf Martens Lecture – Monday, 29 October, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
TMS – Monday, 29 October, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
ACerS – Tuesday, 30 October, 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
The MS&T25 Conference will be held on September 28 – October 1, 2025, in Columbus, OH. Please submit your abstracts for the Iron and Steel Symposia sponsored by AIST by using the links below. The Abstract Submission Deadline is beginning of May.
MS&T25 Iron and Steel Symposia:
- Steels for Sustainable Development IV
- New Frontiers in Physical Metallurgy of Steels
- Developments in Plate and Line Pipe Steels
- Advances in Understanding of Martensite in Steels III
- Advances in Metallic Coated Advanced Steels
- Advances and Challenges in Decarbonization of the Steel Industry
MS&T 2026 Symposium Submission Deadline is June 1, 2025. Please submit your symposia proposals on the website below or contact agauffin@aist.org.
MS&T26 Technical Meeting and Exhibition (matscitech.org)
- Next meeting – Tuesday, 30 September 2025, from noon to 2 p.m. at MS&T25 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
- Chair conclusion - Shannon Clark
- Adjourn <1:30pm>