Metallurgy — Processing, Products & Applications Technology Committee Meeting

6 May 2025Music City Center, 102A • Nashville, TN, USA

►Agenda (PDF)
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  1. Chair’s opening remarks – Shannon Clark      <Noon>
  2. Appoint minute-taker
  3. Antitrust guidelines
  4. Membership and attendance
  5. Review minutes of previous meeting
  6. AIST Staff Announcements
  7. 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

  1. 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: 

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)

  1. Next meeting – Tuesday, 30 September 2025, from noon to 2 p.m. at MS&T25 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.  
  2. Chair conclusion - Shannon Clark
  3. Adjourn         <1:30pm>