Metallurgy – Steelmaking & Casting Technology Committee Meeting

7 May 2025 • Music City Center, Room 102B • Nashville, TN, USA

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1. Chair’s opening remarks – Sunday Abraham          <Noon>
2. Appoint minute-taker
3. Antitrust guidelines
4. Membership and attendance
5. Review minutes of previous meeting – 11-12 February
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

Chair - MSCTC to officially vote for the Kent D Pealsee Award to be moved under MSCTC. Formally, the award was under LSRTC and MSCTC. 

• AIST Adolf Martens Award Lecturer

Dr. Dengqi Bai, Principal Research Engineer, SSAB Americas

Title: Microstructure Engineering for Advanced High Strength Linepipe Steels

• 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 (From Website): 

“MISSION: To advance the knowledge of the science, technology and metallurgy of steelmaking and casting as they apply to upstream and downstream processes and products. We shall achieve these goals by providing opportunities for publication, training and technology exchange through the interaction of metals producers, equipment suppliers and academia.”

• Nominations for Board of Director Level Awards — Distinguished Member and Fellow, Sendzimir Award, Fairless Award and Steelmaker of the Year nominations
• 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 – Sunday Abraham
• Vice-Chair – Hongbin Yin
• Papers Chair – Thinium Natarajan
• Awards Co-Chairs – Bill Jones and Sunday Abraham
• IQRSM Co-Chairs – Bill Jones and Sunday Abraham
• Young Professional Chair – Caelan Kennedy
• Digital Transformation Chair – Ron O’Malley
• Decarbonization Chair – Chad Cathcart
  • Present Chair Plaques

1. 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)

1. Next meeting

1. Chair conclusion
2. Adjourn             <1:30pm>