Noon

1. Chair’s opening remarks – Shannon Clark
2. Appoint minute-taker
3. Antitrust guidelines
4. Membership and attendance
5. Review minutes of previous meeting
6. AIST Staff Announcements
7. Safety Discussion - Steel Industry Fatalities

Main agenda items

• AISTech session development - Venkata Vignesh Natarajan

  • Selection of Abstracts (Due by 16 Sept) – (Handle via conference call if necessary)

  • Determine session structure (Due by 28 Oct) including session titles & session chairs

  • Review Papers Chair and Session Chair instructions

• Solicit Session Chair Volunteers for AISTech 2025

• Finalize AISTech call for papers for next year

♦ METALLURGY — PROCESSING, PRODUCTS & APPLICATIONS
The interrelation of production processes and product properties (dimensional and metallurgical), including liquid and solid steel processing, and products ranging from sheet and plate to tubular and long products, as well as finished components. Papers are being sought for process metallurgy and product application of low- and high-strength steels and advanced high-strength steels (AHSS), with focus on the fundamental aspects from microstructure to mechanical properties. Additional topics of interest include: development of new process technologies and products, process/product quality problems and control.

• Technology committee award planning - Awards Chair Matt Enloe, SDI

• AIST Adolf Martens Award Lecturer:

Amar K. De, Director, Product Development and Quality, Big River Steel — A U. S. Steel Co., Osceola, Ark., USA
Title: Thin-Slab Continuous Strip Processing Technology — Changing the Landscape of How We Make Greener and Leaner Advanced High-Strength Steels

• Jerry Silver Award, 

Title: “In-Situ Observation of the Solidification of X70 Steel Using High-Temperature Confocal Scanning Laser Microscope.”
Authors: Katelyn Kiser, Viraj A. Athavale, Laura Bartlett, Ronald O’Malley, Mario Buchely.

• Gilbert R. Speich Award, 

Title: “Evolution of Phase Transformations and Mechanical Properties During Hot Stamping Operations.”
Authors: Garrett Angus, Eliseo Hernandez, Michelle Labaere, Wesley Lengyel

• Richard J. Fruehan Award 

Title: "Different Approaches to Trace the Source of Non-Metallic Inclusions in Steel."
Authors: Kathrin Thiele, Sergiu Ilie, Roman Rössler, Christoph Walkner, Thomas C. Meisel, Thomas Prohaska, Susanne K. Michelic

• Finalize committee roundup (if applicable)

• Technology Training conference 

  • Automotive Steel International Conference
    9–12 March 2025, Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista | Disney Springs® Area, Orlando, FL, USA

  • International Rolling Conference
    September 2025

  • Micro-alloy Conference
    June 2025, Vail, CO

  • Long & Forged
    June 2026, TBD

Webinars

• Study Tour planning (if applicable)

Discussion items

MS&T Representatives

• MS&T 2024 Representative: Mario Buchely, Missouri S&T

• MS&T 2025 Representative: Yash Injeti, Big River Steel

• MS&T 2025 Representative: Venkata Natarajan

Responsibilities include: attend virtual meeting to reviewing the MS&T symposia proposals with the associations, organize the Advances in Ferrous Metallurgy Symposia at MS&T, present the Adolf Martens Award Plaque to the winner and introduce speaker. 

Next meeting

Chair conclusion – Shannon Clark

2 p.m.

Adjourn