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The J. Keith Brimacombe Memorial Lecture
Monday, 7 May • 8–8:45 a.m. • Room A412, Georgia World Congress Center |
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The Brimacombe
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| Dr. Alan W. Cramb |
Memorial Lecture was established in 1999 to honor Dr. J. Keith Brimacombe’s outstanding accomplishments in the area of process metallurgy, his dedication to the steel industry and his profound effect on people in the industry. The award is granted in recognition of an individual dedicated to the steel industry to acquaint members, students and engineers with the many exciting opportunities that exist in the area of process metallurgy and to inspire them to pursue careers in this field. The Brimacombe Memorial Lecture is also the 2012 AIME Keynote.
The 2012 lecturer is Dr. Alan W. Cramb. Dr. Cramb is the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at The Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is responsible for the academic programs and mission of the institute. He is also the Charles and Lee Finkl Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. Cramb received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and subsequently spent seven years conducting and managing research within the steel industry. In 1986 he joined the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and in 1990 became the co-director of the Center for Iron and Steelmaking. In 1997 he was appointed as the Posco Professor of Iron and Steelmaking, and in 2000 became head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department. From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Cramb was appointed the dean of engineering and the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He is the author of more than 200 publications and two patents and was the recipient of the AISI Medal in 1985 and 1986 and the Robert Woolston Hunt Award of the Iron & Steel Society (ISS) in 1987. He was named an ISS Professor in 1992 and was awarded the Benjamin Richard Teare Award at CMU for excellence in engineering education in 1995. Cramb was the president and was elected as a Fellow of ISS in 2000. He was named the John Elliott lecturer of TMS/ISS in 2002. In 2003 he was awarded the Benjamin Fairless Award of AIME. He became president of AIME, was chairman of the University Materials Council and a board member of ABET in 2005. In 2007 he gave the Henry Marion Howe lecture of AIME/AIST. In 2009 he was elected as an Honorary Member of AIME and as a Fellow of ASM. He has graduated 18 doctoral and 35 master’s students and has given more than 100 presentations worldwide.
Dr. Cramb’s lecture is entitled, “Steel Research — Then, Now and Tomorrow.” In this paper, the role of research that is focused on process improvement (know how) will be compared to research that is fundamental in nature (know why). The role and importance of both types of research in the steel industry in our past, present and future will be discussed (know why and how). Based on this comparison, potential future interactions between universities and industry that could lead to radical process innovation will be suggested, as that will lead us to know what must be done next. |
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