Richard J. Fruehan Award for Best Paper

TECHNOLOGY DIVISION VI: METALLURGY
Richard J. Fruehan Award for Best Paper

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HISTORY AND PURPOSE

Established in 2005 to honor Dr. Richard J. Fruehan, a devoted teacher and outstanding scientist whose dedication to his students, the association and the steel industry is well documented by his numerous technical publications and the number of his former students that now participate in the steel industry. This award is presented to the author of a process metallurgy technical paper judged to be the best of class by the AIST Metallurgy – Processing, Products and Applications Technology Committee.

RECIPIENTS
2013		Development Of Technology For The Production Of HIC Resistant Slabs For Sour Service Applications At Arcelormittal Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico Jorge Nieto, Tomas Elias, German Lopez, Gustavo Campos, Francisco Lopez, Ruben Garcia, Amar K De
2012		How to Evaluate a Process for Clean Steelmaking and Quality Control Pallava Kaushik, Hongbin Yin, Howard M. Pielet, Michael L. Lowry
2011		Robert Pierer, Christian Bernhard, “The Nature of Internal Defects in Continuously Cast Steel and Their Impact on Final Product Quality.”
2010		Eugene B. Pretorius, Helmut G. Oltmann, Thomas R. Cash, “The Effective Modification of Spinel Inclusions by Ca-treatment in LCAK Steel”
2008		Mark A. Nicholls, Zafer Koont, Brian D. Nelson, Darren Bray, Jeffrey Felker, “Cooper Plating Phenomenon During Pickling of Steel.”
2007		Chris R. Killmore, Heather Creely, Andrew W. Phillips, Harold Kaul, Peter Campbell, Michael A. Schueren, James G. Williams, Walter Blejde, “Development of Ultrathin Cast Strip Products by the CASTRIP Process.”
2006		K. Miyata, M. Wakita, S. Fukushima, M. Eto, T. Sasaki, T. Shibahara, “Super Short Interval Multi-pass Rolling Technology for Manufacturing Ultrafine-grained Steel Sheet”