Instructors

3–4 March 2026 • Hilton Fort Worth • Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Michael J. PereticMichael J. Peretic

Retired, SMS group Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., USA

Michael Peretic holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He began his career in the metals industry at Alcoa’s R&D Center, working in areas relating to process understanding and improvement. He moved to SMS group in 1996 to work in process analysis and process rolling studies for the Flat Rolling Mill group. Peretic has served on both the AIST Hot Sheet Rolling Technology Committee and the AIST Cold Sheet Rolling Technology Committee. Further, he has been a regular presenter in both AIST’s Hot Sheet Rolling and Cold Sheet Rolling Seminars, and he has also been a frequent author/coauthor and chair in the technical paper sessions at AISTech conferences. He retired from SMS group at the end of 2019.

Bryan Webler

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., USA

Webler is a faculty member in the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He received a B.S. degree in engineering physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 and an M.S. degree (2007) and Ph.D. (2008) in materials science and engineering from CMU. From 2008 to 2013, he was a senior engineer in the Materials Technology Department of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Webler joined CMU in 2013. His research interests are primarily in the reactions between steels and their environments, both during processing and in service. Webler is involved in projects studying inclusion evolution during steel processing, high-temperature oxidation of steels and other alloys, corrosion of stainless steels, and microstructure evolution during additive manufacturing of steels. He also teaches classes on computational thermodynamics and corrosion of metals. He received the Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award from the AIST Foundation in 2015 and was named an AIST Steel Professor in 2019.