Metallurgy — Processing, Products & Applications Technology Committee Meeting

30 September 2025 • Hyatt Regency Columbus • Columbus, OH, USA

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Arrangements

Hyatt Regency Columbus
Address: 350 N High St, Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 463-1234

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 AIST technology committee members are asked to print out the latest revised meeting agenda from our website one week prior to this meeting.

  • Vice Chair’s opening remarks - Yash Injeti, Big River Steel    <Noon>
  • Appoint minute-taker
  • Antitrust guidelines
  • Membership and attendance
  • Review minutes of previous meeting
  • AIST Staff Announcements
  • Steel Industry Fatalities
  • Main agenda items
    • AISTech session development - Nilesh Kumar, University of Alabama
    • 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 2026
  • 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 Training conferences

9.    Conferences/Webinars

Recaps:

  • 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

Upcoming:

10.    Technology committee award planning 2026 – Awards Chair Matt Enloe

11.    Metallurgy Award Recipients 2025

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

12.    Elected MPPATC Officers 2025/2026

    • Chair: Mario Buchely, Missouri S&T
    • Vice Chair (MS&T 2025 Representative): Yash Injeti, Big River Steel
    • MS&T 2026 Representative: Venkata Natarajan, Big River Steel
    • Papers Chair: Dr. Nilesh Kumar, University of Alabama and co-Papers Chair Pallavi Pant, ArcelorMittal
    • Digitalization Liaison: Malavikha Rajivmoorthy Cleveland Cliffs
    • Awards Chair: Matthew Enloe, SDI
    • YP Chair: Ahsan Munna, SDI
    • Decarbonization Liaison: Viraj Athavale, Nucor Steel Memphis

MS&T 2025 Representative: Yash Injeti, Big River Steel
MS&T 2026 Representative: Venkata Natarajan, Big River Steel
MS&T 2027 Representative: Nilesh Kumar, University of Alabama
MS&T 2028 Representative: Pallavi Pant, ArcelorMittal

13.    Next meeting – 4-6 May AISTech 2026 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA

14.    Vice Chair conclusion - Yash Injeti, Big River Steel

15.    Adjourn    <2:00 p.m.>