FeMET awards design grants
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and
the Association for Iron & Steel Technology Foundation’s
(AIST Foundation) “Ferrous Metallurgy Education Today,”
or FeMET Initiative, has awarded its design grants for 2006.
The awards are intended to attract top talent
to the steel industry. Teams of materials science engineering students
and their professors from Carnegie Mellon University and University
of Missouri–Rolla have been granted $47,500 each to put toward
their efforts in addressing an industry technological problem or
“challenge” by working collaboratively to determine
how the problem is best solved. Their proposals included exposure
to important problems in the steel industry, as well as learning
various technical and economic aspects in creating a solution.
 The
winning proposals from the universities will tackle the 2006–2007
design theme, “Comparative Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Assessments
of Steel Products.” In response, Carnegie Mellon University
will address the problem in the project, “An Environmental
Life Cycle Comparison of Steel Versus Wood in Residential and Commercial
Construction.” The project to be taken up by the team from
University of Missouri–Rolla is titled, “Life Cycle
Greenhouse Gas Emission Comparison of Steel With Other Materials.”
“The universities are addressing one of
steel’s most important attributes — sustainability —
and we look forward to seeing the progress the teams and projects
make in the coming year,” said Andrew G. Sharkey, president
and CEO of AISI. “The Design Grant Program, a part of FeMET,
will expose metallurgy and materials science students and professors
to real-life issues and enable them to acquire better knowledge
of the North American steel industry.” |
