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Professor Robert A. Heard
Associate Teaching Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto

3301 Wean Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

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Phone: (412) 268-2705

Research Interests

Robert's current interests are focused on the educational aspects of Materials Science and Engineering, involving aspects of many other disciplines such as psychology, public policy, environmental engineering, business, pedagogy and others. He teaches Professional Development and the laboratory of the Materials for the 21^st Century. In addition he coordinates the educational laboratory program for undergraduate curriculum and the Industrial Internship program for the department.

Biography

Robert is a teaching faculty member in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Past work includes activities as an industrial consultant, entrepreneur/president of two companies, and vice president positions in several engineering companies. He has served on the Board of Directors of the AIST, worked on several committees in professional societies, and is a member of AIST, ASM, TMS and ASEE. He has authored 21 technical papers on steelmaking, casting, plasma and alternate iron technologies and authored a book on the Horizontal Continuous Casting of Steel.

Recent Publications

"Recycling of Zinc Bearing Residues with the PRIMUS Process" R. Heard T. Hansmann, J.L. Roth, D. Bolten, 60^th Electric furnace Conf Proc., ISS-AIME, (2002)

"A New Process for Iron from Ore" R. Heard T. Hansmann, R. Frieden, J.L. Roth, AISE Conference and Steel Expo Proc., AISE, (2002)

"Recycling of Zinc Bearing Residues with the PRIMUS Process" R. Heard T. Hansmann, J.L. Roth, D. Bolten , 85th Steelmaking and 61^st Ironmaking Conf Proc., ISS-AIME, (2002)

"Energy Utilization in a Hot Metal Charged Arc Furnace" J.L. Roth, H. Lessmann, R. Heard, 57^th Electric Furnace Conf Proc., ISS-AIME, (1999)

"Technological Developments for High Speed Casting of Sensitive Steel Grades" R. Heard, N. Kaell, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 38, No. 5, (1999)

"Modeling Flow in the High Volume Horizontal Continuous Casting Tundish" R. Heard, Trans. I.S.S., (1992)