Colorado School of Mines Engineers Receive SAE Award for Automotive Steel Research

WARRENDALE, Pa., June 27, 2007 – A team of three engineers from the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden, Colo., are recipients of SAE International's Arch T. Colwell Merit Award.  They were presented the award during the SAE 2007 World Congress in Detroit.

This award, established in 1965, annually recognizes the authors of outstanding papers presented at an SAE or SAE section meeting. The late Arch T. Colwell, who first funded this award, served SAE International in many capacities for nearly 50 years, including a term as President in 1941. 

The SAE Foundation now funds this award. In addition to supporting the awards, recognition and scholarship programs of SAE International, the SAE Foundation develops and funds programs and incentives that foster student interest in engineering, scientific and technical education.

The following authors are recognized for their paper, "Bauschinger Effect Response of Automotive Sheet Steels" (SAE paper 2005-01-0084).

Kong Han

Han received her bachelor's from Korea Maritime University in Busan, Korea, and her master's in metallurgical and materials engineering from CSM. As a graduate student at CSM, she performed research at the CSM Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center. Han resides in Busan.

Bernard Levy

Levy is President of B.S. Levy Consultants in Chicago.  He established the consulting business in 2001 to provide technical expertise on sheet metal forming processes.  He is also an adjunct professor at CSM, providing assistance to a number of research projects within the CSM Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center. Previously, Levy worked for Inland Steel Co. in a variety of engineering and research positions for 40 years.  He also served as Editor of the Journal of Applied Metalworking and as President of the International Deep Drawing Research Group. 

Levy received his bachelor's from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master's from Columbia University. 

Chester Van Tyne

Van Tyne is the Forging Industry Education and Research Foundation (FIERF) Professor in the metallurgical and materials engineering department at CSM. He also works in the CSM Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center. Prior to joining the faculty at CSM, Van Tyne was a professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., and a research engineer at Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pa.

Van Tyne is a member of SAE International.  He earned all of his degrees from Lehigh University in Bethlehem. 

To learn more about SAE International's Arch T. Colwell Merit Award, please contact pr@sae.org.