Steel at the millennium
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Steel at the Millennium
GORDON H. GEIGER
In considering what topic to discuss in this lecture, I reviewed many past lectures, read some of Professor Howe’s classic texts, and spent a great deal of time talking about it
Gordon H. Geiger was born and raised in the Chicago, IL area and earned his bachelor of engineering degree in metallurgy at Yale University in 1959. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees in metallurgy and materials science at Northwestern University. Dr. Geiger started his career with Allis-Chalmers, working on iron ore processing plants. He then worked on steelmaking processes in the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company research department before joining the University of Wisconsin as an assistant professor of metallurgical engineering in 1965. After a promotion to associate professor, Dr. Geiger joined the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was promoted to professor in 1971. Two years later, he joined the University of Arizona as professor and head of the metallurgical engineering department. During his teaching career, Dr. Geiger trained more than 50 graduate students, published several wellknown textbooks, and consulted for industry and government. This latter work included chairing an advisory committee to the U.S. Congress, dealing with the financial and technological needs of the steel industry. After 15 years of teaching, Dr. Geiger returned to industry as an internal consultant at Inland Steel Company and as a vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank. From 1983 to 1993, he served as vice president of North Star Steel Company, helping it to grow from three to six plants. He helped the company implement computer integrated manufacturing and total quality management and was key in the development of new technology. He also served as senior vice president of Cargill, North Star Steel’s parent company, overseeing Cargill’s research and quality management programs. In 1993, he left North Star Steel and Cargill to start a new company — Qualitech Steel. In January 1995, Qualitech Steel was incorporated. Two years later, construction started on a new state-of-the-art special bar quality steel minimill in Pittsboro, IN, and a plant in Corpus Christi, TX, to produce iron carbide. The steel mill started up in 1998 and the iron carbide plant in early 1999. METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS B
with my wife. Clearly, the majority of these lectures in the past have dwelt on technical subjects: some reviews and others presenting original research. The classic lecture on “Heat Transfer in Moving Beds of Solids” by John Elliott[1] stands out as one of the latter. However, as I reviewed these past talks, with their predictions of technological things to come, it struck me that the one topic that seemed hardly ever to come up was the economics of steel. Yet, the economics of the industry is the driver of technological advances, provides the raison d’eˆtre for us to work in the industry, and is the major source of employment for a million people in the world. With that in mind, I therefore decided to
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