The governing boards of the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) and the AIST Foundation will “pause in place” due to the coronavirus pandemic. The two boards change over each year following AISTech – The Iron & Steel Conference and Exposition. With the cancellation of AISTech 2020, AIST announces that the current seated members of the two boards will extend their terms for one year.
Those members slated to vacate the boards in May 2020 will remain through AISTech 2021. Those members slated to vacate the boards in May 2021 will remain through AISTech 2022.
Ronald J. O’Malley, F. Kenneth Iverson chair, professor in Steelmaking Technologies and director of the Kent D. Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, will continue in his role of president of AIST for 2020–2021. O’Malley succeeds James F. Dudek, vice president, manufacturing support and engineering, United States Steel Corporation, Gary, Indiana.
Published in the October 2020 Edition
