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FeMET
Design Grant
FeMET Scholarship
FeMET Curriculum Development
Program
AISI
and AIST Foundation launched the “Ferrous Metallurgy Education Today”
Initiative Aimed at Attracting Top Talent to the North American Steel
Industry.
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) teamed
up with the Association for Iron and Steel Technology Foundation
(AIST Foundation) to create the Ferrous Metallurgy Education Today
(FeMET) Initiative. Its three goals are to compel more students
to choose metallurgy or materials science as their field of study;
to recruit more of such graduates into the steel industry and to
increase the number of professors knowledgeable in steel in North
American universities.
The
program’s comprehensive strategy includes a scholarship
and summer internship program for college juniors and seniors, a
design grant program,
a curriculum
development program and a steel industry-university
advisory round table.
Up to ten
recipients of the scholarship and summer internship program will
be awarded $5,000 their third year, a paid summer internship with
a North American steel company between their third and fourth year,
and $5,000 toward their fourth year tuition.
It
is the program’s goal that this scholarship
and summer internship provides incentive for students to become
involved in the steel industry. As a result, students entering the
program are ensured a two-year commitment by the program, provided
a satisfactory performance by the student both academically and
in their internship.
The
Design Grant
portion of the program will direct a team of students and professors
to address an industry problem or “challenge” by working
collaboratively to determine how the problem is best solved. Design
Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis.
The
Curriculum Development
program, an important element in the FeMET Initiative,
will develop steel-centric course materials and themes to deepen
the exposure students receive to ferrous metallurgy and to the steel
industry as it functions today.
In
order for the program to work successfully, a “Steel-University
Advisory Round Table” made up of universities and steel companies
in North America, as well as representatives from AISI and the AIST
Foundation, will be formed. This group will ensure a close working
relationship between its members on critical issues within the FeMET
Initiative including relevant curriculum, recruiting and student
placement.
The
Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) was formed on
1 Jan 2004, by the merger of the Iron & Steel Society and
the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers. AIST is an international
technical association representing iron and steel producers, their
allied suppliers and related academia. The association is dedicated
to advancing the technical development, production, processing and
application of iron and steel. The AIST Foundation seeks to attract
young technology-oriented professionals to the industry by promoting
the high-tech, diverse and well-paying natures of careers in modern
steelmaking.
AISI
serves as the voice of the North American steel industry in the
public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace
as the preferred material of choice. AISI also plays a lead role
in the development and application of new steels and steelmaking
technology. AISI is comprised of 32 member companies, including
integrated and electric furnace steelmakers, and 118 associate and
affiliate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel
industry. AISI's member companies represent approximately 75 percent
of both U.S. and North American steel capacity. For more news about
steel and its applications, view AISI’s website at www.steel.org.
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