For the thirty-first year, ESI Group, in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), is organizing a solidification course with the participation of renowned lecturers from Swiss, French, Austrian, Canadian, and US universities. Professor Christoph Beckermann is among the lecturers.

"Benchmark Al-Cu Solidification Experiments in Microgravity and on Earth" by Thomas J. Williams and Christoph Beckerman has been published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.

The banner for the International Conference on Advances in Solidification Processes (ICASP) 6 features an image from a computer simulation of equiaxed crystal growth using the so-called dendrite envelope model pioneered, in part, by Professor Christoph Beckermann.

Professor Christoph Beckermann will be working alongside a team at NASA to observe metal alloy grains as they are melted in a mirco-gravity furnace.

A research team led by Prof. Christoph Beckermann will compare metal samples that have been solidified in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station against similar samples formed on Earth.

Christoph Beckermann, University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and director of the UI Solidification Laboratory, will receive the 2017 Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award from the Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering.

Christoph Beckermann, University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and director of the UI Solidification Laboratory, has been selected to receive the 2017 Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the science category from ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).

A paper that is co-authored by Christoph Beckermann, University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and director of the UI Solidification Laboratory, and published in 2009 in the journal Acta Materialia, has been awarded "Highly Cited Paper" status by Web of Science/Essential Science Indicators.