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Beckermann to teach in Solidification Course 2025

Monday, July 1, 2024
For the thirty-second 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.
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Beckermann to teach in Solidification Course 2024

Friday, October 27, 2023
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.
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Published: Benchmark Al-Cu Solidification Experiments in Microgravity and on Earth

Thursday, November 24, 2022
"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.
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Image from Beckermann article featured on ICASP 6 conference banner

Monday, June 20, 2022
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.
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University of Iowa professor to send metal alloys research to the International Space Station

Wednesday, September 2, 2020
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.
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UI engineers to study the grain structure of metal alloys on the International Space Station

Friday, August 21, 2020
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.
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Beckermann to Receive Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering Award

Wednesday, May 24, 2017
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.
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Beckermann to Receive Heat Transfer Memorial Award

Monday, May 8, 2017
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).
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Beckermann paper given "highly cited" status

Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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.