Iowa Engineering staffer donates Steel Founders award prize to department
Richard Hardin, a mechanical engineering research scientist at the University of Iowa Solidification Laboratory, has been honored by the Steel Founders’ Society of America (SFSA) for contributions to the field.
Over his nearly 30-year career at Iowa, Hardin has advanced custom-made software for casting process control, capabilities of commercially available casting simulation software, and novel approaches for casting mechanical performance prediction. He has also been an author on 97 publications.
Hardin won the Thomas E. Barlow Award of Honor, which is one of the society’s top three accolades. The society’s mission is to advance the steel casting industry through “manufacturing and design R&D, customer education, specifications development, and 120 years of operating and business knowledge.”
