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MDL
Materials Design
Laboratory
Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT)
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
San 31, Hyoja Dong, Nam-Gu
Pohang, Kyungbuk, 790-784
South Korea
Introduction to MDL, the Materials Design Laboratory of GIFT.
The research focus of the Materials Design Laboratory is the
science and technology of steel products. The Materials Design Laboratory
plays a research leadership role in the areas of Advanced Automotive
Steels, Galvanized products, Electrical Steels, Stainless steels
and Steel Grades related to Power Transportation and Generation.
The Materials Design Laboratory combines expertise in the areas
of steel products technologies, processing and process simulation,
with a special emphasis on hot rolling, cold rolling, continuous
annealing and galvanizing.
In addition, materials testing, physical properties determination,
and steel micro-characterization using advanced and less common
techniques are also active research domains of the Materials Design
Laboratory.
Research within the Materials Design Laboratory has a pronounced
focus on technology and technical innovations through steel research.
Whereas most materials engineering research tends to be midway between
the fundamental and the purely technical, true innovation, with
the potential for a large impact on future development, is generated
when the research emphasizes either fundamental science or advanced
technological breakthroughs. That is the reason why the Materials
Design Laboratory approach to steel products research, development
and innovation is driven by a strong industry-MDL interaction with
clear medium-term aims. Having said this, the Materials Design Laboratory
also provides basic research support, on a long term basis, for
strategic steel product domains.
The Materials Design Laboratory gives its MS and PhD students
a rigorous scientific and technical training in materials research,
coupled to a sense for innovation and originality in steel products
design. Research within the Materials Design Laboratory is focused
on innovation in steel products: the MS and PhD thesis completed
by MDL students is always technology-oriented, with an emphasis
on key industry research interests. The development of effective
communication, organizational, and international team-working skills
is very important and given a lot of attention within the Materials
Design Laboratory research team. This is achieved through the preparation
of project progress meetings, the participation to international
conferences, and the writing of reports and journal publications.
During their graduate studies MDL students develop other crucial
professional skills such as learning to do research work with constraints
related to deadlines, means and clear deliverables.
The director of MDL is professor Dr. Ir. Bruno Charles De Cooman
(PhD, Cornell University, USA). Dr. De Cooman started his academic
career in ferrous metallurgy research as director of the Laboratory
for Iron and Steelmaking (LISm) at Ghent University in Belgium after
10 years in industrial materials research and research management.
His research interests include the solid state physics of ferrous
alloys, materials micro-analysis and ferrous products development.
He is the author and co-author of more that 300 publications in
the field of materials research. In the Graduate Institute of Ferrous
Technology he is also responsible for Academic Affairs. Dr. De Cooman
was recipient of a Fulbright-Hays fellowship, the Prof. K. Bollengier
Prize, the MRS Award, the Gilbert R. Speich Award, the Mechanical
Working and Steel Processing Conference Meritorious Award, the Michael
C. Tenenbaum Award, the Steel Research Best Paper Award and the
APDIC Industrial Award. He is board member of ¡°Steel Research International¡±
(Germany), ¡°Steel Grips¡± (Germany) and ¡°Frontiers in Materials
Science in China¡± (China). He is a member of AIST (USA), ISIJ (Japan)
and TMS (USA). He is co-author of the textbook ¡°Materials Design.
The Key to Modern Steel Products¡± (ISBN 978-3-937057-13-2), published
by GRIPS Media (Germany).
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