ABOUT THE EDITORS

摘要

Dr. Matthew Krane is an Associate Professor ot Materials Engineering at Purdue University and a member of the Purdue Center for Metal Casting Research. His research is on design, development, and modeling of materials processes, with a focus on transport phenomena and microstructural development in the solidification of metal alloys. He holds a Ph.D. (1996) from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration on heat transfer and fluid flow in materials processing. His M.S. degree (1989) is from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. (1986) from Cornell University, both in mechanical engineering. In addition to consulting with the metals processing industry since the mid-1990s, he also worked on thermal packaging and manufacturing issues for Digital Equipment Corporation in Andover, Massachusetts. In 2006, he was a Visiting Research Fellow working in the Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Birmingham (UK) and has a courtesy appointment in Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering. He has served as Chair of the TMS Process Modeling and Control and Solidification Committees and is on the international technical committees for the Modeling of Casting, Welding and Advanced Solidification Processes (MCWASP) and the Liquid Metal Processing and Casting (LMPC) conference series. Professor Krane's teaching experience includes heat transfer, fluid mechanics, engineering design, materials processing, numerical modeling, and ethics in engineering practice.