GM Powertrain Donates Induction Furnace to FEF School

Modern Casting, Dec, 2001

The metallurgy program at Tri-State Univ. (TSU), Angola, Indiana, now can conduct steel and iron-related casting research with an induction furnace donated by General Motors (GM) Powertrains' Advance Development Laboratory, Saginaw, Michigan. TSU is one of 32 Foundry Education Foundation (FEF) member schools.

Pictured (from 1) with the induction furnace are Roger Hawks, chairman of TSU's department of mechanical and aerospace engineering; David Finley, dean of the Allen School of Engineering and Technology at TSU; Paul Barker, director of industrial engineering at Dalton Corp. and FEF board member; Luis Trueba, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; and Stephen Pruss, engineering group manager for GM Powertrain.