Project: Halligan Bar Cast in Steel 2024 competition challenged university students to use modern casting tools to creatively design and produce a functioning version of a Halligan bar – a multipurpose tool used by firefighters to gain access to building spaces, vehicles, and for a multitude of other emergency uses. Designed by and named for …
Cast in Steel 2022
View the 2021 competition – Thor’s Hammer Project: Celtic Leaf Sword Cast in Steel 2022 competition challenges university students to use modern casting tools to creatively design and produce a functioning version of a Celtic Leaf Sword. Each Sword will be put through a series of tests appropriate for these types of swords. All submissions …
Cast in Steel 2019
Award winners Main Awards Best Performance – Instituto Technológico de Morelia Best Engineering Design – Texas State University Special Awards (Runners up) Engineering Design – Cal Poly-Pomona Team#1 & Penn State-Behrend Most Captivating Design – Pittsburg State Most Likely To Succeed – University of South Alabama Most Historically Accurate – Mississippi State Best Axe Swinger …
Cast in Steel 2021
The Event Your browser does not support the video tag. Award winners Main Awards Pittsburg State University: Best Performance & Runner up for the Best Technical Report Penn State Behrend: Best Technical Report University of South Alabama: Best Project Video “Ben’s Honorable Mentions” University of South Alabama: Most Creative Alloy Combination Art et Métiers Science …
Cast in Steel 2020
Experience the event including awards and Q&A with Ben (38 minute video) Many thanks for the generous donation of our sponsor, MAGMA Foundry Technologies, Inc. Award winners Main Awards Best Performance – Virginia Tech Best Technical Report – Texas A & M University Best Video – University of South Alabama “Ben’s Best” Recognized for special …
Cast in Steel 2023
2023 Competition Winners TOP 3 GRAND PRIZE WINNER: California Polytechnic University, Pomona – Steel Broncos 2nd – University of Wisconsin – Platteville – Pour’n Pioneers 3rd – Grand Valley State – GVSU Casting Club Best Design and Process 1st – Grand Valley State – GVSU Casting Club 2nd – University of Wisconsin-Platteville – Pour’n Pioneers …
View the video – Prototyping New Steel Casting Designs: What to Accomplish and Why?
This episode is Part 1 of a 2-Part series addressing a steel casting producer’s challenge of launching new business… the launch of a customer’s new design. These two episodes profess the rarely used, but undeniably efficient use of “Immediate Prototyping.” In the zeal to realize the new business from a new design’s launch, it is …
SFSA Casteel Reporter – April 2024
Why have capital intensive industries like ours been low in profitability and unable to justify investment? This I think is the fundamental question we face. My best understanding is that we are located in a region that has legacy and a practice of burdening us with economic externalities that cause our costs to be high …
View the video – Risering Principles for the 3 Steel Casting Alloy Sub-Groups
This episode constitutes Part 2 in the set of 2 that addresses the manufacturing engineering of steel casting mechanical properties, cosmetic appearance, and mitigation of reoxidation inclusions. Specifically, the 2 parts are Webinar 9, Gating, and this Webinar 10, Risering. The two webinars address all of the fundamental principles in the manufacturing engineering of a …
SFSA Casteel Reporter – February 2024
Last year we did a strategic issues planning session after the Research Review and identified workforce development as the highest ranked set of action item, Retain (and attract) workforce – this is the subject of this month’s Casteel Commentary. Cast in Steel 2024 Competition This year’s competition is shaping up to be the largest yet, …