Institute Medal

Institute Medal

The American Iron and Steel Institute Medal has been awarded each year since 1929 to the author(s) of a technical paper having special merit and importance in connection with the activities and interests of the iron and steel industry. The Medal is awarded by the AISI Board of Directors on the recommendation of the Committee on Manufacturing Technology.

2025 Institute Medal Winner

ArcelorMittal Global R&D Laboratories

“CFD Modeling of the Industrial-Scale Bottom-Fired Direct Reduced Iron Reforming Process.” 
— Sirisha Parvathaneni and Marcelo W. Andrade of ArcelorMittal Global R&D Laboratories

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Finalist:
“A Mesoscale Crystal Plasticity Model to Predict Room-Temperature Deformation and Martensitic Transformation of High Strength Quenching and Partitioning (Q&P) Steels and Validation with Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction” 
— Jiahao Cheng and Xiaohua Hu from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Narayan S. Pottore, Brian Lin, Sriram Sadagopan and Hong Zhu from ArcelorMittal Global R&D Laboratories