IJMC Staff Staff
Editor-in-Chief Thomas Prucha,
tprucha@afsinc.org
Technical Editors Stephen Robison,
str@afsinc.org Scott Lammers,
scottl@afsinc.org Sue Thomas-Sadowski,
sthomas@afsinc.org
Production David Krugman,
dkrugman@afsinc.org Henry Parrilli,
hparrilli@afsinc.org
Publisher Alfred Spada,
aspada@afsinc.org
Circulation Barbara Jackowski,
bjackowski@afsinc.org
Administrative Assistant/Peer Review Pamela Lassila,
plassila@afsinc.org
IJMC Advisory & Board of Review
Gerald Call, American Foundry Society, Schaumburg, IL, USA Diran Apelian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA Lars Arnberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Charles Bates, AlchemCast L.L.C, Birmingham, AL, USA Liu Baicheng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Christoph Beckermann, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Glenn Byczynski, Nemak Europe GmbH, Dillengen, Germany John Campbell, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Gerald Cole, LightWeightStrategies LLC, Franklin, MI, USA Paul Crepeau, General Motors Corp., Pontiac, MI, USA Alan Druschitz, University of Alabama/Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA George Goodrich, Stork Climax Research Services, Branch, MI, USA Milan Horacek, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic John Jorstad, JLJ Technologies Inc., Richmond, VA, USA Seymour Katz, S. Katz Associates Inc., West Bloomfield, MI, USA Carl Loper, C R L Corp Ltd, Madison, WI, USA J. Frederick Major, Alcan International Inc., Kingston, ON, Canada Paul Mikkola, Retired, Metal Casting Technology Inc, Milford, NH, USA Thang Nguyen, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia William Powell, Retired, ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, Waupaca, WI, USA Von Richards, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA Pradeep Rohatgi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA Gary Ruff, SMW Automotive, Rochester Hills, MI, USA Mahi Sahoo, CANMET, Ottawa, ON, Canada Geoffrey Sigworth, Foseco Metallurgical Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA Darius Singh, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand Doru Stefanescu, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Srinath Viswanathan, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Robert Voigt, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Qigui Wang, GM Powertrain, Pontiac, MI, USA David Weiss, Eck Industries Inc., Manitowoc, WI, USA Jacob Zindel, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, USA
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