Metalcasting Industry Roadmap Charles Monroe


Assistant Professor, Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham camonroe@uab.edu (205) 975-4128


Charles Monroe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham in the Department of Material Science and Engineering. He is also the Assistant Director of the MPAD Center which is a multiple material manufacturing center focused on metal casting and composite manufacturing at production size parts (meter size). The metal casting capability include aluminum, iron, steel, magnesium pouring with chemically bonded sand or lost foam technologies to name a few. Charles received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa.


Raymond Monroe Executive 9LFH 3UHVLGHQW 6WHHO )RXQGHUV¶ 6RFLHW\ RI $PHULFD &U\VWDO /DNH ,/ monroe@sfsa.org (815) 455-8240


Mr. Monroe is the Executive Vice President of the Steel founders Society of America. Prior to this, for a year he worked for Saturn Corporation, a General Motors subsidiary, in the lost foam casting area. Mr. Monroe also was the Research Director of SFSA for five years before leaving to join Saturn Corporation. Other past experience includes contract research in metallurgy, failure analysis and casting processes at the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama for six years; and, while a student, working for NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center.


He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University and received his M.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Alabama -Birmingham in 1980. He is active in the American Society for Testing and Materials and the American Foundry Society.


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