Viscosity Control for Consistent Casting Shell Building Dr. Sunil Kumar, Rheonics
Sunil Kumar has extensive experience in the sensors and energy sector, having worked in a variety of roles in engineering and research in his early career. Most recently Sunil worked at Baker Hughes where he led global engineering for drilling services. Sunil founded companies in US and UK that successfully commercialized innovative products. He graduated with Bachelors in Aerospace from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Masters in Mechanical engineering from University of California,
Irvine and Ph.D in Electrical engineering from Imperial College, London where he developed the Seis-SP seismometer that is part of the main payload for the NASA Insight mission to Mars. He is a prolific inventor with over 25 patents and multiple peer reviewed papers. Sunil’s vision of creating sensors for fluid property measurement that revolutionizes in-line process monitoring, control and optimization serves as the charter for rheonics.
A Novel Prime Coat Slurry Mineral for Aluminum Investment Castings
Steven Ashlock, Kyanite Mining Corp.
Steven Ashlock has worked for 8 years on the research and development of investment casting materials and refractories. He is a Ceramic Engineer and currently serves as the Director of Research and Technology for Kyanite Mining Corporation. Steven has experience in materials
analysis,
characterization, and testing, slurry design and control, casting procedures, and industrial processes. He has written several papers for the investment casting and refractories industries that primarily focus on the impact that
raw material choices have on the
performance of the end part, with an aim to reduce downtime and scrap. Steven graduated with a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is a member of the ASTM Committee on Refractories, the Vice Chair of The Refractories Institute, a member of
A Novel Prime Coat Slurry Mineral for Aluminum Investment Castings Kevin Rudolph, O’Fallon Casting
Kevin Rudolph is a process engineer at O’Fallon Casting. He received a B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineer from Missouri University of Science & Technology in 2019 and has been in the investment casting industry since graduating. At O’Fallon Casting he works towards reducing scrap and implementing new parts on the process control team.
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the Corporate Technical Achievement Award Committee for The American Ceramic Society, and is an active member of the Refractories Ceramics Division of the American Ceramics Society.
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