Training Seminars

 

Presented refractory, slag and process training seminars to management, professional and hourly personnel addressing site specific topics: steel companies and refractory manufacturers in the US and other countries (1980 to present).

 

Invited speaker: Ladle Refractory and Secondary Steelmaking training: Nashville, TN, Oct. 7-10, 2024; Tempe, AZ, Oct. 3-5, 2023; Orlando, FL, Oct. 4 to 6, 2022.

 

Invited presenter: Ladle Refractory and Secondary Steelmaking training seminar, AIST Specialty Conf.: Colorado Springs, CO, Oct. 5 to 7, 2021, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 14-17, 2019 Charleston, SC, Oct. 22-25, 2018, Milwaukee, WI, Oct. 23-26, 2017, Birmingham, AL, Oct. 11-13, 2016, Memphis, TN Oct. 5-8, 2015 Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 6-8, 2014, Charleston, SC, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2013

 

Invited presenter: Refractory and Slags, Modern Electric Fce. Steelmaking – A Practical Training Seminar: Specialty Steelmaking break-out section, AIST Specialty Conf., Charleston, SC, Feb. 6-10, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 19-22, 2009

 

Chair and presenter: Ladle Refractory Training Seminar, AIST Specialty Conf., Oct. 2-3, 2012, Jacksonville, FL, Oct. 25-26, 2011, Merrillville, IN, Oct. 12-13, 2010, Birmingham, AL, March 1-2, 2010

 

Presenter of the Refractory section, Stainless Steelmaking and Casting Training Seminar, AIST 2007 Specialty Conf., Cleveland, OH, Oct. 21-23, 2007

 

Conducted quality training classes for replacement workers during a strike (2006 and 2007)

 

Presented refractory, slag and process seminars to management and hourly personnel on an as needed basis at Armco, AKSteel, steel and iron making companies. (1980 to present)

 

Organized and taught: Ladle Refractories and Slags at the ISS Chicago Section Meeting, Merrillville, IN, with U. Pretorius and R. Marr; Jan. 1996 and Jan. 1995, and at the ISS Off the Record meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 1995

 

Taught part of the Armco Mansfield Works start up training courses for meltshop, caster and masonry personnel, 1994

 

Organized and taught: Refractories for Reheat Furnaces, at the Globetrotters Meeting, St. Charles, Illinois, Sept. 1991

 

Organized and taught: Melt Shop Refractories, at the Off the Record Meeting, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 1990, with B. Brezny

 

Presentations

“Refractories for Green Steelmaking”, Keynote address at the AIST 6th Annual Australian and New Zealand Steel Symposium, Melbourne, Australia February 10-11, 2025

 

“Refractory Sustainability and Steel Challenges”, AIST Refractory Systems Committee Oct. 2023

 

“The Time has Come for Refractory Sustainability”, Am. Ceram. Soc. St. Louis Section/Refractory Ceramics Division 58th Annual Symposium, March 2023

 

“Metal Anchors: An Abbreviated Review”, UNITECR Chicago, USA, 2022

 

“The Elkem Furnace, a Submerged Arc Furnace Used for Copper”, AIST Refractory Committee, Febr. 2020

 

“Refractories: Yesterday’s Challenges / Today’s Opportunities”, AK Steel Research, 2018

 

“Glass Furnaces: Refractory Challenges”, Am. Ceram. Soc. St. Louis Section/Refractory Ceramics Division, 54th annual symposium, 2018

 

“Microscopy of Steel Mill Refractories”, Micrs. Soc. Ohio River Valley Spring Meeting, April 2016

 

“Antioxidants: Role and Effect or what we call metal additions”, Am. Ceram. Soc. St. Louis Section/Refractory Ceramics Division, 52st annual symposium, 2016

 

“Failure Analysis”, Missouri Univ. of S&T, Materials Science & Engr., Refractory Seminar, 2009

 

“Ladle Sands: Testing and Application”, ISS Electric Fce. Conf., 1990

 

“Laboratory Testing of Boron Nitride Break Rings”, ISS Electric Fce. Conf., 1985

 

“Evaluation of Zircon Brick for Ladle Slag Lines”, Am. Cer. Soc. Fall Meeting, 1983

Awards

AIME Oral History Participant, 2022

The oral history project aims ”to preserve and promote achievements in our fields and share prominent member stories with future generations”.

 

The Benjamin F. Fairless Award (AIME/AIST) 2021

For a lifetime of contributions to the steel industry; and for her tireless and enthusiastic dedication to the support of steelmakers, the Iron & Steel Society and AIST, and to educating the next generation of refractory specialists in understanding the importance of refractories and their use.

 

Distinguished Member and Fellow, AIST 2021

For her exceptional tenacity in maintaining the industry’s focus on the importance of, and dependence upon, refractories within the steel production process routes; for her valuable contributions to improving these steelmaking processes; and for her service as a dedicated committee member and educator for the past 35 years. Engel is an outstanding role model and mentor for women engineers around the world.

 

The T.J. Planje St. Louis Refractories Award 2021

For distinguished achievement in the field of refractories

 

35 Year Life Member AIST 2019

Write up published April 2019 Iron and Steel Technology

 

Armco Research Technical Achievement Award 1997

for “Improvements to the AOD Refining Process”, with W. Beltz and L. Evans

 

Clarence E. Sims Award 1994

In appreciation of long and continuous support of the Electric Fce. Division of the ISS

 

ISS Electric Furnace Conference 1991

Honorable Mention for Best Paper in the Melt Shop Refractories Session