will vary per assignment and may include the following Lead independent research activities in collaboration with faculty advisor Participate in a weekly 1 hour research group meeting Meet weekly with graduate students to provide mentoring and research guidance Assist in preparing up to 2 proposals each year Lead/submit a minimum of 2 research papers each year, and revise/

Conduct research on the continuous casting of steel that is of practical interest to industry, by combining computational modeling with validation data from plant experiments provided by interested steel companies Prepare and submit journal publications on this research, under the direction of Professor Thomas Provide leadership and mentoring of other researchers (graduat