  {"id":109820,"date":"2022-08-08T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T18:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=109820"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:43:05","slug":"uwm-engineering-students-save-wisconsin-steel-company-43000-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-engineering-students-save-wisconsin-steel-company-43000-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"51ÁÔÆæ engineering students save Wisconsin steel company $43,000 a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based entirely on the work of four materials engineering students, a Saukville specialty steel manufacturer saved $43,095 last year. And those savings will continue into the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting in spring 2021, Charter Steel fully implemented an idea proposed by the 51ÁÔÆæ student team that was tasked in its capstone materials engineering class with developing ways for the company to reduce the cost of a heat-treatment cycle used to produce a particular steel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The student team consisted of Zachary Breider, Ismael Coello, Davan Siegfried and Hannah Ullberg.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109822\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109822\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/08\/steel-Zachary-Breider-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachary Breider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ben Church, associate professor of materials science and engineering, served as the students\u2019 faculty advisor and Ted Fitzpatrick, a process metallurgist at Charter Steel, was the team\u2019s industry contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe students knocked it out of the park,\u201d Fitzpatrick said. \u201cThe entire reason we changed the heat-treatment cycle was because of the work the student group did. They took it above and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, he said, the company saves $631 every time it runs this cycle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Environmental benefits and indirect savings are not included in these cost savings. These include less wear and tear on Charter Steel\u2019s annealing furnaces and a lower consumption of processed gas.<\/p>\n<h3>Industry members are the heart of student capstones<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In their capstone project, the students designed a process that uses less time, less energy and fewer resources to produce the same high-quality steel. In metallurgical terms, Church said, they showed how Charter Steel\u2019s heat-treatment cycle time could be reduced from 10 to four hours while maintaining the critical structure needed for a particular steel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109823\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109823\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/08\/steel-Hannah-Ullberg-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Ullberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Breider \u2014 who chose 51ÁÔÆæ for its internship opportunities and location in a strong manufacturing city \u2014 the capstone project\u2019s highlights were experiencing the support of industry members and applying his classroom lessons to the real world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt was cool to talk with real-life engineers who showed interest in college students and facilitating their growth,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd while it\u2019s great and dandy to learn about stuff in a textbook, it doesn\u2019t mean much until you apply it\u2026 We had an amazing experience with this project and none of it would have been possible without Dr. Church and Ted Fitzpatrick.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109824\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109824\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/08\/steel-Ismael-Coello-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ismael Coello<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After graduation, Charter Steel hired Breider full-time as an associate engineer in its materials rotational program, a two- to three-year experience in which new graduates work with various departments in one of the company\u2019s three plants with the goal of accelerating their professional growth and development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, the rest of the team graduated from 51ÁÔÆæ in materials engineering and are on \u201cstrong career trajectories,\u201d Church said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coello \u2014 who emigrated from Mexico at age 6 and is the first in his family to graduate from college \u2014 began a doctoral program at Northwestern University. Siegfried began graduate school at 51ÁÔÆæ while simultaneously starting a career at Metallurgical Associates in Waukesha as a chemical and materials engineer. Ullberg was hired by GE Aviation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe student team showed strong creativity and problem-solving skills throughout the project,\u201d Church said, \u201cand Charter Steel was an outstanding partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Metallurgy a \u201cbeautiful science\u201d<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_109825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109825\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109825\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2022\/08\/steel-DavanSiegfried-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davan Siegfried<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today\u2019s metallurgists are creating materials that advance not only the steel industry, but also sustainability, health and medicine, aircraft, and space exploration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breider is fully aware that many people misunderstand modern-day metallurgy and other materials sciences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t always tell people I\u2019m a metallurgist. They look at me like I\u2019m an alien,\u201d said Breider, who prior to coming to 51ÁÔÆæ earned a bachelor\u2019s in physics at UW-La Crosse through UW System\u2019s Dual Degree Program in Physics and Engineering. (The five-year program enables students to receive a BS in physics from UW-La Crosse and an engineering major from another university.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u201cBut it\u2019s a beautiful science that relates to everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charter Steel implemented an idea proposed by a 51ÁÔÆæ student team that figured out a way for the company to reduce the cost of a heat-treatment cycle used to produce a particular 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