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Julian Szekely
Pages 256-261

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From page 257...
... He became a citizen of the United States in 1972. In 1975 he accepted an invitation to join the faculty at MIT and happily spent his last twenty years at the 257
From page 258...
... The proceedings, edited by Julian, were entitled, respectively, The Future of the World 's Steel Industry, The Steel Industry and the Environment, and The Steel Industry and the Energy Crisis. Julian's close association with the steel inclustry continued throughout his years at MIT through his contributions to many conferences, his memberships on committees of the National Research Council's National Materials Advisory Board, and his consulting visits to steel companies in the United States,
From page 259...
... They include papers about the role of turbulence in weld pool behavior, mathematical models of arc welding processes, ferrosilicon production in a plasma arc furnace, and optimization of casting design. But, as always, in a few papers he set out his always-stimulating and often controversial views on everything from the future of the global steel industry to the shortcomings of engineering education.
From page 260...
... These interests lecl, in turn, to studies of gravitational effects and, inevitably, to microgravitational processing. More than two clecacles of study of earthbound processing uniquely prepared him to enter the space age, and he seized the challenge with his unusual, unquenchable enthusiasm.
From page 261...
... respond to an award from the Max Planck Institute in flawless German or to the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in excellent French, but that, in 1992, he aciciressed the Japanese Engineering Academy for more than an hour in fluent Japanese is surely a truly remarkable achievement. He spent a sabbatical in Japan where he had many friends, some of whom hac3 studied with him in the United States, ant!


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