Rate My Professor George Krauss

George Krauss is University Emeritus Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. He received a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1955 and M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in Metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and 1961, respectively. After working as a Development Engineer at the Superior Tube Company in 1956, he served as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1962-63. Krauss held positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at Lehigh University from 1963 to 1975. In 1975, he joined the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines as the AMAX Professor of Physical Metallurgy and later served as the John Henry Moore Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering until his retirement in 1997.

Krauss is a physical metallurgist specializing in the processing, microstructure, and properties of steels. His research areas include alloying and microstructure of steels, deformation behavior and mechanical properties of steels, heat treatment of steels including hardening, martensitic transformation, tempering, and carburizing, and fracture and failure analysis of steels. In 1984, he was a principal in establishing the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center at the Colorado School of Mines and served as its first director until 1993. He authored the book Steels: Heat Treatment and Processing Principles published by ASM International in 1990, coauthored Tool Steels, Fifth Edition in 1998, and edited or coedited several conference volumes. Krauss has published over 280 papers and lectured widely. He served as President of the International Federation of Heat Treatment and Surface Modification from 1989 to 1991 and as President of ASM International from 1996 to 1997. He is a Fellow of ASM International and has received numerous awards, including the ASM Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award in 1999, the Adolf Martens Medal, the Charles S. Barrett Silver Medal, and the George Brown Gold Medal of the Colorado School of Mines. He is an Honorary Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan and a Distinguished Member of the Iron and Steel Society of AIME.