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Stanley M. Howard Financial Planning Officer

Stanley Howard is professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He began his professional service in 1966 as a student at Colorado School of Mines as a member of The Metallurgical Society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), which transitioned to TMS in 1989. He has served on many TMS committees including the TMS Extraction & Processing Division Council and the Nominating, Financial Planning, Professional Registration, Waste Minimization and Recycling, Physical Chemistry, Publications, and Education committees. He has also conducted several short courses on computer applications in materials and metallurgical engineering in conjunction with TMS Annual Meetings.

Howard is the Material Advantage Student Chapter Advisor at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where he served as department chair from 1994–2000 and was awarded the campus Presidential Award in recognition of excellence in teaching, scholarly activity, and community service in 1994. In 2004, he received the AIME Mineral Industry Educator Award. He has been a registered professional engineer since 1973 and a senior member of TMS since 2005.

Howard’s research activities have included chlorination processes for gold extraction, direct applications for geothermal resources, replacement alloys for beryllium alloys, thermochemistry of high-temperature liquid metals, carburization kinetics, direct laser deposition, friction stir welding, and cold spray deposition. 

In 1986, he co-founded Group V Metals, Inc., which licensed technology used to produce high-purity tantalum and niobium compounds. He has had visiting scientist appointments at Stanford Research Institute, Kerr-McGee Technical Center, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and has served as a consultant for numerous firms engaged in materials engineering.