The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers

WAAIME

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The Women’s Auxiliary to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers was founded in 1917 with a mission to serve its country and communities with respect to the mining and energy industries. Over the years, WAAIME has grown to have a presence not only across the United States but also in several foreign countries. Its investment portfolio, which is predominantly restricted to scholarship distributions to deserving students and worthy education and outreach initiatives, has grown into a multi-million-dollar portfolio. Scholarships are typically offered in such disciplines as mining, geosciences, metallurgy and materials sciences, petroleum engineering, mineral economics, chemical engineering, and related disciplines.

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Interview Videos

Awards & Articles

WAAIME Website

Additional WAAIME Videos

Lewis E. and Elizabeth W. Young Scholarships

WAAIME on SME

SME

Roy Woodall

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Roy Woodall is Director of Exploration with Western Mining Corporation Ltd., and is a Director of Western Mining Corporation Holdings Pty. Ltd. He joined the company in 1953 as a geologist, after obtaining his B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Western Australia. On a study leave at the University of California. he completed his M.Sc. in Mining in 1957. He returned to Western Mining in 1962. becoming Chief Geologist in 1967, Exploration Manager in 1968, and assumed his present position in 1978.

Mr. Woodall has presented more than twenty-five lectures, primarily in mineral exploration, and has authored fifteen publications. Since 1970 he has participated in many advisory councils and committees and currently is a member of the Australian Science and Technology Council.

Mr. Woodall is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Geophysical Association of Australia, and the Royal Society of Western Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences. His many honors include Officer of the Order of Australia. A.O. the Mawson Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, the AuslMM Institute Medal, and the Silver Medal of the Society of Economics Geologists. Recipient of the AIME William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal in 1988 for his efforts as a leader in establishing Western Mining Corporation as one of the most successful exploration companies in the world.

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Awards & Articles

Woodall Biography

William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal - 1988

SME

Transcript document

woodall_roy_transcript.pdf

UC-Berkeley

2004

Alexander M. Wilson

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Alexander Wilson was the president of Utah Construction & Mining Company, later known as Utah International, which held mines such as the Lucky Mc uranium mine, Navajo coal mine, and Bowen Basin mine in Australia. Alexander "Bud" Wilson was born in Tulare, California, in 1922 and attended both Visalia Junior College and UC Berkeley in the early 1940s. After WWII, he returned to university and graduated from the UC Berkeley College of Mines in 1948. His first jobs out of college were for the Yellow Pine Mine in Idaho and Mountain Pass Mine in California. He was then recruited by Tony Mecia for Utah Mines. Wilson started as a metallurgist but transferred to the Utah San Francisco office, where he eventually took over the mining department after Tony Mecia's death. During his time with the company, he facilitated the merger between Utah International and General Electric in 1976 and the later merger with BHP Mining. In this interview, Wilson discusses his family history, education, UC Berkeley, service during WWII, engineer work for Yellow Pine Mine, friendships made in Stibnite, heading the Utah Mining Division, Utah and Queensland Coal, family and health issues, running the mining company, merger with General Electric, GE President Welch, merger with BHP, Geough Whitlam and the Australian government in the 1970s, Marcona iron mine in Peru and selling iron ore to Japan.

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Awards & Articles

Wilson Biography

Charles F. Rand Memorial Gold Medal - 1988

Interview Audio Files

SME

Transcript document

wilson_alexander_transcript_0.pdf

UC-Berkeley

1996

Charles A. Totten

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Charlie Totten was born in Marengo, Indiana, in 1949. While in the U.S. Army, Totten trained in electronics at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked on Surface to Air Hawk Missiles. Totten went into Bethlehem Steel as an electrical helper and moved up to Electrical Foreman. After 14 different jobs in the company, Totten became Senior Supervisor. Totten is a Distinguished Member and Fellow of AIST, recipient of the Gold Reliability Achievement Award, and was co-chair of 21 Crane Symposiums in a row. Totten may not be an engineer but has worked for 37 years as a problem solver. Totten states the best part of his career has been solving problems and learning something new every day.

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Interview Videos

Awards & Articles

Totten Biography

AIST Distinguished Member and Fellow Award - 2007

AIST

Transcript document

Totten_Charlie_Transcript_C.pdf

AIME

2019

Richard "Dick" Teets

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Dick Teets, Jr. is Executive Vice President of Steel Dynamics, Inc. and Chief Operating Officer for all of the company’s steelmaking divisions. He began his career in the late 1970s as a mechanical engineer for J&L Steel, which later became LTV. In the late 1980s, he joined Nucor, where he supervised the construction of the first thin-cast slab steel plant, which was one of the first large-scale mini-mill plants in the United States. He was a participant in early experiments in partnerships with Japanese steelmakers in the US, and was a witness to the accelerating encroachment of the newer mini-mills on the markets of the traditional “Big Steel” companies. In the early 1990s, Mr. Teets co-founded his own company with former executives at Nucor, called Steel Dynamics, Inc. He helped lead the company through a long period of rapid growth, helping to build and manage the capacity for manufacturing numerous different types of steel products. Today, Steel Dynamics is the fifth-largest steel company in the United States.

In this interview, Teets discusses the evolution of the steel industry in the United States over the past forty years.

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Interview Videos

Awards & Articles

Teets Biography

AIME Honorary Membership - 2016

AIST

Transcript document

Teets_Richard_Transcript_C.pdf

UC-Berkeley

2014

Patrick R. Taylor

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As a boy scout growing up in Denver, Colorado, Patrick Taylor became interested in minerals, which sparked his decision to attend the Colorado School of Mines, where he studied extractive metallurgy. Taylor was the first college graduate on his father’s side, and through the encouragement of his parents and AIME professionals, he pursued his Ph.D. and a career as a professor. Taylor transitioned between jobs in metallurgy and materials science and went on to rebuild the extractive and mineral processing program at the Colorado School of Mines. A lifetime member of TMS, Taylor has attended meetings since 1975 and organized the first international TMS Symposium on recycling and secondary recovery of metals. Taylor is passionate about getting his students involved in professional activities to share their work and grow their professional development. The most rewarding part of Taylor’s career is teaching his students, “I love teaching, and, so, I feel rewarded by still being able to teach classes and try to turn young men and women into good engineers.”

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Interview Videos

Awards & Articles

Taylor Biography

AIME James Douglas Gold Medal - 2013

TMS EPD Distinguished Service Award - 2010

SME Fellow Award - 2008

SME Milton E. Wadsworth Award - 2002

SME

TMS

Transcript document

Taylor_Patrick_Transcript_C.pdf

AIME

2019

Simon David Strauss

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Childhood in Peru, schooling in Chile, New York City; journalist: 1927-1932, metals market reporter, assistant editor, Engineering and Mining Journal; 1932-1934, editor, Madison, NJ, Eagle: Prohibition, the mob, Morro Castle fire; 1935-1941, mining securities analyst, Standard Statistics Co.; WWII: vice president, Metals Reserve Co. (Reconstruction Finance Corp.), procurement of strategic minerals, incompatibility of Henry Wallace and Jesse Jones, Combined Raw Materials Board, Premium Price Plan and committee, U.S. Commercial Corp., black markets, new field of mineral economics; 1946-1988, American Smelting & Refining Co. (ASARCO), vice president, director, vice chairman: marketing non-ferrous metals and non-metallic minerals internationally, forming Southern Peru Copper Corp., maintaining LIFO inventory, Mt. Isa Mine, 1967-68 copper miners strike, Pennzoil takeover attempt; from 1989, director, Magma Copper Corp.; discussion of American Mining Congress, 1951 Paley Commission report, nationalist movements, price stabilization efforts, trade associations, commodity cartels, environmentalism; wife Elaine Mandel Strauss and polio, Albert Gore, Sr.'s germanium mine, friend Mauricio Hochschild.

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Awards & Articles

Strauss Biography

AIME Honorary Membership - 1981

AIME Mineral Economics Award - 1982

Interview Audio Files

SME

Transcript document

strauss_simon_transcript.pdf

UC-Berkeley

1994

Raymond Smith

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The story of the remarkable life of Raymond Smith begins with hoboing in Alaska and then onto becoming the sixth president of Michigan Tech. By circumstance, Smith was recruited by the President of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks to study at the school free of tuition. With no previous desire to attend college and only a background of piloting and fixing up cars, Smith excelled in his studies in mining engineering and went on to be accepted by famed metallurgist Robert Brick to complete his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Smith emerged as a leader throughout his career. As a metallurgist among top-notch physicists, Smith became the head of solid state physics and a technical director for the Franklin Institute of Research, with only the qualification of his excellent mathematical abilities. In 1959, Smith began his notable career at Michigan Tech as the chair of the metallurgical engineering department. Within six years, he became the president of the university. Smith’s tenure is admired as he catapulted Michigan Tech into the great institution it is today. Smith led the movement of change towards Michigan’s role as a research university and the increased stature of its programs. As president, he saw the need for change and wanted to make it. Smith is regarded as a visionary who is responsible for shaping the modern face of Michigan Tech.

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Interview Videos

Awards & Articles

Smith Biography

AIME Past Trustee - 1969-1971

TMS/ASM Joint Distinguished Lectureship in Materials and Society Award - 1983

TMS Fellow Award - 1973

TMS

Transcript document

Smith_Ray_Transcript_C.pdf

AIME

2019

Robert S. Shoemaker

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Robert S. Shoemaker is a Consulting Metallurgist for the Mining and Metals Division of the Bechtel Corporation. After service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he attended Oregon State College where he received B.S. and M.S. degrees in inorganic chemistry in 1950 and 1951. In 1953, he received an M.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

He joined the Minerals Research Department of the Union Carbide Research Laboratories in Niagara Falls, New York in 1953, and in 1956 was transferred to the Development Department of the Union Carbide Metals Company. In 1957 he was based in the Engineering Department of the Union Carbide Ore Company in New York where he was Metallurgist for numerous projects in Norway, Australia and the United States. In 1962, he joined the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco as Supervising Engineer for Bechtel's Mining and Metals Division. In 1968 he was appointed to his present position as Consulting Metallurgist. He has participated in the design of numerous metallurgical projects throughout the world.

Mr. Shoemaker has served as a Director of the Institute. He has served as Director of the Society of Mining Engineers (SME) of AIME, as Chairman of its Program Committee and as Chairman of the Mineral Processing Division. He is also a past Chairman of the San Francisco Section of AIME. Mr. Shoemaker is a Fellow of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.

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Awards & Articles

Shoemaker Biography

AIME Robert H. Richards Award - 1974

AIME Past Trustee - 1973-1975,1977-1979

National Mining Hall of Fame Inductee Video

Interview Audio Files

SME

Transcript document

shoemaker_robert_transcript.pdf

UC-Berkeley

1999

Alexander R. "Alex" Scott

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Alexander R. "Alex" Scott fruition_admin Mon, 11/02/2020 - 21:51

A foreigner to engineering, but skilled in organizational management and a strong people person, Alex Scott served as the Executive Director of TMS for 35 years. Scott attended the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), then pursued graduate school at Rutgers University to study psychology. Fulfilling his commitment to VMI, Scott was assigned to serve in psychological warfare in Vietnam, where he learned organizational skills are the number one thing. Scott went from being a beach boy in New Jersey to stumbling upon the world of engineering in New York City when he began to work for AIME for their 100th anniversary. Scott transitioned to TMS during historic changes to the AIME Institute and within the TMS society. Working alongside the changing tide of industry in America, the international growth of the society, and the rise of the Digital Age, Scott became an important figure in shaping the structure and goals of TMS. Scott is a recipient of the TMS Distinguished Service Award, and he believes TMS is the bridge between academia, research, and industry.

In this interview, Scott discusses the evolution of metallurgy and materials science over the past forty years.

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Interview Videos

Awards & Articles

Scott Biography

AIME Presidential Citation - 2008

TMS

Transcript document

Scott_Alex_Transcript_C.pdf

UC-Berkeley

2015