Dr. Kevin Anderson is a Fellow of ASM and a member of The National Academy of Engineering for his work on sustainable aluminum alloy design. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign. Dr. Anderson was a leader of aircraft materials and physical metallurgy at Reynolds Aluminum Research and is presently a Senior Technical Fellow for Brunswick Corporation in the Mercury Marine Division in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. In this role he is responsible for both materials research and applications across the corporation. Dr. Anderson is an inventor of high damage tolerant diecasting alloys that are made from 100% recycled aluminum and are registered with the Aluminum Association. In addition to receiving several important industrial awards for his work, Dr. Anderson holds over 30 United States patents with the vast majority successfully in production. He has taught aluminum metallurgy on an international level since 1999 and serves as the instructor of the professional development course Aluminum and Its Alloys at ASM headquarters and for ASM’s customized on-site training. He is a past chairman of the Advanced Casting Research Consortium at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Materials Innovation Committee of TMS, and is a member of the Grainger Institute for Engineering Advisory Board at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Anderson is the founding president of the Fond Du Lac STEM Academy (grades 3-5), and STEM Institute (grades 6-12) which are project based learning public charter schools that are an instrumentality of the Fond Du Lac, WI school district.
His contributions to ASM publications include serving as Co-Volume Editor of ASM Handbook, Volume 2A: Aluminum Science and Technology and the recently released ASM Handbook, Volume 2B: Properties and Selection of Aluminum Alloys.
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