2026 AFS Peer Reviewers
The American Foundry Society follows peer review guidelines when approving technical paper submissions for potential publication.
- Each paper is assigned to three or more reviewers with expertise in the paper subject matter.
- Papers are reviewed for technical and scientific merit and must contain sufficient data and/or experimentation details.
- The subject matter must fall within the field of AFS activities.
- Contents must not be of commercial in nature, trivial or expanded.
- Subject matter can not be speculative in nature.
- Content must be in good literary form, contains continuity of thought and clarity of expression.
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2022 Peer Reviewers
AFS Transactions Reviewers
The following peer reviewers provide an invaluable service to AFS and help to maintain and uphold the quality of our papers.
Matthew Adams, Quality Castings Co.
Viraj Athavale, NUCOR Steel
Brian Began, American Foundry Society, Inc.
Jacob Belke, Mercury Marine
David Blondheim, Jr., Mercury Marine
Kris Boss, John Deere Power Systems
Gowtham Boyala, Lethbridge Iron Works Co. Ltd.
Jason Bradley, Mueller Co.
Ryan Brattrud, Caterpillar, Inc.
Ryan Burke, OSCO Industies, Inc.
Jason Bush, Waupaca Foundry, Inc.
Brent Charlton, Metal Technologies Corporate Center
Anjian Chen, Mueller Water Products
Paul Clements, Sloan Valve Co.
Stacey Clifford, ASK Chemicals
Ariel Cooley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DJ Couture, Retired
Alexander Croll, Waupaca Foundry, Inc.
Mark DeBruin, Skuld LLC
Alexandria Doll, AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company
Amanda Fedorko, Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Co.
Ashley Folden-Ecker, MPS Mankato LLC
Chris Forster, Carpenter Brothers, Inc.
Patrick Frazier, ME Global, Inc.
Rafael Gallo, Retired
Joshua Gammariello, HA Group
Jun Ge, University of Alabama/Birmingham
Santosh Ghanti, Gerdau
Scott Giese, University of Northern Iowa
John Grabel, Retired
Matthew Hall, RECOTEC, Inc.
Mickey Hannum, McWane, Inc.
Kathy Hayrynen, Aalberts Surface Technologies
Lyle Heberling, Iron Casting Research Institute
Aaron Howard, Voxeljet America, Inc.
David Hughes, U S Pipe & Foundry Co.
Glenn Huneycutt, Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Co.
Ben Hunsicker, Allied Mineral Products, Inc.
Andrew James, University of Northern Iowa
Rohan Jani, Watts Water Technologies, Inc.
Aaron Kaboff, HA Group
David, Kesse Elkem Silicon Products
Nick Knotts Temperform Corp.
Brandon Lamoncha Humtown Products
Christopher Lee, Carpenter Brothers, Inc.
Patrick Leper, Saveway USA Corp.
Delin Li, CanmetMATERIALS
Haly Lindholm, Eck Industries, Inc.
Todd Lyles, Specialty Foundry Products, Inc.
Cara Lynch, Inductotherm Corp.
Robert Mackay, Nemak Canada Corp.
Andrea McDermott, A Y McDonald Mfg. Co.
Zach Meadows, Electric Controls & Systems, Inc.
Jerrod Miller, Wear-Tek
Liam Miller, American Colloid Co.
Marshall Miller, Tesseract4D
Derek Mixon, Howell Foundry LLC
Jay Morrison, Carpenter Brothers, Inc.
Thomas Mueller, Mueller AMS
Eric Nelson, Eric Nelson Consulting LLC
Joshua O'Dell, University of Northern Iowa
Randall Oehrlein, Carley Foundry, Inc.
Jarek Olszak, LAEMPE REICH
Mark Osborne, Wabtec
Griffin Patterson, HWI
Paul Paulsen, Furness Newburge, Inc.
Vasko Popovski, Ransom & Randolph
Charles Poultney, Kovatch Casting, Inc.
Thomas Prucha, Metal Morphasis LLC
Kramer Pursell, Metal Technologies Auburn Casting Center
Brian Rachwitz, EJ
Jeet Radia, McWane, Inc.
Tyler Rhea, Eirich Machines, Inc.
Mike Riabov, Elkem Silicon Products
Kirk Rogers, M&P Gravity Works LLC
Kylee Rothenburger, MPS Mankato LLC
Luke Schimmel, Fairbanks Morse Defense
Bryce Scholze, Continental Mineral Processing
Ted Schorn, Enkei America, Inc.
Angella Sell, Aalberts Surface Technologies
Jiten Shah, Product Development & Analysis LLC
Andy Shea, A Y McDonald Mfg. Co.
Tedd Sheets, Betz Industries
Ryan Showalter, Fresno Valves & Castings, Inc.
Geoffrey Sigworth, Retired
Thomas Slavin, Slavin OSH Group LLC
Geary Smith, Retired
Jerry Smith, Wieland Chase LLC
Britni Snow, Viking Pump
Jeff Sorenson, Neptune Technology Group, Inc.
Jason St. Onge, American Colloid Co.
Doug Starr, Saudi Mechanical Industries
Jarod Steerwyk, EJ
Brad Steinkamp, Charter Dura-Bar
Michelle Szymik, Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Co.
Andrew Tagg, John Winter & Co. Ltd.
Jerry Thiel, Precision Casting Technologies LLC
William Tinker, Sinto America
Robert Tuttle, Western Michigan University
Jim Valentine, Neptune Technology Group, Inc.
Jason Walker, The Ohio State University
Ken Way, Miller and Company
Daniel Weaver, REFCOTEC, Inc.
David Weiss, Vision Materials
Joe Worman, Metal Technologies Auburn Casting Center
Mingzhi Xu, Georgia Southern University
2024 AFS International Journal of Metalcasting Peer Reviewers
If you would like to get involved and considered for peer reviewing with AFS, please contact bbegan@afsinc.org.