BIOGRAPHY OF BRUCE M. COX

Tabletop Chair

Bruce Cox has a total of twenty-seven years of non-ferrous experience including 14 years in the aerospace casting industry and 13 years of automotive casting experience. Bruce has a BS degree from the University of Washington in Metallurgical Engineering. He was a Senior Process Engineer for the Boeing Company working in their sand aluminum foundry; he was the Engineering Manager at Anacast, which was a sand aluminum and magnesium aerospace foundry, and he was also was the Foundry Manager at Denison Industries, which is a sand and permanent mold aluminum aerospace foundry. He was Foundry Program Manager at Duralcan a division of Alcan Aluminum and is currently employed at DaimlerChrysler as a Senior Casting Development Engineer.

Bruce has developed a wide range of non-ferrous casting experience including: aluminum and magnesium alloys, sand casting, permanent mold casting, high pressure die casting, low pressure permanent mold casting, lost foam casting and the heat treatment and processing of these alloys. Bruce has had much experience with training foundry personnel, first in the casting of Aluminum Composite materials and his first two years at DaimlerChrysler working with problem casting suppliers. Bruce has traveled extensively within the United States and around the world.

Bruce is an active member of the American Foundrymen's Society (AFS), as a Chairman of an Aluminum Division Committee and Vice Chairman of the Magnesium Division and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Detroit Chapter and currently Tabletop Chairman. He is also a long time member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).