Sindo Kou

Sindo Kou, PhD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He graduated from MIT with a doctorate in metallurgy. He is a Fellow of American Welding Society and ASM International. He received the William Irrgang Memorial Award (2018), the Honorary Membership Award (2016), and the Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award (2012) from the American Welding Society (AWS); the Yoshiaki Arata Award (2017) from the International Institute...See more

Sindo Kou, PhD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He graduated from MIT with a doctorate in metallurgy. He is a Fellow of American Welding Society and ASM International. He received the William Irrgang Memorial Award (2018), the Honorary Membership Award (2016), and the Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award (2012) from the American Welding Society (AWS); the Yoshiaki Arata Award (2017) from the International Institute of Welding (IIW); the Bruce Chalmers Award (2013) from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS); the John Chipman Award (1980) from the Iron and Steel Society of AIME; and Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching (1999) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His technical papers won the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award (4 times), Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award (4 times), William Spraragen Award (3 times), A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award, and James F. Lincoln Gold Medal of AWS; and the Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award of TMS. See less