Robert Hyers, left, and Richard Bradshaw, research professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Robert W. Hyers, the George I. Alden Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, has been named to the 2025 class of fellows of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), a professional organization with more than 11,000 members.
The award, the highest honor given out by TMS, recognizes members who are leading authorities and contributors to the practice of metallurgy, materials science, and technology. Honorees are noted for their scholarship, patents, research or engineering work, advances in their fields, and service to TMS. Hyers is one of seven TMS members named to the 2025 class of fellows.
“I am honored to be named a fellow of TMS, which has been my professional home for almost three decades,” Hyers says. “I am grateful for the warm welcome I received, for the friendships and collaborations begun and continued, and for the opportunity to learn and share new knowledge. I am grateful for the opportunity to give back through service to the society, and once in a while, to make a difference.”
Hyers joined the WPI faculty in 2023 after 20 years on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previously, he was president and chief technology officer of Boston Metal and a staff scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Electrostatic Levitation Lab.
Hyers’s research focuses on high-temperature materials, condition monitoring and prognosis of structures, and physics-based modeling of materials processing and failure. In early 2024, he was named to the National Academies Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space.
Hyers will be honored at the TMS annual meeting and exhibition in March 2025 in Las Vegas.
