Awards & Scholarships

Hansen is chief technology officer for SSAB Americas, a position he has held since 2007. In this role, he has overall responsibility for all technical support activities at SSAB’s North American steel plants and CTL lines, including quality assurance/quality control, applications engineering, continuous improvement, environmental, and research and development. After prior experience with Bethlehem Steel Corp., Hansen joined IPSCO in 2003 as director — technical services, U.S. steel operations. In 2004, he was named corporate director — technical services, responsible for all steel plant and tubular technical activities. When IPSCO was acquired by SSAB in July 2007, Hansen was named to his current position. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with B.S., M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in metallurgy and materials science. He is a member of AIST and a Fellow of ASM International.