Morris Fine is Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and Member of the Graduate Faculty. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he has spent 49 years at Northwestern. He was the first Chairman of both the Materials Science Department - the first such in the country - and the Materials Research Center, one of the first three ARPA sponsored Interdisciplinary Disciplinary Laboratories. His main research interests lie in alloy design and development. His Institute research has involved development of low-carbon, high-strength, high-performance steel requiring simplified processing building on his group's previous work on copper precipitation hardening in iron and steels. Further research on precipitation hardened steels continues under Office of Naval Research and North Star Steel Co. sponsorship.