Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) The CHTE is a unique industry-university consortium at WPI serving the thermal processing industry by providing the needed knowledge base and confidential problem-solving solutions Most importantly, it educated future leaders in the thermal processing industry
Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) » CHTE Team Thomas joined WPI in July 2023 as Director of the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE), Robert Essebe Balmat Jr Dean’s Professor, and Professor in Mechanical and Materials Engineering He has more than 20 years of experience within thermochemical surface engineering and heat treatment of metallic materials
Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) » About Our focus is on what we can achieve with materials by means of heat treatment and thermochemical surface engineering At the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE), we work together with industry members to improve heat treating processes We can do the same for your organization
Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) » Membership Learn how your organization can benefit from a CHTE membership What Participation in CHTE Means to Your Organization Applied Research: Members select relevant research and use the findings to solve business challenges Network with Industry Leaders: Check out our current members
Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) » Research At CHTE, we are committed to developing collaborative research for the heat treating and thermal engineering industries Members have a voice in selecting quality research, like optimizing carburization and quenching processes; better understanding induction and furnace tempering; austempering parameters; and distortion and residual stress
Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) » Quench System that . . . CHTE’s research on a quench system that controls distortion and residual stress is featured in the May issue of Industrial Heating It outlines how steel parts that are used in the automotive, aerospace and heavy-equipment industry rely on heat treatment, especially the rapid cooling process of quenching, to acquire the desired mechanical
Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) » News The December Issue of Industrial Heating features the one-of-a-kind research being done by CHTE researchers The study – “Comparative Analysis of Induction and Furnace Tempering” – aims for a better understanding of the mechanical properties and microstructural features of steels that have been gas tempered and induction tempered