Dr. Harold D. Brody, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn) has held a faculty appointment at UConn since 1991. From 1991-1997 he served as Dean of Engineering and from 1997-1998 he served as Acting Director of the Precision Manufacturing Institute. Dr. Brody held a faculty appointment at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) for twenty-five years, 1966 - 1991, and held a Visiting Professor appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1987 - 1992. From 1971 - 1979 he served as Chairman of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at Pitt and from 1983 - 1991 he served as Director of the Casting Industries Science and Engineering Institute. From 1965-1966 he worked as a Senior Research Metallurgist at the Monsanto Research Corporation and was a member of the staff of the Division of Sponsored Research at MIT. Dr. Brody earned S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees from MIT between 1956 and 1964.

Dr. Brody's research interests have focused on casting and solidification, computer aided design of materials processing, and engineering education. With his students and colleagues, Dr. Brody has contributed to our basic understanding of the dendritic solidification of alloys and in particular to the redistribution of solute during the solidification of binary and multicomponent alloys; to the numerical simulation of casting and solidification processes; including microsegregation, coupled heat transfer and fluid flow, solidification rate, thermal stress, and porosity; and to the development of quantitative criteria to predict the quality and soundness of castings, including criteria to be used in conjunction with software for computer aided design of casting processes. As an innovator in engineering education, Dr. Brody and his colleagues have pioneered in integrating engineering problem solving and engineering design throughout the curriculum.