Millennium Magazine_7th Ed

119 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ENERGY, ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING Blast Furnaces at U.S. Steel Southworks in the early 1900s. Mr. Hornberger worked in the very same Blast Furnaceswhile attending night school in 1962. Mr. Hornberger worked as a laborer for Wisconsin Steel, a laboratory technician for a stainless steel scrapyard and a metallographic technician for Acme Steel before achieving his BSMetE from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1964. He became a Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan in 1974, and is also backed by coursework from University of Illinois. From 1993 until his retirement in 2001, Mr. Hornberger was the director of quality assurance at the Weil-McLain Division of United Dominion Industries in Michigan City, Indiana, where he is known for implementing the ISO 9000. Prior, he served as a quality control manager for Wells Electronics from 1987 to 1993 and for the National Standard Company’s Forged Products Division from 1980 to 1987. Additionally, Mr. Hornberger exceled as a Heat Treat Manager and Plant Metallurgist for Rockwell International, a Research and Plant Metallurgist for National Standard Company and a Melt Shop Metallurgist for International Harvester-Wisconsin Steel. Looking back on his career, Mr. Hornberger is especially proud of his years at Rockwell International, as he felt he learned and performed the most activities that applied his metallurgical expertise. Renowned in his field, Mr. Hornberger was the recipient of the Engineer of the Year Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1985, of which he was also the Blossomland chapter president in 1984. He is a former chairman of the Notre Dame Chapter of the ASM-I and President of the Board of Directors of the NS Credit Union. In his free time, Mr. Hornberger enjoys golf, traveling, family genealogy and spending time with his four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. G rowing up on the South Side of Chica- go, Walter Henry Hornberger Jr. recalls living among numerous steel mills and seeing an industry booming with op- portunity. At the age of 16, he made the decision to go into metallurgical engineering, and felt honored to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, who was the Superintendent of the WALTER HENRY HORNBERGER JR. DIRECTOR OF QUALITY ASSURANCE (RETIRED) United Dominion Industries Niles, MI