Judging Category
Creative Work
Student Rank
Junior
College
Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty Sponsor
Timothy Arquitt: timarquitt@astate.edu
Description
Cast in Steel is a competition between universities across North America started by the Steel Founders Society of America. The competition is centered around giving students the opportunity to learn about casting and the steel industry in general. A prompt of a weapon or tool with some level of historical significance is given to all the teams. The prompt for the 2026 Arkansas State University team, was a Horseman’s Axe. The team designed their rendition of a horseman’s axe, worked with Southern Cast Products as their local industry parter, and fabricated a finished axe to represent Arkansas State University as a whole. The axe will later be sent to performance testing, which will be filmed and uploaded to a major streaming platform. This poster will document the process from beginning to end of this Cast in Steel competition.
Disciplines
Computer-Aided Engineering and Design | Metallurgy
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Morris, Sam A., "Cast In Steel: Horseman's Axe" (2026). Create@State. 26.
https://arch.astate.edu/evn-createstate/2026/posters/26
Cast In Steel: Horseman's Axe
Cast in Steel is a competition between universities across North America started by the Steel Founders Society of America. The competition is centered around giving students the opportunity to learn about casting and the steel industry in general. A prompt of a weapon or tool with some level of historical significance is given to all the teams. The prompt for the 2026 Arkansas State University team, was a Horseman’s Axe. The team designed their rendition of a horseman’s axe, worked with Southern Cast Products as their local industry parter, and fabricated a finished axe to represent Arkansas State University as a whole. The axe will later be sent to performance testing, which will be filmed and uploaded to a major streaming platform. This poster will document the process from beginning to end of this Cast in Steel competition.
