March 2020

MEE’s Response to Covoid 19

The Covoid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented disruption to everyone’s sense of normal.Throughout the past few weeks, we have been continuously monitoring the news and CDC recommendations for protecting the health and safety of our staff and any visitors to the facility.We remain open at this time with strict cleaning and safety measures implemented at […]

Dick Kielty

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that friend and past employee of MEE, Dick Kielty, passed away this week.  For nearly his entire career, Dick worked Twin City Testing (now Element) providing metallurgical engineering consulting services to local industries.  He retired from Element but was he was not the retiring kind […]

Nitinol Seminar

Kurt Schenk and Neal Hanke attended a one day seminar about Nitinol and how its unique properties apply to medical devices and designs. The primary topics for the seminar included structure, processing, mechanical properties, corrosion behavior, and fatigue life of Nitinol. MEE has been helping medical device manufacturers to successfully use Nitinol in their products […]

Metallurgical Engineering Intern

Welcome to MEE’s new intern, Kelsy Holtgrewe.  Kelsy received her Bachelor’s in Metallurgical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in December. She’ll be starting work toward a Master’s at Colorado School of Mines this fall. She has previous work experience in the materials labs of two large industrial companies so she is familiar […]