MEE Hires Second Intern
Welcome to summer intern, Josh Polzin. Josh will be a freshman in the college of engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor this fall. We met Josh last summer when he was a high school senior attending the Minnesota ASM materials science camp. Students spend one day of the camp in the MEE laboratory learning […]
New Laboratory Service
Materials Evaluation and Engineering, Inc. has added testing to ASTM standard F2082 to its list of laboratory services. This test provides a rapid and economical method for the determination of transformation temperature for Nickel-Titanium shape memory alloy, also known as Nitinol. Nitinol’s unique shape-memory and superelastic properties lends itself to a wide variety of uses in medical and industrial […]
Welcome to Our Summer Intern
Welcome to MEE intern, Reid Schur. Reid is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Washington University in St Louis. After taking an Intro to Materials Science course, Reid came away with a new-found interest in the field of of materials science, especially the use of materials science engineering methods in solving forensic problems. His next step was to find an internship that […]
International Training Conference
MEE Materials Engineer, Neal Hanke, recently spoke at the International Association of Arson Investigators Training Conference in Orlando Florida. Neal’s presentation on Materials Analysis in Fire Investigation was part of a 4 hour course on Arc Mapping: Continued Research and Updates. The conference is attended by fire investigators, scientists, engineers, insurance adjusters and attorneys from around the world. […]
Update to MEE website
A fire inside a three story stainless steel chamber is the subject of the latest case study added to our webpage. The goal of the evaluation was to determine what material required replacement or repair, and what material could remain in service. Thus, the evaluation could only be nondestructive. This required an on-site investigation and in situ metallographic examination. […]
Recent Visitors to Materials Evaluation and Engineering, inc.
A rafter of turkeys spent some time on our bit of lawn outside the office this morning. Our photo lab always has a few cameras on the ready so we were able to capture some fun images of the leaders of this tour group.
MMS Spring Symposium
MEE staff members, Larry Hanke, Kurt Schenk and Dieter Scholz will be attending the Minnesota Microscopy Society Spring Symposium on April 29 at the Science Museum in St Paul. Speakers this year will be presenting on failure analysis in plastics, medical devices and water systems. MEE will be sponsoring a booth in the exhibition hall. […]
Microhardness Tester
We just added a second microhardness tester to the MEE laboratory. The Mitutoyo 200 series tester has both Vickers and Knoop capabilites and a test force range of 0.05 grams to 2000 grams. Typical applications for microhardness testing include hardness of thin coatings, case depth evaluation, and evaluation of welds. Feel free to call and arrange a tour […]
Welding and Joining Seminar
MEE staff attended the Minnesota Chapter of ASM seminar on Welding and Joining at Hennepin Technical College. One of the talks, Solid -State Welding of Stainless Steel to Nitinol, included SEM images of samples prepared with the broad-beam ion mill by MEE Laboratory Manager, Kurt Schenk. SEM and metallographic imaging of welds provides valuable information […]
Pipeline Corrosion Control Seminar
Two of our engineers, Dick Kielty and Dan Grice, attended the 2016 NACE International 10,000 Lakes Pipeline Corrosion Control Seminar held in Prior Lake MN. The MEE trade show booth was set up, too, so when Dick and/or Dan were not in one of the sessions, they were at the booth answering questions about the […]