Happy Professional Engineers Day
The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) has proclaimed August 3rd as Professional Engineers Day. Here’s to the PE’s on staff at MEE; Larry Hanke, Richard Kielty, Ryan Haase and Dan Grice. From the NSPE: “For engineers, licensure is required in order to submit plans to a public authority for approval, to work as a consultant, […]
Testing to Industry Standard D2240
With the purchase of a new Rex Gauge Type M Durometer, MEE has expanded its service capabilities for testing to industry standard ASTM D2240, Standard Test Method for Rubber Property—Durometer Hardness The durometer is the international standard for the hardness measurement of rubber, plastic and other non-metallic materials. The Rex Type M durometer can be used when checking […]
Failure Analysis Society
“ASM International (ASM), the world’s largest association of metals-focused materials professionals, has launched a new affiliate society, the Failure Analysis Society (FAS). The society is dedicated to advancing the important role failure analysis plays in the materials science industry.” Congratulations to MEE Materials Science Engineers Larry Hanke, Ryan Haase, and Dan Grice who have been […]
MEE Greatest Hits
One of our long-time customers recently sent us this image of a tower of CD’s containing project data that he humorously refers to as “MEE’s Greatest Hits: the essential collection.” This is data he has collected over a 10-year period of doing business with MEE and contains mostly SEM images and EDS analysis spectra. Once upon a […]
Materials Science Camp 2016
Thirty high school students spent a day at MEE as part of a week-long Materials Science Camp sponsored by the MN Chapter of ASM International. Under the direction of industry and education based “Materials Mentors”, students got hands-on experience solving a materials failure analysis project. Three on our staff, Larry Hanke, Kurt Schenk and Neal Hanke, were camp mentors. This […]
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. […]
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.