Editor’s Choice 2020: Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention
The Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention editorial team recently announced this year’s Editor’s Choice articles, showcasing six of the high-quality articles that were published in the journal in 2020. One of these top articles was authored by former MEE intern, Reid Schur. Reid interned with us in 2016 and is currently a Materials Science […]
MEE Staff Development
Congratulations to MEE Associate Engineer, Henry Ahrenholtz, who recently passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam certifying him as an Engineer in Training (E.I.T.). The FE exam is the first of two exams required for obtaining a Professional Engineer license. Prior to taking the second exam, E.I.T’s must complete four years of qualifying engineering experience […]
MEE Presentation on the The Science of Fractography
Larry Hanke and Dan Grice will be presenting a talk on A Historical Perspective of Fracture Analysis at the February 19 ASM Symposium at Hennepin Technical College. The theme of the symposium is “Materials Retrospect: 100 Years of Advancement” in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the MN chapter of ASM International. Other presentations at […]
Failure Analysis Seminar
Senior Materials Engineer, Dan Grice, P.E., presented a two day seminar on Fractography and Failure Analysis at the office of one of our industrial customers. The seminar covered technical information on fracture mechanisms and analysis through characterization of the macroscopic and microscopic fracture features. Dan’s presentation included multiple case studies to provide a practical understanding […]
Materials Science Camp
This was MEE’s 13th year as a sponsor of ASM International Materials Science Camp for high school students. ASM Materials Camp utilizes hands-on learning principles of applied math and science for a truly unique, team-based problem solving experience that explores materials science and engineering principles. The students are assigned a failure analysis project on the first […]
Materials Science Education
This week, MEE hosted University of St Thomas Materials Science students in our laboratory. Students toured our metallography and light microscopy labs and were presented a brief introduction to scanning electron microscopy.
Corrosion and Failure Analysis
The NACE International (National Association of Corrosion Engineers) Central Conference in Omaha is just wrapping up. MEE staff engineers Ryan Haase and Neal Hanke have been taking turns attending technical presentations and talking to colleagues at the MEE booth in the exhibit hall. This year’s conference location in Omaha, just a few hours drive from […]
Corrosion Conference
MEE engineers, Ryan Haase and Neal Hanke, will be attending the NACE International (National Association of Corrosion Engineers) Central Conference in Omaha on August 6-8. The technical program will include presentations on failure analysis and MIC, Microbiological Influenced Corrosion. The MEE staff specializes in root-cause failure analysis. Our experience encompasses many types of material behavior […]
Mentoring Materials Science Students
Last Thursday we hosted thirty high school students 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 academic based “Materials Mentors”, students learned about the process of running a failure analysis investigation. MEE provided a space for the students to get hands […]
Paper Published in Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention
Alkaline Carbonate SCC Failures at a Refinery, co-written by MEE staff engineers, Ryan Haase and Larry Hanke was recently published in the Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention ( First Online: January 16, 2018) A metallurgical evaluation was performed to investigate two failures from carbonate-containing sour water service at a refinery. The paper details the […]