Larry Hanke Nominated for ASM Board of Trustees
Congratulations to CEO and Principal Engineer, Larry Hanke, who was nominated for the ASM International Board of Trustees. Larry has chaired two local chapters and served on four national committees including chair of the Handbook Committee and Failure Analysis Committee. He is also a member of three ASM Affiliate Societies, the Shape Memory and Super-elastic […]
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 […]
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. […]
A New P.E. on Staff
Congratulations to MEE staff member, Dan Grice P.E., who just received his professional engineering license. To add those two letters, P.E., after his name meant completing a four-year college degree (Dan has a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering), working under a Professional Engineer for at least four years and passing two intensive competency exams. PE’s must […]
MEE Staff at MS&T 2015
Photographic evidence has emerged of some MEE staff at the 2015 Materials Science and Technology Conference. The photo is of current members and alumni of the Emerging Professionals Committee (EPC) of ASM International. Ryan and Dan are EPC alumni but enjoyed meeting old friends and new committee members at the conference. The EPC provides a way for early […]