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 […]
Microscope Monday
Twenty years ago, MEE Lab Manager, Kurt Schenk, figured out a way to capture the beauty of a freshly fallen snowflake with an SEM. Those images and hundreds of others taken over the years in our laboratory have been saved in a file on our network simply called “cool images”. Five years ago, we thought […]
Microscopy Spring Symposium
MEE staff to attend Microscopy Spring Symposium Dieter Scholz and Jason Larson will be attending the Minnesota Microscopy Society’s Annual Spring Symposium on Friday May 3 in St Paul. The topic of this year’s symposium is Non-Traditional and Emerging Microscopy Techniques. MEE is a corporate sponsor of the MN Microscopy Society and will have a […]
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 […]
What’s New at Materials Evaluation and Engineering, Inc.
We’re still unpacking the newest addition to the MEE laboratory, a JEOL IT500HR Scanning Electron Microscope Once the boxes are out of the way and the microscope is fully installed we’ll share details on the advantages of this powerful and versatile analytical microscope.
Pinpointing Microscopic Targets
To allow more consistent metallographic section preparation of very small targets, MEE has added a Leica EM/TXP to our selection of sectioning tools. The Leica EM/TXP is specifically designed for more precise and efficient targeting of points of interest in very small specimens. A combination mill/grinder/polisher and stereomicroscope, the Leica EM/TXP, allows the technician to […]
Microscope as Symbol of the City of Minneapolis
We weren’t familiar with the Minneapolis city flag until just recently, but were pleasantly surprised to see one of the symbols on it is a microscope. That seems fitting to us! Microscopes are one of the most important tools we use at MEE to provide our clients in the medical device, industrial and electronics industries […]
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 […]
Materials Science and Engineering
This week, MEE hosted 28 University of St Thomas Materials Science students in our laboratory. Staff gave tours of our metallography, corrosion and light microscopy labs and presented a brief introduction to scanning electron microscopy.
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 […]