One of the participants of the two-day India seminar that I taught for the Chennai Chapter of ASM International and the Madras Metallurgical Society in February 2017 sent an interesting question.

In February, I had the pleasure of doing a two-day failure-analysis seminar for the Chennai Chapter of ASM International.

The essence of materials science and engineering is that every material must be made into a part by a process, which creates a multilevel structure.

One of the most interesting and exciting projects I ever worked on was the evaluation of a large industrial building constructed in the mid-1920s that had a fire in the early part of this current century.

There’s a sound that comes from the restroom at my office at odd times when I am sitting at my desk. I assumed it was due to someone on the other side of the wall in my commerce park using it.

I recently helped a client reverse engineer some carburized machine parts that had an excessive lead time from the OEM.

My dad is an economist, and he says the cyclical economy is a good thing.

Every once in a while, I am forcefully reminded that most people in manufacturing have narrow specialties.