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

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.

Boundary energy is one of the main conceptual foundations of understanding how microstructures evolve when exposed to different environments.

Now that we have a sound foundation to understand the structure of atoms and atomic bonds, it's time to move on to the concept of microstructure.