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CHAPTER BEST PRACTICES Come one, come all and see what we have to share! It’s ASM Chapter’s Best Practices and Successes. This newsletter gives our chapters the opportunity to share all their successes and gain insight on some of the best practices. This quarter we have highlights from Boston, Milwaukee, Washington D.C. and San Diego. The next issue is due out in February so if your chapter has something to share send it to Megan Herrmann Chapter Relations Administrator, at megan.herrmann@asminternational.com. Easy Online Training Recently, the ASM Milwaukee Chapter unveiled a new, convenient method of education through an online “webinar” session entitled, “Recognition of Common Corrosion Mechanisms.” The class, which lasted approximately 60 minutes, provided attendees with a wealth of technical information, all within the comfort and convenience of their own offices. An internet-ready computer system with audio capabilities (or phone line) was all that was required to take advantage of the training. Whether registered as a single individual or a conference room full of attendees, the nominal $65 fee included a printable handout and a video/audio recording of the entire session.
In addition Milwaukee also hosts an annual Bergmann Seminar, a one-day technical class that covers a materials-related topic. We have anywhere between four and eight presenters, depending on the specific subjects that are covered. The class includes speakers from local and out-of-state companies, and this seminar has been well-attended over the past several years. Generally it is held at a meeting facility from early morning through about mid-afternoon. Our Bergmann for this term will be taking place in Milwaukee in early 2007, covering the topic "Materials for Future Defense Applications". We give an annual Spring or Fall Educational program from among those offered through ASM Headquarters. During this term, we planned on covering the topic "Fundamentals of Brazing.” We generally have several different instructors participating, since it requires a great deal of time and effort on the part of the teaching staff. However, this year most of the evenings will be instructed by individuals from Lucas Milhaupt Inc. It will be taking place in Milwaukee over a period of several weeks starting February 6, 2007. Each month, their corporate sustaining members and other members are given the opportunity to sponsor the monthly meeting. A small financial donation is used to offset the costs of the meeting facility, enabling the Chapter to keep the cost minimal for individuals attending the meeting. In return for their sponsorship, the company name is listed as the sponsor in the paper and electronic announcements, and any representative from the company who attends the meeting is allowed to give an overview of their products or services to the attendees. As added incentive to sponsor, the company is also given the opportunity to provide a one-page advertisement to be included with the paper meeting announcement for a small fee to cover printing. Thus, the advertisement is sent to the entire ASM Milwaukee Chapter membership. We just started allowing student chapter members to attend meetings free of charge. The last meeting had a good student turnout, and we hope that this new policy will continue to encourage the participation of future materials engineers over the next few months. In solemn remembrance of the 5-year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, the Washington DC Chapter of ASM International observed the recovered structural steel components from the World Trade Center and heard a detailed presentation on the 9/11 World Trade Center investigation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. Stephen Banovic (Materials Research Engineer, Metallurgy Division, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, NIST - stephen.banovic@nist.gov) presented a moving lecture on his many New York City trips after the terrorists attacks to recover key components of the World Trade Center structural steel and his research efforts in support of NIST's 9/11 World Trade Center investigation. The dichotomy of the day's events was striking. Whereas the presentation netted many technical and detailed questions with discussion, the silence and solemnity of the site visit to the World Trade Center recovered structural steel was a powerful reminder of the tragic events of 9/11. The ASM Boston chapter celebrated its second event of the 2006-07 program year on October 19, 2006 at the MIT Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA, with a talk on “Chemomechanics of Metastable Material Surfaces & Interfaces” by Professor Krystyn Van Vliet in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT. Professor Van Vliet’s talk was preceded by a graduate student presentation (part of the ASM Boston Nicholas Grant Lecture Series) by Daniel Pregibon and Dhananjay Dendukuri (of the Department of Chemical Engineering) on the subject of “Synthesis of Multi-Functional Particles for Applications in Diagnostics and Self-Assembly.”
The photograph above shows Professor Van Vliet giving her talk. The ASM Boston chapter celebrated its first event of the new 2006-07 program year designated “Sauveur Night” on September 21, 2006 at the MIT Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA, with a talk on “Materials Analysis with Aberration-corrected Electron Microscopes” by Dr. David B. Williams, Vice Provost for Research and Professor, Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. The photograph below shows Professor Williams giving his talk. The occasion was co-sponsored by the New England Microscopy Society (NESM) and the Boston SAMPE chapter with about 60 members from both societies in attendance.
Submitted by: The San Diego chapter has about 150 members and is fairly successful in maintaining a 5 star chapter. Following are the best things we do to make the chapter successful:
2006 Fall Seminar
ASM SD Chapter successfully hosted 2006 Annual Seminar on “Advanced Brazing Technologies” October 27, 2006 San Diego Down Town Marriot. More than 30 attendees attended it from different companies in southern California. Attendees from other chapter were present in this crowded event. Pictured from left to right are speakers Mr. Amit Jain of Wall Colmonoy, Mr. Janusz Kowalewski of Seco Warwick, Dr. Toshi Oyama of Wesgo Metals, Mr. Ahsan Habib, ASM San Diego Chapter Chair and event organizer, Mr. Rob Kornfeld of Hi-Tech Furnaces, Dr. Anatol Rabinkin of Metglas Inc.
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At the completion of the training, questions that were posed during the class were addressed by the topic host, Steven Suess of Stork Technimet, Inc. With the assistance of Barbara Tucholke of Ideas By Design, who helped establish and promote the webinar, the event was a success for the attendees as well as ASM Milwaukee.
Currently, the Milwaukee Chapter is preparing their next quarterly webinar, “Failure Analysis of Metals”, on Wednesday, December 13 at 10:00 a.m. (Central time). If you are interested in learning more about providing this type of training for your chapter, or would like to receive e-mail announcements of sessions being hosted by other ASM chapters, please contact Barb at 414-241-0329 or 
At the request of the U.S. Congress, NIST conducted a major investigation of the 9/11 World Trade Center tragedy. The investigation addressed many aspects of the catastrophe, from occupant egress to factors affecting how long the Twin Towers stood after being hit by the airplanes, with the goal of gaining valuable information for structural design and code changes for the future. A key part of the investigation was the metallurgical analysis of structural steel from the Twin Towers. Some of Dr. Banovic's analyses included characterization of the mechanical properties, failure modes, and temperature excursions observed by the structural steel. Unlike more recently constructed buildings, which typically use one or two types of steel that meet ASTM standards, the World Trade Center buildings used 12 different grades of steel, the majority of which were proprietary Japanese steels, for which little information was available in the open literature.
