Mr. Craig Schroeder, P.E. is a Principal Materials Engineer at EFI Global, a consulting firm that specializes in subrogation and litigation work in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Mr. Schroeder has nearly 30 years of experience in the field of materials science and engineering as a process engineer, forging engineer, and failure analyst.
Mr. Schroeder is currently serving as a Volume Editor for the upcoming revision of ASM Handbook, Volume 12: Fractography. He has also contributed as an Editor to ASM Handbook, Volume 11: Failure Analysis and Prevention, and ASM Handbook, Volume 18: Friction, Lubrication, and Wear Technology. Mr. Schroeder is currently a member of both the ASM International Handbook and Technical Book Committees and has served as the Vice Chairman and Chairman for each. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors for the Failure Analysis Society and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention. Additionally, Mr. Schroeder has presented numerous talks at MS&T and IMAT conferences. Mr. Schroeder has also published numerous articles through the Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention and Advanced Materials and Processes.
Mr. Schroeder’s career as a licensed, professional engineer has included work in a foundry at Amcast Automotive in Cedarburg, Wisconsin; a forge shop at Ladish Co. Inc. in Cudahy, Wisconsin; a power transmission company at Rexnord Technical Services in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin; a commercial laboratory at Element in New Berlin, Wisconsin; an engine manufacturing company at Briggs & Stratton in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin; and an engineering consulting company at EFI Global in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. He has performed hundreds of failure investigations for a variety of organizations in the automotive, aerospace, medical, and numerous other industries.
He earned both his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In graduate school, Mr. Schroeder’s research focused on failure analysis and the heat treatment of steel.
