The Chair for Heat Treat 2015 will be ASM Fellow Rick Sisson, Director of the Center for Heat Treating Excellence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and WPI Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
FASM Rick Sisson to chair Heat Treat 2015
CoorsTek, Coors family announce $27 million investment in Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines and CoorsTek, both of Golden, announce a nearly $27 million commitment by CoorsTek and the Coors family.
Ipsen to ship VFS furnaces for heat treating medical devices and aerospace equipment
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it will ship four VFS furnaces from its facility in Souderton, Pa., to sites in Washington, Ohio, North Carolina, and South Carolina, primarily for heat treating medical devices and aerospace structures.
Novel NIST Technique Measures 3-D Shapes in Computer Chips Using Optical Microscopy
NIST’s Ravi Attota shows how Through-Focus Scanning Optical Microscopy (TSOM) able to detect tiny differences in the 3D shapes of computer chip components, revealing variations less than 1 nm.
Smallest possible diamonds form ultra-thin nanothreads
For the first time, scientists have discovered how to produce ultra-thin “diamond nanothreads” that promise extraordinary properties, including strength and stiffness greater than that of today’s strongest nanotubes and polymers.