Dr. Prabir Chaudhury is a Principal Materials Engineer at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Chandler, Arizona. He is a Metallurgical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering from University of California, Irvine, CA. His expertise is in the areas of physical and mechanical metallurgy with extensive background in high temperature deformation, including thermomechanical processing of metals, alloys, and metal matrix composite materials. He has 20 years of experience in research and development, including manufacturing process development of Ti, Al, Mg, and other metals and their alloys. He has extensive teaching experience at Universities, and at professional level in the industry, under Defense programs, and through ASM International.

Mr. Sarup Chopra is a Quality Engineer: Metallurgy and Special Processes for NOOK Industries in Cleveland Heights, OH. Prior to this he was employed as a metallurgical engineer from 1998 to 2006 by the Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown , PA. He is a diploma holder in Metallography and Materials Technology (BS Metallurgy equivalent ) from the Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart Germany . Prior to Concurrent Technologies Corporation, he was employed as a technologist in the metallurgical laboratory of ALCOA Technical Center, Alcoa Center, PA for six years. Previous employment includes stints in companies in Rhode Island, Canada and Switzerland. Sarup has 36 years’ experience which includes metallographic specimen preparation, light optical microscopy, macro and micro etching, macro and micro hardness testing, tensile testing, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analysis, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, optical emission spectroscopy, non destructive testing, casting, hot and cold forming and heat treating of ferrous and non ferrous alloys, fusion and friction stir welding and finally, failure analysis. He is a member of ASM, MSA, IMS and the ASM handbook committee. He is a frequent contributor to the website called “metallography.com” and won a “first place standing” award in the 1989 ASM Rhode Island Chapter metallography contest. Finally, Sarup is fluent in German and French.

Mr. Dave Christie is a Senior Failure Analyst at IMR Labs in Ithaca, NY. He received a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and an Associates Degree in Engineering Science from Tompkins-Cortland Community College. He has been a Certified Welding Inspector since 1990, and completed several courses and seminars including “Failure Analysis for Process Engineers” and “Failure Analysis in Powder Metal Components Seminar”. He is a member of AWS (American Welding Society), ASM International, American Foundry Society, and MPIF/APMI. Dave has published a paper in ASM Failure Prevention Through Education in May 2000 entitled, “Put it in the Drawing, Make it Like the Drawing” and “Case Histories of Casting Failures” in the ASM Materials Conference, 2001

Dr. Ashok Choudhury works in technology commercialization at Vanderbilt University. He is proficient in the evaluation and licensing of technologies. He has over a decade of experience in teaching in addition to experience in Cast Iron Foundry, Thermodynamic Research, Failure Analysis, Auger Spectroscopy, Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, High Temperature Deformation, Maintenance and design of Ultra High Vacuum Systems. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1987.

Mr. Kenneth Coryell is a welding and quality consultant with over 34 years of international and domestic experience in welding quality management. He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Welding Engineering from the Ohio State University and his employment history has included Hellier NDT, Potomac Electric Power, Florida Power and Light, NPS Engineers and Constructors, and General Dynamics-Electric Boat. Ken has been an adjunct instructor with ASM, ASME, AWS and has helped an estimated 2000 candidates prepare for the Certified Welding Inspector examination. His experience includes expert witness, failure analysis, quality assurance, quality control, nondestructive examination, and welding engineering for the electric utility, petrochemical, aerospace, shipbuilding, and structures. He is an ASNT Level III certificate holder in radiography and liquid penetrant testing, an AWS Senior Certified Welding Inspector, and a Registered Professional Engineer. Ken has lectured extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad on the topics of welding, nondestructive testing, and quality control. His 12 hour videocourse, "Welding Inspection Technology" has been used for nearly 12 years to prepare candidates for the Certified Welding Inspector examination.

Dr. Daniel P. Dennies is an Associate Technical Fellow for the Boeing Company and has 27 years experience as a metallurgist and performing failure investigations. He authored the book “How to Organize and Run a Failure Investigation.” The majority of his career has been in the aerospace industry working on projects such as the Space Shuttle Main Engine, the National Launch System, the National Aerospace Plane, expendable launch systems like Delta and Titan and, most recently, the International Space Station. He has accumulated a large amount of experience with a wide variety of materials, processes and test mechanisms through his association with the design and manufacturing aspects of these programs. Dr. Dennies broadened his manufacturing experience and industrial knowledge by working in the forging industry and the raw material industry. He has been a member of ASM for 29 years and is a 2002 ASM Fellow. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Allan Ray Putman Award from ASMI. Dan received the 2005 Orange County Engineering Council Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award. He is also a 1999 honoree of the coveted NASA Silver Snoopy Award. He was a founding Materials Mentor for the Eisenman Materials Camp in 2000 and has attended a Materials Camp as a Materials Mentor each year since. He is the coordinator of the Teachers Materials Camp in LA. Dan is active on the local level as member of the LA Chapter executive board. He is also active on the national level as a Board of Trustee for both the ASMI Education Foundation and Society. Dan is also on various national committees.

Mr. Jon L. Dossett, P.E. is a process metallurgist and materials engineer with over 42 years experience in practical induction heat treating and who is an expert in thermal processing and other heat treatments. He is experienced in failure analysis of steels, materials application, and engineering. Mr. Dossett is also experienced as a teacher, editor, technical writer, and metallurgical reviewer for technical publications and presentations. Before retiring in 2004, John was the President and Owners of Midland Metal Treating, Inc. in Franklin, WI. He is a member of the Handbook Committee for ASM International and has also co-authored and edited multiple publications for ASM. Mr. Dossett is a former Board of Trustee member of the Heat Treating Society and has also published numerous papers on Heat Treating.

Dr. Carl Frahme is President of Frahme Consulting Services, Inc. and has over forty years varied experience in the ceramic industry. This has included management of R&D, marketing and technology, manufacturing, construction services, and general operations of small corporations. He is the author or co-author of the eleven online ceramic courses offered by ASM International. He has taught ceramic courses at UCLA and numerous short courses in ceramic and refractory technology. He is a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society and a member of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers. He received his BS in Metallurgical Engineering from Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University) and his Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from Rutgers.

Mr. Thomas K. (Tom) Glasgow, recently retired Consulting Technologist for the Materials Division of the John H. Glenn Research Center, joined the staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1968. His research interests include powder metallurgy, ceramics, solidification science, advanced technology for medicine, space power, and technology transfer. Mr. Glasgow is the author of more than forty technical papers on high temperature materials science, a few patents, and has served as an editor of one book. He is also a Fellow of ASM International. He is a recipient of an I-R 100 award for the development of oxide dispersion strengthened superalloys and is an inventor of the new material of choice for hydrogen cooled rocket engine thrust chambers as well as a new technology for characterizing three-dimensional fluid flows. Mr. Glasgow earned his BS and MS degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the initiator of an ASM program rewarding teachers for introducing engineering concepts into elementary schools.

Dr. Dave Glocker is president of Isoflux Incorporated, which he founded in 1993. Isoflux manufactures sputtering equipment and works closely with clients in the medical device industry to develop proprietary coating processes. Dave has more than 25 years’ experience in thin film research, development, and manufacturing and has taken a number of new processes from laboratory-scale feasibility studies through successful production. He is an inventor or co-inventor of over 25 U.S. patents and an author of numerous research papers in the areas of sputter source design, plasmas and plasma characteristics, sources of substrate heating in sputtering, and the control of sputtering processes and sputtered film properties. He also is the co-editor of The Handbook of Thin Film Process Technology, a major reference work in the field.

Dr. Mike Helmus has over 28 years managing the R&D and Business Development of medical and controlled drug delivery devices. He focuses on developing commercialization strategies of potentially disruptive technology as well as managing intellectual property development (30 issued US patents) and supporting patent litigation. Mike is co-inventor of Ding, N; Helmus, M.N., Medical devices with long term non-thrombogenic coatings, US Patent 6,120,536, Sept. 19, 2000 which Boston Scientific prevailed in a patent-infringement battle with rival Cordis. He supports regulatory testing and submission and performs due diligence evaluations of medical devices, biomedical materials (synthetic and biologic), biodegradable compositions, controlled drug delivery, nanotechnology, medical technology, and tissue engineering. Dr. Helmus is an expert in biomaterials, biocompatibility and biomaterial databases (Committee Chair, ASM International, Materials for Medical Devices Database). His medical device experience includes: Drug eluting stents and coatings, large and small diameter vascular grafts, mechanical and biologic heart valves, central venous catheters, wound dressings, sealants such as fibrin sealant, and percutaneous connectors.

Dr. Jennifer M. Hoffman is a Managing Engineer with Exponent Failure Analysis Associates’ Mechanics and Materials Practice. Her expertise includes polymer and composite technology, mechanics materials, adhesion science and material failure analysis. She specializes in the characterization and testing of polymeric materials and has performed research in the area of structure-property relationships of thermoplastics, thermosets, polymer composites and rubber materials. She consults on issues involving application –specific selection and use of polymers based on design, manufacturability, material properties and compatibility with end-use environment. She has performed fractography, mechanical property evaluation, thermal analysis, and chemical analysis on numerous polymeric components to elucidate failure mechanisms. She received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Ms. Frauke Hogue is a consultant metallographer in failure analysis. After graduating form the Lette Verein in Berlin, Germany, she came to the US and worked at Voi-Shan, Culver City, CA, an aerospace fastener manufacturing company. At Voi-Shan she developed training materials and quality control procedures, and also worked closely with heat treating and manufacturing. In 1981 Frauke started to consult for corporate clients and independent laboratories, especially SEAL Laboratories, Los Angeles. The work involves training programs and all aspects of metallography for failure analysis of a wide range of materials, including electronics. She received the ASM Distinguished Educator Award in 1996 and the Instructor of Merit Award in 1997. Frauke has been a member of IMS since 1987, on the board of directors since 2000 and a member of ASM International since 1967. Currently she is president of IMECA (Independent Metallurgical Engineering Consultants of California).

Dr. Brad James is a Principal Engineer with Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, specializing in failure analysis, metallurgy, fracture, fatigue, corrosion and material degradation issues. Dr. James has conducted hundreds of medical device failure analysis investigations for both industrial and legal clients. He also helps medical device companies with general materials and/or metallurgical issues, as well as pre-market validation for fatigue, fracture and corrosion performance. Dr. James is an adjunct professor at the Santa Clara University School of Engineering, where he teaches graduate-level fracture mechanics and failure analysis courses. He has also served as a guest lecturer at Stanford University and San Jose State University. A registered Professional Metallurgical Engineer, Dr. James received his Ph.D. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 1994.

Dr. Kent L. Johnson, P.E., FASM, CWI, is president of Harvard Engineering, Inc., an engineering design and consulting firm. He received his Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson has over 30 years of comprehensive experience in welding engineering, failure analysis, non-destructive testing examinations, and performing detailed metallurgical examinations. He is currently the vice-chairman of the ASM Handbook Committee. He is a past chairman of both the ASM International Chicago Western Chapter as well as a past chairman of the American Welding Society (AWS), Chicago Section, and he has been active in both organizations for over 30 years.

Paul J. Kovach is a Staff Consultant with Stress Engineering Services, Inc. since having retired as a Principal of the Company. He holds an Engineering degree from Youngstown State, a Masters in Metallurgy from M.I.T. and is a Registered Professional Engineer. He also is an ASM International Fellow. He has over 45 years experience dealing with materials and welding issues in a wide variety of industries. He has been an active member of both the Houston ASM and AWS Chapters often serving on the Education Committees of these Chapters. He has served on the ASM Handbook Committee as well as on the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Sub-Committees.

Dr. John Landes is professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to that, he spent more than 15 years at the Westinghouse Research Center in Pittsburgh. Dr. Landes received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Lehigh University. He has more than 30 years of research experience in mechanical behavior of materials, principally in the application of fracture mechanics techniques to the study of fracture and fatigue behavior in materials. He was one of the pioneers in the development of non-linear fracture mechanics including elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, high temperature creep cracking, and a statistical approach to correlating scatter and size effects for brittle fracture of steels in the transition regime. He has been instrumental in developing new testing approaches and in the writing of ASTM and ISO test standards.

Dr. McIntyre. R. Louthan, Jr, Consulting Scientist Emeritus from the Savannah River National Laboratory, received his BS and MS (Virginia Tech) and PhD (Notre Dame) in metallurgical engineering in the early 1960's. He served in the US Army, taught at the University of Notre Dame (1965-67) and Virginia Tech (1975- 87) and spent most of his career as an engineer/scientist at Savannah River. He has approximately 200 peer reviewed technical publications, has edited 10 proceedings of international conferences, is currently Editor of the Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention and on the Editorial Review Board of Materials Characterization. His awards include the Orth Award, 2003 Scientist of the Year awarded by Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness, the Wine and Sporn Awards for Teaching Excellence, ASM International designations as an Instructor of Merit and as a Distinguished Educator and the Presidents Award from the International Metallographic Society. He is a Fellow in ASM International, past president of IMS, a trustee of the National Youth Science Foundation and past Chairman of the Network of Senior Scientists and Engineers for the Nuclear Weapons Industrial Complex. His award winning lecture "Why Stuff Falls Apart" has been given hundreds of times to Colleges and Universities, Professional Societies, Youth Organizations, Churches and Civic Groups in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Mr. Gabriel Lucas is currently a Senior Materials Engineer/Education Support professional employed with Buehler Ltd. He is responsible for developing and updating educational material, training technicians, and solving customer problems in the areas of specimen preparation, etching, macro- and micro-indentation hardness testing and image analysis. Prior to joining Buehler Ltd., Mr. Lucas was the Senior Metallographic Technician for Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) where he was responsible for developing analysis methods and characterizing a vast range of materials for the U.S. Navy’s National Center for Excellence in Metalworking Technology (N.C.E.M.T.).

Mr. William L. Mankins graduated from West Virginia University with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and a MS degree in Metallurgical Engineering. He served two years in the US Army at the US Army Air Defense Center, Fort Bliss, Texas, working with and teaching air defense missile systems. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a fellow of ASM International (Metals and Materials Society). Mr. Mankins was employed for more than 36 years at Inco Alloys International doing alloy development, process development, Manager of Technology Processing Center (process research laboratory), metallography, electron optics, failure analysis, and material costing before retiring in June 1998. He has been awarded 25 US patents (plus foreign patents on the same subjects) and have made numerous presentations and publications. I was selected to be an ASM-IIM (Indian Institute of Metals) visiting lecturer in India (1998) and made presentations in industry and academic institutions under the sponsorship of ASM and the Indian Institute of Metals. Upon retirement, Bill founded Metallurgical Services Inc., to solve problems for companies not having sufficient metallurgical engineering testimony as an expert witness to the legal profession regarding failure of materials or equipment He have been a member of the ASM Handbook Committee (providing technical oversight) for more than nineteen years and regularly contribute to the handbook series (21 volumes) as an author and reviewer of articles. Bill was honored to have been selected by ASM International for the MEI Instructor of Merit Award in 2001.

Dr. Robert W. Messler, Jr. graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor's of Metallurgical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physical Metallurgy. He has been a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at RPI, since 1984. He is the author of 4 books on welding and joining; 1993, 1999, 2004, and 2006, and over 160 technical papers in diverse areas of advanced metals and composites development and processing, as well as in materials education. Bob is the recipient of national awards from American Welding Society (1993) and Society of Manufacturing Engineering (1994), and from RPI (1996), the School of Engineering (2004), and the Materials Science & Engineering Department Awards (1998) for teaching excellence. He is a fellow of ASM International (1994) and the American Welding Society (1996) based on distinguished 25-year career in military aerospace and welding consumable and services industry and academe. He is a recognized expert in physical metallurgy, welding processes and metallurgy, joining of materials and structures, and failure analysis. He has been an active instructor for ASM International since 2004.

Ms. Kiersten Muenchinger is a practicing designer, business owner and educator in the San Francisco Bay area. Prior to founding Parapluie, a specialty gift box manufacturer, she was a design engineer at IDEO, Fitch, Sottsass Associatti, Walt Disney Imagineering and The Long Now Foundation. Kiersten is the Associate Chair of Industrial Design at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she teaches materials and manufacturing courses and design studios. Kiersten received a B.A. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Product Design from Stanford University.

Mr. Ronald J. Parrington, P.E., is the President of IMR Test Labs, a full service materials testing laboratory. Ron is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with BS and MS degrees in Materials Engineering. He has over 25 years of experience in materials testing and failure analysis of metallic and nonmetallic materials, has presented and published numerous papers on failure analysis, teaches the ASM courses (Principles of Failure Analysis and Nonmetallic Materials Workshop), and is past chairman of the ASM International Failure Analysis Committee and the ASM Chapter Council.

Mr. John Peppler earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Case Western Reserve University and was concurrently awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Marietta College in Physics. John brings twenty-two years of experience in Metallurgy and Materials Science to ASM. He has provided Materials Engineering support for the design and manufacture of products in the aerospace, printing equipment and consumer product industries. He is experienced in the selection, specification and testing of a wide variety of metallic and non-metallic materials and processing.

Dr. Robert B. Pond, Jr. is the Chair of the Engineering Science Department and the Associate Dean of the natural sciences at Loyola College in Maryland. He is an expert in engineering failure analysis with more than thirty years experience, providing consultation on materials problems for many industrial and government clients. He recently participated in a safety review panel for the Big Dig in Boston. He has expertise in mechanical deformation, fracture, corrosion, casting, microstructural characterization and examination of materials. He teaches courses in alloy selection for engineering design, introductory materials science and engineering, and materials testing and evaluation.

Mr. David Pye is currently owner of Pye Metallurgical Services in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was previously Manager, Plasma Processing and Equipment at Seco/Warwick Corporation. He has extensive experience in the areas of nitriding, surface treatments using thermo/chemical methods, carburizing and carbo-nitriding, ferritic nitro carburizing and nitriding, tool steel and its heat treatment, vacuum heat treatment, heat treatment of alloy steels, principles of quenching and distortion. He is also a consultant in the areas of failure evaluation, plant evaluation, process evaluation, heat treatment trouble shooting, plant layout, and heat treatment process comparisons.

Dr. Charles Rau is Corporate Vice President and Principal Engineer of Exponent Failure Analysis Associates. For over 40 years, he has specialized in failure analysis, life prediction, design and testing. Dr. Rau has evaluated thousands of fatigue, fracture, and corrosion failures in many industries, and testified about his findings in federal courts, state courts, before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and state agencies. His research has developed improved failure analysis and prevention methods, incorporating probabilistic fracture mechanics analysis of materials, mechanics, and inspection to physically understand and quantitatively model complex, practical problems. Dr. Rau holds a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Lafayette College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He is Registered Professional Engineer in California and Canada, and a Fellow of ASM International. Dr. Rau previously held research and engineering management positions with United Technology Corporation and Union Carbide Corporation, and has taught fracture mechanics and failure analysis courses at various universities.

Dr. Alan T. Riga is a Senior Material and Forensic Scientist with Techcon, Inc. He is also a Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy at The University of Toledo. Alan has more than forty years of experience in industrial and forensic science. He is recognized expert in a wide range of technical and scientific analysis, methods and standards. He is the author of over 100 journal and book articles, including numerous publications in materials science and analytical methods. Dr. Riga has been an expert witness with experience testifying in State and Federal courts around the country. His expertise includes product liability cases as well as intellectual property litigation for both plaintiff and defense. He is an ASTM fellow and member, ASM member and co-author of the [“Analysis of Structure”], Section 8 Failure Analysis, in Engineering Plastics.

Mr. Scott Russell is the Founder and President of Benchmark Nitinol Device Technologies, LLC. Mr. Russell has worked in the Nitinol technology field for 20 years and he brings a rare combination of business and technical experience to the Nitinol marketplace. His experience includes such diverse areas as alloy and process development, medical device design, process development, clinical research, business development, sales, and marketing. In 2000, Mr. Russell joined Nitinol Devices & Components (NDC), a Johnson & Johnson company. As Director of Advanced Device Concepts, Mr. Russell led numerous medical device development and clinical research activities in a variety of fields including cardiology, interventional neuroradiology, orthopedics, minimally-invasive surgery, stroke, drug delivery, pulmonology, and gynecology. He also developed comprehensive business plans for a number of medical device opportunities. Mr. Russell received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University (1987) and a M.S. in Metallurgy from the University of Connecticut (1996). He holds 22 patents on medical devices and advanced alloys, has edited two conference proceedings on shape memory alloys, has published in numerous journals, and is a past chairman and secretariat of the International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST).

Mr. Nat Saenz is the Technical Group Leader of the Microstructural Services Group, which includes the optical and SEM microscopy laboratories at Battelle-PNNL in Richland, Washington. His expertise covers a wide variety of materials, including ceramics, composites, ferrous and nonferrous materials. Mr. Saenz is a recipient of the American Ceramic Society Roland B. Snow Award and three IMS/ASM Jacquet-Lucas awards for excellence in metallography. He is currently on the IMS Board of Directors.

Dr. Frederick Schmidt brings to Engineering Systems Inc. over 30 years experience in materials processing, design, and process control in manufacturing and industry. His areas of expertise include metal alloys, ceramics, polymers, coatings, composite and electronic materials, tribology, corrosion mechanisms and prevention, mechanical properties of materials, manufacturing process audits, design and systems analysis, and litigation support. Prior to joining ESI, Dr. Schmidt was Director of Materials Technology for Packer Engineering. Prior to that, he was Chief Metallurgist for Remington Arms Company (Division of duPont), where he developed product and process technologies for firearms and ammunition components, and directed the modernization of all engineering materials documentation. He conducted development programs ranging from product design to prototype, volume manufacturing, and final product testing. Dr. Schmidt served as Adjunct faculty at the University of Delaware, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, and is adjunct faculty for the ASM Materials Engineering Institute.

Mr. Christopher Scott is Metallurgist & Principal Analyst with Techcon, Inc. He has 20 years of industrial experience in engineering materials, materials characterization and failure analysis. Mr. Scott has experience in direct technical activities as a consultant, and coordinating investigative and analysis requests related to product liability and litigation. Chris has authored and co-authored a number of publications in the areas of materials science, tribology and failure analysis. He has been a member of ASM International for over twenty years and is a reviewer of the ASM Handbook, “Friction, Wear & Lubrication Technology.”

Mr. George Vander Voort, Director of Research and Technology for Buehler Ltd., is a graduate of Drexel University and Lehigh University with a background in metallurgy and materials science and 29 years experience in the specialty steel industry. A past president of the International Metallographic Society and past chairman of ASTM Committee E-4 on Metallography, George is the USA representative to ISO on metallography. He has six patents and over 250 publications including Metallography: Principles and Practice (McGraw-Hill, 1984; ASMI, 1999), the ASM video course, Principles of Metallography, and Buehler’s Guide to Materials Preparation. He recently served as a trustee for ASM International and was the editor for the 2004 revision of Volume 9 of the ASM Handbook, Metallography and Microstructures. He a member of the editorial boards of Materials Characterization, Praktische Metallographie and the Intl. Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties. George has taught over 60 ASM Metals Engineering Institute courses, has given many seminars and workshops for Buehler and various technical societies and has given over 350 lectures in 36 countries. He is a fellow of ASMI and ASTM and has 30 awards for his microscopy work including the Jacquet-Lucas Grand Prize and the Dubose-Crouse Award of the International Metallographic Contest.