Every year on November 14, IIM celebrates National
Metallurgists' Day (NMD), coinciding with the Birthday of our First Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
The awards function was a part of IIM's annual technical meeting at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to mark the 48th National
Metallurgists Day and the 64th Annual Technical Meeting.
"As well as understanding the interaction of the steel with its heat treatment, another fundamental relationship exists between the
metallurgist and designer.
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While consumers tend to think of an aluminum can as a single item, to a
metallurgist like Das, it's actually a multi-part item consisting of body, or can, stock, and lid stock.
Known as the P-1 centrifuge, the plans were stolen by a Pakistani
metallurgist, A.Q.
Mr Harrison started his career at the River Don Works of British Steel, (now Sheffield Forgemasters), before moving to British Steel Stainless, (now Outokumpu Stainless), as a liaison
metallurgist. In recent years, he has worked in market research and IT.
To investigate both processes,
metallurgist William J.
O'Connor earned degrees in
Metallurgist and Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington.
"There are some properties that are extremely small, but they have a profound influence," explains Rohit Trivedi, a physical
metallurgist and an Iowa State University, Ames, distinguished professor.
Fundamentally the
metallurgist wants to know what the exact answer is and if supplied with the right tools to help trace these things, then there would be major advantages."
Scott MacKenzie, PhD., technical specialist--heat treating, Houghton International Inc., Valley Forge, PA...Don Jordan, corporate
metallurgist, Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, PA...Hypertherm Inc., Hanover, NH, appointed Michael Wendell, engineering manager, Manual Systems team, and Gordon Rice, president, of its Centricut LLC subsidiary...Harry Perrine, ma nager--engineering, Boltech Inc., Youngstown, OH.