Materials Evaluation and Engineering, Inc.  is pleased to announce that Henry Ahrenholtz has joined our staff as an Associate Engineer. We hired Henry to support MEE’s  busy materials characterization laboratory.  He has rapidly become skilled in nondestructive testing methods, visual examination, metallographic sample preparation, microstructure examination, and mechanical testing. He has already been involved in two large industrial projects assisting senior engineering staff on the job site and in the laboratory.  We are confident that Henry will be a strong asset to the MEE team.

Henry is from Minnetonka Minnesota and attended Iowa State University, graduating in 2018 with a degree in Materials Engineering with a specialization in polymers. When not at work in the Metallography Lab, Henry enjoys rock climbing and cycling.

 

Henry Ahrenholtz

Materials Science Camp

posted July 2019

This was MEE’s 13th year as a sponsor of ASM International Materials Science Camp for high school students. ASM Materials Camp utilizes hands-on learning principles of applied math and science for a truly unique, team-based problem solving experience that explores materials science and engineering principles.

The students are assigned a failure analysis project on the first day of camp and spend a day in the laboratories at MEE examining their samples and gathering data.  They prepare their samples in the metallographic lab, view the microstructure using SEM and metallographic microscopes and perform Rockwell hardness tests all under the direction of  industry and education based Materials Mentors.

Three MEE staff, Larry Hanke, Kurt Schenk and Neal Hanke, were camp mentors for the entire week of camp.

Rockwell hardness test lab

Mentor, Kurt Schenk, enjoying the camp experience!

Sample Preparation in the MEE shop

Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy

Light Microscopy

Consulting ASM Handbooks