2021 International Metallographic Contest

Class 1 – Light Microscopy – All Materials

First Place and the Best in Show – Jacquet Lucas Award

The Art and Science of Microstructures
Gerald Bourne
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO

Second Place

Continuous Casting of High Carbon Steel
Peter Kirbiš, Dr. Mihael Brunčko, and Dr. Ivan Anžel
SIJ Metal Ravne d.o.o. • and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor
Slovenia, EU

Third Place

Grain Growth of the Coal Fired Boiler Reheater Tube
Arif Hariyadi, M.Sc., Ika Dewi Wijayanti, PhD., and Andi Setyawan,
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember and PT. Pembangkitan Jawa Bali
Surabaya, Indonesia

Class 2 – Electron Microscopy – All Materials

First Place

Metallographic Evaluation of FSX 414 Gas Turbine Nozzle Segment
Girish Shejale and Darshan Ahire
Al Masaood John Brown Gas Turbine Services
Dubai

Second Place

Metallurgical Evaluation of Carbides in Gas Turbine Components
Girish Shejale and Ashok Kandurkar
Al Masaood John Brown Gas Turbine Services
Dubai

Class 3 –Student Entries – All Materials (Undergraduate Students Only)

First Place and the George L. Kehl Award

The Art and Science of Microstructures
W. Preston Cole, Robert S. Crow IV, Grace A. Rome, Carmen Sanchez, Greg D. Vigil
Addison C. Wong, and Gerald Bourne (advisor)
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO

Class 4 – Artistic Microscopy – Color

First Place

The Process of Deformation
Kevin Smith
MetPrep Ltd
United Kingdom

Second Place

Potassium Iron Sulphate 1
Karl Gaff
TU Dublin (Technical University Dublin)
Ireland

Third Place

Mind’s Eye
Samuel Pennell
Nortwestern University
Chicago, IL

Honorable Mention

Grand Prismatic
Xueni Huang
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Honorable Mention

Ammonium Nickel Nitrate 4
Karl Gaff
TU Dublin (Technical University Dublin)
Ireland

Honorable Mention

Roots of Iron
Samuel Pennell
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL   

Class 5 – Artistic Microscopy – Black and White

First Place

Dendrite Geode
Adam Haskins
Forensic Metallurgy
Phoenix, AZ

Second Place

SEM micrograph of platinum exhibiting several grains after etching by calcium chloride 
Sofia Papadopoulou
ELKEME SA (Hellenic Research Centre for Metals)
Greece

Third Place

Steel Hills
Monika Trąbska
Laboratoria Badań “Batory” / Research Laboratories “Batory”
Poland

Honorable Mention

Mare Fecunditatis
Mauricio Mendes Costa
Centro Tecnológico da Marinha – DDNM – LACAM
Brazil

Honorable Mention

Anatase nanotube array
Xueni Huang
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Honorable Mention

Cracked land
Xueni Huang
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Honorable Mention

Zinc mictrostructure
Marianna Katsivarda
ELKEME – Hellenic Research Centre for Metals S.A.
Greece

Honorable Mention

Fly Foot 
Sheri Neva
Eurofins – EAG Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA

Honorable Mention

Pandemic
Sheri Neva
Eurofins – EAG Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA

Class 6 – Student Video – Topic of Choice

First Class

Brace Yourselves Straighter Teeth Are Coming
Chase Clapp and Hannah Clarkson
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

Brace Yourselves Straighter Teeth Are Coming