2017 Winners
Best in Show – Jacquet-Lucas Award
Classic Aluminum Etch Supporting Development of a New Automotive Joining Process (Class 1)
Elvin Beach
Worthington Industries, Inc.
Columbus, OH
Tom Luzanski, Dustin Marshall, and Brian Dix
TWB Company LLC
Monroe, MI
The DuBose-Crouse Award
Classic Aluminum Etch Supporting Development of a New Automotive Joining Process (Class 1)
Elvin Beach
Worthington Industries, Inc.
Columbus, OH
Tom Luzanski, Dustin Marshall, and Brian Dix
TWB Company LLC
Monroe, MI
George L. Kehl Award
Failure Analysis of a Collapsed Mo Thermocouple Protection Tube (Class 3)
Jason Lumsden
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA
Class 1 – Light Microscopy, All Materials
First Place
A Classic Aluminum Etch Supporting Development of a New Automotive Joining Process
Elvin Beach
Worthington Industries Inc.
Columbus, OH,<p)>Tom Luzanski, Dustin Marshall, and Brian Dix
TWB Company LLC
Monroe, MI </p)>
Class 2 – Electron Microscopy, All Materials
Honorable Mention
What Makes an ASTM E208 Weld Bead So Effective
Eric Lynch, Josh Cottrell, Brett Baer, and Matthew Werner
SSAB Americas
Muscatine, IA
Class 3 – Student Entries – All Materials (Undergraduate Students Only)
First Place and the George L. Kehl Award
Failure Analysis of a Collapsed Mo Thermocouple Protection Tube
Jason Lumsden
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA
Second Place
Alloying an Apple Core
Gannon Reichert and Michael Brill
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Third Place
Broken Reed, a Metallographic Analysis of Harmonica Reeds
Zhongrui Lui and Weining Li
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Honorable Mention
Shafting the Competition
Thomas Farinha and Joseph Cline
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Honorable Mention
SmCo Supermagnets or Supermodels
Cam Juric and Nick Johnson
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
Class 4 – Artistic Microscopy (Color)
First Place
Stainless Steel Dendrites
Sheri Neva
EAG-Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA
Second Place
Graphitic Cast Iron – 1.5×
Juan Carlos Hernando
Jönköping University
Jaönköping, Sweden
Third Place
Sunny Side-up Graphite Sphere
Amir Ardalan Rezaie, Haamun Kalaantari, and Reza Abbaschian
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
Honorable Mention
Nickel-based Alloy 52M Filler Metal – Ductility-Dip Cracking
Sam Luther, Daniel Huber, and Boian Alexandrov
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Honorable Mention
Graphitic Cast Iron – 31.5×
Juan Carlos Hernando
Jönköping University
Jönköping, Sweden
Honorable Mention
Friction Stir Additively Aluminum Alloy 2139 Component
Harold D. Claytor, Stephen J. Hales, and Eric K. Hoffman
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA
Class 5 – Artistic Microscopy (Black and White)
First Place
Tin Lead Metal Mix
Sheri Neva
EAG-Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA
Second Place
Solder
John N. Willard
Baker Hughes, a GE Company
Houston, TX
Third Place
Tin Lead Dendrites
Sheri Neva
EAG-Los Angeles
El Segundo, CA
Honorable Mention
Copper Pipe Geode
Adam W. Haskins
MELT
Phoenix, AZ
Honorable Mention
Dendrites Found in a Center Void of a Fractured Steel Ingot
Rafael Coura Giacomin
Carnegie Mellon University, MSE
Pittsburgh, PA
