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Welcome to our first double issue of 2017, covering
aerospace materials and advances in microscopy
and materials characterization. As part of a slew of
changes related to the ASM Renewal, AM&P will publish eight
issues in 2017, two per quarter, as we focus more efforts into
our digital transformation. As the times change, somust ASM.
However, our flagship magazine will continue to report on
the latest developments in materials science and engineer-
ing and also highlight the great work of individuals within our ASM family.
In February, we lost one of our dear colleagues—Charles R. “Bob” Simcoe—
author of our popular “Metallurgy Lane” series. Simcoe was almost 90 when he
contacted me in 2013 to pitch the idea of an article series about the early history
of the U.S. metals and materials industries. I had only been at ASM for two months
andmy predecessors had passed on his idea a few years before. Simcoe thought he
would try again with the “new editor” and I loved the idea. Since his debut article
in January 2014, Simcoe has authored nearly 40 pieces in this series to rave reviews
and numerous letters in our “Feedback”
department. ASM is now working on a
book based on this series, which we will
publish later this year. As a testament to
his motivation and initiative to begin a
massive writing project at the age of 90,
Simcoe’s almamater, PurdueUniversity,
named himAlumnus of the Year in 2014.
Because engineering publica-
tions tend to be laser focused on new
and emerging technologies, it is also critically important to look back and think
about how ideas and science have progressed. The act of looking back helps ori-
ent us in time and space. Simcoe’s series begins in Massachusetts in 1645, in the
British Colonies at the Saugus Iron Works. These early days of ironmaking were
the precursors of our domestic steel industry and Simcoe does a fantastic job of
chronicling this history over the next 350 years. His final articles tell the sad story
of the decline of the U.S. steel industry, a devastation of epic proportions that
began in the 1950s and continues today.
Speaking of history, our current issue includes a fascinating tour of a cen-
tury of aerospace progress at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (ML).
In 1917, ML was launched at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio, to develop lighter and
stronger materials for the newly emerging aerospace community. It’s interesting to
note that initial research focused on improving the flexible wooden components
of airplanes. Just another point of orientation to think about going from simple
“wood” to things like metal matrix nanocomposites reinforced with carbon nano-
tubes and graphite nanoplatelets in the span of 100 years. Onward and upward!
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Adam Farrow, Vice Chair, Los Alamos National Lab
Jaimie Tiley, Past Chair, U.S. Air Force Research Lab
Ellen Cerreta, Board Liaison, Los Alamos
National Lab
Tomasz Chojnacki, Caterpillar Inc.
Mario Epler, Carpenter Technology Corp.
Yaakov Idell, NIST
Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National
College of Technology
John Shingledecker, EPRI
Kumar Sridharan, University of Wisconsin
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LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK
Charles R. Simcoe