“Young Adults Powerful Beyond Measure”
Professor Elias
MSE 302
-Metallurgy is the study of metals, and
their different processing and
manufacturing for different
applications.
-Processing methods are vast, and
can range from cold-working, heat
treatment, quenching methods,
cooling times, coatings, and alloying
etc.
-Each processing method produces a
unique metal, with unique properties
specific to an application, or tool used
by the masses.
Mike Marchesan
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-Three general types of carbon steels
 1. Low Carbon
 2. Medium Carbon
 3. High Carbon
 1. & 2. have most of their use in
infrastructure, serving as the skeleton for
commerical building/high rises due to their
ability to deflect without
catastrophic/immediate fracture.
 3. Is used in applications where constant
usage, and punishment occurs to the metal.
Crankshafts for vehicles, dies for industrials
molds, and industrial machinery such as the
blades of saws, cutters, etc.
Mike Marchesan
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-Alloys are metals that have been mixed/processed
with other metals to produce a final “alloyed metal”
that has mixed and enhanced properties.
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-Stainless steel,example of a very common alloyed
metal. Main purpose to be able to withstand
corrosion. Usually alloyed with varying amounts of
Chromium, Nickel, and Molybdenum, and subject
to different heat-treatment processes.
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Three main types of stainless steels:
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1. Austenitic
2. Ferritic
3. Martensitic
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1. Most common, great anti-corrosion properties, can
get rather expensive.
2. Not as anti corrosive as Austenite, usually much
cheaper.
3. Not the most anti-corrosive, due to heat treatment,
produces a very tough metal that can hold edge. Used
in cutlery. However, it can be very brittle.
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Mike Marchesan
o Identify, troubleshoot and fix the biases that women face in the field of
Materials Science Engineering
o At School:
•Problems
•Little bias between sexes
•Rigorous course load discourages them
•Solution
• Come a variety of fields such as: Chemistry, Physics and Math
o The work place
•Problems:
•Higher possibility of sexism
•Study equal opportunity policies and their effectiveness
•Solution: Recommends Universities and Companies
Julian Hipolito
o Pay and Promotion Difference Between Men and women
•blacklist sexist organizations
o Working moms and daycare
Statistics
P.HD’s in Material Science Engineering for women increased 21% from
1983 – 2006
Julian Hipolito
“Corporate America needs to clean up its act. The
labeling on building materials for home construction is
often erroneous and the materials can be dangerous.”
She said after turning a 45 million dollar sale.
•Artist
•Broke her own Swan Statue
•Inspired her to create unbreakable
plaster
•After 8 years she perfected a
Renaissance recipe Geobond® a
catalyst of milky additive with
gypsum and concrete
•PROPERTIES: indestructible, fireproof and non-toxic
•Patented in 1997
•Replaces asbestos in building
materials
Jessica Reichers
•1924 High School Drop out
•Graduates Secterial school single
divorced mother
•1956 started to sell "Mistake-Out"
•1958 refined w/addition of chemicals
making "liquid paper" applied for patent
•1967 had its own corporate headquarters
and automated production plant, sold
1million per year
•1975 Graham moved operations into a
35k sq. ft. international Liquid Paper
headquarters building in Dallas
•1979 Sold Company to Gillette
Corporations.
•Dies 6 months later
Jessica Reichers
•Research chemist for 3M co. 1952
w/fluorochemicals to develop a rubber for
jet aircraft fuel lines
•1953 assistant dropped a bottle of
synthetic latex causing it to splash on the
assistant's white canvas tennis shoes
•Could not be washed away by a solvent,
repelled water, oil and other liquids
•Fluorochemical polymer
•1983 Minn. Inventors hall of fame
•Worked with 3M utill 1992 as technical
development manager
• Product sold $300 million annually
Jessica Reichers
•B.A. in chemistry @ Carnegie Mellon
University
•Temporary research position @ DuPont
•1971 discovered a liquid crystalline
polymer solution which led to Kevlar ® 5x
stronger than steel
•PROPERTIES: resistant to wear,
corrosion and flames,
•Used as bulletproof vest, skis, safety
helmets, hiking, camping gear and
suspension bridge cables (200
applications)
•She's received the Kilby award, the
national medal of technology and 1999
Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement award
Jessica Reichers
“Girls should follow their
dreams. They can do
anything anybody else can
do. They have many more
role models today – not
the least of whom might
be their mothers.”
– Stephanie
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Mildred Dresselhaus was born in The Bronx,
New York and is currently a professor of
Physics and Electrical Engineering at MIT
Grew up during the depression and worked
at age 8
Completed her Ph.D. degree at the
University of Chicago, with her Ph.D. thesis
in 1958 on the subject of microwave
properties of superconductors in a magnetic
field
In 1968, created a new model for the
electronic structure of graphite and graphite
In 1970 she co-founded the Women's Forum
at MIT and received a Carnegie Foundation
grant to encourage women's study of
traditionally male-dominated fields, such as
physics and engineering
Ronnie Calderon
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Graphene is a good thermal and electric
conductor and can be used to develop
semiconductor circuits and computer parts
Future applications include environmental
sensors, flexible solar cells, touch sensors,
stretchable electrodes, foldable displays, RF
applications, etc.
Some conspiracy theorists have even linked
it to materials at the Roswell "crash site"
"Our research establishes graphene as the
strongest material ever measured, some 200
times stronger than structural steel,"
mechanical engineering professor James
Hone, of Columbia University, said in a
statement
Ronnie Calderon
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Currently: Professor at USC
(helping aid female students)
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Research Scientist: Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
(works 60/70 hours per week )
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Visited by Japanese scientists.
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Focus on Nano Mechanics and
characterizations of Nano
crystalline materials
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Her ultimate sacrifice.
Grigor Arzunyan
•Between 1966-2001, the number of women earning
science and engineering degrees at all levels of
education has increased!
•As of 2001, women received half of all science and
engineering bachelor’s degrees, gaining closer balance
with males.
•Graduate school number of female students rose over
the years to 41% of science and engineering degree.
•In 2001, 37% of doctoral degree recipients were female.
•Meanwhile, number of male students dropped between
1996-2001.
Grigor Arzunyan