The first time Marisa Holding heard about Cast in Steel, an upperclassman walked into the University of Wisconsin–Madison holding what looked like a spear. Not a prop. Not a replica […]
Craftsman and retired Marine Corps Sergeant Major Jason DiCosimo started blacksmithing simply because one of his woodworking clients needed custom metalwork. But after he forged metal for the first time, […]
METAL, led by IACMI – The Composites Institute®, and funded by the Department of War’s IBAS Program, was built to revitalize American manufacturing through hands-on training. Now, in a new […]
Russell Winter has spent most of his life on a machine shop floor. As a third-generation tool and die maker, Winter cut his teeth at his grandfather’s company in Illinois, […]
Keystone Development Partnership (KDP) launched 20 years ago after a massive skills gap derailed Pennsylvania’s transportation industry. Now, America’s metal industry faces a similar situation. An unprecedented labor gap has […]
Nothing could have prepared me for my first time in a foundry. Yet there I was at Erie Bronze and Aluminum Co., mesmerized by the sound of grinding machines, the […]
Heat. It whooshed past me as big buckets of bubbling bronze moved through the air, tethered to a crane, with one large, silver-clothed man guiding them from one place to […]
Sparks flew as students from Tennessee School for the Deaf turned a university foundry into their classroom. Through METAL’s hands-on workshop, eight high school students pounded sand molds, poured molten […]
The first time Bruce Barron walked into Barron Industries’ investment casting facility, he found a dimly lit room with low ceilings, barely the size of a basketball court, and a […]
Dr. Alexandra (Allie) Glover remembers her grandfather, Douglas Glover, by his quirky inventions, from a mechanical cherry pitter to a peanut butter stirrer, and his passion for metallurgy. He was […]
About 1,500 miles south of Cal Poly Pomona, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Dr. Victor Okhuysen learned his family’s trade: metalcasting. Today, Okhuysen, the interim associate dean for the College of Engineering […]
Dr. Paul Sanders fell in love with metalcasting in the foundry at Michigan Technological University more than 30 years ago. Today, as a materials science and engineering professor at his […]
