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I joined TMS in1957 as an undergraduate student in Metallurgical Engineering at Case Institute of Technology. Since then, our profession and TMS have evolved. My own evolution through my career will be given as an example of the changes in our profession and the need for lifelong learning. When I was an undergraduate “steel was king”. Most of the research projects when I was in graduate school were on steel. However, as the “age of silicon” started in the 1960’s, this changed. Industrial laboratories such as General Electric and DuPont had a history of using multidisciplinary research to solve materials problems. The first university department of materials science and engineering began at Northwestern University in 1959. This talk will discuss the nature of a profession, the history of the metallurgical/materials professions, the associated professional societies, and the history of engineering and materials engineering education. |