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My involvement in SME and its AeroDef event began in 2014, when I first presented an Adaptive Machining Overview at AeroDef 2014 in Long Beach, Calif. At the time, the conference was relatively small in terms of attendees and exhibitors in comparison to the explosion of other engineering conferences that began around that time.

The growing skills gap is causing trepidation among manufacturers and the lack of millennials building careers within the industry is part of the concern.

My first participation in SME’s North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) was in 1994 at NAMRC-XXII, hosted by Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). I presented my work, “Development of a New Type of Magnetic Finishing Tool for Internal Finishing of Tubes Using Rotating Magnetic Field,” in the Machining Innovation 1 session at 10:30 a.m. on May 25, 1994.

When I was growing up, my family owned a small machine shop in the Chicagoland area. My grandparents all immigrated to the US from a war-torn Europe in the early 1920s with the hope of a new life based on the American dream. Both of my grandfathers were machinists, and my father was an engineer and a member of SME’s Chicago Chapter 5, joining the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers in 1964—the year I was born.

Rustin Webster, PhD, gives his perspective on the role educators play in shaping the future of the manufacturing industry.

How to promote your personal brand and rise above other candidates in a competitive job market.

Unlocking Success: Effective Networking Strategies in Manufacturing

Ecological limits will prevent the production of enough meat to satisfy the impending demand. .

A member of SME discusses his dreams of becoming a mechanical engineer.

With the recent crisis that has unfolded in Eastern Europe, there is an increase in activity directed toward the large and small companies that make up the Defense Industrial Base.