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383 G eorge F. Vander Voort has over 50 years of professional experience. In his career, he has helped metallurgists all over the world with his publications, lectures, seminars, courses, and website. His focus within metallurgy has been using metallography to interpret microstructures and determine why metals have failed in manufacturing or service. He began his career with Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in July 1967, and did many failure analysis studies with some involving litigations. In 1983, he joined Carpenter Technology Corporation’s R&T Center in Reading, Pennsylvania as supervisor of metallography and mechanical testing. In 1996, he joined Buehler Ltd. in Lake Bluff, Illinois as director of research and technology. Since December 2009 he has been a consultant, mainly for Struers Inc., but also for a number of other companies, as president of Vander Voort Consulting LLC. Mr. Vander Voort received a BS in metallurgical engineering in 1967 from the Drexel Institute of Technology, where he was twice editor-in-chief of the Drexel Technical Journal. In 1974, he earned an MS in metallurgy and materials science from Lehigh University. He has over 438 publications, including the widely used book “Metallography: Principles and Practice,” and has given over 275 seminars, 450 lectures in 42 countries, and 20 webinars. In 1993, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked him to review the work done by scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho Falls National Engineering Laboratory due to arguments over how hot the lower head of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor got in the 1979 accident. Mr. Vander Voort showed them how to determine the peak temperature each of the 14 specimens removed from under (and one outside) the molten uranium dioxide debris pile got. The recipient of 36 awards for his microscopy work and holder of six patents, he is a Fellow of ASM International, ASTM International, Alpha Sigma Mu, and the International Federation of Heat Treatment and Surface Engineers, as well as an honorary member of the Polish Society for Stereology. He is married to Dr. Elena P. Vander Voort, also a metallurgist, and has two children. GEORGE F. VANDER VOORT METALLURGICAL ENGINEER, CONSULTANT Struers Inc., Vander Voort Consulting LLC Wadsworth, IL