Heat Treat Today’s Meet the Consultants: George Totten

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Heat Treat Today recently unveiled its Heat Treat Consultants page in the October 2018 print edition (available in digital format here) and at FNA in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer this comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants as part of our efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” With so many heat treat brains growing older, the expertise that once used to reside inside of manufacturing operations is dwindling. Where, then, do manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments go when they need heat treat answers?

Turn to Heat Treat Today and our comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, which we will introduce to you one by one in this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”. There is no more comprehensive list of heat treat consultants. Learn more about George E. Totten of  G.E. Totten & Associates, and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn. 

Name: George E. Totten
Company Name: G.E. Totten & Associates
Location: Seattle, Washington
Years In Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Heat Treating & Thermal Processes
  • Fluids & Lubricants
  • Advanced Quenching Technology & Engineering
  • Surface Engineering
  • Consulting & Contract Research

Send an email | Website | Phone: 206-788-0188

Briefly:

G. E. Totten & Associates LLC, a research and consulting firm specializing in thermal processing and industrial lubrication problems and related equipment supply, was founded by George E. Totten, Ph.D., FASM. Dr. Totten began with over 31 years of experience before launching his company, and he is widely known from his long-term experience in the heat treating and fluids/lubricants industry. The initial mission of G.E. Totten & Associates LLC was to make global experts in the fields of thermal process, fluids, and lubricants available to those with problems in these areas, regardless of location, through either a consulting or contract research (or both) basis. In time, the initial mission expanded to include providing global technical support in cooling curve analysis, furnaces and equipment, advanced quenching technology and engineering, hydraulic system equipment, and software.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Founder and president of G.E. Totten & Associates LLC (2001 to present).
  2. Research Professor, Portland State University — Portland, Oregon (2004-2015).
  3. Adjunct Professor, Polytechnic University of New York — New York, New York (2001).
  4. Visiting Scholar, Texas A&M University — College Station, Texas (2005-2006).
  5. Visiting Professor, Department of Engineering, Materials, Aeronautics and Automobile Technology, School of Engineering at São Carlos, University of São Paulo — São Carlos, Brazil (2006 to present).
  6. Associate Professor, Associação Instituto Internacional de Pesquisa — São Carlos, Brazil (2006 to present).
  7. Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University — College Station, Texas (2006-2015).
  8. Associate Professor, Portland State University — Portland, Oregon (2015 to present).
  9. Completed Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry, Dissertation: “Substituted Neopentyl Systems via Silyl Ketene Acetal Chemistry and Acetolysis of Alkyl-Substituted Neopentyl Derivatives” (awarded 1989).
  10. President, International Federation for Heat Treatment & Surface Engineering (IFHTSE) (2002-2004); Fellow of IFHTSE (2005).
  11. Member of ASM International, Brazilian Association of Metallurgy and Materials, American Chemical Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, American Society for Testing and Materials, serving on several committees; member-at-large, ASTM Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants.
  12. Recipient of sixteen U.S. patents.
  13. Recipient of American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) Awards, including of Excellence (2000), Sydney D. Andrews Scroll of Achievement (2004), of Merit (2006), Outgoing Chairman Award (2006), Charles B. Dudley Award (2008).
  14. Recipient of ASM Eisenman Award (2017); Hephaestus Award (2016); Nitrex Hephaestus Award (2013); IFHTSE Medal (2011); SAE McFarland Award (2000).
  15. Established George E. Totten Symposium on Quenching — Heat Treating Society of ASM International (2007).
  16. Co-authored or edited 37 books and conference proceedings, including: Handbook of Residual Stress and Deformation of Steel, Editor, ASM International (2002); Steel Heat Treatment Handbook (2 vol.), Editor, CRC Press (2006); Mechanical Tribology: Materials, Characterization, and Applications, Co-editor with Hong Liang, CRC Press (2004); Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology, Co-author with Victor J. De Negri, CRC Press (2017, 2nd ed.); Handbook of Aluminum: Vol. 1: Physical Metallurgy and Processes and Vol. 2, Co-author with D. Scott MacKenzie, CRC Press (2003); Handbook of Quenchants and Quenching Technology, Co-author with C.E. Bates and N.A. Clinton, ASM International (1993); Manual 64, Intensive Quenching Systems: Engineering and Design, Co-author with Nikolai Kobasko, Ph.D., Michael Aronov, Ph.D., and Joseph Powell, ASTM (2010).
  17. Contributor to several articles published by Industrial Heating magazine, ASTM Standardization News magazine and over 100 technical papers for ASTM Technical Committee.
  18. Contributor to or Author or Editor of over 600 publications, including several ASTM publications.

Links to Heat Treat Today or Other Online Resources (a select list):

References (partial list, more available upon request):

Linked In  |  G.E. Totten & Associates  |  ASM International

 

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