Did you know that applying electrical heat to materials under vacuum can be an important manufacturing process to ensure product quality when drying, high-purity processing or when other vacuum-type heating is required? In her Dec. 2020 SME Speaks’ guest editorial, Edye Buchanan, CMfgT, longtime SME member and a sales strategist at BriskHeat Corp., provides a thorough overview of this process.

The SME Education Foundation announced a renewed and focused commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion with the creation of a new scholarship fund for underrepresented young people and enhanced focus on offering opportunities to underrepresented and disadvantaged communities through the SME PRIME program.