Engineering Foundry Makes Aluminum Elephants December 1, 2016 Written by Adam Jones 1 min read TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail Students in an introductory course to metallurgical and materials engineering learned about metal casting through small elephants. Lab technician Robert Fanning, right, and graduate student Yang Xuan pour molten aluminum into molds students helped make. Once cooled, the elephants are separated. We are wonder workers who turn metal into elephants….
