Rensselaer welding metallurgy program (Warren Savage)

Parallel to the Lehigh tradition. Doc Savage as the second great American welding metallurgy mentor, with John Lippold as one of his last students.

And so what happened is up at Rensselaer Polytechnic, a guy came along named Warren Savage. They called him Doc Savage, after the comic books. Doc was a wonderful person, a bit of an alcoholic, and his students loved him. John Lippold was one of his last students. Doc turned out all kinds of welding metallurgists, and because of this legacy of RPI and Lehigh, everybody thought you solve every problem in the world by metallurgy. My quote is from Maslow: if the only tool you have is a hammer, you see every problem as a nail. So you have to be a little bit broader. If I start asking some of these Five Whys, it's interesting where it leads you. I've gotten up to seven on some of the whys to get to what I thought was the real major thing.

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