The first event organized by the ASM Italy Chapter in 2002 was a seminar on metallography presented by George F. Vander Voort, FASM (left), to mare than 90 attendees. The meeting was jointly organized with the Italian Association of Metallurgy and was held in the new 'Bovisa' campus of Politecnico di Milano, the largest technical university in Italy. Vander Voort presented conventional and