Robert W. Messler, Jr.

Robert W. Messler, Jr., Ph.D., FASM, FAWS, is Emeritus Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. His career spans more than four decades in diverse areas of advanced materials and processes in public and private industry and in academia, with unparalleled expertise in all aspects of joining. This "engineer who teaches" has authored more than a hundred technical papers and seven other engineering books. A Practical Guide to Welding Solutions...See more

Robert W. Messler, Jr., Ph.D., FASM, FAWS, is Emeritus Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. His career spans more than four decades in diverse areas of advanced materials and processes in public and private industry and in academia, with unparalleled expertise in all aspects of joining. This "engineer who teaches" has authored more than a hundred technical papers and seven other engineering books. A Practical Guide to Welding Solutions being the logical complement to his renowned Principles of Welding, also by Wiley. See less