Past Presentations

October 2025
10/22/25 – The Diverse Roles of Hydrogen and Metal Hydrides: A Historical Perspective

10-22-25DiverseRolesofHydrogen.pdf

 

September 2025
09/25/25 – Redefining Metal Additive Manufacturing: Velo3D’s Journey to Unlocking Geometric Freedom

09-25-25RedefiningMetalAdditive.pdf

 

August 2025
08/27/25 – Global Manufacturing Solutions

TechTalk08-27-25.pdf

 

July 2025
07/23/25 – SpaceX’s Starship: Transportation System for the Moon and Mars

SpaceX07-23-25.pdf

 

June 2025
06/25/25 – Metal Injection Molding the Next Near Net Shape Metal Manufacturing Process

06-25-25VanWertSeminar.pdf

 

May 2025
05/28/25 – Dayton – The Birthplace of Aviation: Not Just Airplanes, But
Parachutes Too

05-28-25DaytonParachutes.pdf

 

April 2025
04/23/25 – Roles of Testing Laboratories in Ensuring Safety, Compliance, and Sustainability in the Medical Device Industry

04-23-25TumeyBioscension.pdf

 

March 2025
03/23/25 – Mound Business Park Today and Beyond

03-23-25HauserMBP.pdf

 

February 2025
02/26/25 – The Development and Evolution of Thermal Diffusion Galvanizing

02-26-25VanWert.pdf

 

January 2025
01/22/25 – The DOE Office of Legacy Management and Long-Term Stewardship

01-22-25DOEStewardship.pdf

 

November 2024
11/20/24 – The Manhattan Project: America’s Largest WWII Engineering Project

11-20-24ManhattanProject.pdf

 

October 2024
10/23/24 – Energy From The Wind

10-23-24EnergyFromTheWind.pdf

 

September 2024
09/25/24 – Nation Aviation Heritage Area

09-25-24Heritage.pdf

 

August 2024
08/28/24 – Boss Kett and the History of DELCO

08-28-24BossKett.pdf

 

July 2024
07/24/24 – How Dayton Became the Center of U.S. Air Force Engineering and Research – Amazing Story of McCook Field

07-24-24McCookField.pdf

 

June 2024
06/24/24 – World’s First Drone Flight Inside a Very High Radiation Nuclear Waste Storage Facility

06-26-24FirstDroneFlight.pdf

 

May 2024
05/22/24 – Building The SR-71, The World’s Fastest Jet

05-22-24_SR71.pdf

 

April 2024
04/08/24 – The Mound, Ohio Site and the Department of Energy’s Office of Legacy Management: How Did We Get Here and Where Does the Site Go From Here?

04-08-24DOEDrake.pdf

 

March 2024
03/27/24 – Periodicity of Solar and Lunar Eclipses: The When, Where, and Why of Eclipses

03-27-24PeriodictySolarLunarEclipses.pdf

 

February 2024
02/28/24 – Giving Wings to The Atom GE Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project

02-28-24GivingWingsToTheAtom.pdf

 

January 2024
01/24/24 – Further Development of Radioisotope Generators since New Horizons

01-24-24RTG.pdf

 

November 2023
11/15/23 – Eclipse Chasing: Heavenly Excuses to Travel

11-15-23Eclipse.pdf

 

October 2023
10/25/23 – Cambridge Sources

10-25-23CambridgeSources.pdf

 

September 2023
09/27/23 – Sunbath

09-27-23SunBath.pdf

 

August 2023
08/23/23 – SA-2 and U-2

08-23-23SA-2.pdf

 

July 2023
07/19/23 – Spy Pilot

07-19-23SpyPilot.pdf

 

June 2023
06/28/23 – A Conversation On Beer

06-28-23AConversationOnBeer.pdf

 

May 2023
05/24/23 – The Story of the C. F. Kettering Research Laboratory

05-24-23CFKettering.pdf

 

April 2023
04/26/23 – The Story of Runnymede

04-26-23Runnymede.pdf

 

March 2023
03/22/23 – Post-War Czechoslovakia, Communist Coup and the Cold War Exile

03-22-23MCD.pdf

 

February 2023
02/22/23 – An Overview of the History, Roles, Operations, and Future Directions of the Miami Conservancy District

02-22-23MCD.pdf

 

January 2023
01/25/23 – Those Darned Cambridge Sources – A Radiological Assistance Team Callout

01-25-23CambridgeSources.pdf

 

November 2022
11/16/22 – The Diverse Roles of Hydrogen and Metal Hydrides for Space Missions

11-16-22MetalHydries.pdf

 

October 2022
10/26/22 – The Status of Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) Since Cassini

10-26-22RTG.pdf

 

September 2022
09/28/22 – The Dayton Spy

09-28-22TheDaytonSpy.pdf

 

August 2022
08/24/22 – Lost Dayton Ohio

08-24-22LostDayton.pdf

 

July 2022
07/27/22 – Exploring Bismuth Crystals

07-27-22ExploringBismuthCrystals.pdf

 

June 2022
06/22/22 – The Five Eyes

06-22-22FiveEyes.pdf

 

May 2022
05/25/22 – Dayton Inventions

05-25-22DaytonInventions.pdf

 

April 2022
04/27/22 – Adena Indian Culture and the Great Mound of Miamisburg, Ohio

04-27-22AdenaIndians.pdf

 

March 2022
03/23/22 – A History of the Mound Amateur Radio Association and an Overview of Amateur Radio

03-23-22AmateurRadio.pdf

 

February 2022
02/23/22 – Recollections from Nearly 30 years in the Engineering Department at Mound Laboratory

02-23-22EngineeringDepartment.pdf

 

November 2021
11/17/21 – All-Metal Automated Toepler Pump for Quantitative Gas Transfers

11-17-21All-Metal.pdf

 

October 2021
10/27/21 – Mound Lecture Series: Perspectives on the Transition of Mound Laboratory

MSEMLectureOct2021.pdf

 

February 2020
02/26/20 – Radioactive Isotopes: Their Properties and Diverse Applications

02-26-20RadioactiveIsotopes.pdf

 

January 2020
01/22/20 – SpaceX: Revolutionizing Space Transportation

01-22-20SpaceX.pdf

 

November 2019
11/20/19 – Managing the Cold War Legacy

11-20-19ColdWarLegacy.pdf

 

October 2019
10/23/19 – Challenges and Opportunities in Law Enforcement Today

10-23-19LawEnforcement.pdf

 

September 2019
09/25/19 – Stable Isotope Enrichment at Mound Laboratory

09-25-19StableIsotopeEnrichment.pdf

 

August 2019
08/28/19 – Apollo 11: A Look Back at the Objectives and Achievements of the Historic First Lunar Landing Mission

08-28-19Apollo11.pdf

 

July 2019
07/24/19 – A Walk Down Heat Source Memory Lane

07-24-19HeatSource.pdf

 

June 2019
06/26/19 – Excelitas Miamisburg 25 Years of Excellence

06-26-19ExcelitasMiamisburg.pdf

 

May 2019
05/22/19 – From the Manhattan Project to Legacy Management

05-22-19LegacyManagment.pdf

 

April 2019
04/24/19 – Fusion Energy In Our Future

04-24-19FusionEnergy.pdf

 

March 2019
03/27/19 – Calorimetry Development and Application at Mound Laboratory

03-27-19CalorimetryDevlopment.pdf

 

February 2019
02/27/19 – Dayton Spy: George Koval

02-27-19DaytonSpyKoval.pdf

 

January 2019
01/23/19 – Dayton Codebreakers

01-23-19DaytonCodebreakers.pdf

 

November 2018
11/28/18 – Weapons Component Testing and Fusion Research

11-28-18WeaponsComponentTesting.pdf

 

October 2018
10/20/18 – Special Event Book Signing – October 2018

October2018BookSigning.pdf

 

10/24/18 – Dayton’s Most Violent Decade: 1965-1975

10-24-18DaytonViolenceDecade.pdf

 

September 2018
09/26/18 – Mound 2.0: Commercialization of Mound

09-26-18MoundCommercialization.pdf

 

August 2018
08/22/18 – A Better Mouse Trap? No – A Better Tritium Air Monitor

08-22-18ABetterMouseTrap.pdf

 

July 2018
07/25/18 – Ridgeleigh Terrace to Yellow Springs & Beyond

07-25-18YellowSprings.pdf

 

June 2018
06/27/18 – Story of the Mound Laboratory

06-27-28MoundStory.pdf

 

May 2018
05/23/18 – Early Mound Museum Effort

05-23-18EarlyMoundMuseumEffort.pdf

 

March 2018
03/28/18 – Railway Transportation and the Rise of the South Suburbs

03-28-18Railroad.pdf

 

February 2018
02/28/18 – Preserving the Legacy of Mound Laboratory

LectureFEB2018_MAskins.pdf

 

January 2018
01/24/18 – Fusion Power

01-24-18FusionPower.pdf

 

October 2017
10/25/17 – What Firefighters Really Do

10-25-17Firefighters.pdf

 

September 2017
9/27/17 – The Life and Death of Cassini

09-27-17CassiniPresentation.pdf

 

August 2017
8/23/17 – The Search for Life on Mars and Beyond

08-23-17JerryBlackPressRelease.pdf

 

May 2017
5/24/17 – Nuclear Electricity, Nuclear Batteries, and Nuclear Homicide

05-24-17PressReleaseBishop.pdf

 

April 2017
4/26/17 – The Dayton Codebreakers

04-26-17DaytonCodebreakers.pdf

 

March 2017
3/22/17 – The Story of Dr George Koval American-Born Super Spy

03-22-17KovalExtendedAbstractRCB.pdf

 

February 2017
2/22/17 – The Old Barn Club and the Golden Age of Hills and Dales Park

02-22-17OldBarnClub.pdf

 

January 2017
1/25/17 – Dayton Inventions

01-25-17DaytonInventions.pdf

 

October 2016
10/26/16 – Dayton History – Past, Present, Future

10-26-16DaytonHistory.pdf

 

September 2016
9/28/16 – The Fernald Story

9-28-16-TheFernaldStory.pdf

 

July 2016
7/27/16 – The Ohio EPA’S Emergency Response Program

7-27-16-OhioEPA.pdf

 

June 2016
6/22/16 – Historical Overview of the Miami Valley Chautauqua

6-22-16-MiamiValleyChautauquaAbstract.pdf

 

May 2016
5/25/16 – History of the North American Funeral Home: The Story of How the Funeral Homes Became a Community Icon

5-25-16-GettsFuneraHomes.pdf

 

April 2016
4/27/16 – Project PAPERCLIP: Bringing German Specialists to the U.S.A.

4-27-16-KlausHuber.pdf

 

March 2016
3/23/16 – How Geology Has Influenced the History of Dayton

3-23-16-SchmidtGeology.pdf

 

February 2016
2/24/16 – A Paramedics Life

2-24-16-Paramedic.pdf

 

January 2016
1/27/16 – Emergency Response On-Scene Coordinator With Ohio EPA

1-27-16-OhioEmergencyResponse.pdf

 

November 2015
11/18/15 – Sedan Nuclear Test & the Plowshare Program in the 1960’s

11-18-15-SedanNuclearTest.pdf

 

October 2015
10/28/15 – Secrets of Miamisburg Great Mound

10-28-15-SecretsOfGreatMound.pdf

10/22/15 – Mound Science and Energy Museum Open House

10-22-15-OpenHouse.pdf

 

August 2015
8/26/15 – Local WWII Paratrooper “Band of Brothers” Shares Wartime Experiences at Mound Museum

8-26-15-Martin.pdf

 

July 2015
7/22/15 – King of the Kuiper Belt: Pluto

7-22-15-KingofKuiperBelt.pdf

 

June 2015
6/24/15 – Police Future Plans

6-24-15-PoliceFuturePlans.pdf

 

May 2015
5/27/15 – CSX Train Derailment In Miamisburg

5-27-15-TrainDerailment.pdf

 

April 2015
4/22/15 – Pandora’s Promise

4-22-15-PandoraPromise.pdf

 

March 2015
3/25/15 – Improving the Groundwater Quality at Mound Site

3-25-15-ImprovingMoundGroundWater.pdf

 

February 2015
2/25/15 – The Apollo Program

2-25-15-ApolloProgram.pdf

 

January 2015
1/28/15 – The 1913 Flood and the Miami Conservancy District Flood Protection System

1-28-15-MCDFPS.pdf

 

1/5/15 – Quarterly Report – January 2015

Quaterly-Report-1-2015.pdf

 

November 2014
10/22/14 – Forensic Science: It’s Really Nothing Like CSI

11-19-14-ForensicScience.pdf

 

October 2014
10/22/14 – Our Buried Valley Aquifer

10-22-14-OurBuriedValleyAquifer.pdf

 

September 2014
1/28/14 – The O.H. Hutchings Station Power Plant

9-24-14-StationPowerPlant.pdf

 

August 2014
8/27/14 – The Radon Program at Mound & Radon Today

8-27-14-RadonProgramMound.pdf

 

July 2014
7/23/14 – The History of High Altitude Pilot Protection

7-23-14-RichardsonPilotTraining.pdf

 

May 2014
5/28/14 – Testing To Assure Curiosity Had A Safe Landing

5-28-14-CuriositySafeLanding.pdf

 

March 2014
3/26/14 – Dayton History and Carillon Park

3-26-14-DaytonHistory.pdf

 

February 2014
2/26/14 – The Man Who Saved the World

2-26-14-SavedtheWorld.pdf

 

September 2013
9/25/13 – Remediation Including the Canal Project

9-25-13-RemediationOverview.pdf

 

July 2013
7/20/13 – Radiological Emergencies and the US EPA

RadiologicalEmergenciesEPA.jpg

 

May 2013
5/11/13 – History of Mound Laboratory

5-11-13-HistoryofMoundLabCWW.pdf

 

5/22/13 – Mahfouz Presentation

5-22-13-Mahfouz-presentation.pdf