MST e-News March 2018
Growing up, Matthew Herman explored new worlds through books. He had enrolled at Western Washington University, intent on studying literature and becoming a writer, when a professor suggested he visit the school’s engineering department. Herman soon determined that science has, at its core, the same purpose that motivated him to write– problem-solving. He now makes discoveries as an R&D technologist in Engineered Materials (MST-7), applying his affinity for creating and problem-solving to materials with clear, concrete applications, such as additively manufactured microlattice structures and a particle accelerator the size of a shoebox.
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