Richard W. Hertzberg received his B.S. cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from the City College New York, his M.S. in Metallurgy from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from Lehigh University. A recipient of two Alcoa Foundation Awards of Outstanding Research Achievement, co-recipient of Lehigh University's Award of Outstanding Research, recipient of Lehigh University's College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, co-recipient of Lehigh University's award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to the University and recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Lehigh University. Dr. Hertzberg has served as Research Scientist for the United Aircraft Corporation Research Labs, and Visiting Professor at the Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. As an active member of several engineering societies, he has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society for Metals and was recipient of the TMS 2000 Educator Award as the most outstanding material science educator in the nation. He was the 2017 recipient of the ICF Paul C. Paris Gold Medal from the International Congress on Fracture. He has authored approximately 230 scholarly articles, coauthored Fatigue of Engineering Plastics (Academic Press, 1980), and co-authored the fifth edition of Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials. Dr. Hertzberg has also been an invited lecturer in the United States, Asia, Israel, and Europe, and has served as a consultant to government and industry. He was previously Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Dept., and Director of the Mechanical Behavior Laboratory of the Materials Research Center at Lehigh University. Currently, he is New Jersey Zinc Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering.

Richard P. Vinci received his B.S. degree in 1988 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1990 and 1994, respectively, from Stanford University, all in Materials Science and Engineering. After holding postdoctoral and Acting Assistant Professor appointments at Stanford University, in 1998 he joined Lehigh University where he was a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of the Mechanical Behavior Laboratory. His research focused on the mechanical properties of thin metallic films and small-scale structures with applications such as metallization for Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems, substrates for solid-state optical devices, and synthetic biomaterials. He has published more than 70 technical papers and is the holder of one U.S. patent, with others pending. From 2001 to 2003, he held a P. C. Rossin Assistant Professorship. From 2004 to 2006, he was the Class of 1961 Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Vinci has been a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ASM International Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers, the Lehigh University Junior Award for Distinguished Teaching, the P. C. Rossin College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Jason L. Hertzberg received his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University Scholars Program at Pennsylvania State University and both a M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, having received numerous academic awards at both institutions, including the Engineering Alumni Society Merit Award in Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan and is their Chair of the External Advisory Board. He is also a California-registered Professional Metallurgical Engineer. He currently serves as a Corporate Vice President, Director of the Mechanical Engineering Practice, and a Principal Engineer at Exponent, Inc., a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm. He has extensive experience solving complex technical problems in a variety of industries and routinely leads multidisciplinary failure analysis investigations. Dr. Hertzberg addresses issues related to the mechanical behavior and environmental degradation of materials, and often works with companies addressing the technical aspects of product recalls as well as interacting with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. His expertise includes analysis of products before they are sold, management of change during production, use of risk methodologies, substantiation of product performance claims, product recall investigations of a wide range of products, and evaluation of proposed correction action plans. Dr. Hertzberg also has a background in mobile computing and substantiation of claims, having served as the Director of Competitive Analysis and Strategy for Palm, Inc. Dr. Hertzberg often serves as an invited lecturer, and is a co-author of several patent applications in the area of mobile computing.