EMC engineering has come a long way since Mike Violette, president of Washington Laboratories, first entered the field after graduating from Virginia Tech in May 1984. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Gaithersburg, Md.-based laboratory, Violette looks back on some of his more memorable projects – from getting up close and personal with the Liberty Bell to gastronomical and sensory indulgences with laboratories in Paris – in “A Brief History of Washington Labs: 1989-2009.”Read more of Violette’s memories in the document below.