Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation: News

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

The most direct way to contribute to the future of materials innovation is by sharing your ideas and expertise as a TMS volunteer. A variety of avenues and activities are available to you that fit your schedule and professional interests.

This page features a selection of volunteer openings related specifically to Materials Innovation @ TMS topics and issues. New projects and opportunities are added on a regular basis, so check back often!

Visit TMS Volunteer Central or e-mail volunteer@tms.org for additional information on the wide range of volunteer opportunities that TMS offers, as well as access to volunteer tools and support.

SPOTLIGHT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

Participate Today in Digital Materials Data Survey

Gaining insights as to how the international materials community views and currently handles key issues related to the generation, sharing, and long-term management of digital research data is the purpose of an online survey that was jointly developed by volunteers from TMS and the Materials Research Society (MRS). The survey can be accessed at the link at the end of this article. The broad international materials science and engineering community is encouraged to participate. The survey will be open through May 31, 2013.

Topics specifically being explored by the survey are:

Big Data: The management of very large sets of data. For the materials community, “Big Data” could be crucial for accelerating materials discovery and the path to applications and commercialization.

Open Data: Providing public access to data, especially federally funded research.

The results of the survey will be used to inform professional society dialogue, planning, and activities, and will also be provided to the U.S. President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in support of the Materials Genome Initiative.

“While MRS and TMS serve distinct and unique membership interests, there are still many areas where we can pool our strengths to benefit the greater good of the materials science and engineering community,” said James J. Robinson, TMS Executive Director. “This project is an excellent example of how intersecting interests in the association community can be effectively served—and the overall good of our field advanced—by collaboration.”

CURRENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES

COMMITTEE: Advanced Characterization, Testing, and Simulation [VISIT]
With a focus on structural materials, this TMS Technical Committee examines advances in characterization and modeling, as well as development of computational tools.

COMMITTEE: Computational Materials Science & Engineering [VISIT]
This TMS Technical Committee focuses on fostering research and development associated with the mathematical and computational determination of the physical and engineering properties of materials.

COMMITTEE: Education [VISIT]
A TMS Administrative Committee, this group contributes to the preparation of future materials science and engineering professionals through outreach, educational resource development, and cooperative efforts with other interested societies and committees.

COMMITTEE: Integrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering (ICME) [VISIT]
This TMS Technical Committee is responsible for promoting the emerging discipline of ICME through an array of educational and outreach activities.

COMMITTEE: Materials Characterization [VISIT]
Focusing on the materials characterization aspect of process research and development, this TMS Technical Committee encompasses product evaluation, process design, and trouble-shooting.

COMMITTEE: Process Technology and Modeling Committee [VISIT]
This TMS Technical Committee explores the fundamental principles for materials production, the design of controls, and analysis and modeling of material synthesis and processing.

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY: Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation (IMMI) [VISIT]
TMS's new Open Access journal, IMMI combines the peer review rigor of scholarly publications with enhanced digital content to bring the latest in innovations, from materials discovery through manufacturing.

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY: JOM [VISIT]
JOM is the monthly technical journal of TMS exploring the many aspects of materials science and engineering. View the Technical Emphasis Calendar for topics related to ICME and integrating materials and manufacturing innovation.

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions [VISIT]
Jointly published by TMS and ASM International, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A and B are highly respected, peer-reviewed archival journals for metallurgy and materials science.