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TMS2013 Special Plenary Speakers Announced
Posted on: 1/18/2013 12:00:00 AM... A panel of leading experts engaged in critical initiatives to accelerate the pace of advanced materials application will share key findings that point to future directions in materials research for pivotal manufacturing innovations during a special plenary sponsored by the TMS Materials Innovation Committee scheduled at the TMS 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibition (TMS2013). Titled, “Innovation in Materials and Manufacturing,” the session will take place on Wednesday, March 6, at 2 pm in the Lila Cockrell Theatre.
Plenary speakers and their topics recently announced for this event are:
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Julie Robinson
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JULIE ROBINSON
Chief Scientist
International Space Station
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
"The International Space Station as an Innovation Laboratory: Materials Research and Beyond"
Over the past decades, orbiting research facilities have been available for occasional studies of materials processing and have shown unique potential. With the International Space Station (ISS) designated as a national laboratory, industry now has the ability to access this unique resource for improvements to materials processing, solidification, studies of complex matter and fluid processes, and control of physical properties. Early spaceflight results have led to such developments as LiquidMetalTM and new turbine blade production methods. These examples are only a small indicator of what is available to the community using the facilities now available on the International Space Station.
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Frank Gayle
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FRANK W. GAYLE
Deputy Director
Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
"The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation"
The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is a U.S. initiative to create an effective manufacturing research infrastructure for industry and academia to solve industry-relevant problems. The NNMI will consist of linked Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation (IMIs), with the common goal of enhancing the development of manufacturing processes for new innovations in the research lab. Each IMI will allow industry, academia, and government partners to leverage existing resources, collaborate, and co-invest to nurture manufacturing innovation and accelerate commercialization.
As sustainable manufacturing innovation hubs, IMIs will create, showcase, and deploy new capabilities, new products, and new processes that can impact large-scale commercial production. They will build workforce skills at all levels and enhance manufacturing capabilities in companies large and small. Institutes are intended to draw together the best talents and capabilities from all the partners to build the proving grounds where innovations flourish and to help advance American domestic manufacturing.
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Robert Ivester
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ROBERT IVESTER
Deputy Program Manager
Advanced Manufacturing Office
U.S. Department of Energy
"New Approaches to Manufacturing Innovation in DOE"
The Advanced Manufacturing Office at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invests in next-generation materials, technologies, and manufacturing processes that are often revolutionary, rather than evolutionary, in terms of performance and life-cycle energy or economic impact. The investment portfolio includes current and planned investments in innovative projects and shared user facilities that bring together industry, small business, universities and other researchers and manufacturing stakeholders. The office focuses on high-impact, foundational technologies intended to make the United States a leader in the global advanced manufacturing and clean energy technology markets.
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Tresa Pollock
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TRESA POLLOCK
Alcoa Professor of Materials and Chair, Materials Department
University of California at Santa Barbara
"Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME): A Study on ICME Implementation in the Aerospace, Automotive, and Maritime Industries"
Now that ICME is recognized as a nascent discipline and awareness is growing worldwide, we are at a critical juncture. ICME implementation on a much wider scale is needed to accelerate—and significantly reduce the costs of—the design and manufacturing of new materials systems.
In order to continue the momentum and unlock the great potential of ICME, a focused effort has been undertaken to define the pathway(s) to rapid implementation of ICME for practical industrial problems. More specifically, TMS is leading this study to identify, prioritize, and make detailed recommendations of the frameworks and key steps needed for near-term implementation of ICME in three industrial sectors—automotive, aerospace, and maritime. This effort also strongly supports the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). The final report is intended to be a “field manual” for ICME implementation and will be disseminated at the 2nd World Congress on ICME in Salt Lake City, Utah. on July 7-11, 2013. TMS is coordinating this study on behalf of the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. This presentation will provide an overview of the status and planned final report of this study.
This special plenary has been organized by Ed Herderick, EWI, and Jud Ready, Georgia Institute of Technology. For additional information on this and other TMS2013 programming, visit the TMS2013 website.
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