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A Look Ahead to the Second World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
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Mei Li, Carelyn Campbell, Katsuyo Thornton, Elizabeth Holm, and Peter Gumbsch
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4/20/2013 12:00:00 AM...
Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) has received international attention due to its great potential to decrease product and process development time and cost, while improving outcomes. Application of ICME to recent foundational engineering problems has confirmed its power to solve industrial problems efficiently and effectively. Capitalizing on these successes, ICME has been the topic of high profile reports, research and development programs, and government initiatives.
Building on the great success of the First World Congress on ICME in 2011, the Second World Congress on ICME (ICME 2013) will convene ICME stakeholders—including researchers, educators, and engineers—to examine topics relevant to the global advancement of ICME as an engineering discipline.
The conference will kick off with the Sunday evening opening session speech, “A Review and Perspective on ICME and MGI (Materials Genome Initiative): Their Progress and Future”, from Charles M. Ward, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The conference is comprised of 10 plenary speakers, more than 80 oral presentations, nearly 70 posters, and two panel discussions with experts from industry, academia, and government. The conference will provide a forum for presentations and discussions centering on both computational- and experimental-based ICME related topics through 17 sessions. These include:
- Building blocks of an ICME program; first principles and atomistic tools; computational thermodynamics and kinetics; process and performance modeling and experimental tools.
- Challenges in integrating models to achieve ICME.
- Experimental programs and techniques that support ICME efforts.
- Data management issues, including vetting, sharing, and housing materials data.
- Digital infrastructure required for information sharing and model integration.
- ICME in engineering education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
- ICME success stories and applications in lightweight materials, ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, and composites.
Application of the ICME approach to engineering problems often identifies critical gaps, whether in physical understanding, model integration, experimental data, or cultural acceptance of ICME. Participants are encouraged to identify current gaps in ICME efforts and to discuss proposed solutions.
Successful ICME programs require integration of diverse individuals, efforts, and disciplines. The goal of ICME 2013 is to assemble the community of ICME contributors to capture the current state of the art and to set the stage for the future growth and application of ICME worldwide.
Editor’s Note: ICME 2013 will take place July 7-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah. To register and for additional information, visit the conference website.
The authors of this article—and organizers of ICME 2013—are Mei Li, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI; Carelyn Campbell, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD; Katsuyo Thornton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Elizabeth Holm, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Peter Gumbsch, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Freiburg, Germany. This article also appears in the May 2013 issue of JOM.
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