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MS&T 2016 LECTURERS ANNOUNCED
Official ASM Annual Business
Meeting Notice
The Annual Business Meeting of members of
ASM International will be held in conjunction with
MS&T16 on:
Monday, October 24
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Salt Palace Convention Center,
Salt Lake City
The purpose of the ASM Annual Business Meeting is
the election of officers for the 2016-17 termand trans-
action of other Society business.
MS&T 2016 Lecturers
Announced
Continuing the grand tradition of ASM International
events, three distinguished lecturers will speak at the 2016
Materials Science & Technology Conference and Exhibition
(MS&T16) to be held October 23-26 at the Salt Palace Con-
vention Center in Salt Lake City. MS&T brings together the
strengths of four major materials organizations: ASM Inter-
national, The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), The Asso-
ciation for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST), and The Minerals,
Metals & Materials Society (TMS).
2016 Alpha Sigma Mu
Monday, October 24
Dr. Alton D. Romig, Jr., FASM
Executive Officer, National Academy of Engineering
“National Academy of Engineering Grand
Challenges for Engineering”
Rarely has an idea captured
the imagination of professional
practitioners, policymakers, stu-
dents, and the general public
as rapidly and forcefully as the
National Academy of Engineer-
ing’s “Grand Challenges for Engi-
neering” (engineeringchallenges.
org). Proposed in 2008 by a com-
mittee of 18 distinguished engi-
neers, scientists, entrepreneurs,
and visionaries, the Grand Challenges identify 14 goals
that will make it possible for people all around the world to
thrive. The idea was embraced immediately and has been
accelerating ever since.
The NAE Grand Challenges are having an especially
powerful inspirational impact on education. The Grand
Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) has been adopted by
dozens of colleges and universities across the country, and
President Obama recently announced amajor initiative that
is propelling it onto well over 100 more campuses—includ-
ing Case Western Reserve University.
Numerous activities are centered on the Grand Chal-
lenges at the K-12 level. For example, one high school in
North Carolina frames its entire curriculum on the NAE
Grand Challenges, and another high school in the state of
Washington has incorporated them across its classes. The
principal of the Washington school said, “They are the best
educational motivator I have found in my career.” Other
K-12 schools across the country are actively considering
these models.
There has also been a series of large international
events focused on the NAE Grand Challenges. Global sum-
mits were held in London in 2013 and Beijing in 2015, and
the next is planned for Washington in 2017. Before these
international events, participating universities organized
two national and six regional Grand Challenge summits to
stimulate conversations on the importance of engineering
and science in maintaining and enhancing our quality of
life. A
Business Week
story about the first one summarizes
the power of the NAE Grand Challenges, “Students may
resist geek studies. But they’ll flock in for the opportunity to
change the world.”
2016 ASM/TMS Distinguished
Lectureship in Materials and Society
Tuesday, October 25
Prof. Julie A. Christodoulou, FASM
Director, Naval Materials, S&T Division
Sea Warfare and Weapons Department
“Elegant Solutions Exploration
and Outcomes that Matter”
New tools and new ways of
using existing instruments are
made available to us on a near-
daily basis. Materials research-
ers can now explore structure at
scales where chemical and phys-
ical phenomena occur, allowing
more confident identification and
control of ultimate properties.
In-situ and in-operandi tools pro-
vide critical insight into the com-
plicated and rapidly changing environments in which real
materials perform, challenging hypotheses and assump-
tions and forcing the development of more rigorous analy-
sis. Similarly, computational tools are guiding us toward the
truly concurrent design of product, material, and manufac-