November/December AMP_Digital

HIGHL IGHTS A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 8 7 3 CEO CORNER Mahoney CEO CORNER Completing the ASM Renewal As I write this column, our Operations Group has returned from MS&T and is clearing the decks to prepare our 2019 Annual Operating Plan. While we still have a lot of work to do before closing 2018, our thoughts are beginning to look toward 2019 and beyond. You may recall that in 2017, our call to action was “Join the Renewal.” Our 2018 mantra has been “Grow the Renewal,” and with your help, we have. Our 2019 mission? “Complete the Renewal.” But how exactly do we do that? Answering this question is what we are all about as we conclude 2018. Amajor deliverable of the ASM Renewal is the go-live of our Silverchair Digital Library (content repository and pub- lishing system) in December 2018 with the ASM Handbook series as our first digitally reengineered content. At this writ- ing, we are on schedule with the final systems-level imple- mentation of our Digital Transformation, and the debut of its initial content. The next task will be to prioritize and sequence the dig- ital presentation of roughly 300,000 legacy content pieces— including articles, data sets, and education courses—in the ASM archive. Any new content required by our markets and our membership will go through a similar prioritiza- tion process. More detailed aspects of our data and content strat- egy beg resolution as well. Currently, we are contemplating making ASM data sets available in both Granta platforms and in an open standard format widely used in the manu- facturing world: ISO 10303. The ISO 10303 standard enables interoperability among design, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service disciplines in so-called “net-centric” manufacturing environments. The potential exists for ASM to electronically serve, with materials information in standard ISO format, each of those disciplines as adjacent markets to our tra- ditional materials science or engineering space. Another trend supporting ASM serving these adjacent markets is “concurrency”—the ever closer integration (and common need for relevant materials information) of those disciplines in net-centric computer-aided product realization. As ASM explores options for delivering content in ways most relevant to our users, I welcome your input. Is the above approach viable? Are there other, additional formats ASM should consider? Please feel free, as members and cus- tomers, to let us know. This is one important way you can help ASM Complete the Renewal. William T. Mahoney, CEO, ASM International bill.mahoney@asminternational.org K-12 Teacher Grant Awards The Teacher/Student Outreach Committee of the ASM Materials Education Foundation proudly announces 20 award recipients of the 2018 K-12 Teacher Grants. The “Living in a Material World” Teacher Grants provide $500 to support K-12 teachers to develop and implement science– teaching activities. Over 200 proposals competed for 20 available grants. The 2018 grant recipients include: • • Bioplastic Extravaganza Beth Bennett, Chittenango Middle School, N.Y., Grade 6 • • Preposterous Polymers Stephen Borba, Westside Elementary School, Calif., Grade 4 • • Managing Corrosion Jeff Clark, West Blocton High School, Ala., Grades 9-12 • • Materials Science for the Chemistry Classroom Mary Coogan, Liberty North High School, Mo., Grades 9-12 • • Materials Science: Consider Careers in the Ceramic and Glass Industry through Experimentation Ashli Dreher, Lewiston-Porter High School, N.Y., Grades 8-12 • • Rocketry Program Brittany Hartmann, Yamhill-Carlton High School, Ore., Grades 9-12 • • Characterization of Chemical Bonding Through Identification of Material Properties Sarah Jamieson, Cretin-Derham Hall, Minn., Grades 9 & 11 • • Passive Solar House Project Michael Mayfield, Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities, Ind., Grades 11-12 • • Living In a Material World Clintonia McNeal, Robert A. Black Magnet, Ill., Grades 7-8