HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | MAY/JUNE 2023 64 Karthikeyan (Karthik) Hariharan The Ohio State University Karthikeyan (Karthik) Hariharan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Fontana Corrosion Center in the department of materials science and engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus. He received a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical and materials engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NIT-T) in India. Hariharan founded and led the Material Advantage (MA) student chapter as a senior undergraduate at NIT-T and continues his involvement with MA at OSU. He is also an active member of the Corrosion and Environmental Effects Committee of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. Hariharan aspires to become a professor and continue his service to the materials community. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CORNER Denise Torres Avalos National Technological Institute of Morelia Denise Torres Avalos is a student enrolled in the eighth semester of the materials engineering program at the National Technological Institute of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. She received a certified average of 4.0 and is involved in activities beyond the university walls to broaden her horizons and further her opportunities for professional development. Throughout her academic training, she has participated in various activities, such as congresses, courses, and workshops. Avalos seeks to take on more ambitious professional goals. Her ultimate objective is to collaborate with international colleagues in materials research, in order to formulate solutions to current issues concerning the production and application of materials. Robert Hariharan Avalos EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CORNER The Importance of Mindset Last fall, I shared some personal reflections with you on growth for ASM International, including the importance of establishing the right mindset. The article “What Having a ‘Growth Mindset’ Actually Means,” by Carol Dweck (HBR, January 2016), characterizes individuals with a growth mindset as having the belief that they can continue to develop their skills and impact through hard work and collaboration; whereas individuals with a fixed mindset see their skills as being predetermined. Compare this growth mindset point of view, “Challenges help me to grow,” with a fixed mindset, “I stick to what I know.” In a time where disruptive change permeates our world in nearly every dimension, the Earth desperately needs materials science. Our job as ASM staff is to apply growth mindset thinking to interpreting how the engineers, scientists, and designers of our day want to utilize our vast materials resources to solve problems. This bold, openended question is the driver for our products and services, and fuels our ongoing dedication to improving the value of membership. This year, we plan to increase our understanding of what our customers and members want, as well as meet new customers through expanding our sales and marketing reach. We are in the process of interviewing a number of talented professionals to come aboard and guide these efforts, to complement and add capacity to our existing team, and ultimately, to get our products in the hands of more people. I’m very excited by the new developments in digital search, and I see this technology as a gamechanger for ASM International. Our organization’s 110-plus years of articles, phase diagrams, experiments, peer-reviewed papers, conference proceedings, and endless other categories of information and data can become indispensable knowledge when we put them in the right hands, in the right format, with the right correlations. We are beginning to experiment with “bot” technologies, and I look forward to sharing more with you as we move ahead. President David Williams has shared a number of leadership and governance-related updates in this issue, and I look forward to providing you with governance and strategic planning updates in my next column. Wishing you the best until then! Sandy Robert, CAE Executive Director, ASM International sandy.robert@asminternational.org
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