HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | JULY/AUGUST 2024 63 graduated with her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from WPI in May 2023. Smith joined ASM International in September 2023 and is now a member of the executive committee of the Central Massachusetts Chapter. Additionally, she serves as the secretary of the WPI Chapter of Material Advantage. She also assisted in the reinstatement of that MA Chapter this year. Smith was selected for the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities fellowship starting August 2024. Her research interests include refractory metals and alloys, metal powder manufacturing, and powder metallurgy. Nathaniel Tomas University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Nathaniel Tomas is a junior at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, studying materials science and engineering. Before becoming vice president of his Material Advantage Chapter, he helped the chapter win 2nd place in the TMS international bladesmithing competition. He is also the 2024 outreach o icer for Engineers Without Borders. In his previous role as creative director, he co-led a campaign raising $30K for water-accessibility-based international philanthropic projects. With the Solar Vehicle Project, his e orts contributed to securing 2nd place in an international competition. At his university, he researches the roll-to-roll printing of printable electronics on flexible substrates. This summer, he is interning in the Research Triangle’s REU program. 2024 Alpha Sigma Mu Lecturer Announced Tuesday, October 1 | 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Dr. Brajendra Mishra, FASM, Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Director of the Metal Processing Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts “Materials Regeneration for Societal Sustainability” With the global population approaching 10 billion by the middle of this century, scientific advances have to keep pace to maintain materials availability. Most structural and functional 2024-25 STUDENT BOARD MEMBERS materials used today can be regenerated and put back into service at a much lower cost and energy consumption through conscious reuse, recycling, and recovery programs. Most production wastes, such as mineral processing tailings, mechanical processing swarfs, and solid pyrometallurgical processing effluents, as well as post-consumer waste from the aerospace, automotive, energy-storage, and electronic industries, present tremendous opportunities to improve resource productivity. To ensure secure materials supply and attenuate supply-demand imbalance, it is of utmost importance to look at opportunities to regenerate materials from secondary sources and put them back to use. This presentation will describe the technological developments made to convert these valuable resources into functional manufactured materials for industrial applications. Mishra Smith Tomas ASM Announces 2024-2025 Student Board Members The ASM Board of Trustees values the insights, ideas, and participation of Material Advantage students. The Student Board Member program provides the opportunity to attend four board meetings where the students will meet and work with leading technical professionals and gain leadership skills that will benefit them throughout their career. The next deadline for submissions is April 1, 2025. Details can be found on the ASM website. Gladys Duran Duran Colorado State University Gladys Duran Duran is currently pursuing a master’s degree in materials science and engineering at Colorado State University as a Fulbright Scholar. She is a member of the Prieto Group, which conducts research on the electrochemical synthesis of inorganic bulk and nanoscale materials, along with the low-temperature solid-state chemistry of nanomaterials for applications in energy storage and conversion. Duran Duran earned her bachelor’s degree in materials engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia in Michoacan, Mexico, where she specialized in metallurgy and welding. Currently, her focus is on enhancing electrode materials utilized in Li-ion batteries and exploring new materials suitable for Na-ion batteries. Amanda Smith Worcester Polytechnic Institute Amanda Smith is a first-year mechanical engineering Ph.D. student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Duran Duran
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