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TMS Young Professionals Program

The Young Professionals Program was created in 1993 to encourage young members to increase their involvement in The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Funding from the AIME Endowment Fund helped to support the Young Professionals Program with additional support has been received from the TMS Foundation.

What is a Young Professional?
A Young Professional is active in the materials field, under the age of 40, who is interested in taking a leadership role in the Society. Traditionally, this is a group of people who attend TMS meetings to present papers and attend sessions but are not involved in the inner workings of TMS (i.e., the committees).

The mission of the Young Professionals Committee is to create opportunities and provide avenues for young professionals to increase their involvement in The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. Important issues that the Young Professionals Committee has identified and is working to address are:

• Networking between younger and senior members of TMS through a mentoring program.
• Programming that is useful to young professionals.
• Programming that addresses materials-based concerns for private industry.
• An appreciation for and awareness of TMS activities.

The following individuals represent the current officers of the Young Professionals Committee.
Join one of the committee meetings and view the committee bylaws for more information.

Douglas Spearot, Chair University of Arkansas dspearot@uark.edu	Qizhen Li, Vice Chair University of Nevada qizhenl@unr.edu
Kinga Unocic, Past Chair Oak Ridge National Lab UnocicKA@ornl.gov	Saryu Fensin, Secretary Los Alamos National Lab saryuj@lanl.gov

For more information on becoming a TMS Young Professional, complete the Young Professionals Participation Form or contact TMS Member Services at members@tms.org.

For information on applying for the Young Professional Development Award, complete and submit the application form (PDF).