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TMS Young Leaders: Professional Development Award

The TMS Young Leaders Professional Development Award was created to enhance the professional development of dynamic young people from TMS’ five technical divisions by helping them participate in Society activities, become better acquainted, make important contacts with TMS leaders, and network with prominent Society members.

YOUNG LEADER AWARD WINNERS

For 2011, with partial funding from the AIME Endowment Fund, individuals were selected by the Society's divisions as listed below.

Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD)
• Dincer Bozkaya, H.C.Starck Inc.
• Eric Schmidt, Vollourec

Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division (EMPMD)
• Kyle Brinkman, Savannah River National Laboratory
• Samrat Choudhury, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Extraction & Processing Division (EPD)
• Antoine Allanore, MIT
• Edouard Asselin, University of British Columbia

Light Metals Division (LMD)
• Dongwon Shin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Cong Wang, Alcoa Technical Center

Structural Materials Division (SMD)
• Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology
• Frank Del Rio, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Read summaries submitted by former Young Leader Award Winners about their experiences by visiting the Young Leaders Summaries page.

AWARD BENEFITS

Each Young Leader Award recipient receives the following:

• TMS membership for the year of the award
• Sponsorship to attend two conferences as follows:
  • Recipients in the Extraction & Processing and Light Metals divisions attend two consecutive TMS Annual Meetings
  • Recipients in the Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials, Materials Processing & Manufacturing, and Structural Materials divisions attend the TMS Annual Meeting and Materials Science & Technology conference (MS&T) (or another fall specialty conference)
• Complimentary registrations to the sponsored conferences
• Hotel accommodations for sponsored conferences.
• $500 travel allowance per conference toward airfare and round-trip transportation from airport to hotel.
• Tickets to conference social functions.
• Admission to appropriate division luncheon and council meetings at the TMS Annual Meeting.
• Admission to the Young Leaders Tutorial Luncheon.
• Admission to technical and administrative committee meetings at the TMS Annual Meeting.
• Invitation to attend the TMS board of directors meeting as an observer.

JOIN THE YOUNG LEADERS

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

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