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GET READY FOR NEW ORLEANS . . .
. . . TMS 2008 Annual Meeting Begins in Two Weeks

TOP TEN . . .
. . . Things to Do at TMS 2008

FROM OUR SPONSOR: KEYENCE
Laser Confocal Microscope Provides Easier, Faster Surface Analysis

TMS INTRODUCES ENERGY COMMITTEE . . .
. . . Related to Sustainable Materials Production

TMS SELECTS EDUCATION RESOURCE AWARD WINNERS
Grand Prize Winner Will Be Announced at TMS 2008

FROM OUR SPONSOR: ET '08: THE PREMIER SEMINAR AND EXPO DEVOTED TO ALUMINUM EXTRUSION TECHNOLOGY
The Most Anticipated Event in the Universe Delivers Cutting-Edge Information and Problem-Solving Resources

PROMOTE MATERIALS R&D . . .
. . . at 2008 FMS Congressional Visits Days in April

RECOGNIZE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE . . .
. . . with Prestigious Awards from U.S. Government Agencies

FROM OUR SPONSOR: NANOCT: ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL MICROSTRUCTURES WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
phoenix|x-ray Systems+Services, Part of GE Inspection Technologies, at TMS 2008 in New Orleans—Booth 122

JOM READER POLL . . .
. . . on Challenges to Emerging Materials Technologies

WASHINGTON NEWS FROM THE FEDERATION OF MATERIALS SOCIETIES
NAE Unveils Grand Engineering Challenges

YOU OUGHT TO KNOW . . .
. . . Deadlines and Reminders for February

. . . TMS 2008 Annual Meeting Begins in Two Weeks

On Sunday, March 9, TMS will kick off its 137th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana. If you have not yet made plans to attend the meeting, housing arrangements are still available through the link below, and on-site registration begins at 11 a.m. on March 9 at the Ernest L. Morial Convention Center.

To welcome this year's annual meeting attendees, Hael Mughrabi, who will be honored at the symposium Plasticity, Failure, and Fatigue in Structural Materials—from Macro to Nano, has created an eight-minute webcast that previews his symposium, the meeting in general, and the city of New Orleans. Mughrabi is the only TMS member to be honored with a symposium at the 2008 meeting. He is a professor at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, has been a member of TMS since 1984, and describes himself as a friend of New Orleans jazz.

So view the webcast, listen to some jazz, and make your plans for TMS 2008.

. . . Things to Do at TMS 2008

Technical presentations, daily networking functions, and activities for materials professionals and students in all subject areas will keep TMS 2008 Annual Meeting attendees busy all week long. Here are a few suggestions for making the most of the meeting experience:

10. Be Prepared: With so many presentations, committee meetings, and social events planned for TMS 2008, it helps to make a schedule. Use the TMS Personal Conference Scheduler to plan out every moment.

9. Leave Your Mark on the Community: Pack your work clothes and join TMS on Saturday, March 8, for the Hands On New Orleans service project to improve the campus of a school damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

8. Continue Your Education: Two short courses on grain refinement of aluminum alloys and greenhouse gas emissions will be held on Sunday. Space is still available, so wake up early and sign up at the continuing education booth on Sunday morning.

7. Mix and Mingle: Start the meeting off by attending the opening reception on Sunday evening. For the first time, the TMS Annual Meeting will begin with a reception for all meeting attendees to meet and chat over free food and drink. No laptops or pens required.

6. Test Your Knowledge: On Sunday, teams of graduate and undergraduate students will compete in the second annual Materials Bowl to show who knows the most about materials. Come cheer them on—and see how many questions you know. Participating schools are defending champion Florida International University, Boise State University, Colorado School of Mines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, and University of Wisconsin.

5. Attend a Technical Committee Meeting: It's a great way to meet others with similar technical interests and to become more involved in TMS. See dates and times for meetings in the TMS Personal Conference Scheduler.

4. Buy a Souvenir: Every full-conference attendee will take home the complete published proceedings from the conference on CD-ROM, but leave a little space in your luggage to pick up a print volume or two as well in the TMS Knowledge Resource Sales Area.

3. Browse the Exhibit Hall: Approximately 150 organizations will be showcasing their products and services at the TMS 2008 exhibit—and there are always giveaways and socializing opportunities to be found on the exhibit floor.

2. Sit in on a Technical Presentation or Two: Technical presentations from around the world, the backbone of the meeting, will number more than 2,400 at this year's event, so pick your favorites. If you can't decide where to start try a plenary session. One of the biggest will be the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions symposium on Monday morning. It is one of many symposia on Materials and Society issues at the meeting.

1. Read the Daily Newsletter: There's too much to cover in ten bullet points, so look for TMS Today, the daily newsletter distributed at the TMS 2008 Annual Meeting. It provides daily highlights, schedule changes, and meeting news to keep attendees up to date.

Laser Confocal Microscope Provides Easier, Faster Surface Analysis

Observation/Measurement Guide-Vol 2 from KEYENCE contains examples of applications involving treated metal surfaces, wear analyses, TFT patterns, solar cells and more. The KEYENCE VK-9700 Laser Confocal Microscope complements the SEM with its operational simplicity, 18,000x magnification, 0.001µm measurement precision, 3D imaging and superior color performance. Specimen cutting/processing is not required; the depth of field is large; noncontact, nondestructive 3D measurements can be obtained; and pre-processing, such as gold-sputtering, is unnecessary. Download guide

. . . Related to Sustainable Materials Production

TMS is launching a new committee focusing on energy and environmental issues related to the production of minerals, metals, and materials. This committee will focus on efforts to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact in production and manufacturing processes. Central to this effort will be the promotion of the sustainable production and manufacture of materials through fostering technical solutions that increase process efficiency, decrease energy consumption, and minimize process emissions.

The committee will be jointly sponsored by the Light Metals Division (LMD) and the Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) of TMS. Neale Neelameggham, the committee's founder; Wolfgang Schneider, chair of the LMD; Rob Stephens, chair of the EPD; and Ray Peterson, 2008 TMS vice-president, will host the inaugural committee meeting on Tuesday, March 11, during the TMS 2008 Annual Meeting. It will take place at 5:00 p.m. in Room 294 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, immediately following a session of the Carbon Dioxide Reduction Metallurgy Symposium. All are welcome to participate in the committee's efforts to address this critical industrial need.

More than 30 additional technical committees will meet at TMS 2008. A complete listing of technical committee meetings, dates, and times is available through the TMS Personal Conference Scheduler.

Grand Prize Winner Will Be Announced at TMS 2008

Four division winners have been selected in the TMS Educational Resource Awards program introduced last fall. The awards recognize quality resources submitted to the Materials Technology@TMS Education community for use by the materials community. This first competition yielded the following winners in four technical areas:

• Sufian Abedrabbo: "Van de Graaf Accelerator Utilizations in Research" in the Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division
• Adam C. Powell IV, Rachel DeLucas, and Uday Pal: "Boundary Element Electrochemistry Modeling" in the Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division
• Mark E. Schlesinger: "Eh-pH Diagrams" in the Extraction & Processing Division
• Garry Warren: "Basic Corrosion, Recurring Questions and Answers" in the Structural Materials Division

The Most Anticipated Event in the Universe Delivers Cutting-Edge Information and Problem-Solving Resources

ET '08—the Ninth International Aluminum Extrusion Technology Seminar and Exposition—is the world's longest running educational event devoted to all facets of the aluminum extrusion industry. Approximately 130 technical papers present forward-thinking research on die design and technology, metallurgy, extrusion equipment, process improvement, and product applications. Attracting a wide cross-section of industry professionals, ET '08 also includes the ET Expo, Extrusion Showcase, networking events, and more.

ET '08
May 13–16, 2008
Gaylord Palms Convention Center
Orlando, Florida USA

Register now and receive a useful gift while supplies last! Visit et08.org for details.

. . . at 2008 FMS Congressional Visits Days in April

On April 9 and 10, professionals working in the materials field will join with students studying MSE to show Congress the importance of funding materials R&D. As part of the 2008 Congressional Visits Days (CVD), coordinated by the U.S. Federation of Materials Societies, these volunteers will visit with their Congressional leaders to discuss the value of R&D to the nation and the necessity of adequate federal funding.

Previous government experience is not necessary to participate in the CVD events. Participants will start by attending a training session that will prepare them to present a unified message during their Congressional visits. In conjunction with the event, a Materials Education Showcase—demonstrating the materials community's efforts to expose young people to the opportunities in science and technology careers—will be held to show Congressional leaders how materials can help to attract young people to technical careers.

TMS will send a delegation of student groups and professionals to participate in the 2008 event. To join in or for more information, contact Warren Hunt, TMS executive director, at whunt@tms.org.

. . . with Prestigious Awards from U.S. Government Agencies

Some of the most prestigious (and lucrative) awards in science and engineering are now accepting nominations. TMS encourages its members to nominate qualified colleagues for awards offered by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

National Academy of Engineering Awards
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2007–2008 National Academy of Engineering Awards. Each year, the NAE dedicates more than $1 million to recognizing leaders in engineering for their lifetime dedication to their field and their commitment to advancing the human condition through great engineering achievement and/or through innovation in engineering and technology education. The academy is currently accepting nominations for the following awards:

• The Charles Stark Draper Prize
• The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
• The Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
• The Founders Award
• The Arthur M. Bueche Award

phoenix|x-ray Systems+Services, Part of GE Inspection Technologies, at TMS 2008 in New Orleans—Booth 122

High-resolution X-ray tomography allows the visualisation and spatial analysis of internal microstructures of small samples. The new nanotom is the first 180 kV nanoCT system worldwide that is tailored completely to highest-resolution applications in the fields of material science, microelectronics, geology, etc. Unprecedented CT results demonstrate the possibility to analyse the 3D-microstructure of small objects (e.g. biological and geological samples, molded plastics, light metal castings) with minimal preparation and the exceptional resolution of less than 0.5 microns per volume pixel (voxel).

By granting the user the ability to navigate the internal structure of an object slice-by-slice in a non-destructive manner, the system creates new analysis capabilities thus far have been unreachable: Any internal detail showing a contrast in material, density or porosity can be visualized and distances can be measured. This opens a new dimension of the 3D-microanalysis and will partially substitute destructive methods like traditional slicing—saving costs and time per sample evaluated.

Don't miss the opportunity to learn more about this exciting technology—please attend our presentation on Wednesday, March 12 at 3:10 p.m. or visit us at TMS 2008 in New Orleans (booth 122).

. . . on Challenges to Emerging Materials Technologies

The JOM Reader Poll asks readers to weigh in on topical questions related to the latest issue of JOM. For the upcoming March issue, JOM asks the following question:

Which of the following factors represents the biggest challenge to the development and wide deployment of emerging materials technologies (e.g., biomaterials and nanotechnology)?

• Environmental, Health, and Safety Concerns
• Lack of Existing Case Law and Precedent
• Capital Risk and Expense
• Public Opinion
• Fundamental Technological Challenges
• Inadequate Workforce
• Other

NAE Unveils Grand Engineering Challenges

The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has announced its "grand challenges" for engineering in the 21st century. "We chose engineering challenges that we feel can, through creativity and commitment, be realistically met," said former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, chairman of the challenge committee. The challenges are:

• Make solar energy affordable
• Provide energy from fusion
• Develop carbon sequestration methods
• Manage the nitrogen cycle
• Provide access to clean water
• Restore and improve urban infrastructure
• Advance health informatics
• Engineer better medicines
• Reverse-engineer the brain
• Prevent nuclear terror
• Secure cyberspace
• Enhance virtual reality
• Advance personalized learning
• Engineer the tools for scientific discovery

. . . Deadlines and Reminders for February

As March approaches, so do two key deadlines: one for TMS student scholarships and one for MS&T '08 abstract submissions. Log in to the Members-Only home page of the TMS web site for more upcoming activity deadlines.

Student Scholarships
Applications due by March 15
TMS offers up to 15 annual scholarships for students studying in all areas of materials science and engineering. The scholarships range in value from $2,000 to $5,000 and many include travel grants to help students attend TMS meetings. Scholarship applications and recommendation forms can be accessed through the link below.

MS&T '08 (Materials Science & Technology 2008)
October 5–9, 2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Abstracts due by March 17
MS&T '08 is now accepting abstracts on a variety of topics related to materials science and engineering, including electronic and magnetic materials, environmental and energy issues, fundamentals and characterization, iron and steel, materials and systems, nanotechnology, and processing and product manufacturing. To contribute your work to this high-profile materials forum—organized by the American Ceramic Society, ASM International, the Association for Iron & Steel Technology, and TMS—submit an abstract through the link below.

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OPEN ACCESS ARTICLES

The following articles from TMS journals and web sites are available to all readers at no charge. This month’s featured articles are:

JOM: "Carbon Dioxide Reduction Technologies: A Synopsis of the Symposium at TMS 2008" by Neale R. Neelameggham
When converting minerals into metals, energy is consumed. Even though energy in various forms can be used in achieving this conversion, or reduction, typically a reductant that can carry the anion of the mineral away from the desired element is used. The potential for economic production of common fuels from the respective oxides of carbon and hydrogen by simple chemical reductions was the inspiration for the Carbon Dioxide Reduction Metallurgy Symposium at the TMS 2008 Annual Meeting. The TMS Reactive Metals Committee initiated the symposium, as carbon's reactivity is well known to all. [READ]

Journal of Electronic Materials: "Some Critical Materials and Processing Issues in SiC Power Devices" by Anant Agarwal and Sarah Haney
There has been a rapid improvement in SiC materials and power devices during the last few years. However, the materials community has overlooked some critical issues, which may threaten the emergence of SiC power devices in the coming years. Some of these pressing materials and processing issues will be presented in this paper. The first issue deals with the possibility of process-induced bulk traps in SiC immediately under the SiC/SiO₂ interface, which may be involved in the reduction of effective inversion layer electron mobility in SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFETs). The second issue addresses the effect of recombination-induced stacking faults (SFs) in majority carrier devices such as MOSFETs, Schottky diodes, and junction field-effect transistors (JFETs). In the past, it was assumed that the SFs only affect the bipolar devices such as PiN diodes and thyristors. However, most majority carrier devices have built-in p–n junction diodes, which can become forward biased during operation in a circuit. Thus, all high-voltage SiC devices are susceptible to this phenomenon. [READ]

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: "A New Constitutive Model for the Finite Element Simulation of Local Hot Forming of Aluminum 6xxx Alloys" by S. Gouttebroze, et al.
A new internal variable constitutive model for the use in finite element (FE) simulation of local hot forming of 6xxx aluminum alloys is presented. The model relates the flow stress to the temperature, total strain rate, and internal variables, which represent the dislocation density and the contributions to the hardening stress from elements in solid solution and precipitates. The time evolutions of the internal variables are modeled by an equation representing the accumulation/annihilation of dislocations and by a precipitate model developed elsewhere, taking into account a size distribution of precipitates. The parameters of the constitutive model have been fitted to tensile tests at different temperatures, strain rates, and precipitate states. [READ]

Materials Technology@TMS: Education: "Materials in Society: Supplementary Educational Resources" by Cathy Rohrer
The February 2008 issue of JOM contains a summary by D. Apelian, 2008 TMS president, and W. Hunt, TMS executive director, of TMS efforts to engage the materials community in both conversation and action concerning the many societal issues impacted by materials technologies. This article spotlights some of the activities and resources TMS is directing toward this topic. [READ]

Materials Technology@TMS: ICME: "Sampling of Multiscale Computational Centers: Development of Supplementary Computational Methods for ICME" by Cathy Rohrer
Because of its breadth, individual researchers and research groups have approached integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) from a variety of different perspectives. A past MaterialsTechnology@TMS ICME community spotlight focused on the materials science and engineering driven approaches including the traditional ICME approach of forming links between computational materials models at different length scales and the statistical ICME approach embodied by materials informatics. The present spotlight will highlight a limited selection of research groups tackling the issue by focusing on new, enhanced, or supplementary computational methods. [READ]

Materials Technology@TMS: Lead-Free Solders: "The Fourth Element: SnAgCuX Research at Ames Laboratory" by interview with Iver Anderson
In the July 2007 issue of JOM, Iver Anderson, senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and adjunct professor at Iowa State University; Jason Walleser, a graduate student at Iowa State; and J.L. Harringa of Ames Laboratory published the article, "Observations of Nucleation Catalysis Effects during Solidification of SnAgCuX Solder Joints." Here, Anderson describes the progress made on this work since the article's publication and possible future directions for research on Sn-Ag-Cu (SAC) solders. [READ]

Materials Technology@TMS: Magnesium: "Primary Production, Recycling, and Environmental Issues" by Lynne Karabin
As energy and environmental issues receive continuing attention in our society, TMS moves to provide technical coverage. The upcoming TMS 2008 Annual Meeting in New Orleans includes numerous symposia to this end. Many are especially relevant to the aluminum industry, but a significant number of magnesium papers will also be presented in these areas. [READ]

Materials Technology@TMS: Materials for Nuclear Power: "Nuclear Waste Storage: An International Perspective" by Raul B. Rebak
This excerpt from Raul Rebak's January 2008 JOM article "Material Corrosion Issues for Nuclear Waste Disposition in Yucca Mountain," looks at the various proposals for permanent disposal of nuclear waste in countries throughout the world. [READ]

Materials Technology@TMS: Superalloys: "Modeling and Simulation for Superalloys" by Lynne Karabin
Modeling and simulation is a rapidly growing area for superalloy development—a trend that has been reflected in the number of modeling and simulation papers presented in the Superalloys Conference series over the years. This article provides an overview of available papers. [READ]

Programs, on-line registration, and more:

Processing Materials for Properties-III (PMP-III)
Bangkok, Thailand
December 7-10, 2008

2nd International Conference on Thermomechanical Simulations and Processing of Steel (SimPro'08)
Ranchi, India
December 9-11, 2008

TMS 2009 Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California
February 15-19, 2009

5th International Materials Symposium (MATERIAiS 2009)
Lisbon, Portugal
April 5-8, 2009

Offshore Technology Conference 2009
Houston, Texas
May 4-7, 2009

International Deep Drawing Research Group Conference 2009 (IDDRG 2009)
Golden, Colorado
June 1-3, 2009

Electronic Materials Conference (EMC 2009)
University Park, Pennsylvania
June 24-26, 2009

European Metallurgical Conference 2009 (EMC2009)
Innsbruck, Austria
June 28 - July 1, 2009

Engineering Solutions for Sustainability: Materials and Resources, An International Workshop
Lausanne, Switzerland
July 22-24, 2009

14th International Conference on Environmental Degradation in Nuclear Power Systems
Virginia Beach, Virginia
August 23-27, 2009

Conference of Metallurgists (COM 2009) Nickel-Cobalt 2009
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
August 23-26, 2009

Thermec 2009: Sixth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processes
Berlin, Germany
August 25-29, 2009

Defect Recognition Image Processing (DRIP) XIII
Abstracts due: 3/15/2009
Wheeling, West Virginia
September 13-17, 2009

2009 International Symposium on Liquid Metal Processing and Casting
Abstracts due: 1/15/2009
Sante Fe, New Mexico
September 20-23, 2009

5th International Conference on Science and Technology of Ironmaking (ICSTI'09)
Shanghai, China
October 19-22, 2009

Materials Science & Technology 2009 Conference and Exhibition (MS&T'09)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 25-29, 2009

TRANSFAC '09 - International Conference on Innovative Solutions for the Advancement of the Transport Industry
Detroit, Michigan
October 31 - November 3, 2009

TMS 2010 Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington
February 14-18, 2010

Copper 2010
Hamburg, Germany
June 6-10, 2010

Electronic Materials Conference 2010
Notre Dame, Indiana
June 23-26, 2010

Materials Science & Technlogy 2010 Conference and Exhibition (MS&T'10)
Houston, Texas
October 17-21, 2010

Superalloys 2012: Twenfth International Symposium on Superalloys
Champion, Pennsylvania
September 9-13, 2012

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