The TMS 2020 Annual Meeting & Exhibition presents students with invaluable opportunities to learn more about the minerals, metals, and materials professions; to network with professionals and peers; and to compete in contests that offer cash prizes and valuable recognition.
Don’t Forget Your Student ID!
Every student who registers for the TMS 2020 Annual Meeting & Exhibition at the student rate will be asked to show a valid student ID when they pick up their badges at the registration desk. This is the only way to make sure you receive the deeply discounted student attendee rate on the conference. So please—when you pack your bags for San Diego, don’t forget to bring your student ID!
Student Activities Planned at TMS2020
TMS2020 Materials Bowl
Date: Sunday, February 23, 2020
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 6A
Even if you aren’t competing in the materials-themed quiz-show competition, you’re welcome to attend the elimination rounds or the final championship round. Play along to test your materials science and engineering knowledge or cheer on your favorite school.
Student Mixer
Date: Sunday, February 23, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B
Take a break and have some fun at this informal social event. Students will have the opportunity to interact with each other and with professionals in a relaxed setting. Refreshments will be provided.
Student Poster Contest
Date: Monday, February 24, 2020
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Sails Pavilion
Stop by and browse the student poster displays at your leisure or attend the official judging session to ask questions of the participants. If you are participating in the student poster contest, you must be present at the judging session to answer questions about your work.
Student Career Forum
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 19
"When should I start my job search?" "Should I continue to graduate school or begin my career?" "How important is networking to my career?" If you find yourself asking questions like these about your future, then you should attend the Student Career Forum. Organized by the TMS Young Professional Committee, this session will feature speakers from various stages of their careers and diverse materials science backgrounds to discuss how to navigate a successful career path in the fields of minerals, metals, and materials.
Speakers will include:
Melanie Lang, FormAlloy
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Melanie Lang, FormAlloy Co-Founder and CEO, is motivated by developing a disruptive technology that delivers the future of additive manufacturing—creating high-value components with superior performance. Her passion has manifested into making wave(length)s in metal additive manufacturing since co-founding FormAlloy in 2016. Prior to FormAlloy, she had 15 years of experience as an engineer and program manager with Lockheed Martin and Boeing. She holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois and M.S. in Systems Architecture & Engineering from the University of Southern California. In addition to her role at FormAlloy, she currently serves as the Vice President of Legislative Affairs for Navy League San Diego and is a Women in 3D Printing Ambassador.
Adam Hope, Thermo-Calc Software
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Adam Hope received his Ph.D. in Welding Engineering at The Ohio State University. His work was focused on combining computational and experimental techniques to predict susceptibility to weld cracking, and to develop new weld metal compositions. He currently works at Thermo-Calc Software providing applications support to users of the tools.
Nolan Hoffman, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
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Nolan Hoffman began his career as a Research Mechanical Engineer for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in 2016 after earning his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama. He is a subject matter expert in airfield matting systems that support fighter, cargo, and remote-piloted aircraft over soft soils. His other areas of research include aircraft tiedowns and arresting gear anchoring systems. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in mechanical engineering through Mississippi State University and is planned to graduate in May of 2020.
Remi Dingreville, Sandia National Laboratories
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Remi Dingreville is a computational materials scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2011. At Sandia, his research interests have encompassed a variety of areas, including probabilistic fracture mechanics, aging of nanostructured materials, synthesis of nanocomposites, grain boundary mechanics, and metamaterials. In the past five years, he has mentored half a dozen Ph.D. students and postdoctoral appointees, many of which are now staff members at national laboratories or in the industry. He is a member of TMS since 2008 and has over 50 publications.
Brian Jordon, The University of Alabama
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J. Brian Jordon is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at The University of Alabama. He received his doctorate from Mississippi State University in 2008. His research focuses on understanding the influence of microstructure on mechanical behavior in order to model materials and structures for superior performance. His interests include fatigue and fracture, process-structure-property relationships, constitutive modeling of plasticity and damage, simulation modeling of welding and joining, and solid-state additive manufacturing.
Jordon has published over 50 refereed journal articles, over 25 conference proceedings, and given over 25 invited seminars in these and related areas. His research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, the state of Alabama, and private industry. Professionally, Jordon serves as vice chair of the Magnesium Committee of TMS. In addition, he currently serves on the editorial board of the Materials and Manufacturing Processes journal. In 2014, Jordon was a recipient of the TMS Young Professional Development Award. More recently, he was a 2017 finalist for The University of Alabama President’s Faculty Research Award. Prior to coming to The University of Alabama, Jordon was an interim associate director and an assistant research professor at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University.
Kester Clarke
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Kester Clarke
is an assistant professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines and serves as the Forging Industry Education and Research Foundation (FIERF) Professor and holds a joint appointment as a scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He engages in research on deformation processes in metal alloys with the Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys and the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center. His research interests include alloy development, material deformation and fabrication processes, and the use of experimental and modeling methods to examine the effect of material processing history and microstructure on mechanical properties and performance.
Clarke holds a B.A. in Psychology from Indiana University, a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Wayne State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has worked as a consulting Metallurgical Engineer for Engel Metallurgical and as a Senior Engineer/Research and Development for Caterpillar. He conducted postdoctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was an R&D scientist/engineer in the Materials Science & Technology: Metallurgy group serving as the technical lead for thermal-mechanical processing of metals and metal component fabrication and is currently a Visiting Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He is a key reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, a JOM topic editor, and chair of the TMS Shaping & Forming and Steels committees. He is also a member of the TMS Nuclear Materials, Phase Transformations, Education, and Diversity committees.
Preparing a Winning Application Package Workshop
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center, Room 6A
Instructors: Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Colorado School of Mines; additional instructors to be announced
In this workshop, instructors from a national laboratory, university, and industry will share their experiences in obtaining and/or recruiting entry-level positions (postdocs, tenure-track faculty positions, etc.) and help guide the young professional on their journey from recent graduate to career professional. There is no additional cost to attend for TMS2020 registrants, but pre-registration is required. Note: this event is now full.
Programming Developed by Students
Expanding the Boundaries of Materials Science: Unconventional Collaborations
As the demands on modern materials continue to intensify, the field of materials science must advance beyond its traditional capabilities and limitations. One way researchers are working toward this is by re-visiting classical problems in materials science from a new perspective through the lens of interdisciplinary collaboration. Talks will feature examples of how significant materials advancement has resulted from collaboration with physicists, statisticians, computer scientists, chemists, and other disciplines. Speakers will include academic researchers who have successfully contributed to interdisciplinary research, which has led to new routes for materials characterization and data processing, thereby expanding the boundaries of how we do research today. It will showcase successful advancements made through effective integration between modeling, computing and experimental groups, allowing development of high-throughput methods to accelerate materials discovery and development. A panel presentation featuring collaborative researchers will elucidate best practices on effective communication and strategies for making the most out of interdisciplinary research collaborations.
This special-topic symposium at TMS2020 is being organized by four graduate students from North Carolina State University: Alex Hsain, Sourabh Kadambi, Brady G. Dowdell, and Benjamin Anthony.