Handling Your Materials Data for Maximum Impact Using the FAIR Data Principles

The Handling Your Materials Data for Maximum Impact Using the FAIR Data Principles course will be offered on Sunday, June 16, 2024, in coordination with the TMS Specialty Congress 2024 at the Cleveland Hilton in Cleveland, Ohio. Expert instructors will provide an introduction to the concepts of the FAIR Data Principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) for materials scientists and engineers and instruct data generators and users on how to implement these principles in their everyday handling of data to maximize their data impact.

Who Should Attend?

Data generators and data users, as well as managers, leaders, and/or supporters of such efforts interested in maximizing the impact of materials and manufacturing related data should attend.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the use of the FAIR Data Principles and how to apply them to materials data
• Gain a practical working knowledge for materials data generators for how best to handle, curate, and manage materials and manufacturing related data to allow for maximum impact and/or community uptake of the data
• Establish a working knowledge of some key data platforms available to materials data generators, as well as materials data users

Instructors

Charles Ward (Lead Instructor)

Retired, Air Force Research Laboratory
Editor-in-Chief, Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation

Bio

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Charles Ward ’s professional career has spanned over 35 years, serving in several roles in research, engineering, and management. His research has focused on the microstructure-property relationships in titanium and titanium aluminide alloys. He has served as manager for the Department of the Air Force's basic research program in metals and then as an engineer on the F-35’s propulsion program. He also served as staff officer to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and then Air Force liaison for materials research and development in Europe. Previously, he served as the Director of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Lead for Integrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering, and Chief of the Metals, Ceramics, and Nondestructive Evaluation Division. He has also served as co-chair of the Materials Genome Initiative Subcommittee under the National Science and Technology Council. Ward received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, is a Fellow of ASM International, and Editor-in-Chief of the Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation journal.

David Elbert

Faculty Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University

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David Elbert is a faculty research scientist in the Johns Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) where he is the chief data officer of the National Science Foundation (NSF) PARADIM Materials Innovation Platform (MIP). Elbert leads multiple MGI focused projects to accelerate materials design including Materials Innovative Infrastructure development with an emphasis on streaming data architectures for real-time processing and ML-based materials discovery. He is also a co-founder and executive council member of the Materials Research Data Alliance (MaRDA) and leads the NSF FAIR and Open Science Materials Research Coordination Network (MaRCN) collaboration.

Matthew Jacobsen

Software Engineering Technical Lead, Air Force Research Laboratory

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Matthew Jacobsen is a software engineering technical lead in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, where he manages efforts in data and software engineering, data governance, and process optimization. Jacobsen is leading an internationally recognized software development program within the area of Integrated Computation Materials Science and Engineering (ICMSE). This Air Force-trademarked cyberinfrastructure, called HyperThought(R), employs state-of the-art technologies to provide a complete suite of data management and machine integration capabilities to research and manufacturing organizations around the United States. Jacobsen has brought this depth of experience to bear in establishing the first formal Software Factory at Wright Patterson AFB, Hangar 18, which is focused on bringing Agile and DevSecOps tools and practices to the Digital Engineering and Digital Transformation community in the Air Force.

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