Technical Program

The key goals of ICME 2019 are to convene stakeholders from across all areas of modeling and simulation, experimental specialization, and design, as well as from across academia, government, and industry, to address ICME tools and techniques and their integration, as well as to examine their application in engineering. This congress will provide a forum for presentations and discussions centering on ICME-related topics, including:

• The wide range of materials programs where an ICME approach validated by experimental efforts is applicable, including computational- and experimental-based talks
• Individual computational methods utilized in an ICME approach, including both advantages and limitations
• Roles of ICME in continuing education in industry
• High-throughput computing application in ICME
• Development of materials processing and materials characterization technology
• Incorporation of “big data, data fusion, and machine learning” for materials and product development with ICME methodologies
• Development of database and database technology for ICME
• Bridging the gap of across-scale materials simulation
• Success stories of ICME on materials development
• ICME implementation strategies
• Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification issues
• Interoperability, data, and communications standards
• ICME networking initiatives around the world

ICME has emerged as an important discipline because of its great potential in efficiently designing new materials, engineering new products, and improving manufacturing processes. ICME methodologies can identify gaps in the integration process when applied to solving fundamental engineering problems, these can lead to advancements in the fundamental understanding of problems, development of the linkages along the processing chain, and development of computational tools and advanced experimental technique for engineering practice and the establishment of an infrastructure for global information sharing.

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View the final programs from past ICME congresses

• ICME 2017 Final Program
• ICME 2015 Final Program

Publishing Options

A journal publishing initiative has been planned for ICME 2019, and the submission deadline is August 9, 2019. More details on specific options can be found on the Publishing Options page.

ICME 2019 Plenary Speakers

Annika Borgenstam

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

Presenting: "Materials of Tomorrow - The Design Approach"

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Annika Borgenstam is professor in Micro and Nano structures in Alloys. She is Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and Director for a research centre, the Competence Centre Hero-m 2 Innovation. She received her Master of Science in Engineering, Materials Technology, in 1990 and Doctoral degree in Materials science in 1997. Her work is on the structure of metallic materials from nano- to micro level, focusing on the understanding of how a particular structure is formed and how it can be modified. The emphasis is on the theoretical and experimental analysis of these structural transformations, with particular focus on the link between thermodynamic and kinetic properties and transformation mechanisms. The main objective is to develop models that describe how the structures are formed which can be used in the design of new materials or to improve already existing materials using an ICME approach.

Long-Qing Chen

Pennsylvania State University (USA)

Presenting: “Understanding, Prediction and Design of Mesoscale Structures and Properties of Functional Materials Guided by Phase-field Simulations”

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Long-Qing Chen is the Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Professor of Mathematics at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in Materials Science and Engineering in 1990 and joined the faculty at Penn State in 1992. He has published over 600 papers in the area of computational microstructure evolution and multiscale modeling of structural metallic alloys, functional oxides, and energy materials. For his research accomplishments, he has received numerous awards including the 2014 Materials Research Society (MRS) Materials Theory Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award, and the 2011 The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) EMPMD Distinguished Scientist Award. He is a Fellow of TMS, MRS, American Physical Society (APS), American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and ASM International (ASM). He is the Editor-in-Chief for npj Computational Materials published by Nature Research.

Peter Collins

Iowa State University (USA)

Presenting: “An ICME Approach for Additive Manufacturing”

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Peter C. Collins is the Al and Julie Renken Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his MS and PhD from The Ohio State University in Materials Science and Engineering after receiving his BS from the University of Missouri-Rolla. Collins is involved in two NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers, serving as the co-director for the Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys, and as the director for the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation. His primary research interests involve: the physical metallurgy of advanced non-ferrous materials; advanced characterization techniques including various electron microscopies and emergent spectroscopic methods; quantification of defects and crystal orientation across length scales; combinatorial materials science; advanced materials processing with special interest in advanced additive manufacturing; and the mechanical behavior of non-ferrous materials, including establishing composition-microstructure-property relationships.

Manabu Enoki

The University of Tokyo (Japan)

Presenting: "Materials Integration Project for Structural Materials in Japan"

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Manabu Enoki is Professor of the Department of Materials Engineering at The University of Tokyo. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1984, and graduated with a Doctor of Engineering directed by Professor Teruo Kishi in 1989. He started his career as a Research Associate at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. He moved to the Department of Materials Engineering in 2000. His research interest concerns the analysis of microfracture in various materials using non-destructive evaluation method, especially acoustic emission technique. He has continued the research on the integrity of structural materials, such as steels, Mg alloys, Ti alloys etc. using various experimental techniques and numerical simulations.

Mary Lee Gambone

Rolls-Royce (USA)

Presenting: “The Challenges and Opportunities in Embedding Materials Science in Virtual Design and Manufacturing”

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Mary Lee Gambone is currently Rolls-Royce Defense Sector Head of the Materials Engineering organization, and she has worked in aerospace materials for more than 30 years. Since joining Rolls-Royce in 1998, she has had several roles, including Chief of Research and Technology Strategy and Manager of Critical Part Lifing. Her early career as a materials engineer was with Allison Gas Turbine Division of General Motors and with the US Air Force as Team Lead for metal matrix composites research in the Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials Directorate. Mary Lee has earned a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Purdue University, a M.S. in Materials Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in Materials Science.

Louis Hector, Jr.

Chemical and Materials Systems Laboratory, General Motors R&D Center (USA)

Presenting: “Re-thinking ICME for New Materials Discovery and Implementation”

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Lou Hector, Jr. is a GM Technical Fellow in the Chemical and Materials Systems Lab at the General Motors R&D Center in Warren, Michigan. He earned his B.S. (Honors) degree in Theoretical Physics from Loyola University Chicago in 1981, and then completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1986 as a GM Teaching Fellow. He joined GM R&D in January 2001 after nearly fourteen years at Alcoa Technical Center. At GM R&D, he focuses on theoretical model and experimental methods development for automotive materials, such as advanced high strength steels, non-ferrous alloys (e.g. magnesium and aluminum), Li-ion batteries, shape memory alloys, biomimetic materials, complex fabrics, catalytic materials, plastics, composites, and hydrogen storage materials. Lou has co-authored over two hundred publications which have received in excess of 8100 citations, participated as Co-PI in nine National Science Foundation GOALI grants, was co-advisor for eleven Ph.D. students, and served as the PI on the four-year, DOE-sponsored program Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Approach to Development of Advanced Steel for Lightweight Third Generation Advanced High Strength Steel Vehicle Assembly. He holds thirteen U.S. patents. Lou was awarded the 2014 Brimacombe Medal from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). He received the 2018 Institute Medal and 2019 Finalist Medal both from the American Iron and Steel Institute for his publications on Gen 3 Steels.

Mark Horstemeyer

Mississippi State University (USA)

Presenting: "Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME): Past, Present, and Future"

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Mark Horstemeyer is currently the Dean of Engineering at Liberty University. Previous to this, he was a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mississippi State University (2002-2018) holding a Chair position for the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) in Computational Solid Mechanics, was the Chief Technical Officer for CAVS, and was a Giles Distinguished Professor. Before his appointment at MSU, he worked for Sandia National Labs for fifteen years (1987-2002) in the area of multiscale modeling for design. He has published two books on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) related to metals, one a pedagogical book for teaching a course and another demonstrating concepts and case studies. He also established a website to organize and download models, codes, and data that anyone can have access to: https://icme.hpc.msstate.edu. As a fellow of four societies (ASME, ASM, SAE, and AAAS) and a member of the European Union Academy of Sciences, Mark Horstemeyer has garnered national and international acclaim by publishing over 500 technical articles with a citation h-factor of over 60 with a total of over 12,000 citations; he has given over 150 lectures throughout the world; and has mentored over 150 graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. He started three new companies: Predictive Design Technologies, Advanced Technology Associates, and Yobel Technologies. He earned a B.S. degree from West Virginia University in Mechanical Engineering, a M.S. degree from Ohio State University in Eng. Mechanics, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.

Jesus Galán-López

TU Delft (Netherlands)

Presenting: “Development of Metallurgical through Process Models for the Development of New Low Carbon Strip Steel Grades”

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Jesus Galán-López was born in Spain, in the city of Ávila, in 1981. After getting his degree in Industrial Engineering in the University of Valladolid, including his final thesis in the University of Lecce in Italy, he moved to Belgium for an internship at OCAS NV (the R&D center of ArcelorMittal). He continued working in the field of materials research in Ghent University, where he eventually enrolled for the pursuit of a PhD degree, which he finally obtained in April of 2007, with a thesis on the topic of crystal plasticity. Since then, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher for the Materials Innovation Centre (M2i) and the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). His main area of expertise is computational modelling of materials, and has also worked in the fields of mechanical testing, crystallography and multi-scale modelling of plastic deformation. He has participated in international conferences and published several papers related with these topics in international journals. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, working in collaboration with Tata Steel Europe in the development of new modelling tools in order to reduce to a minimum the necessary experimentation and preliminary trials before a new steel product reaches the market.

Alan Luo

The Ohio State University (USA)

Presenting: “Applications of CALPHAD Modeling and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering in Advanced Lightweight Metallic Materials”

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Alan Luo is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Integrated Systems Engineering (Manufacturing) at The Ohio State University (OSU). Luo is an elected Fellow of ASM (American Society of Metals) International and SAE (Society for Automotive Engineers) International. Prof. Luo is a past chair of the Light Metals Division of TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) and the Materials Engineering Activities Division of SAE. He is also a director of the board of IMA (International Magnesium Association) and serves as chair of its annual conference. He has numerous patents and technical publications on advanced materials and manufacturing, specializing in lightweight materials and applications. Prior to joining OSU in July 2013, Dr. Luo was a GM Technical Fellow at General Motors Global Research and Development Center. Luo has won two John M. Campbell Awards for his fundamental research, and three Charles L. McCuen Awards for research applications at GM. Over the years, he has received the TMS Brimacombe Medalist Award, SAE Forest R. McFarland Award, USCAR (United States Council for Automotive Research) Special Recognition Award, ASM Materials Science Research Silver Medal, and International Magnesium Association (IMA) Award of Excellence. Luo’s research is also recognized by several Best Paper awards from TMS, SAE, AFS (American Foundry Society) and CALPHAD journal.

Michele Manuel

University of Florida (USA)

Presenting: TBA

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David Rowenhorst

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (USA)

Presenting: “Developing and Validating Models through 3D Characterization”

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David Rowenhorst received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1999, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2004 in Materials Science and Engineering, where his doctoral work concentrated on the three-dimensional analysis of microstructures, specifically using 3D reconstruction to analyze particle coarsening (or Ostwald ripening) in Pb-Sn systems in microgravity environments. After graduation in 2004, Rowenhorst joined NRL as a NRC Postdoctoral Associateship and in 2006, continued on a staff scientist in the Phase Transformations and Joining Section. His work continues to concentrate on the 3D characterization of materials, specifically analyzing grain growth in polycrystalline materials, phase transformations in high strength steels and the microstructure property relationships in Additively Manufactured materials.

James Warren

National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)

Presenting: “The Materials Genome Initiative: The Coming Revolutions in Materials Research”

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James A. Warren is the Director of the Materials Genome Program in the Materials Measurement Laboratory of NIST. After receiving his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which was preceded by an A.B. (also in Physics) from Dartmouth College, in 1992 he took a position as an NRC post-doc in the Metallurgy Division at NIST. In 1995, with three other junior NIST staff members, he co-founded the NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, which he has directed since 2001. From 2005-2013 he was the Leader of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group. His research has been broadly concerned with developing both models of materials phenomena, and the tools to enable the solution of these models. Specific foci over the years have included solidification, pattern formation, grain structures, creep, diffusion, wetting, and spreading in metals. In 2010-11, Warren was part of the ad hoc committee within the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) that crafted the founding whitepaper on the Administration’s Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), and has served as the Executive Secretary of the NSTC MGI Subcommittee since 2012.

Invited speakers

John Allison, University of Michigan
Dennis Dimiduk, BlueQuartz Software LLC
Begum Gulsoy, Northwestern University
Andrew Kitahara, Carnegie Mellon University
Goutam Mohapatra, John Deere Asia Technology Innovation Center
Deepankar Pal, ANSYS
Gandham Phanikumar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Ali Ramazani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University
Junsheng Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology
Wei Xiong, University of Pittsburgh
Kevin Xiaoyu Yang, Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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