Our fall meeting took place on August 26th-27th at Case Western University, with 40 attendees from 14 different organizations! We had an excellent Fireside Chat led by Dr. Benjamin Messmore from Avient Corporation. Dr. Wessmore discussed Avient’s work with new polymer and composite formulations to enhance recycled content, phase out PFAS, and reduce carbon footprint for various products in packaging, healthcare, automotive, and defense industries.…
A highlight for our 2024 Spring Meeting was our fireside chat with Currie Crookston, Global Head of Ecosystems at Covestro and Sukrit Mukhopadhyay, Research Scientist at Dow. The stimulating discussion covered topics such as integration of materials data science and AI/ML across R&D, product development, and manufacturing.…
Big congratulations to Nathan Carney, Lauren Hoge, Alison Linares Mendoza, and Jessica Kneller! Their project, “RocketWatch: A GEO Satellite Threat Assessment System,” won Best Poster at our MDS-Rely 2024 Spring Meeting and was named Best Overall Project out of 88 teams at the Pitt Engineering Design Expo.…
Dear members and guests,
We recently had a successful Spring meeting at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University on April 16th and 17th in Pittsburgh. A big thank you to
Professor John Kitchin who co-organized the event and to our speakers and participants. …
Sylvie Crowell, a masters student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of the two 2024 Henry DeWitt Smith Scholars by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). She was recognized at TMS 2024 – the 153rd Annual Meeting & Exposition in Orlando, Florida.…
Beyond negatively impacting the aesthetics of consumer products, defects during coating manufacturing can impair a product’s performance and cause premature failure. Dr. Chris Wirth and Dr. Sithara Vinod aim to utilize non-invasive image processing techniques to detect said defects, determine their cause and improve product performance.…
Eaton has officially become a member of the MDS-Rely community! They look forward to supporting our efforts in advancing material data science to aid their commitment to sustainability and improvement of intelligent power management.
Read their official announcement here!…
We’re excited to announce the following senior design projects for Spring 2024 with our members. If you are a member with a design problem in mind and interested in having our undergraduate students work on them, we are creating senior design projects for this Fall now. …
Congratulations to Bill Sharpe on his retirement this month after an impressive 48 years and 8 months of service with the Department for the Army. For the majority of his career, Bill was a munitions production metallurgist before he transitioned into a technology scout / project facilitator for the last 15 years.…
Congratulations to our new Member projects. And thanks to our members for voting. The following four projects will be starting in 2024.
1. Predictive Framework to Indicate the Age of Plastics for Proper Recycling
Profs. Metin Karayilan, Divida Mathur, and Sanmukh Kuppannagari
2.…
