Materials in the New Millennium: Responding to Society's Needs (2001)
Chapter: Front Matter
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NATIONAL MATERIALS ADVISORY BOARD
EDGAR A.STARKE, Chair,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
EDWARD C.DOWLING,
Cleveland Cliffs, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio
THOMAS EAGAR,*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
HAMISH L.FRASER,
Ohio State University, Columbus
ALASTAIR M.GLASS,
Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey
MARTIN E.GLICKSMAN,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
JOHN A.S.GREEN,
Aluminum Association, Inc. (retired), Ellicott City, Maryland
THOMAS S.HARTWICK, TRW (retired),
Redmond, Washington
ALLAN J.JACOBSON,
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
MICHAEL JAFFE,*
New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark
SYLVIA M.JOHNSON,*
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
FRANK E.KARASZ,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
SHEILA F.KIA,
General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan
LISA KLEIN,*
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick (Board member until December 2000)
HARRY A.LIPSITT,
Wright State University (emeritus), Dayton, Ohio
ALAN G.MILLER,*
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle, Washington
ROBERT C.PFAHL, JR.,*
Motorola, Schaumburg, Illinois
JULIA PHILLIPS,*
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
HENRY J.RACK,
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
KENNETH L.REIFSNIDER,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
T.S.SUDARSHAN,
Materials Modification, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia
JULIA WEERTMAN,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Staff
TONI MARECHAUX, Director
ARUL MOZHI, Associate Director
DANIEL MORGAN,† Staff Officer
SHARON YEUNG,† Staff Officer
JULIUS CHANG, Staff Officer
TERI THOROWGOOD,† Research Associate
DANA CAINES, Financial Associate
JUDY ESTEP, Administrative Assistant
JANICE PRISCO, Administrative Assistant
PAT WILLIAMS, Administrative Assistant
Preface
The 2000 National Materials Advisory Board Forum was held on February 8 and 9, 2000, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Participants included more than 180 congressional and agency staff, industry leaders, and scientists and engineers from across the spectrum of the materials research community (see p. 50). The purpose of the forum was to bring the importance of materials to the attention of policy makers and to promote interactions between policy makers and the materials community. Participants were asked to address four key themes:
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the critical role of materials in advancing technology and enhancing the nation’s economy, security, and health
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industrial and societal needs that will require materials development in the new millennium
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materials research areas with the greatest potential for meeting those needs
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federal and industrial research initiatives that can help the materials community meet those needs
To help focus the discussions, special sessions were convened to address the current and future roles of materials in four selected areas: information technology, health and biotechnology, national security, and energy and the environment. We hope to cover other areas in future years. In each session there were brief presentations by invited speakers, followed by panel discussions.
The NMAB thanks the speakers and panelists (see p. 47), exhibitors (see p. 49), planning group (see p. iv), and others who helped to make the forum a success. We would also like to acknowledge the work of the NMAB staff, including Daniel Morgan, Teri Thorowgood, and Sharon Yeung.
These proceedings are a factual summary of what occurred at the forum in February 2000. Summaries of individual talks were prepared by the members and staff of the NMAB and edited by Sylvia Johnson and Daniel Morgan. The proceedings were reviewed by Edgar A.Starke (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) and Kenneth L.Reifsnider (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg).
Participants in the forum made uniformly positive comments on the selection of topics and the quality of the talks and discussion sessions. They were particularly pleased that the forum brought together the diverse segments of the materials community in a single, unifying event. The NMAB intends to make this the first of many such meetings. To find out more or to give us your ideas for the next forum, please send e-mail to <nmab@nas.edu> or call 202–334–3505.
Edgar A.Starke, Chair
National Materials Advisory Board
Sylvia M.Johnson, Chair
Forum Planning Group
