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Volume 8, Issue 12, Wednesday, March 26, 2008 

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Laser-Sintered Chair

Believe it or not, this plastic chair was made by laser-sintering plastic powder. Known as Osteon, the chair was built by taking horizontal slices through a 3D computer-aided design model. The resulting data was then used to drive a laser-sintering machine, which created the product by fusing successive layers of plastic powder. The virtual chair design was split into sections so that each could be grown within the 27.5 x 15 x 23 inch build envelope of an EOSINT P 700 laser-sintering machine.

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A Member’s Voice

It's Election Season: Nominate for Board of Trustees

If you know of a worthy candidate to serve on the ASM Board of Trustees, get your nominations ready. “If you’re interested in helping to shape the future of our society, I encourage you to submit a nomination for ASM Trustee,” says ASM President Dr. Dianne Chong, FASM. "We have extended our deadline for nominations through April 2nd. There’s never been a more exciting time to nominate a colleague for Trustee of ASM International. Our Trustees serve as a voice for our membership and will help to shape our society’s future through their leadership of the implementation of our ASM Strategic Plan.”

What exactly does a Trustee do? Click here to find out.

2009
Engineering Materials Achievement
Award Nominations Now Being
Accepted


American Superconductor Corporation receives the 2007 Engineering Materials Achievement Award.

Deadline for nominations is April 15, 2008

Do you know of an innovative, cutting-edge scientific achievement that has distinctly impacted industry, technology, and society in the last ten years?

Criteria:
•Outstanding achievements in materials or materials systems in engineering structure or design and manufacture of product
•Innovative
•To production scale within past 10 years
•Impact on entire industry, distinct gain to technology and society
•Team effort
•No previous widespread recognition

Visit ASM’s website for complete information about how you can nominate a team for this prestigious award in 2009. Or contact, Carole Chesla, Administrator, Awards at (800) 336-5152 Ext 5330, (440) 338-5151 Ext. 5330, Fax (440) 338-6614


Video of the Week


How to Convert
Electrical Signals to Light



In a paper published in the journal Optics Express, IBM researchers detailed a significant milestone in the quest to send information between multiple cores -- or “brains” -- on a chip using pulses of light through silicon, instead of electrical signals on wires.

The breakthrough -- known in the industry as a silicon Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator -- performs the function of converting electrical signals into pulses of light. The IBM modulator is 100 to 1000 times smaller than previously demonstrated modulators of its kind, paving the way for many such devices and eventually complete optical routing networks to be integrated onto a single chip. This could significantly reduce cost, energy and heat while increasing communications bandwidth between the cores more than a hundred times over wired chips.

View the video.

Industry News


ASM publishes breaking industry news articles on our website every day!

Below are the top news items of the week.
View the full-text articles and more headline news online.


FEI Receives Award for Titan S/TEM at Nano Tech 2008
Business Wire
FEI Company announces that its Titan 80-300 S/TEM (scanning/transmission electron microscope), the world's most powerful commercially available microscope, was honored with the award for technical excellence in evaluation and measurement at Nano Tech 2008 in Tokyo, Japan.

Soliant's Chromium Plating Alternative Wins Environmental Award
PR Newswire
Soliant LLC has been awarded the Global Plastics Environmental Conference 2008 Achievement Award for "Enabling Technologies in Processes and Procedures" -- for developing Fluorex bright film, which provides a chrome finish comparable to chrome plating on a variety of plastic substrates.

University/Industry Effort Focuses on Multicore Computer Chips
The Sacramento Bee
Researchers from the University of California, backed by technology titans Intel and Microsoft, are embarking on a project to bring the power of supercomputers to laptops and mobile devices.

Tata Motors Shows Detroit 'Other Face of Globalization'
Detroit Free Press
Tata Motors, the new owner of Jaguar and Land Rover and a long-term partner of Ford Motor Co., is the other face of globalization. It is a foreign company that employs hundreds of people in metro Detroit and plans to boost its workforce substantially in the region over the next three years.

Read more ASM Headline News.

News from AM&P


Nucor-Yamato Steel Co., a joint venture between Nucor Corp. and Japan's Yamato Kogyo Co., is introducing four 44-inch deep sections with a maximum length of 120 feet. The first production rolling of the W44 sections is scheduled for the week of May 25, 2008, and will be included in future rolling schedules.
Learn more.

Stanford University and Toshiba engineers have designed nanotubes to wire a silicon chip operating at speeds comparable to those of commercially available processors and memory. Including other control circuitry that allows for selectively operating each of the 256 oscillators, the chip comprises a total of 11,000 transistors in an area one hundredth of a square inch.
Learn more.
E-mail H.S. Wong.


Bruker AXS announces that the Pittcon Editors’ Gold Award has been awarded to its breakthrough benchtop SMART X2S Crystal-to-Structure small molecule X-ray system, which for the first time allows chemists without crystallography training to obtain routine small molecule 3D structures under full automation.
Learn more.


University of Maryland researchers have developed Zymetis, a process to convert large volumes of plant products into ethanol and other biofuels. The secret is a Chesapeake Bay marsh grass bacterium, which scientists found has an enzyme that could quickly break down plant materials into sugar, which can then be converted to biofuel.
Learn more.


March Issue of AM&P

NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY

•Metals, Polymers, Ceramics

•Test/Characterization

•Process Technology

•Emerging Technology

•Business Trends

•Global Economy

FEATURES
Titanium Rammed Graphite Castings
Stephanie O’Connor

Metallurgy of ATI 718Plus Alloy
Richard Kennedy and Erin McDevitt

Recycling Aluminum Aerospace Alloys
Subodh K. Das

Shape Memory Actuators for Automotive Applications
Francesco Butera

Breakthrough in EDS Technology
John J. Friel

Advanced Materials & Processes

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Upcoming Events


50th Annual H.R. Bergmann Memorial Seminar
“Made In Wisconsin”
A Celebration Of Innovation In Materials Technology In Our State
April 2, 2008

The ASM International Milwaukee Chapter announces its 50th annual Bergmann Educational Seminar – “Made in Wisconsin.” The format encourages dialog between materials engineers, product designers, and innovators to address the unique applications for their creations. The day will provide exposure to the diverse companies that support the investment and growth of materials-based businesses that are MADE IN WISCONSIN yet celebrated worldwide.

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Surface Engineering for High Performance Die Casting Tooling

April 23, 2008
Chicago, Illinois

This one-day workshop will be an intensive discussion of the state-of-the-art in the surface engineering of die casting tooling. The morning session will kick off with a presentation by John Moore, Colorado School of Mines, who will discuss Die Coating and Surface Engineering for Aluminum Pressure Die Casting: State of the Art/Science.

The rest of the day will include sessions on Failure Mechanisms, Substrates, Surface Coating, and Surface Modification.

Click here for more information or to register.

The 8th International Conference on Trends in Welding Research

June 1-6, 2008
Pine Mountain, Georgia USA

This conference will feature five days of technically-intensive programming focused on both fundamental and applied topics related to welding and joining.

Learn more.

19th AeroMat Conference & Exposition

June 23-26, 2008
Austin Convention Center
Austin, Texas USA

Revolutionizing Materials & Processes for Air Vehicles & Space Systems

Learn more.

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Latest Job Opening

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD (NTSB)

The NTSB seeks two highly qualified individuals, a Supervisor and a Materials Engineer/Metallurgist for its Materials Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Working in all transportation modes, the lab examines parts as small as light bulb filaments to structures as large as transport-category airplanes and evaluates design, material, and structure deficiencies possibly contributing to vehicle and component failure in order to improve transportation safety worldwide. U. S. citizenship is required.

Applications deadline is April 18, 2008.

For additional information and to apply, visit www.ntsb.gov, click on “Job Opportunities” and go to the following announcements:

WA-TB-8-027, WA-TB-8-34 and WA-TB-8-035

NTSB IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

To visit the ASM website Career Center, click here.

2008 Graduate Student Paper Contest


Wan Chuck Woo, 2007 International Graduate Student Paper Contest Award Winner, receives his award from 2007 ASM President, Dr. Larry Wagner.

Deadline April 1, 2008

The ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest recognizes the best graduate student technical paper in the field of materials science or engineering submitted during the year. The winner will be recognized and presented their award during the ASM Leadership Awards Luncheon to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the week of October 5-9, 2008 in conjunction with MS&T’08. The award consists of a certificate, a $500 cash prize, and up to $250 towards expenses to attend MS&T ’08. The paper will also be published one of ASM’s publications.

Rules for the paper submission can be found on the ASM Website.

Nomination Deadline for Canada Council Awards is April 30, 2008


ASM’s Canada Council is seeking nominations for its 2008 awards program. These prestigious awards include the G. MacDonald Young Award, M. Brian Ives Lectureship, and Canadian Sustaining Member Corporate Innovation Awards. Deadline to submit nominations are April 30, 2008.

Nominations should be submitted to Mr. John Read, president, National Coating Technologies, Inc., 1975 Logan Ave., Winnipeg, MB R2R OH8.

For more information, visit ASM Canada Council Awards.

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