{"id":52,"date":"2014-04-08T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/smst\/about-smst\/message-from-the-president\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:09:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:09:50","slug":"message-from-the-president","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/smst\/message-from-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the President"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"52\" class=\"elementor elementor-52\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-32600807 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"32600807\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3356158e\" data-id=\"3356158e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3541bbae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3541bbae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">Welcome to the ASM International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST). We are a volunteer-led professional society that serves to promote networking, education, and dissemination of knowledge amongst inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and academics working with materials that exhibit shape memory behaviors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">While some aspects of these materials are quite simple, such as the idea of putting together equal parts nickel and titanium atoms to make a metal compound, the underlying physical behaviors of these materials and their responses to different environments are often complex. At the core of SMST is a group of experienced professionals from industry, government and academia dedicated to furthering understanding of these complexities, preserving knowledge from past lessons learned, and most importantly training the future leaders, innovators, and doers for the field.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">Thus, the distinguishing characteristic of SMST is a focus on serving the industry of shape\u2013memory technologies. This industry is largely centered upon nickel-titanium shape memory alloys (Nitinol) and their derivatives. We are also experiencing exciting growth in novel technologies emerging from new materials such as shape-memory polymers and nickel-free shape-memory alloys.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">Our defining means toward fulfilling our mission and serving our members is our conferences and technical expositions. These are now held every other year, alternating between a U.S. location and an international destination. In May 2022, our event was held in San Diego, CA<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\"> I encourage you to mark your calendars for our next event in May 2024 in Cascais, Portugal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">We also create other forms of media toward fulfilling our mission. In 2015 we launched the journal <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt;font-size: 12.0pt;padding: 0in\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/materials-resources\/journals\/shape-memory-and-superelasticity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shape Memory and Superelasticity<\/a>\u00a0,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">\u00a0which serves to archive seminal works presented at our conferences, in addition to publishing original, peer-reviewed articles. We also provide the <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt;font-size: 12.0pt;padding: 0in\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/asm-news\/newsletters\/eelastic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e-Elastic eNews <\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">to<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\"> our members on a quarterly basis.\u00a0 Introducing the new SMST suppplement to Advanced Materials &amp; Processes magazine is <em>SMST\u00a0NewsWire<\/em>\u00a0in the April and October issues<em> <a href=\"\/am-p\/smst_newswire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SMST NewsWire<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\"><a href=\"\/learning\/courses\/classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Education courses<\/a> on the topic of shape memory materials are offered through ASM several times a year. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">\u00a0Nitinol for Medical Devices is one of the most popular courses and covers the variables that affect Nitinol&#8217;s properties, how to control them, and how its unique properties can be applied in medical devices. Education course attendees not only receive the most up-to-date information from the shape memory industry but also Continuing Education Units. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">Thanks for visiting our site. If you are a guest, I encourage you to <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.asminternational.org\/communities\/community-home?CommunityKey=ed0d57c8-870a-4764-9def-343ee00207a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">join our community<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\"> and to reach out to any of our board members, myself included, with further questions you may have about SMST. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 11.25pt\"><span style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"line-height: 16.0pt\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"color: #323232\">To existing members, I thank you for your role in helping us advance shape memory and superelastic technologies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10829 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/smst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2023\/04\/Bucsek_Ashley-FacultyHeadshot-resize-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-prd-main.asm-media.cloud\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2023\/04\/Bucsek_Ashley-FacultyHeadshot-resize-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn-prd-main.asm-media.cloud\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2023\/04\/Bucsek_Ashley-FacultyHeadshot-resize-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-prd-main.asm-media.cloud\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2023\/04\/Bucsek_Ashley-FacultyHeadshot-resize-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p><p><strong>Prof. Ashley Bucsek<br \/>SMST President<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the ASM International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST). 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