Materials Division 2015 Fall Newsletter Message from the Chair MD Award Lectures and Reception at IMECE 2015 MD Committee Meetings at IMECE 2015 Meeting Scenes of McMaT 2015 2014 ASME/MD Medals and Awards 2015 ASME/MD Medals and Awards Note from the ASME-JEMT Journal Editor News from the Technical Committees Materials Division Executive Committee Materials Division Technical Committees Yong Zhu, Editor 1 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR It has been a great honor for me to serve on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Materials Division (MD) Executive Committee for the past five years (2010-2015) and as the Division Chair for the past year. I am grateful to follow the footsteps of a group of dedicated past chairs including A.M. Rajendran of University of Mississippi, Mohammed Zikry of North Carolina State University, Vikas Prakash of Case Western Reserve University, Julie Chen of University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Karl Jacob of Georgia Tech. It has been a distinct pleasure to work with my current committee members including George Z. Voyiadjis (vice-Chair) of Louisiana State University , Xi Chen (Honors and Awards Chair) of Columbia University, Valeria La Saponara (Program Chair) of University of California - Davis, and Yong Zhu (Secretary and Treasurer) of North Carolina Junlan Wang, Division Chair State University. Thank you all for the support, companion and friendship. The Materials Division has gone through a very active and successful year in 2014-2015 with the following highlights: McMat 2015: Following a fine tradition between the ASME Applied Mechanics Division and Materials Division, the two divisions hold joint Mechanics and Materials (McMat) summer meetings every four years with the leadership alternating between AMD and MD. This year, the Materials Division took the leadership role to organize the McMat 2015 which took place from June 29-July 1, 2015 in Seattle, WA. Thanks to the diligent effort of all the symposium organizers and the local organizing committee members, the conference was a great success with over 440 presentations in 25 symposia, 79 technical sessions including three plenary speakers - Satya Atluri of University of California, Irvine, Nancy Sottos of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Zhigang Suo of Harvard University at the morning plenary sessions and one distinguished dinner speaker - Mark D. Jenks of the Boeing Company at the University of Washington (UW) hosted banquet. Special thanks to the Boeing Company, the University of Washington College of Engineering (in particular, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics) for the financial sponsorship of the UW Banquet, and the National Science Foundation for providing travel support to an elite group of graduate students, postdocs and community college instructors. The conference website can be found at: http://www.asmeconferences.org/mcmat2015. 2 IMECE: The Materials Division continues to play active roles in the annual ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), largely owing to the hard work of all the Technical Committees and the Program Chairs. At the upcoming IMECE 2015 in Houston, we are sponsoring/co-sponsoring 33 symposia with a total of 70 technical sessions. While the MD track “Materials: Genetics to Structures” (thanks to the track chairs Ram Mohan of North Carolina A&T State University and Valeria La Saponara of UC Davis) serves as the hub for many of the materials centric symposia, a large number of the MD symposia are co-sponsored with other divisions such as Applied Mechanics, Energy, and listed under several different tracks such as Track 1, 2, 3, 7, 12 and 13. Journals: The Materials Division is the sole sponsor of the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (JEMT). Under the leadership of the current Editor-in-Chief Mohammed Zikry of North Carolina State University and a group of dedicated Associate Editors, the journal continues to do very well. In addition, together with ASME Bioengineering Division, ASME Heat Transfer Division, and the ASME Fluids Engineering Division, the Materials Division serves on the Advisory Board to manage the relatively young multidisciplinary journal (launched in Nov. 2010) - ASME Journal on Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (JNEM). Under the excellent leadership of the current journal Editor-in-Chief Boris Khusid of New Jersey Institute of Technology, JNEM has been flourishing over the past five years. Members are encouraged to submit your high quality works to both journals. The JEMT website can be found at: http://materialstechnology.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/journal.aspx The JNEM website can be found at: http://nanoengineeringmedical.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/journal.aspx Awards: The Materials Division is proud to be the home of several distinguished ASME awards both at the society level including the Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award and the Nadai Medal, and at the division level including the ORR “JEMT” Best Paper Award and ORR Early Career Award. Each year, a rigorous nomination and evaluation process is taken to select the most deserving candidate for each award. The following outstanding individuals received the awards and recognitions at IMECE 2014 in Montreal, Canada: Prof. L. Cate Brinson of Northwestern University received the Nadai Medal. Prof. Kevin T. Turner of the University of Pennsylvania received the Sia Nemat- Nasser Early Career Award. Prof. Jaafar El-Awady of Johns Hopkins University received the Orr Early Career Award. Prof. Hareesh V. Tippur and graduate student Robert W. Bedsole of Auburn University received the ORR “JEMT” Best Paper Award. 3 The following outstanding individuals will be recognized at IMECE 2015 in Houston, TX: Prof. Huajian Gao of Brown University will receive the Nadai Medal. Prof. Yong Zhu of North Carolina State University will receive the Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award. Prof. Michael D. Sangid of Purdue University will receive the Orr Early Career Award. Prof. Jaehyung Ju and graduate students Jaehong Lee, Kwangwon Kim of University of North Texas and Prof. Doo-Man Kim of Korea Aerospace University will receive the ORR “JEMT” Best Paper award. The Nadai, Sia Nemat-Nasser and Orr award lectures and the Materials Division receptions are scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 18 at the IMECE in Houston which everyone is welcome to attend. Technical Committees: The Materials Division has eight Technical Committees who have been essential in organizing the many symposia at the annual IMECE and McMat. The committees are encouraged to remain active and continue to grow the scope and quality of our technical activities and engage new members. Many individuals worked hard during my term as the Division Chair who deserve a special mention. The Executive Committee Secretary Yong Zhu did a great job putting together this newsletter. Jacinta McComie from the ASME headquarters has been providing support to Materials Division for many years, serving as the interface between the Executive Committee and ASME headquarters. Stacy Cooper of ASME has been a big help on taking care of the technical sessions at IMECE. While organizing the McMat 2015 conference, I had great pleasure working with Mary Jakubowski from ASME whose rich experience in technical meeting planning and prompt response to my non-stopping requests made the whole process much smooth and enjoyable. Finally, I would like to extend my warm welcome to the incoming Executive Committee member Markus Buehler of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Member-at-Large Toshio Nakamura of the State University of New York – Stony Brook. Markus and Toshio’s excellent qualifications will make them great additions to the executive committee. I will leave my post as the Division Chair after IMECE 2015 with much contentment and confidence that the Materials Division will continue to prosper and grow under the leadership and dedication of the future Executive Committee and Technical Committees. Junlan Wang, 2014-2015 Chair, ASME Materials Division 4 Materials Division Award Lectures/Reception at IMECE 2015 (Wednesday, November 18, 2015) Orr Early Career Award – 2:30-3:00pm, Hilton Ballroom of the Americas B Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award – 3:00-3:30 pm, same room Nadai Medal – 3:30-4:00 pm, same room Materials Division Reception – 4:00-5:30pm, Hilton Ballroom of the Americas C MD Technical Committee and Executive Committee Meetings MD Executive Committee Meeting 11/18/2015, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Hilton 337AB AMD-MD Joint Committee on Constitutive Equations 11/15/2015, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Hilton 334 MD Composites and Heterogeneous Materials Technical Committee 11/17/2015, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Hilton 338 MD Electronic Materials Technical Committee 11/16/2015, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Hilton 334 MD Materials Processing Technical Committee 11/17/2015, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Hilton 338 MD Multi-functional Materials Technical Committee Meeting 11/16/2015, 2:00 PM - 3:00, PM Hilton 340B MD Nanomaterials for Energy Technical Committee 11/17/2015, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Hilton 333 MD Nanomaterials for Medicine and Biology Technical Committee 11/17/2015, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton 230 MD Polymer and Soft Materials Technical Committee 11/17/2015, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton 230 5 Meeting Scenes of 2015 ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference (McMat 2015) 6 THE 2014 MD AND ASME SOCIETY AWARDS 2014 NADAI MEDAL The 2014 Nadai Medal recipient was Prof. L. Cate Brinson of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. The Nadai Medal is awarded in recognition of significant contributions and outstanding achievements which broaden the field of materials engineering. Dr. Brinson was recognized for significant contributions to the synthesis and characterization of polymer nanocomposites through research that has provided a fundamental understanding of the interphase and how nanoreinforcements affect polymer behavior, thus shedding light on material design for industry; and for educational contributions and service to the engineering profession.