Newswise — April 11, 2012 – Warrendale, PA – Professional societies representing the spectrum of science and engineering have joined forces to launch an online community dedicated to sharing news and information related to the Materials Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness (MGI), unveiled by President Barack Obama in June 2011.
Called The MGI Forum, the resource has been developed as an online digest of MGI-related initiatives and issues within and across the societies, as well as the broader materials and manufacturing community. It can be accessed at www.mgiforum.org and is administered by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) on behalf of the other participating organizations.
In addition to TMS, the professional societies that have signed on for the launch of The MGI Forum are: The American Ceramic Society (ACerS); American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); ASM International; Materials Research Society (MRS); NACE International; and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). The Forum has been designed to accommodate additional professional society participants as they are confirmed.
Each of the societies represented on the Forum contribute updates on their MGI-related activities, to include meetings, publications, educational programs, news, and other announcements. Postings on the MGI Forum can be followed on Twitter @MGI Forum.
A critical, enabling element of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, the Materials Genome Initiative is a multi-stakeholder effort focused on developing an innovation infrastructure to accelerate materials discovery and deployment. President Obama’s FY12 budget includes $100 million to launch the MGI, with funding for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The MGI will support the development of the computational tools, software, new methods for material characterization, and the development of open standards and databases that will make the process of discovery and development of advanced materials faster, less expensive, and more predictable.
For additional information on The MGI Forum, contact [email protected].
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