A 50 year view of materials science: 30 down and 20 to go
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A 50 Year View of Materials Science" 30 Down and 20 to Go
DR. PETER R. B R I D E N B A U G H
It is a great pleasure to share my thoughts with you in these most challenging times. But more importantly, I am deeply honored to have been allowed to follow some of the truly greats of our p r o f e s s i o n - - m a n y of whom are my h e r o e s - - a n d mentors as a Materials and Society Lecturer. I came to be a metallurgist by a somewhat circuitous
Peter R. Bridenbaugh, Executive Vice President-Chief Technical Officer for Alcoa, was born July 28, 1940, in Franklin, Pennsylvania and raised in Bradenton, Florida. He received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1962, an M.S. in metallurgy in 1966 from Lehigh University, and a Ph.D. in materials science in 1968 from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Bridenbaugh joined Alcoa in 1968 at the Alcoa Research Laboratories, New Kensington, PA. During his career, he has held positions in Alcoa Laboratories, Warrick (IN) Operations and Tennessee Operations. He has led Alcoa Technical Center since 1983 and was appointed to his present position in 1991. Dr. Bridenbaugh serves on advisory boards at Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Virginia, Lehigh University, and Northwestern University. He is chairman of the Engineering Design Research Center's Industrial Planning Committee at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineers, Sigma Xi, AIME, ASM, AAAS, the Directors of Industrial Research, and the Industrial Research Institute. He is a Fellow of ASM International and received the TMS Leadership Award. Dr. Bridenbaugh serves on the board of the Penn State Research Foundation and is a member of the Alcoa Foundation Board of Directors and of the Carnegie-Bosch Advisory Board. METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A
p a t h - - a s , I suppose, did many of you. I saw my first microstructure 35 years ago as a high school junior attending a state science fair at the University of Florida, and I was fascinated! But of course in those days, I had no idea what a metallurgist actually did. So, I spent the next several years becoming something e l s e - - a mechanical e n g i n e e r - - o n l y to once again be seduced by microstructures. I still did not know exactly what a metallurgist was, but I decided to become o n e - - a decision that I have never regretted. And arguably, I have been a metallurgist for the last 30 years, during which time I have tried to define, at least to my own satisfaction, the following: what we are and what we do; what we have contributed to society; and the role and value created by the materials companies that have been founded upon the knowledge base of metallurgy, or, in today's politically correct terminology, materials science. Well, who are we and what do we do? Those of us in industry focus on creating shareholder value. And those in academia educate young m
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