Academies Release Long-Awaited MS&E Study Report
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Académies Release Long-Awaited MS&E Study Report Background reading this tome from cover to cover. The National Research Council's (NRC) An early goal enunciated by the Study newly issued study report, Materials Science and Engineering for the 1990's: Maintain-Chairs, Praveen Chaudhari of IBM Corpoing Competitiveness in the Age of Materials, isration and Merton Flemings of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was to the response of the National Academy of produce a report of manageable size so as Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy not to deter its reading and negate its imof Engineering (NAE) to recommendations pact. The présent work is indeed far less from the U.S. Congress, fédéral agencies, mtimidating than its 1975 predecessor, the and the scientific community that the mafive-volume COSMAT study, Materials and terials field needed a comprehensive Man's Needs (National Academy Press, assessment. Thèse recommendations cul1975). minated in a forum at the Académies' Washington, DC facility in the spring of 1985 held under the joint auspices of the Organization and Scope Solid State Sciences Committee (SSSC) of The MS&E Study report is not merely a NAS and the National Materials Advisory concaténation of panel reports. The findBoard (NMAB) of NAE, which considered ings of the five panels hâve been combined the efficacy of such a study. By summer and integrated to rninimize duplication. Kollowing a Summary, Conclusions, and 1986, a Committee on Materials Science Recommendations section, are the seven and Engineering was formed, agency chapters comprising the body of the refunding acquired, and the organization port: and pursuit of the MS&E Study begun. Thèse early events were reported in pre1—What is Materials Science and Engivious issues of the MRS BULLETIN,' neering? where the topical division of labor into five 2—Materials Science and Engineering study panels and the panel membership and National Economie and Stratégie Serosters can be found. curity. Early in the process, in response to the 3—Research Opportunities and Functional Rôles of Materials. Srudy's call for input from the materials science community,2 MRS held a forum at 4—Research Opportunities and the Eléments of Materials Science and Engineerits 1986 Fall Meeting in Boston.3 This produced a book, Communications on the Mate- ing. rials Science and Engineering Study, which 5—Manpower and Education in Materials Science and Engineering. provided input to the Study from MRS 6—Resources for Research in Materials members and meeting attendees. Science and Engineering. By 1987, anecdotal summaries of the panels' observations were being presented 7— Comparisons of Efforts in Materials at meetings of professional societies, inScience and Engineering of Selected Nations. cludingMRS.4 The Study then dropped from public Five appendices delve more deeply into view for well over a year, now surfacing in "Issues in Materials Research." They contribute to greater understanding of the the form of a 279-page volume released to technical side of éléments treated in
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