Materials technology and the materials industry: A critical transition
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Materials Technology and the Materials Industry: A Critical Transition
DONALD R. MUZYKA
World events are rapidly restructuring our materials industry. Transitions in research and development, education, the organization of corporations, and world economics affect our personal and professional lives. Evidence of change and the forces that produce it are omnipresent. The strategies for the materials industry to prosper in the new world order are not obvious. The sources of funding that have been the traditional basis for the advancement of materials are now in question. Small independent companies, which once had active materials development programs, find it difficult to undertake such efforts in the present economic climate. The way in which corporations and countries compete in the world is the foremost challenge that our industry faces in the 1990s. Partnerships between U.S. industry and national laboratories are finally becoming a reality and have the potential to make progress in our industry more rapid. Even partnerships between U.S. companies and institutions in the former Soviet Union are being realized! If we are able to restructure the way we fund and do research, the opportunities to advance materials science and engineering are endless. On the horizon is the Engineered Materials Age, in which we will be able to put together, in some instances atom-by-atom, materials that are lighter, stronger, more conductive, more resilient, and smarter and some that have "memories."
After graduation from the University of Massachusetts in 1960, Dr. Muzyka went on to receive a Master's degree in Metallurgy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his doctorate in Materials Science at Dartmouth College. Dr. Muzyka is, at present, President and Chief Operating Officer of Special Metals Corporation, a leading provider of primary metal products for aircraft engine manufacturers. He is also a Director of Aviall, Inc. (NYSE), a leading independent provider of aviation turbine engine overhaul and repair services and aviation parts distribution. Prior to 1990, Dr. Muzyka was Vice President of Cabot Corporation and General Manager of the Cabot Electronic Materials and Refractory Metals Division. Dr. Muzyka was also President of Cabot Ceramics and Chairman of the Board of TANCO, a tantalum mining operation. Prior to 1985, Dr. Muzyka was Director of Technology and
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Operations Planning for the Engineered Products Group of Cabot Corporation. This position included a number of international involvements including serving on the Board of Directors of CABVAL, a Cabot joint venture with Vallourec, headquartered in Paris, France. Dr. Muzyka also has been involved with Cabot interactions in Japan, Korea, and China. Dr. Muzyka had a distinguished career before coming to Cabot. While at Pratt Whitney Aircraft, he contributed to the development and utilization of high-temperature alloys in the aircraft industry. At Carpenter Technology Corporation, he progressed through a number of positions culm
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