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MRS Contribution to the Materials Science and Engineering Study The Materials Science and Engineering Study commissioned by the National Research Council is now firmly under way initsquest to develop and present a unified view of recent progress and new directions in this diverse field. The last time an effort of this magnitude was made for materials was early in the last decade. The result was the COSMAT Report which was released in 1974. The announced scope of the present Study is widespread, as can be seen from the description of its component panels on the following pages of this issue of the BULLETIN. (See "MRS Responds to MSE Study Invitation.") The Study will obtain information concerning many aspects of materials science and engineering from academia, government agencies, national laboratories, and a variety of major industries. In addition, the co-chairs of the Study, Praveen Chaudhari of IBM and Merton Flemings of MIT, have decided to solicit input from materials-related technical societies whose membership includes practitioners of education, research, development, and engineering in materials fields. The Materials Research Society is responding to the invitation of Chaudhari and Flemings by sponsoring two distinct, but related, projects. The first project will

Gordon E. Pike be the publication of a book titled Communications on the MSE Study. This book is intended to be a conduit of information from our constituency directly to the Study members. Its purpose is to bring issues of concern to the attention of the Study in a form unfiltered by institutional political considerations. The timeliness of this book for maximum impact on the Study has dictated a deadline date for contributed papers of September 8,1986. This date will also perm it copies of the book to be available to MRS Fall Meeting attendees.

O u r second sponsored project will be a "Forum on the MSE Study" to be held at our Fall Meeting in Boston this coming December. Papers for oral presentation at this Forum will be selected from those submitted for the book. The Forum will also permit each Study panel to report on its preliminary findings. Bill Appleton, Directorof the Solid State Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a former MRS vice-president, will chair this Forum. Praveen Chaudhari has kindly agreed to serve as the Study Representative. With this Forum we intend to highlight some of the issues raised, and hope to elicit stimulating and insightful comments from our meeting attendees on topics of importance to the Study. Both the Communications book and the Forum have been designed to permit maximum participation of the MRS membership in the Materials Science and Engineering Study. The Forum will also provide an opportunity to learn about preliminary findings. Instructions for participating in these two MRS projects, plus a description of the Study itself, are given in the following pages. I encourage MRS members, and nonmembers, to take advantage of these unique opportunities.

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