Educated U.S. Workforce & Government Support Will Fuel Materials ...
20.05.12
Newswise — February 21, 2012 – Warrendale, PA –Computational materials engineering must continue to grow for American corporations to stay globally competitive. This can only be accomplished by training a current workforce and creating a future labor pool with these skills through collaboration between industry, universities, and government, an industrial panel decided after a cooperative forum last week in Washington, D.C.
A gathering of professional societies, including The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and ASM International, along with the University Materials Council (UMC), which is comprised of academic leaders in the materials field from the United States and Canada, co-sponsored the event titled, “Equipping the Next Generation Workforce for Materials Innovation: The Gateway to Manufacturing Competitiveness.”
The industrial panel stated the United States is at a crucial point in the way that computational materials science can be used to enable advanced product manufacturing for global competitiveness. Their collective experience suggests it is difficult to find graduates – and even harder to find U.S. graduates – skilled in computational materials science. However, materials science education requires governmental support of the curriculum, as well as a partnership between academia and industry through internships, design projects, etc.
Source: Newswise (press release)