Civil and Systems Engineering Seminar Series | Genomic Materials Design: Making CyberSteels Fly

Description

Gregory Olson, professor of the practice in materials science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and cofounder of QuesTek Innovations LLC, will present "Genomic Materials Design: Making CyberSteels Fly," cohosted by the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, and the Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulation.

Abstract:

Sixty years of academic collaboration and 30 years of commercialization by a network of small businesses have delivered a mature technology of computational materials design and accelerated qualification grounded in the CALPHAD system of fundamental databases now known as the Materials Genome. The national Materials Genome Initiative acknowledging the reality of this technology has spurred global interest and rapid adoption by US apex corporations. Designed materials with broad market impact now span a range from consumer electronics to space exploration. Ongoing design addresses the new alloys enabling new manufacturing methods such as 3D printing as well as the materials supporting affordable approaches to sustainability. The extreme compression of the materials development cycle has already enabled materials to participate in a new level of concurrent engineering with dramatic impact in manufacturing technologies.