Special Forum

"Materials Education Strategic - Thinking Big?"

Focus Topics:

• Professional and Vocational Continuing Education
• Professional Certification
• Update options for Materials researchers, teachers, engineers, managers, consultants
• Accessible update resources for non-specialists

Keynote Speakers

• Tim BULLOUGH, University of Liverpool, UK
• Hanns-Ulrich HABERMEIER, Max-Planck Institut, Germany
• Merrilea MAYO, Kauffman Foundation, USA
• Andrew T. S. WEE, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Invited Speakers

• Mufit AKINC, Iowa State University, USA
• John BAGLIN, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Laura M. BARTOLO, Kent State University, USA
• Anthony CHEETHAM, Cambridge University, UK
• Haydn H.D. CHEN, Tunghai University, Taiwan
• Richard CORKISH, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Sang-Wook HAN, Chonbuk National University, Korea
• Chennupati JAGADISH, Australia National University, Australia
• Klemens JOACHIM, University of Kassel, Germany
• Howard KATZ, John Hopkins University, USA
• M. Ishaque KHAN, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Naoki KISHIMOTO, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
• David McPHAIL, Imperial College, UK and NUS, Singapore
• Meredith MURR, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
• Marek OSINSKI, University of New Mexico, USA
• Federico ROSEI, Université du Québec, Canada
• Noel RUTTER, University of Cambridge, UK
• R. K. SINGH, MATS University, India
• Enrico TRAVERSA, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
• Robert C. TUCKER, The Tucker Group, LLC, USA