Today, a career in academia entails far more than lecturing in a classroom. Professors are also expected to develop new courses, be entrepreneurs, guide graduate students, publish papers, bring in research money, sit on committees, and attend conferences. “It can be a very rewarding, but also a very demanding profession,” said Nik Chawla, an associate professor at Arizona State University. “One of the most important things is learning to balance research, teaching, service, and family life.” This is the focus of the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting’s Young Leaders Tutorial Luncheon Lecture, “Negotiating Life in Academia—a Young Faculty Member’s Perspective.” The discussion, led by Chawla, will discuss the myriad issues facing young faculty members and post-doctorate and graduate students seeking faculty positions. A former chair of the TMS Young Leaders Committee, Chawla has been working at Arizona State since 2000 and is now an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering and director of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials Facility. He plans to share some lessons from his own career to assist those just starting out in the academic fi eld, with tips on how to:

• Assemble an effective application package• Build a diverse and satisfying research portfolio• Develop effective teaching skills• Balance teaching, research, and service activities

The lecture will be held on Monday, March 13, from noon to 1:30 p.m. as part of the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Professional and student members alike are welcome to attend the tutorial free of charge. Attendees may purchase an optional boxed lunch through the meeting registration form for $35.

Volume 1, Number 1YtheOUNG LEADER

The Newsletter of the TMS Young Leaders Committee

TUTORIAL FOCUSES ON ACADEMIC CAREER CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Ellen K. CerretaTechnical Staff Member Los Alamos National Laboratory

Q. How did you end up at Los Alamos?A. My undergraduate background is in aero-space engineering from the University of Virginia. My graduate background is from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). My advi-sors at CMU were Tresa Pollock [2005 TMS

president] and Subhash Mahajan, both active TMS members. When I graduated, I was very interested in doing a post-doc, so immediately Pollock and Mahajan helped me identify places with pos-sible opportunities. Then at a conference in the summer, I met Rusty Gray from Los Alamos and he and I regrouped at a TMS meeting in the fall. He started to acquire the proper paperwork to get me to come to the lab and give a presentation and then from there the post-doctoral paperwork was started to bring me out here. So, after I graduated in 2001 with my Ph.D., I came to Los Alamos National Lab as a post-doc to work for Rusty Gray. I expected to only come out here for a post-doc appointment, which is typically two years, but after about six months of working here, I liked it very much and asked to be hired on permanently. It took about a year to get hired because of clearance paperwork. I’ve had this position for about 2 1/2 years now. I’m a research scientist and most of my research is based on weapons-related sciences.

Q. How has involvement with a professional society helped your career?A. Not only did I meet Rusty, who ended up getting me a job here, but a lot of the people that I work with now are people that I originally met at TMS.

Q. What activities are you involved with at TMS?A. I’m secretary of the TMS Young Leaders Committee and I’m also involved in the Titanium, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, and Student Affairs committees. At the Materials Science and Technology 2005 conference, I organized my fi rst symposium on modeling and simulation of titanium technology.

Q. What are some ways that young professionals can begin networking with other professionals and become involved in society activities?A. As a student, the fi rst thing I would recommend is utilizing the faculty advisor for your TMS student chapter to help you begin to network. For Young Leaders, I would look to coworkers who are currently involved in TMS to help you and if there aren’t obvious choices, I would look to other young leaders to help you. The meetings are very helpful, especially if you become involved in the behind-the-scenes part of TMS. That helps you to network, much more than giving talks, which is incredibly helpful to plug people into your research, but getting involved on a higher level helps you to network even more. I now at TMS am frequently looking for people to hire here at the lab. That’s been our main source of student interns for the summers as well as post docs. I know that Rusty and I always have our eye out at a TMS meeting.

YOUNG LEADER PROFILE

THE YOUNG LEADER

A Young Leader is any TMS professional member in good standing age 35 and under. The goals of the TMS Young Leaders Committee are to recognize young professionals, develop in them an appreciation and awareness for TMS activities, provide services specifi cally tailored to young members, and encourage networking with TMS leaders and prominent society members. For more on TMS Young Leader activities, visit www.tms.org/YoungLeaders/YoungLeaders.html.

TMS YOUNG LEADER COMMITTEE OFFICERS

Raj Vaidyanathan, ChairAl Csontos, Vice ChairEllen K. Cerreta, SecretaryJud Ready, Past Chair

The next meeting of the TMS Young Leader Committee will be held Sunday, March 12, 2006, from 12:30–2 p.m. at the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Evan AndrewsLight Metals DivisionEvan Andrews is the superintendent of reduc-tion line 2 at Boyne Smelters Limited. He re-ceived his Ph.D. in chemical and materials engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, focusing on alumina feeding in aluminum reduction cells. In 1998, he joined Comalco Research and Technical Support and was involved in the development and commer-

cialization of technology to extend aluminum reduction cell life through composite cathode coatings. In 2002, he completed a Grad Diploma in aluminum smelting through the University of New South Wales and transferred to Boyne Smelters to pursue fundamental pro-cess control and operation of cells as process superintendent.

Raymundo ArróyaveElectronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials DivisionRaymundo Arróyave is a postdoctoral fellow in the Phases Research Laboratory at Pennsyl-vania State University, where he is working on the development of thermodynamic models for metal alloys and oxide systems. Arróyave re-ceived his M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Insti-

tute of Technology. His dissertation focused on experimental and theoretical analysis of the thermodynamics and kinetics of ceramic-metal interactions at high temperatures. He received a B.S. in me-chanical and electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

Pascal LavoieLight Metals DivisionPascal Lavoie is a metallurgical process engi-neer/Six Sigma black belt at Noranda Alumi-num, where he manages technical orientation and daily problems in the smelting process and leads process improvement projects following Six Sigma methodology. Prior to joining Noranda, Lavoie was a metallurgical engineer at Métallurgie Magnola, where he was respon-

sible for project management leading to process improvement and treating dangerous wastes for plant closing. Lavoie earned a B.S. in materials and metallurgical engineering from Université Laval and a collegial degree in science from Cégep de Jonquiére.

Elizabeth PerepezkoMaterials Processing & Manufacturing DivisionElizabeth Perepezko is a project engineer—biomaterials, at the Applied Technology Center for Biomet Orthopedics in Warsaw, Indiana, where she investigates applications for resorb-able polymers in orthopedic procedures and conducts failure analysis on explanted parts. Prior to joining Biomet, she worked as a re-

search biomedical engineer at the Stroke Research Project at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned an M.S. in biomedical engineering—orthopaedic biomechanics—from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a B.S. in materials science and engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

TMS SELECTS 2006 YOUNG LEADER INTERNS

Each year, TMS technical divisions select young professional members to participate in the Young Leader Internship Program, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at TMS events and encourages active participation in the society. TMS will provide funds for the 2006 interns to attend both the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting and the Materials Science & Technology 2006 conference.

Andrew C. PerryMaterials Processing & Manufacturing DivisionAndrew C. Perry is a staff engineer in the Ma-terials and Processes Engineering Department at GE Aviation in Lynn, Massachusetts, with primary responsibilities associated with rotor structures hardware. He has a B.S. in materials science and engineering from Lehigh Univer-sity and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgi-

cal and materials engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. In graduate school, his M.S. thesis focused on microstructural evolution in Inconel 617 plate and his Ph.D. dissertation focused on recrystal-lization mechanisms in warm-rolled ferritic steels. After graduate school, Perry worked at Bethlehem Steel’s Homer Research Labs and at Praxair Electronics as an R&D engineer.

Chantal K. SudbrackStructural Materials DivisionChantal K. Sudbrack is a postdoctoral research-er in the Interfacial Materials Group at Argonne National Laboratory, where she researches nanoscale characterization of multilayered het-erostructures. She received a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University; a B.S. in materials science and engineering from Columbia University; and a

B.A. in chemistry from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her doc-toral thesis focused on decomposition behavior in model Ni-Al-Cr-X superalloys. Sudbrack was also a post-doctoral researcher at North-western University, where she studied compositional characterization of high-temperature shape-memory alloys. Sudbrack will co-chair a session of the 3-Dimensional Materials Science symposium at the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Dallas R. TrinkleStructural Materials DivisionDallas R. Trinkle is a National Research Coun-cil postdoctoral associate with the materials and manufacturing directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He also serves as an adjunct assis-tant professor of physics at Ohio State Univer-sity. He received a Ph.D. in physics, condensed matter theory, from Ohio State University and

a B.S. in physics and mathematics at Xavier University. His thesis focused on the theoretical study of the alpha-to-omega martensitic phase transformation in titanium. Trinkle is an organizer of the Point Defects in Materials symposium at the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Yee-Wen YenElectronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials DivisionYee-Wen Yen is an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Materials Science and Technology at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineer-ing from National Tsing-Hua University. His research looked at phenomena of interfacial

reaction between lead-free solders and several substrates. During his Ph.D. studies, he participated in advanced study in Germany at the Clausthal University of Technology. Following graduation, Yen served as a second lieutenant and an instructor in Army Chemical School in Taiwan and then took a job in the Central Research Institute of ChungHaw Picture Tubes, Limited, where he developed the copper metallization process for thin-fi lm transistor liquid crystal displays.