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Navigate Your Membership in the New Year
What’s your professional new year’s resolution? To advance your career? To give back to your profession? To put your Society membership to good use? Whatever your professional goals are for the year ahead, TMS can help— and a new resource is available to get you started.
Navigating Your TMS Membership is a video series that shows new and existing members how to use their memberships for maximum, long-term impact on their careers. The series consists of six video modules (approximately ten minutes each) that can be watched individually (to help you learn about a particular aspect of the Society) or all together (to gain a comprehensive understanding of all your TMS membership options).
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New Editors-in-Chief Announced for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions Journals
In December, Tresa M. Pollock, University of California, Santa Barbara, stepped down after eight years as principal editor of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (MMT) journals. This month, two new editors will take leadership of the respective MMT journals: Jonathan Cormier of ISAE-ENSMA and Institut Pprime in France as editor-in-chief for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (MMTA) and Il Sohn of Yonsei University in South Korea as editor-in-chief for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (MMTB).
Cormier first became involved with MMTA in 2014 as a key reader for the journal. In this capacity, he handled articles related to high temperature materials, mostly superalloys. He served as an associate editor beginning in 2016.
“Met Trans A is one of the unique journals focusing on physical metallurgy,” said Cormier. Under his leadership, Cormier says that the journal will stay focused on its traditional coverage areas, but editors will also encourage submissions related to advanced manufacturing processes (such as additive manufacturing, sintering, etc.), medium- and high-entropy alloys, and future technologies for power generation. “My hopes for the journal are to keep a fair and ethical review process, to maintain diversity, to decrease the time to first decision, and to increase the impact factor,” said Cormier.
Sohn was first introduced to MMTB during his graduate studies at Yonsei University in 1998. He served as a key reader for MMTB beginning in 2012 and as an associate editor beginning in 2018.
The journal is unique, he said, in that it serves both the ferrous and non-ferrous research areas including minerals and composites. “Its broad topic in the processing and engineering of metals and materials allows a wide range of authors to take interest in the journal and submit their work. Our editorial team will continue to work with our authors and readers to maintain MMTB’s core functions and expand on new fields and tools of interest pertaining to metallurgical and materials processing and engineering.”
Editor's Choice: Read Outstanding Papers from TMS Journals for Free
A limited number of Editor’s Choice articles from TMS journals are selected and made available to the public at no charge. This distinct honor is awarded to fewer than 5% of papers published in the respective journals each year. In addition to high-quality writing, these notable articles are distinguished by attributes such as outstanding science, innovative methods, impactful outputs, historical significance, and/or broad interest to the readership.
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January Journal of the Month
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