EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY OF NICKEL AND COBALT

This two-day short course will cover the main processing steps in the extractive metallurgy of nickel and ore. Presented by industrial and academic experts, the course will examine the fundamentals and current trends of the processing used to produce nickel and cobalt from primary and secondary sources.

The topics to be covered include:

• General overview of ores and primary processing
• Concentration of sulfide minerals and upgrading of laterite ores
• Production of ferro-nickel and matte from laterites
• Sulfide smelting and converting
• Laterite pressure leaching and precipitation of intermediates
• Extractive metallurgy of cobalt from primary sources
• Re-leaching and solution purification
• Nickel recovery by electrowinning, hydrogen reduction, and carbonyl processing
• Recycling of nickel and cobalt

EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY OF NICKEL AND COBALT

Managers, supervisors, engineers, scientists, and students who want to learn about the basics and current trends in the extractive metallurgy of nickel and cobalt

EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY OF NICKEL AND COBALT

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$725
Advance Nonmember:	$775
Late/onsite Member:	$775
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$825

* Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and course notes.

EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY OF NICKEL AND COBALT

Presenters

• Michael Moats
• Bill Davenport
• Maurice Solar
• Tim Robinson
• Bruce Love
• Indie Mihaylov
• Ram Ramachandran
• Norbert Piret

TITANIUM: HISTORY, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND APPLICATIONS

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$725
Advance Nonmember:	$775
Late/onsite Member:	$775
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$825

* Registration fee includes continental breakfasts, lunches, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and course notes.

TITANIUM: HISTORY, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND APPLICATIONS

This presentation will cover all aspects of the History, Physical Metallurgy, Corrosion Behavior, Cost Factors, and Current and Potential Uses of Titanium. The history of this metal will be traced from its early beginnings through the work of Kroll (the father of the Titanium Industry) to the early aerospace uses and non-aerospace applications to the maturing of the industry and the present -day broadening market place. Extraction will be discussed, including recent non-Kroll developments (including electrolytic and continuous processes which can potentially significantly lower the cost of extraction). Typical phase diagrams will be presented and discussed. Powder Metallurgy will be presented under various categories (including Elemental Press-and Sinter, Prealloyed Hot Isostatic Pressing, Metal Injection Molding, Spraying, and Additive Layer Fabrication). Primary break-down of ingot material will be rationalized and fabrication to final products will be defined. Various Microstructures and resultant Mechanical Properties will be discussed (with details given of how properties such as fracture toughness can be optimized).

The excellent Corrosion Behavior of Titanium, especially in oxidizing environments, will be presented. The Cost of Titanium at various stages in its processing (both by conventional Ingot Metallurgy approaches and Powder Metallurgy techniques) will be discussed with comments given where there are opportunities for cost reductions to be implemented. Finally the Applications of Titanium both present and potential will be presented both in the aerospace (both engines and airframes) and non-aerospace industries (including use in industries such as automobiles, medical implants and surgical instruments, oil and gas exploration, chemical processing, consumer products, and architecture) will be documented , with an emphasis on how cost reduction can lead to a greatly expanded marketplace (especially in cost-conscious industries such as the automobile industry).

TITANIUM: HISTORY, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND APPLICATIONS

The course is designed to be of benefit to anyone who is, or is going to be, involved in any aspect of the Science, Technology, or Applications of Titanium and its Alloys including Research, Development, or Sales/Marketing.

TITANIUM: HISTORY, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND APPLICATIONS

Dr. Froes has been involved in the Titanium field for more than 40 years. He was employed by a primary Titanium producer—Crucible Steel Company—where he was leader of the Titanium group. He then spent time at the USAF Materials Lab where he was supervisor of the Light Metals group (which included Titanium). This was followed by 17 years at the University of Idaho where he was a Director and Department Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department. He has over 8oo publications, in excess of 60 patents, and has edited almost 30 books—the majority on various aspects of Titanium. In recent years he has co-sponsored four TMS Symposia on Cost Effective Titanium. He is a Fellow of ASM, is a member of the Russian Academy of Science, and was awarded the Service to Powder Metallurgy by the Metal Powder Association.

NEW APPLICATIONS OF SMALL-SCALE MECHANICAL TESTING

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$265
Advance Nonmember:	$295
Late/onsite Member:	$315
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$345

* Registration fee includes continental breakfast and coffee breaks.

NEW APPLICATIONS OF SMALL-SCALE MECHANICAL TESTING

This tutorial will cover new advances in small-scale mechanical testing techniques with emphasis on measuring environmentally dependent mechanical behavior. In real applications, materials can experience high temperatures and chemically active environments, requiring that the mechanical properties be known in these conditions. Tutorial participants are encouraged to bring applications-related questions for an open panel discussion of testing techniques.

Topical Outline:

• Nanoindentation Techniques
• Fatigue of Thin Films
• Testing at Elevated Temperatures
• Proper Pillar Compression
• Chemical and Environmental Effects
• Open Panel Discussion

NEW APPLICATIONS OF SMALL-SCALE MECHANICAL TESTING

PhD students, post-docs, industrial researchers studying mechanical behavior of thin films and small volumes with emphasis on testing in different environments (thermal, wet, cyclic, and chemical environments) are encouraged to attend. Participants will gain a thorough background in nanoindentation techniques as well as learning how nanoindentation can be implemented with environmental control. Finally, with an open panel discussion, specific questions can be addressed by experts in the field.

NEW APPLICATIONS OF SMALL-SCALE MECHANICAL TESTING

Virginia Ferguson

Virginia Ferguson (Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2001) is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 2006. She held a joint postdoctoral appointment in Materials Science at Queen Mary, University of London and Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London where she studied mineralized tissues using nanoindentation and quantitative backscattered electron imaging. Her current research examines how tissue microstructure and composition, across the bone—cartilage interface and separately in tissues that fail to end pregnancy prematurely, facilitate effective function in health or contribute to failure with aging and disease. Dr. Ferguson has coauthored ~27 peer-reviewed journal articles and 4 book chapters.

Sandra Korte

Sandra Korte (Ph.D. Materials Science, 2009) is Assistant Professor of Micromechanics of Materials at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Prior to taking up her post at Erlangen, she completed her doctoral studies and a subsequent appointment as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines how plastic deformation occurs in hard materials and how the crystal structure determines the plastic properties in complex crystals. In order to suppress cracking in these often very brittle materials, she exploits the size effect on fracture, which allows large plastic strains to be introduced in compression of micro-scale samples of even the most brittle materials. In this context she also pioneered the extension of the micro-compression technique for use at high temperatures in vacuum.

Chris Eberl

Chris Eberl is working in the field of mechanical properties and reliability of small scale materials as well as experimental mechanics for small scale (in situ) testing. His main interest is to understand the mechanical behavior of nanostructured (np, nc, nt), thin film, coating, bio, meta and high temperature materials. Chris Eberl is head of an independent junior research group (SFB499, DFG) at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology since 2007 and Attract group leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg since 2012. He received a Dipl.-Ing. degree from University of Stuttgart in 2001, worked with O. Kraft and E. Arzt at the MPI-Stuttgart and finished his Doctorate in 2004 with distinction on fatigue at ultra-high frequencies. He worked as Post-Doc with K.J. Hemker and W.N. Sharpe at the Johns Hopkins University and received the Otto-Hahn-Medal from the Max-Planck Society in 2006. He was awarded a stipend from MPI Stuttgart and an independent group leader grant from DFG in 2007 and an Attract group leader grant from Fraunhofer in 2012. He holds an appointment as visiting scientist with the JHU since 2007.

Bo Zhou

Dr. Bo Zhou has a MSc (2005) and PhD (2008) in Materials Engineering from Auburn University. His PhD focused on substrate effects and contact mechanics of very-thin film nanoindentation and led to the development of a new model to decouple the elastic modulus of the film from that of the substrate. His current role is Vice President Business Development and he has published 22 papers on various nanoindentation, scratch, and tribology subjects.

9TH ANNUAL TMS LEAD-FREE SOLDER AND INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

Through presentations and extensive discussion regarding key topics, this workshop will provide a bridge between companies, academic research groups, national laboratories, and consortia and will lead to the materials science fundamentals necessary for further understanding and future industry applications. The workshop will be focused on 3D packaging technology and other important issues. The applications of Pb-free solder in green technology will be addressed.

9TH ANNUAL TMS LEAD-FREE SOLDER AND INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$15
Advance Nonmember:	$125
Late/onsite Member:	$25
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$175

* Registration fee includes continental breakfast, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and course notes. Please note that these fees do not include lunch.

9TH ANNUAL TMS LEAD-FREE SOLDER AND INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

The workshop will be of interest to the people who want to know the hot topics in the electronic packaging society. Researchers, professors and students from academic institutes should attend to learn the advanced knowledge in this field.

9TH ANNUAL TMS LEAD-FREE SOLDER AND INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

• 3D packaging technology and TSV from an industry and academic point of view
• Pb-free applications in green technology
• Reliability in consumer electronics
• Solder and interconnects in extreme environment
• Future directions in new solder alloy compositions
• Mechanics of deformation in Pb-free solder joints
• Pb-free board assembly related issues and solutions

FURNACE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

Reduce costs, improve quality, and increase throughput with a thorough understanding of casting furnaces. This course is a comprehensive review of furnace technology and cast shop practices for improving efficiency, quality, and productivity while minimizing emissions and waste. Speakers for each topic are experts in their field to help you understand and improve your operation.

This course is a comprehensive review of furnace technology and cast shop practices for improving efficiency, quality, and productivity while minimizing emissions and waste. Topics include: basics of combustion, heat transfer, burner technology, understanding preheated combustion air, reverberatory furnace design, metal circulation, furnace technology, fundamentals of fans and blowers, reduction of melt loss, refractory selection and installation, and emissions/baghouse issues. Speakers for each topic are experts in their field to help you understand and improve your operation.

Presentations will include:

• "Basics of Combustion and Environmental Considerations."
• "Typical Burners Used in Aluminum Cast Houses"
• "Blowers/Exhausters"
• "Dioxin and Furan Issues"
• "Refractory Selection for Aluminum Furnaces"
• "High Efficiency Aluminum Melting in Reverberatory Furnaces and . . . True ROI"
• "Metal Circulation"
• "Principles and Fundamentals of Tilting Rotary Furnace Operation"
• "Aluminum Oxidation in Liquid Metal Furnaces"

FURNACE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

The course is directed toward cast shop supervisors/managers, technical support, and engineers who work with casting furnaces.

FURNACE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

Presenters

• Don Whipple, Bloom Engineering
• Jim Checkeye, Bloom Engineering
• Deanna Weaver, Robinson Fans
• John Sutton, Harbison-Walker Refractories
• David Edgerton, Dantherm
• Jim Grayson, Pyrotek/EMP, Inc.
• Clive Hall, Meeting Solutions, Ltd.
• Oliver Moos, Gautschi Engineering, GmbH
• David W. White, The Schaefer Group, Inc.

FURNACE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$525
Advance Nonmember:	$575
Late/onsite Member:	$600
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650

* Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and course notes.

INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS ENGINEERING (ICME)

David Furrer

Get an overview of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), including various types of models and simulation methods. Learn the importance of linking materials models with process models and subsequently to component design and behavior analysis models. Created for materials, mechanical design and manufacturing engineers, program managers and engineering management looking to introduce or apply computational materials methods, this course will not only provide practical hands-on training, but cultivate appreciation for the types of models available, their benefit and how various model outputs should be interpreted.

INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS ENGINEERING (ICME)

• Introduction to Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
• Review of Microstructure and Property Models
• Summary of Process Modeling and Available Commercial Codes
• Overview of Linking Materials Models with Design Models

INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS ENGINEERING (ICME)

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$525
Advance Nonmember:	$575
Late/onsite Member:	$600
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650

* Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and course notes.

MANAGING TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL RISK IN A NEW TECHNOLOGY PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$525
Advance Nonmember:	$575
Late/onsite Member:	$600
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650

* Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and course notes.

MANAGING TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL RISK IN A NEW TECHNOLOGY PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

The natural outcome of new technology Mega-Projects seems to be technological success, but financial failure. All those who have ‘failed’ before us, were just as intelligent, educated and experienced as we are. The best way to avoid sharing their fate is to study their ‘modes’ of failure and improve our project management systems accordingly.

Mega-projects are so vast that no single human mind can encompass their complexity or predict the interactions between all the ‘parts.’ The only way to successfully manage such projects is through systems (e.g. Change management, HAZOP, Technology risk reviews) and lists (e.g. Risk registers). Not only must we engage creative, intelligent and experienced people and forge integrated multi-disciplinary teams to be successful with large-scale new technology projects; we must give them the time, resources and systems they require to be successful.

Success at mega-projects and particularly those involving new technology, involve extensive Front-End-Loading (FEL), and careful systematic development and execution.

-Mark W. Kennedy, 2012

MANAGING TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL RISK IN A NEW TECHNOLOGY PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

• Review the past performance of major mining and metallurgical projects.
• Identify the root causes of risk in mining and metallurgical projects, and particularly those with a high component of new technologies.
• Review standard project management techniques and introduce specific methods to indentify and manage risks in new technology projects.
• Ensure that the course participants are familiar with standard financial analysis methods for projects.
• Introduce new mathematical methods to asses financial risk in new technology projects, whereby marginal projects can be prevented from proceeding, while sound projects can be given the additional time and resources required to achieve the optimal level of front-end-loading (the level which returns the maximum rNPV).
• Enable the course participants to take back to their work place, a set of mathematical tools that will allow both engineers and financial professionals to establish a common level of understanding on risk, thereby leading to more accurate assessment of projects, better decision making and enhanced project financial returns.

MANAGING TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL RISK IN A NEW TECHNOLOGY PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

Participants will:

• Review previous Mega-Project mining and metallurgical early plant performance.
• Learn the sources and types of technical and technological risks in mining and metallurgy projects.
• Review common project and risk management tools (Front-End-Loading, Staged project management, Risk analysis, Risk registers, Mitigation strategies, Hazard identification studies, HAZOP and FMECA, Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma).
• Explore systematic methods of quantifying and controlling project risk in new technology projects for a more successful outcome (technology risk reviews, design and scale-up methods – DMAIC, project execution strategies, project scheduling, flow sheet modifications, and safety).
• Review standard methods for the financial analysis of projects.
• Learn new methods of assessing the financial impact of technical and technological risk, in the form of risk-weighted cash flow and risk weighted net present value (rNPV).

Lectures:

• Start-up and Early Performance of New Mining and Metallurgical Projects: A case study analysis
• Technical and Technology Risks Impacting Mining and Metallurgical Project Performance
• Project Management Tools Part I: A quick review of risk registers, risk assessment, mitigation, HAZAOP, FMECA, Front-End-Loading (FEL), and staged project management systems
• Project Management Tools Part II: Six sigma and design for six sigma, in a new technology environment
• Special Methods to Identify and Control Risks in a New Technology Environment: Technology risk reviews, design and scale-up methods – DMAIC, project execution strategies, project scheduling, flow sheet modifications, and safety
• Basic Project Financial Analysis Tools: How to calculate Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), and Net Present Value (NPV) of a project?
• Introduction to the Theory for Risk Weighted Discounted Cash Flow and Risk Weighted Net Present Value (rNPV)

Practical Group Assignments:

• (1): Risk identification and staged mitigation strategies.
• (2): Overall Assessment of project risk using the new mathematical and decision making techniques.

MANAGING TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL RISK IN A NEW TECHNOLOGY PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

Phillip J. Mackey

Dr. Phillip J. Mackey is President of P J Mackey Technology Inc. involved in consulting on metallurgical projects worldwide after many years associated with Xstrata working in all areas of non-ferrous metallurgy. He has over forty years of broad, in-depth experience and understanding of the non-ferrous metals business including operations and technology, in particular for nickel, copper and precious metals. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications covering many aspects of non-ferrous metallurgy, including metallurgical history.

P.J. Mackey played a leading role in the development of the Noranda Process, the world’s first commercial continuous copper smelting and converting process and one of the important copper technologies developed in the twentieth century. His role in introducing the Noranda Converter, a new continuous converting process, was recognized by the Noranda Technology Award given in 1998. He played a key role in Copper Development Association activities and helped introduce the North American Initiative for Copper in Architecture to the copper industry in the 1990s. Dr. Mackey served as President of The Metallurgical Society of CIM from 1983 to 1985. He received a Special Medal of Honor by the CIM in 2007 for his role as co-founder of the now well-established Copper-Cobre conference series. He is a Fellow of both the CIM and TMS, and has received the Selwyn G. Blaylock Medal by CIM in 2010 for distinguished service to Canada through exceptional achievement in the field of metallurgy.

Mark W. Kennedy

Mark W. Kennedy has worked on major capital projects through every project phase from invention, lab, pilot, demonstration, feasibility, through basic, value and detailed engineering, construction, start-up, ramp-up and operations. This gives him an excellent perspective on new technology and its impact on project engineering. He is currently a partner in ProVal Partners of Lausanne Switzerland. ProVal Partners S.A. provides advisory services to the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry. Mark has more than 20 years in the metallurgical industry (nickel, ferro-nickel, zinc, copper, magnesium, aluminium and materials) in plant operations, project engineering and applied research, working with companies such as:

• Elkem AS Research, Kristiansand, Norway, including work on the first-of-a-kind Elkem Solar silicon smelter, Carbothermic Aluminium and Spent Aluminium Potlining smelting projects.
• Koniambo Project, Falconbridge Australia Pty. Ltd., Brisbane, Australia, as one of the owner’s representatives on this first-of-a-kind Ferro-Nickel (Fe-Ni) smelter.
• Kidd Technology, Falconbridge Ltd., Kidd Creek Metallurgical Division, Timmins, Ontario, Canada at the first commercial Mitsubishi copper smelter.
• Noranda Technology Centre (NTC), Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, where he was one of the inventors of key technology for the Noranda Magnola magnesium process.

MODELING ELECTRODEPOSITION IN MATERIALS PROCESSING OPERATIONS

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through February 1, 2013)

Advance Member:	$525
Advance Nonmember:	$575
Late/onsite Member:	$600
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650

* Registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and course notes.

MODELING ELECTRODEPOSITION IN MATERIALS PROCESSING OPERATIONS

This course will cover the basics of modeling transport-limited electrodeposition, including fluid dynamics, for materials processes from molten salt electrolysis to electrorefining to electroplating. The focus will be on predicting the variation in deposition rate over the cathode as a function of geometry and process parameters.

The first half of the course will cover fundamentals, including electromigration, diffusion and convection in the electrolyte, Butler-Volmer charge transfer resistance at the cathode interface, and resistance in the electrodes themselves. Attendees will learn basic scaling rules and analytical calculations, including important dimensionless groups, which enable simple and powerful assessments of importance of transport mechanisms, rate-limiting steps, and deposition uniformity. Very often, problem solving ends here.

For those situations where analytical calculations leave questions unanswered, attendees in the second half will receive hands-on training in finite element analysis (FEA) including basics of fluid flow and heat transfer. This part of the course will use an FEA suite called Elmer, which is Open Source and cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac). Participants are encouraged to bring geometries of parts and electrode leads for electroplating, or electrorefining anodes/cathodes, with which to generate electrolyte geometries in the STEP or IGES CAD formats.

Given the time limitation, the FEA component of this course will not cover: turbulent fluid flow, nonlinear charge transfer resistance, complicated chemical phenomena including ion complexes, effects of brightening/leveling agents, or dynamic geometries such as Hall-Héroult Cell graphite anode shape evolution.

Topical Outline:

• Fundamentals of Electrodeposition
• Basic phenomena
• Electromigration and diffusion
• Heat and mass transfer: boundary layers and transfer coefficients
• Forced and natural convection
• Charge transfer and mass transfer kinetics
• Comparisons between phenomena and simplifying assumptions
• Introduction to dimensionless groups
• Biot, Peclet, Reynolds numbers
• Charge transfer vs. mass transfer limitation on electrodeposition
• Basics of deposition uniformity and surface roughness development and dendrites
• Predicting Electrodeposition Profiles by Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• FEA basics
• Introduction to Elmer
• Geometry import and mesh generation
• Entering basic parameters, multi-physics equations, materials, initial and boundary conditions
• Post-processing results
• Application to electrodeposition
• Hands-on application to attendee problems
• Fundamentals of Electrodeposition

MODELING ELECTRODEPOSITION IN MATERIALS PROCESSING OPERATIONS

The target audience is engineers in roles of process design and development related to electrodeposition in molten salts, aqueous electrowinning or electrorefining, or electroplating for electrical, corrosion, wear or tribology. Attendees will gain an understanding of transport phenomena in these processes, as well as important tools for process design and troubleshooting as outlined above. Whether the goal is uniformity, high deposition rate, or avoiding or promoting roughness and dendrites, this course will help engineers to design electrode arrangements and flow conditions which promote those goals.

Adam C. Powell, IV is CTO and Co-Founder of Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies, Inc. (MOxST, pronounced "most"), where he oversees the company's IP portfolio and R&D activities. MOxST is an early-stage company focusing on Clean Metal Production for Clean Energy, more specifically scale up of new technologies for primary production and recycling of metals. The company is currently working on commercializing zero-emissions high-efficiency processes for production of magnesium and neodymium metals from their oxides.

Powell's technical background is in materials science with a focus on process technology, including applications in electrochemistry, metal processing, polymer membranes, mechanical behavior of materials, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, physical vapor deposition, computer modeling, and high-performance computing. He holds dual S.B. degrees in Economics and Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering also from MIT. His engineering work in industry, government and academia has led to breakthroughs from mathematical modeling of phase transformations with fluid-structure interactions to titanium alloy composition control in an electron beam melting pilot plant. His nearly sixty technical publications, half of which are in refereed journals, cover the topics above as well as tribology, engineering pedagogy, materials informatics, and collaborative development of public knowledge resources.

He is the author of nine open source computer programs for R&D and education, and is a Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer overseeing development of a suite of high-performance scientific software packages, including the Elmer suite. Before co-founding MOxST, Powell was the Principal of Opennovation, and before that a Managing Engineer at Veryst Engineering LLC. Prior to joining Veryst, he was on the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Powell remains an Instructor at Boston University and a Foreign Cooperative Researcher at the University of Tokyo. He is a co-author of the National Academies study on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, and is on the Editorial Board of The Open Mineral Processing Journal.