Prepare now for the Material Advantage Fall Membership Challenge.  Your chapter could win up to $500. 

The Membership Challenge is intended to challenge student members to recruit new Material Advantage Student Members.  There are two categories for your chapter to participate in:

1. Most Creative Recruitment Strategies:  Cash Prize = $250
2. Most Students Recruited:  Cash Prize = $500

To learn more about participating and the rules/procedures, visit the Membership Challenge web page.

All submissions for the fall challenge must be postmarked by November 1, 2010.

Alpha Sigma Mu Annual Meeting will be held on Monday, 18 October, 2010, at 3 p.m. (CST) at the MS&T Meeting in Houston, Texas, USA.  The Alpha Sigma Mu Lecture is entitled “The Future of Materials Technology: Design, Failure Analyses & Societal Impact” and will be presented by Dr. Fred E. Schmidt Jr. PE, FASM.  Fred is Technical Director-Materials Engineering/Senior Managing Constant, Engineering Systems Inc.

Read more about it.

The Material Advantage society partners that belong to the International Organization of Materials, Metals and Minerals Societies (IOMMMS) have organized a World Materials Day award that is available to up to three Material Advantage chapters engaged in outreach to grades K - 12 in their local community. Winning Material Advantage Chapters will each receive a check for $500 and a plaque from IOMMMS.

The 2010 World Materials Day Winners are:

Georgia Tech
Missouri S&T
Iowa State University

Congratulations to all!

If you would like more information regarding the World Materials Day Competition, visit the official contests page. 

Students may partially defray expenses by serving as session monitors. Monitors assist session chairs, record session attendance statistics, assist with audio/visual equipment, etc.

UPDATE (as of 8/4/10): All of the student monitor positions are filled. Interested students should still contact Nate Natale. He is taking names for a waitlist, but there is no guarantee that students will be needed. Students can also show up onsite at the Programming Booth on the morning of the day they are available to work in case an assigned student is not present.

Check out all Material Advantage Student contests at MS&T this year in Houston, Texas, USA. For more information on any of the contests, contact Tricia Nicol.

• Undergraduate Student Poster Contest
• Undergraduate Student Speaking Contest
• Graduate Student Poster Contest
• Mug Drop Contest
• Putting Contest

Visit the MS&T’10 Student Activities page for more information. 

MS&T’10 will be held October 17-21 in Houston, Texas, USA.  You have the chance to hear the latest technical advances and cutting-edge developments in the materials science community, connect with friends, and network with your peers. Register now online or download the registration form and mail it with payment or fax it with credit card information. Reserve your room online or download and complete the housing form.

Visit the Material Advantage web site for more information.

Virginia Tech’s Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research (JUMR) is accepting undergraduate paper abstracts.  Here’s your chance to publish your work if you are enrolled in an undergraduate program at any institution working on a materials-related project.  This is the perfect opportunity for students to submit senior design papers. 

For more information about submission requirements and other details, visit the JUMR web site.