Jud Ready

Deputy Director

Composites Workshop

October 21, 2016

Materials Research Profile at GT

* By Primary Appointment

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AE – Aerospace EngngBIO – BiologyBME – Biomedical EngngChBE – Chemical and Biomolecular EngngCEE – Civil & Environmental EngngCHEM – Chemistry and BiochemistryCoC – College of ComputingECE – Electrical and Computer EngngGTRI – Georgia Tech Research InstituteISYE – Industrial and Systems EngngMATH – MathematicsME – Mechanical EngngMSE – Materials Science & EngngPHYS – PhysicsOther – INTA, Public Policy, MGT, EAS, ARCH

MSE18%

ME21%

ChBE13%

CHEM8%

CEE8%

PHYS7%

GTRI4%

BME6%

ECE5%

BIO1%

AE3%

ISYE1%

MATH1%

COC2%

Other2%

2015 Distribution of Materials Faculty

(195 total)

Cabinet, Student Advisory Council, External Advisory

Panel

Academic & National

Lab Partners

Industry Partners

Basic Materials

Research

Products,

Applications

Vision: To be an international leader in the research, development, and innovative use of materials to solve scientific and technological grand challenges.

Use-Inspired Research

• X-materials – MGI• MATIN• Workshops, Short Courses• Strategic Industry Relations

• MCF, MAC• Web portal, search/access• Teaming and shared facilities

development

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IMat’s Structure

Dave McDowellExecutive Director

Rusty EdwardsInterim

Finance Manager

Cecelia JonesCenter Manager

Kelly SmithMarketing and

Communications Manager

Jud ReadyGTRI

Deputy Director,Innovation Initiatives

Eric VogelMSE

Associate Director,Shared Resources

Deputy Director, IEN

Farlenthia WalkerAdmin Assistant

Surya KalidindiME/MSE/CSEMGI Strategist, Data sciences,

materials design

Rick NeuME/MSE

Mechanical Properties

Samuel GrahamME/MSE

NEMS, MEMS, Electronic and

functional materials

Sankar NairChBE

Energy materials,interfaces, genomics

Jeannette YenBiology

Ecology, bio-inspiredmaterials design

John ReynoldsChemistry

GT Polymer Network, soft materials

Some important functions of the IST:1. Workshop concepts and organization2. Strategic concepts for new research areas3. Seed funding and proposal competitions4. Assist with leadership identification, development & support5. Engagement with industry and federal agencies6. Data science and informatics/ICME/MGI

Jud ReadyGTRI

Deputy DirectorInnovation Initiatives

IMat Strategic Goals

Goal 1: Develop and Nurture the Materials Innovation Ecosystem

Goal 2: Enrich and Grow the Resource Base for Materials Research

Goal 3: Project Tech’s Thought Leadership in Materials Domain

Goal 4: Prepare the Materials Workforce of the Future

Georgia Tech: model university materials innovation ecosystem• Accelerating materials design, development, and deployment (MD3)

• Materials + X

• Novel approaches to materials data sciences and informatics

• Preparing the future workforce for materials discovery and development

http://materials.gatech.edu/

MRI Task Force

Report

Set up skeletal infrastructure;

internal messaging

External messaging; workshops;

shared resources June 2013

Formal Launch; Website

ShaRA, Shared

Resources; proposal

development

MGI workshops;Accelerator

Network

Fully staffed, With Deputy and Associate

DirectorsIMat/IEN joint

activities in materials

characterization

Innovation Initiatives

and Shared Resources

accord with MRI plan

2012

2013

2014

2015

IMat Roadmap –2012-spring 2015

FY13 $328K FY14 $824K

FY15 $960K

FY16 $1,157K

Branding; new

initiatives;MatIN

integration

Expand MCF, MAN, Spoke

Critical 5th

year gate review –Fall 2017

Initial embedded

agreements, data science

via IDEAS:MD3, short courses,

MOOCs

Strategic plan

update

New MGI on-line/short

course offerings

External collaboration via

data sciences: IDEAS:MD3 and NSF Hub Spoke

Launch MCF and expand shared

resources

2015

2016

2017

IMat Roadmap –2015- 2017 (yrs 3-5)

NSF Big Data Hub;Collaborative

agreements with Materials Accelerator

Network

MatIN, HPC, and Materials

Accelerator Network

development

We are here…

Actual Budget vs Roadmap

Through FY16, ~63% GT funding of level laid out in roadmap

Actual MRI RoadmapFY13 $328K $435KFY14 $824K $1,171KFY15 $960K $1,720-2,000KFY16 $1,157K $1,720-2,000KFY17 $1,261K* $1,720-2,000K

June 2013 GT commitment to MGI of $10M over five years:Through FY16:Cumulative IMat Budget - $3.3MSpecial allocations year 1: $0.5MNew TEM and XRD upgrades: $1.75MIDEAS:MD3: $0.15MOther materials startup: ~ $1.5M

Cumulative $7.2M over 3 years, or 72% of commitment 60% through first five years.

On target!

“Georgia Tech is announcing the launch of a new Institute for Materials (IMat), an interdisciplinary research institute designed to foster a materials innovation ecosystem for research and education. This new institute is part of a $10 million commitment over the next five years toward building a

stronger materials innovation ecosystem.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/2013_mgi_annoucements.pdf

*requested

Some Major Value Added Contributions of IMat

Consolidated first ever unified, cross-cutting Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) at GT• Joint with IEN• Campus-wide on-line materials equipment search capability (ShaRA) & scheduling/billing

(SUMS).• Strategic relationship forged with IEN and academic units to consolidate materials

characterization instrumentation in IEN, CNC, and XRD facilities under a single administrative umbrella, the MCF

Materials + X Seed Grants

• $60k/yr. - 5 awards last week

Proposal Support• In past 30 months, >$220M in value (collaboration with GTMI, SEI, CSE/IDH, Industry Collaboration and

Commercialization)

• MGI workshops in data science• DOE (Sandia MOU) collaborations, as well as ORNL• Innovation lectures• 2 MOOCs developed• National Materials Accelerator Network (with UW-Madison & U. Michigan); added UC-Berkeley and

TAMU in 2015• Ideation Research Projects• Advising needs for new faculty hires

Some Major Value Added Contributions of IMat

• IMat formally hosted the website for data for the National Materials S&E Data Challenge

• IDEAS:MD3, one of Tech’s first four data science institutes, aimed at embedding industry

• Supported pursuit of collaborative agreements with Southwire, Novelis, Simmons, and others

• Data sciences with Lockheed Martin, Siemens Energy, Pratt & Whitney, Tata RDD Center, etc.

• Automotive and aerospace SE USA materials supply chain is a focus

Marcus Characterization LabLoc. in basement of Marcus.

• FEI Nova Nanolab 200 FIB-SEM• Hitachi HD2700 STEM• Hitachi HT7700 TEM• Hitachi SU8230 FE-SEM• Hysitron T900 Nanoindenter• Keyence Digital Microscope• Kratos Axis-Ultra XPS• Thermo K-Alpha XPS• Thermo-Nicolet Confocal µ-

Raman• IONToF ToF-SIMS• Veeco Dimension 3100 AFM• Zeiss Ultra 60 FE-SEM

• Unified scheduling and billing infrastructure• Coherent user fees, policies, and training • United front for strategic relationships with vendors (e.g., Hitachi)• Faculty advisory board• Separate managers for each laboratory• Common faculty expertise, technicians and research engineers (e.g., TEM sample

prep.)• Common and coherent request to EVPR for partial funding and equipment acquisition

CNC Electron MicroscopyLocated in PTB

• LEO 1530 SEM• Hitachi SU8010 SEM• JEOL 100 CX TEM• Hitachi 2000 TEM• FEI Tecnai F30 TEM

Panalytical X-ray LabLoc. in basement of Marcus• Empyrean –

Multipurpose XRD withSAXS

• X’Pert Alpha-1 MPD• X’Pert PRO MRD XRD

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Materials Analysis CenterGTRI and Marcus

Primary role is to coordinate and perform research analysis for internal and external customers related to the structure, composition and properties

of materials.

Georgia Tech Materials Characterization Facility (MCF.GATECH.EDU)

What does Tech Think?

IMat has developed a significant thought leadership position in the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative:

• June 24, 2013 IMat launch on White House OSTP website

• Hosted March 28, 2014 regional MGI workshop

• Hosted and co-organized (with UW-Madison and Univ. Michigan) June 5-6, 2014 MGI workshop

• Co-founded U.S. Materials Accelerator Network in 2014; hosted AFRL/NIST/NSF MSE Data Challenge (Tech teams took 1st and 2nd prize)

• Organized MRS Bulletin 2015 Volume on MGI (Ready)

• Briefed UMC at fall 2015 MS&T (McDowell)

• Co-organized ICME World Congress in Colorado Springs, CO, 2015 (Kalidindi)

• MS&T Tutorial on Materials Data Analytics, 2015 (Kalidindi and MATIN team)

• McDowell and Kalidindi MRS article on materials innovation ecosystem, April 2016

• McDowell and LeSar special issue of MRS Bulletin on microstructure informatics, 2016

• November 2016 ASME session devoted to ICME at GT (gas turbine materials and additive manufacturing)

• Hosted MRS Webinar on “Materials Innovation” (Ready)

• Materials Innovation Panel Discussions – MRS Fall 2016 & Spring 2016 mtgs.

• MGI-centric symposium organized b@ MRS Spring 2017 (Meredith)

• US Dept. of State “George C. Marshall Visit to Austria Program” for Advanced Materials (Ready)

• Released two new MGI-supportive MOOC courses in 2016

• TMS Materials Innovation Committee, MRS Bulletins, Nature, OEDC

• Discussions with OSTP, sMGI, USA MSE department heads

• Panelist at White House 5th MGI anniversary, August 2016

• IDEAS:MD3

Coordinated with White House OSTP

IDEAS:MD3

Introducing IDEAS:MD3

Building on Georgia Tech’s Leadership in Materials Innovation Infrastructure…

Innovation Initiatives & Shared Resources

Data Management• Capture• Storage• Aggregation• Sharing Protocols• Knowledge databases

Data AnalyticsMine embedded high value information via:• Filtering • Data fusion• Uncertainty analyses• Statistical analyses• Dimensionality reduction• Pattern recognition• Regression analysis• Machine learning• Statistical learning

e-Collaboration• Utilize open source and

open access data/code repositories

• Facilitate cross-disciplinary team discussions and annotations of intermediate results

• Manage workflows and identify best practices

• Decision support for future investments with high ROI

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IDEAS:MD3 will facilitate exploration of open source and commercial data science methods within the materials innovation ecosystem

New MGI MOOCs from Georgia Tech

• Materials Data Sciences and Informaticshttps://www.coursera.org/learn/material-informatics

• Introduction to High-Throughput Materials Development. https://www.coursera.org/learn/high-throughput

• Coming soon!Inverse Methods for Synthesis and Process Routes in Materials Development

Hamid Garmestani, MSE and Surya Kalidindi, ME/MSE/CSE

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FLAMEL: From Learning, Analytics, and Materials to Entrepreneurship and

Leadership(http://flamel.gatech.edu)

• Four tracks (2 courses each)– Mathematics and Computation– Materials and Manufacturing– Entrepreneurship– Integration and Synthesis

(2 new courses)

• Interdisciplinary Education– Problem-based learning– Interdisciplinary teams projects– GT entrepreneurship programs (e.g.,

Flashpoint, TI:GER)

• Recurring Themes– Communications– Cyber-infrastructure (MATIN)

Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum Integrating

Materials, Manufacturing, and

Data Sciences

http://materials-informatics-class-fall2015.github.io/

• Shared Resources:

– Update and implement SUMS

– New: tech support/capabilities development (with IEN)

– Refine Materials Analysis Center mission and profile

– Bring Mechanical Properties Research Laboratory on-line as a cost center (IRF)

FY17

• Innovation Initiatives:

– Further Develop and extend external partnerships: Sandia MOU, ORNL, IMDEA Materials, Materials Accelerator Network, various industry.

– Seed funding

• Innovation Initiatives:

– New: Support launch phase of IDEAS:MD3, building on discovery phase, membership agreements, hackathon, staffing, and member recruiting over past 9 months.

– New: Build successful anticipated materials spoke for NSF Big Data Hub & MATIN infrastructure; plan for new space.

– New: Build case with SEI and other stakeholders for next generation NNMI/MII (gas turbine materials repair/qualification, rotating turbomachinery)

– Major proposal support

Thrusts for FY17

Contacts:

Prof. David McDowellExecutive Director404-894-5128david.mcdowell@me.gatech.edu

Dr. Jud ReadyDeputy Director, Innovation Initiatives404-407-6036jud.ready@gatech.edu

Questions?