Research Objectives

Research Methodology

• Introduction of data mining as an ubiquitous part of materials science research
• Refining and enlarging the scope of combinatorial and high throughput experimentation techniques

Materials Science Discovery

• Demonstrate accelerated discovery and hidden or hard to detect attributes in structure-property relationships in materials

Cyber-Infrastructure

• Establish protocol for a international cyber-infrastructure for data sharing and research
• CoSMIC Web Portal: http://www.mse.iastate.edu/cosmic

Educational Objectives

Pedagogical Style

• New paradigm in introducing structure-property-processing relationships
• Concept of "data driven" science for knowledge discovery

Materials Science Education

• New curricula and degree programs in materials informatics for materials scientists

International Learning Community and Cyber-Infrastructure

• Use of foreign travel experience
• Virtual laboratory / remote instrumentation / classroom environment for establishing and sustaining long-term partnerships in education
• Joint international student collaboration on Ph.D. thesis