MSE Professors R. Edwin García and Alejandro Strachan and ECE Professor Gerhard Klimeck represented Purdue University for the Materials Genome Initiative at White House event and subsequent NIST workshop
MSE Professors R. Edwin García and Alejandro Strachan and ECE Professor Gerhard Klimeck represented Purdue University for the Materials Genome Initiative at White House event and subsequent NIST workshop
MSE Professors R. Edwin García and Alejandro Strachan and ECE Professor Gerhard Klimeck represented Purdue University for the Materials Genome Initiative on May 14th at a White House event and subsequent NIST workshop. The Administration’s Materials Genome Initiative is an ambitious challenge to double the speed and cut in half the cost of discovering, developing, and deploying new high-tech materials in the United States.
President Barack Obama announced the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) on June 24, 2011 as part of a broader effort to create new jobs, solve societal challenges, and enhance America’s global competitiveness by bolstering the U.S. advanced manufacturing enterprise. New, high-tech materials can revolutionize manufacturing, helping to make vehicles that are safer and lighter; packaging that keeps food fresher and more nutritious; and lightweight bullet-proof vests for police officers and soldiers, among countless other applications. But the pathway from discovery to commercialization can take decades.