Abstract Scope |
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) holds the promise to achieve systemically accelerated discovery, development, and deployment of advanced materials that will address the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. Despite technical progress in advancing the underlying experiment, computation, and data science tools and approaches of the MGI, there remains a strong need to improve the education and training of the existing and future workforce to better integrate these three pillars. In response, TMS administered a study on Creating the Next-Generation MGI Workforce that captured perspectives from multiple experts and aims to advance understanding and provide recommendations to improve the readiness of individuals, groups, and organizations to contribute to the MGI. In addition to providing a detailed vision for the necessary knowledge and skills of the future MGI workforce, seven action plans are provided in the report to promote the culture shift that is needed to speed the implementation of MGI approaches. |