Volume 1 - Issue 1 (June 19, 2007)

in focus

Dear Fellow Members and Friends of MetSoc:

Welcome to the first issue of our e-newsletter!

  George Demopoulos
 

The focus of this and all other issues to follow of our all-new e-newsletter is you, the greater MetSoc family! How could it be different? It is the members that have made MetSoc the vibrant internationally recognized CIM-constituent Society for nearly 50 years now and it is first you that we want to reach out with the launching of this e-newsletter. Our membership (some 1200 strong) is as diverse as are the professional activities in which metallurgical, materials and other allied groups of scientists and engineers are engaged in. The grand majority of you work in industry while a quarter of our membership is students. Our present is strong and vibrant and our future looks even brighter! MetSoc aspires to continue being considered the preferred professional Society for all of you and reach out and attract new members. Your help in spreading the “word of welcome” by forwarding this e-newsletter to fellow metallurgists and materials scientists and processing engineers is greatly appreciated.

The industrial world of metals and materials keeps changing along with all other technological and economic changes taking place around us. The pace of change and intensity of competition increases. The society demands better products and cleaner and more efficient technologies. All metals and materials professionals from their different posts of engagement, being industry, government or academia, work to meet the new challenges. MetSoc remains committed to serve all of you by offering world class relevant technical programming and publications that contribute to professional advancement and excellence.

All our Society’s activities (annual COMs and other meetings, publications etc) are organized by volunteers with the help of three dedicated staff members. It is through our Technical Sections that these activities are discussed and planned. Why don’t you consider joining the Section that best meets your interests? Please refer to our website (www.metsoc.org) under “About MetSoc/Board of Directors” for contact and other information.

In closing, I invite you to browse through this inaugural issue and write to us with your impressions. We look forward to see many of you at the upcoming COM2007 in Toronto featuring Cu2007- A truly premier international meeting. Thank you all for your continuing support. I would also like to thank all contributors to this issue and in particular Ronona Saunders, our e-newsletter coordinator.

George Demopoulos
President and Founding Editor
George.demopoulos@mcgill.ca