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Georgia Tech will train young scientists to use data to build space-age materials
From Learning, Analytics, and Materials to Entrepreneurship and Leadership Doctoral Traineeship Program
Achievement/Results
Normally it can take 15 to 20 years to design and create a high performance material, such as a new polymer, carbon fiber technology, or battery technology. That’s because materials designed today are basically brute force trial and error and process of elimination.
For example, suppose a firm wants to design new materials to be used in the body of a fuel-efficient vehicle. The materials must have certain properties concerning strength, weight, ability to handle stress along different directions, and so on. The materials’ properties are governed by the underlying structure of the material itself, called the microstructure.
Address Goals
The goal of this program is to train students to develop new big data algorithms and software to look through the microstructures and find the sequence of manufacturing steps that will transform the material structure into what’s needed.
