. "1. What is Materials Science and Engineering." Materials
Science and Engineering for the 1990s: Maintaining
Competitiveness in the Age of Materials. Washington, DC: The
National Academies Press, 1989. The following HTML text is
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image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Materials
Science and Engineering for the 1990s: Maintaining
Competitiveness in the Age of Materials metallurgical society in
the United States, has expanded to become a broad materials
society with a new name, ASM International, with a membership
numbering about 53,000. The Materials Research Society,
established early in 1973, has been one of the fastest growing
professional societies in the United States; its current
membership includes approximately 8000 individuals. Many
industrial and governmental research laboratories have been
reorganized into groupings that cut across traditional
disciplines and material