{"606191":{"#nid":"606191","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Materials Today profiles IMat Executive Director David McDowell","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStructural materials such as cast and wrought metal alloys are commonly selected for applications on the basis of their mechanical and physical properties. In contrast to trial-and-error selection, advances in modeling and simulation over the past quarter of a century have enabled materials scientists and engineers to take a systematic approach to tailoring materials for applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid L. McDowell, Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor and Carter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing at Georgia Institute of Technology, is doing just that by bringing together computational simulation tools for metals processing and mechanical behavior at various length scales with state-of-the-art mechanical testing and characterization tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaving joined Georgia Tech in 1983, McDowell served as Director of the Mechanical Properties Research Laboratory (MPRL) from 1992-2012 prior to founding the Institute for Materials (IMat).\u0026nbsp;He has served as Executive Director of IMat since 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the entire article \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.materialstoday.com\/lab-profile-david-l-mcdowell-georgia-tech\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Article focuses on McDowell\u0027s work, advances in modeling and simulation "}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2018-05-15 15:49:43","changed_gmt":"2018-05-17 18:00:53","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606190":{"id":"606190","type":"image","title":"David L. McDowell, Professor, Executive Director, IMat","body":null,"created":"1526399133","gmt_created":"2018-05-15 15:45:33","changed":"1526399133","gmt_changed":"2018-05-15 15:45:33","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231199","name":"Dave McDowell in lab.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dave%20McDowell%20in%20lab.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dave%20McDowell%20in%20lab.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":575861,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dave%20McDowell%20in%20lab.jpg?itok=NjeChyhy"}}},"media_ids":["606190"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Ekelly.smith@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}