Federation of Materials Societies
- 910 17th St NW Ste 800
- Washington, District Of Columbia
- 20006
- Phone: 1 202 296 9282
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Description
The Federation of Materials Societies (FMS) is an umbrella organization whose member societies and affiliates represent the professional societies, universities and National Research Council organizations which are involved with materials science, engineering and technology. FMS constituent societies have more than 700,000 individual members. An affiliate of FMS, The University Materials Council represents most of the major university materials departments. FMS also has liaison representatives from the Solid State Sciences Committee, the National Materials Advisory Board, and the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering advisory groups to the National Research Council covering the field of materials. Several corporations with strong materials interests also support FMS as Corporate Affiliates. What is the purpose of FMS? The purpose of FMS is to aid the materials community in obtaining information from and exchanging information with the policy community. An important FMS goal is to help the materials community to arrive at consensus materials policy and to assist it in informing policy makers of materials concerns. In addition, FMS serves as a clearinghouse between materials professionals and among its diverse constituent societies concerning their current activities, best practices, and the opportunities and problems cutting across specific materials and materials societies...