I/UCRC Phase III Iowa State University: Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA)

科罗拉多矿业学院和爱荷华州州立大学（ISU）的先进有色金属结构合金中心（CANFSA）是唯一一个由大学领导的从事从轻质镁到高温耐火合金的有色金属合金物理冶金研究的财团。CANFSA产生和应用新知识，以解决大学，政府和行业利益相关者通过竞争前的研究，支持教师，并建立在美国制造业的战略重要性，特别是与航空航天和国防相关的领域培训的学生劳动力管道确定的挑战性问题。CANFSA通过最先进的实验和建模研究工业相关的加工-微观结构-性能-性能关系，培训下一代有色金属物理冶金学家，并支持物理冶金学的学生，教师和课程。CANFSA的重点领域包括轻质，高温和其他材料，包括涂层，跨越航空航天，能源，国防，国家安全，基础设施，汽车和生物医学领域。ISU拥有支持有色金属物理冶金研究的设备，基础设施和人员，以及物理冶金，跨规模和模式的材料表征和材料加工方面的专业知识，通过基础和应用科学解决难题，具有最先进的实验和建模以及基于应用和制造的见解。CANFSA项目旨在利用矿山和ISU沿着的优秀能力和人员以及行业合作伙伴和国家实验室。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA) at Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and Iowa State University (ISU) is the only university-led consortium performing non-ferrous alloy physical metallurgy research, from lightweight magnesium to high-temperature refractory alloys. CANFSA generates and applies new knowledge to solve challenging problems identified by university, government, and industry stakeholders via pre-competitive research, supporting faculty, and building a student workforce pipeline trained in areas of strategic importance to U.S. manufacturing, especially relevant to aerospace and defense. CANFSA investigates industrially-relevant processing-microstructure-property-performance relationships with state-of-the-art experimentation and modeling, trains the next generation of non-ferrous physical metallurgists, and supports students, faculty, and curricula in physical metallurgy.CANFSA’s thrust areas include lightweight, high temperature, and other materials, including coatings, spanning the aerospace, energy, defense, national security, infrastructure, automotive, and biomedical sectors. ISU has the equipment, infrastructure, and personnel to support research in non-ferrous physical metallurgy and the expertise in physical metallurgy, materials characterization across scales and modalities, and materials processing to tackle difficult problems through basic and applied science, with state-of-the-art experimentation and modeling and application- and manufacturing-based insights. CANFSA projects are structured to leverage the outstanding capabilities and personnel at Mines and ISU along with industry partners and national laboratories.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.