This volume covers various aspects of the fundamentals, synthesis, analysis, design, monitoring, and control of metals, materials, and metallurgical processes and phenomena. Topics represented include but are not limited to:
•        Use of artificial intelligence or big data in the control or optimization of industrial processes
 •        Modelling or optimization of recycle streams and scrap loops
 •        Measurement and control in hostile environments
 •        Modeling transport phenomena in materials processing and metallurgical processes involving iron, steel, nonferrous metals, and composites
 •        Thermodynamics, kinetics, and physical chemistry of materials processes and modelling thereof
Samuel Wagstaff, Oculatus Consulting; Alexandra Anderson, Gopher Resource; Adrian S. Sabau, Oak Ridge National Laboratory