Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Materials behavior
Casting and solidification
Powder metallurgy and ceramic forming
Coatings and surface engineering
Composite materials
Materials forming
Laser based manufacturing
Joining processes
Nontraditional manufacturing
Surface, subsurface, and interface phenomena

Nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing
Semiconductor materials manufacturing
Manufacturing process planning and scheduling
Modeling, analysis, simulation of manufacturing processes
Computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering
Metrology and measurement
Precision molding processes
Rapid manufacturing technologies
Nanofabrication, nanometrology and applications
Environmentally sustainable manufacturing processes and systems