• Learn and appreciate historical paradigms of advanced materials development while emphasizing the critical need for new approaches that employ data sciences and informatics as the glue to connect computational simulation and experiments to speed up the processes of materials discovery and development. • Learn about the emergence of key national and international 21st century initiatives in accelerated materials discovery and development and how they are expected to bring about a disruptive transformation of new product capabilities and time to market.

• Understand property, structure and process spaces • Learn about Process-Structure-Property Linkages • Learn what does Materials Knowledge mean • Learn about a role of Data Science in Materials Knowledge System • Overview approaches and main components of Data Science • Learn about a new discipline - Materials Data Sciences

• Learn material structure and its digital representation • Learn how to calculate 2-point statistics • Learn how Principal Component Analysis can be used to reduce dimensionality • Understand Homogenization and Localization concepts

This module demonstrates a homogenization problem based on an example of two-phase composites

• Learn about materials innovation system and cyberinfrastructure • Review Materials Databases, e-collaboration platforms and code repositories • Learn why integrated workflows are needed • Define Metadata, Structured and Unstructured data • Learn about available services for e-collaborations