Governments the world over fret continuously about the low level of transfer of technology, especially within their own countries. The general problem is military to industry although the variations are numerous. Problems of presentation, offering and support complicate an already byzantine world. Yet somewhere within this dilemma lie the seeds of tomorrow's economic uptick. Besides the nontrivial problems involved here, the reluctance of the people having the technology to share it with someone who can profit from it, stands out. This book presents the issues and offers a comprehensive bibliography for easy access.

Drawn from the October 2002 conference in Columbus, Ohio, these 30 papers discuss structural evolution, microstructure-property relationships, process modeling and heat treatment, melt quality and solidification, and the performance of cast aluminum alloys. Improvements in quality and innovations in