1. In the final analysis

   Department Pages: 2 - 2

2. Materials Week Housing Form

   Also in this Issue Pages: 4 - 4

3. Materials Week Registration Form

   Also in this Issue Pages: 5 - 5

4. News & update

   Department Pages: 6 - 12

5. Upcoming editorial topics

   Also in this Issue Pages: 13 - 13

6. Net trans

   • James J. Robinson

   Department Pages: 15 - 15

7. Global trends in engineering practice and education

   • Axel Meisen

   Feature Pages: 16 - 19

8. The global aluminum industry: Policy and market issues

   • Allen Born

   Aluminum Pages: 22 - 23

9. Alumina production in Russia part I: Historical background

   • Vadim Smirnov

   Aluminum Pages: 24 - 26

10. Evaluating ceramic-foam and bonded-particle cartridge filtration systems

    • N. J. Keegan
    • W. Schneider
    • V. Dopp

    Aluminum Pages: 28 - 30

11. Recycling salt-cake slag using a resin-based option

    • A. C. Sheth
    • K. D. Parks
    • S. Parthasarathy

    Aluminum Pages: 32 - 37

12. Inorganic ion-exchange materials

    • Raj P. Singh

    Feature Pages: 38 - 38

13. The art of producing copper in a Pierce-Smith converter

    • Ralph F. Hernández

    Department Pages: 39 - 41

14. The Kennecott Utah Copper Refinery modernization

    • K. E. Sutliff
    • T. I. Probert
    • D. B. George

    Feature Pages: 42 - 44

15. Characterizing and etching blue-light-emitting semiconductor materials

    • John M. Parsey Jr.
    • Mark S. Goorsky

    Semiconductor Pages: 45 - 45

16. The luminescence characteristics of GaN heteroepitaxial films

    • P. A. Grudowski
    • A. L. Holmes
    • R. D. Dupuis

    Semiconductor Pages: 46 - 49

17. The dry etching of group III-nitride wide-bandgap semiconductors

    • H. P. Gillis
    • D. A. Choutov
    • K. P. Martin

    Semiconductor Pages: 50 - 55

18. TMS news

    Also in this Issue Pages: 57 - 59

19. Who owns copyrighted work— Employer, employee, consultant?

    • David V. Radack

    Department Pages: 60 - 60

20. Meetings calendar

    Department Pages: 61 - 63

21. Consultants directory

    Department Pages: 64 - 64

22. Classified

    Department Pages: 64 - 67

23. Retrospect

    • Dennis F. Hasson

    Department Pages: 68 - 68

24. EPD edition

    Also in this Issue Pages: A56 - A57