The 145th annual meeting of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) was held in Nashville, TN on February 14-18, 2016. Over 4,000 brilliant engineers, scietists, business leaders and other professionals from around the world came together to share their most recent breakthroughs in research. Among the attendees is our own Dai Shen, who presented a talk on his work in modeling the titanium electrowinning process.