中国金属学会和美国金属学会、美国冶金学会联合举办的第一届中美双边冶金学术会议于1981年11月15至19日在北京西郊科学会堂举行。美方著名教授专家代表41名,由哥伦比亚大学教授田家凯和麻省理工学院教授 Elliott,J.F.率领,其成员除来自各著名大学的教授外,美国陆、海、空三军研究院所及美国钢铁公司、美国铝公司等十一个公司研究部皆派有 The first Sino-U.S. Bilateral metallurgical conference co-sponsored by China Metals Society, American Society for Metals, and American Metallurgy Society was held on November 15-19, 1981 in the Western Conference Hall of Science in Beijing. Forty-one famous professors and experts from the United States, led by Professor Tjia Ka-kai and MIT professors Elliott and JF of Columbia University, whose members are not only professors from famous universities, but also research institutes of the U.S. Army of the Third, Air, Sea and Air and the U.S. Steel Corporation , The United States Alcoa and other 11 corporate research department are sent