Turbine engines provide a challenging environment for materials. The temperature, environment, stress and the time durations over which components are exposed are tremendous. Turbine engines, like other energy and power generation systems, are being ever pushed to increase performance and fuel efficiency. The continued drive is requiring both engine architecture and associated materials changes to meet the need for increase capability. Materials are being asked to provide increased temperature capabilities to support enhanced engine cycles, while at the same time are being required to be lighter weight for increased operational speeds or engine performance. Likewise advances in materials and or materials processing may enable components with reduced engine part count, each designed to more efficiently convert fuel into thrust. These challenges are requiring new materials, and new and novel approaches to apply existing materials. An approach being taken to meet these challenges is through further integration of materials, processes and design functions. Integration of material and manufacturing process design efforts seamlessly with component design processes requires new tools and methods. Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is providing the path to holistic linking of material, process and component design optimization. Materials models are providing enhanced materials design definitions by enabling greater physics-based understanding of the fundamental behavior of materials. Compilations of materials and process models effectively ''map the genome" of materials and greatly expand the ability for component designer to fully utilize the capabilities of engineered materials, whether emerging new materials or existing materials. This approach to integrated materials, process and design engineering will be the path to enable major changes in future advanced turbine systems. These tools and methods have already made significant impact on current and emerging engine systems.