Conference Session

Materials Education Perspectives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Blicblau, Swinburne University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

HES5340 Fluid Mechanics 2 HES5350 Product DesignCapstone Project Work and MSE Resources ImplementationWithin the mechanical engineering course, in the subject concerned with the capstone project(HES5103), there may be as many as 30 individual research projects spread over a variety oftopics. An example of some of the topics requiring major and minor input for the MSEeportfolio repository for the 2007academic year is shown in Table 2. Within the majority of theresearch topics, there again has been considerable implementation of MSE knowledge. From therequirements of the capstone project the students come to realise that utilising their eportfolio,which contains links to WWW materials, design and

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and a manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop