Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

outline and the results fromthe summative and formative assessment will follow. Page 14.1018.3Course Design and AssessmentThis is an introductory material science course which requires some "lower level" learning, i.e.,remembering basic information and concepts. Expanded outcomes also help impart confidenceand some higher level learning including problem solving, critical thinking, and creativethinking. The Castle Top course design created by Dee fink was utilized to plan the course. Theuniversity is a Blackboard campus so the tools from that website are used in the plan. Theseinclude online quizzes before class and a large library of external

Conference Session

Advanced Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ajit Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Ronnie Bolick, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

plan to offer, this short course in the Fall 2009 and depending upon the student performance,the course will be modified. If the assessment indicates that students are performing below theexpectation in certain parts of the examination, the modification may involve more emphasis onsome of the topics with less emphasis on other topics. In addition we plan to get regular feedbackfrom the students to get feel about how much reengineering principles they understood.ConclusionsThis paper presented a development of a new short course which introduces students with basicprinciples of reengineering design and manufacturing procedures for aging metal components.Special emphasis is placed on the use of lightweight high strength fiberglass and

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Folz, Virginia Tech; Christine Burgoyne, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Materials

instructor) and a final report prepared in the form of a journal paper.Student authors were given the opportunity to submit their manuscripts to the Journal ofUndergraduate Materials Research (JUMR) for consideration. The assessment of individualstudent performance was in the form of quizzes, teammate assessment and class participation.In addition to assessing the impacts on student learning and engagement for the re-designedcourse, this paper also reports on future plans to conduct follow-on research to assess the impactsthe re-designed course may have on the senior year capstone design experience.IntroductionThe beginning of the 2006 academic year marked the first semester of a re-design of thecurriculum in the Department of Materials Science and

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kalan Kucera, University of Kentucky; John Balk

Tagged Divisions

Materials

materials science course, information on ferrous metallurgy would provide afoundation for basic materials science and steel-making concepts and would be beneficialfor both the university and industry1. In order to achieve this goal without completelyrevamping their lesson plans, instructors could instead continue teaching existingfundamental content, and use examples in the area of ferrous metal technology toreinforce the information. For example, when teaching the difference between variouscrystal structures an instructor could use the transition of steel from one crystal structureto another as an example to illustrate this. Using examples that tie into some of the mostessential concepts of materials would help introduce students to important

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Materials

motivations and interests. Csikszentmihalyi captures the personal andenvironmental aspects of creativity well in his statement that, “creativity does not happen insidepeople’s heads, but in the interaction between a person’s thoughts and a sociocultural context.”9Conceptualizations of AutonomyDeci and Ryan define autonomy as “volition – the organismic desire to self-organize experienceand behavior and to have activity be concordant with one’s integrated sense of self.”10 In hiswork in self-directed and lifelong learning, Candy describes autonomous individuals as thosewho are able to conceive of goals, exercise freedom of choice in thought and action, resistinward or outward constraints, self-reflect, fearlessly implement plans of action, exercise

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Reza Rowshan, Texas A&M University, Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Materials

, Mechanical, and Petroleum Engineering. The initial group of engineers graduated in2008. In steady state Texas A&M at Qatar is expected to have between 400 to 500 studentsenrolled in the four programs. Currently Mechanical Engineering has 67 students enrolled.TAMUQ follows the mechanical engineering curriculum at the College Station campus.Currently, the program has nine faculty members, and plans are to hire several more within thenext couple of years. Currently, our upper division classes have only been taught two or threetimes. The laboratory facilities were completed and available for use in fall 2007. The initialABET review took place during fall 2008

Conference Session

Outreach and Hands-on Materials

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bahr, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Molecules”. Table 1 shows the topics covered by the WA state standards. Theolder state standards were worded such that this topic addressed general topics related to thescientific method, such as “Investigating Systems: Understand how to plan and conductscientific investigations, and gather, record, and organize data using appropriate units, charts, Page 14.47.4and/or graphs, and perform multiple trials”. Additionally, the mathematical standards in eighthgrade say that students should be able to “Understand the properties of cylinders, cones, andpyramids”, and “Use mathematical patterns and ideas to extend mathematical thinking andmodeling to other

Conference Session

Advanced Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Materials

AC 2009-320: ACTIVE AND INTELLIGENT MATERIALS: THEORY MEETSAPPLICATIONJohn Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Internship Coordinator for the Department of Technology at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Automation, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 14.156.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Intelligent Materials: Theory Meets ApplicationThe focus of this paper is a “hands-on” activity that was

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Vollaro, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Materials

processing. 2) Describe two variations of the technology and the manufacturing process that you observed in the video. 3) List three issues or factors important to the implementation of the process described in question #1 and #2. 4) Describe examples of two parts (or components) that are produced using this manufacturing process and best illustrate the important factors in the process.Industrial field trips are planned to coincide with the topics in lectures and in the readingsassigned for homework. The logistics for getting the entire class to attend are a bit tricky and thelocation of the industrial facility must be within 20-25 minutes of the college. With a 1 hour tour,the trip can be completed in the 2 hour lab

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Materials