Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Diane Folz, Virginia Tech

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Materials

Research Project: Planning and AssessmentAbstractThis paper describes the planning and assessment of a summer transitional program as part of amulti-year undergraduate research project. The summer program is a focused, project-basedlearning experience for undergraduate students in engineering at two universities withsignificantly different demographics – one, a top-tier research university and the other, a smallerprivate university focusing on undergraduate education. The two universities are workingclosely with an industry partner who is providing materials and expertise and who mayeventually incorporate into their manufacturing process the technology being developed in thisproject. The students are juniors and seniors involved in independent

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Johnson, Central Washington University

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Materials

safetyconcerns.An idea was developed to create videos that addressed these needed skills, concepts and issues.The videos would be used in the CWU Foundry, to supplement the introductory course (andother courses as needed). There was obviously no such material evident at CWU, but subsequentsearches did turn up some similar material such as those from Georgia Tech (Jonathon Colton)on NDSL – National Direct Science Library (2). There appeared to be limited use of externalmaterial due to the differences in equipment and procedures.It is also noted that there was no substantive way to determine the ‘effectiveness’ of using video,in an education pedagogy sense. To address this a metric was created and planned for use in

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Na Lu, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Robert Swan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Materials

of Virginia. With more than 13 years professorial experience, he has taught a large variety of courses including statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, graphic communications, engineering economy, and construction planning, scheduling, estimating, and management.Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte DR. CHUNG-SUK CHO is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology. His teaching and research focus on project scope definition, pre-project planning, sustainable construction, project administration, construction safety, construction simulation, and project management. He has prior teaching experience at

Conference Session

Materials Lab Experiments and Demonstrations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University

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Materials

explore something that they find interesting about this course.” – “The freedom to do the test we wanted to do. It satisfied my curiosity.” – “This lab allows us to learn more about what we find interesting. We learn more from labs that we designed ourselves.” – “I liked that we were able to select our own project based on things that interested us, and also that we had to figure out our own procedures which allowed us to really learn what I was doing.” – “I liked the idea of planning our own lab and figuring out how to properly create samples and perform the experiment.” – “I like how we had to be responsible and complete a lab on our own.” – “Experience in using the equipment

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University; Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University

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Materials

strength is given by the stress needed to breakthe material. True or False?” This suggests that giving students the plots by themselves does notnecessarily transfer to an overall understanding of the mechanical properties. While this is notparticularly surprising, it is important to keep in mind when planning instruction, test questions,and so on for a course.Conclusion and Summary of FindingsWe reported here on student difficulties in understanding the mechanical properties of metals andon pilot instructional materials designed to help students overcome these difficulties. While weare not the first researchers to report students’ difficulties in understanding mechanical properties,our research adds to the exisitng literature on students

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

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Materials

enhance their lives as they search forrelevance in the activities they choose and the classes that they take. A challenge to educators isto increase the relevance of engineering core courses without spending an enormous amount oftime planning changes to enhance student engagement. As educators, we are aware of topics inthe core courses that are difficult for our students to learn, yet necessary for their development asengineers. Teaching styles that work with millennial students involve an instructor acting asfacilitator of learning. Providing directed active engagement within the educational environmentfrom the start of their experience will greatly assist the learning process of these students.The modules described in this paper were created to

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

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Materials