Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

included.Interestingly, student feedback revealed that a number of “problems” with the lab sequence stemfrom the perception that either computational thinking is not a relevant skill for a materialsengineer, or that students were not in fact learning more than how to use a specific softwarepackage. To combat these factors and increase students’ self-efficacy, a “marketing campaign”was implemented for these courses. The results of these five years of aggressively includingcomputational modeling into the undergraduate materials science curriculum, including studentperceptions and achievement before and after these changes, can provide valuable insight for anydepartment interested in making similar changes.KeywordsMaterials Science, Modeling, Computation