Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Rick Ubic, Boise State University

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Materials

in established lab groups at the university.Using the Qualtrics online survey software, we conducted pre-experience and post-experiencesurveys of the participants to assess the effects of participating in this summer research program.At the beginning of the summer, all participants provided their definition of technical researchand described what they hoped to get out of their research experience, and the undergraduatestudents described their future career and educational plans. At the conclusion of the summer, apost-experience survey presented participants’ with their answers from the beginning of thesummer and asked them to reflect on how their understanding of research and future plansinvolving research changed over the course of the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, Ohio State University; Alexandria Julius, Ohio State University; Raeal Moore, Evaluation Data Solutions, LLC; Teresa Shiverdecker, Ohio State University; Michelle R. McCombs

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Materials

Std.Are you a Materials Science PD program participant or are you a control teacher? Mean Deviation NI am a control teacher. I do not participate nor plan to participate in the PD sessions 12.38 3.852 8scheduled this academic year.I am in the Materials Science PD sessions to be scheduled throughout this coming 20.83 3.189 6academic year.Total 16.00 5.547 14Comparing

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Hu P.E., Tatung University; Amy Shumin Chen, Tatung University, Center for General Education; Yung-Yu Chen; Chao Yang Yang, Tatung University; Ching-Long Yeh

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Materials

definition of“design” as “the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system ormeasurable human interaction [from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design].” Designing usually needs to consider the aesthetic,functional, economic and societal dimensions of both the design object and design process.Learning the design methods and processes through project-based learning activities seems tobe an important route for students to understanding the merging of materials science withengineering for future challenges as reported [4-6]. Introducing designing processesthrough project-based learning activities will enable students to see how the fundamentalconcepts of science and

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University (Network for Computational Nanotechnology)

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Diversity

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Materials

crystal structures. These activities aid students’ visualization skills,allowing them to physically manipulate atoms rather than relying on spatial reasoning. However,these activities are limited in the types of views and planes that can be visualized, and are alsodifficult to scale to large-lecture situations. One alternative is to use the plan view, which showsspecific slices through a unit cell and provides information about crystal symmetry [5]. Thisclarifies atomic positions for students, but does not allow students to visualize any plane of theirselection.Computer-based activities can provide students with more flexibility in manipulating structures.In 1996, Foley [6] developed a computer program, CrystalVis, to teach students about

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhihua Xu, University of Minesota Duluth; Victor Lai, University of Minnesota - Duluth; Ping Zhao, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Materials

processing and applications(performance) of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites.7-8 As one-semester courses, theseclasses do not discuss in-depth about thermal, electrical, optical and magnetic properties, ormodern materials such as semiconductors, biomaterials, and smart materials. Students areencouraged to engage in independent study of these topics if necessary to complete their groupprojects.In the first week of the semester, each group of three or four students is tasked to pick anyengineering material of their choice and submit an abstract consisting of a brief description of thematerial, and their plans to present this material to the class. Subsequently, students spend thenext eight weeks investigating their material of choice in

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Jordan, Baylor University

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Materials

teamsand pursue different topics.The last two thirds of the semester had the students first plan, and then conduct, a set ofexperiments to test out their hypotheses. The final result of the class was a group report andpresentation. There was an open invitation to the M.E. program to come and observe the finalpresentations. The deliverables for the course were typically:  Final group presentation  Final group report  Individual executive summary of their work  Peer assessment of their fellow team membersSince the composite materials elective course is offered about every other year, there was noassumption that the students had taken that course before they took this one. Students wererequired to have taken the strength course so

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Rishi Kripalani

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Materials

fabricate at least 1000 individualbatteries. (A chemical hygiene plan for making these solutions can be downloaded from thedigital commons, http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/mate_sop/.)Battery Procedure (See Appendix I for a list of equipment and materials): 1. Layout the design to be printed or email the authors to request their design; 2. Print the layout onto Whatman#1 chromatography paper using a Xerox ColorQube 8580N wax printer; 3. Heat on a hotplate of 150°C for about 60 seconds or hold near a candle flame until the wax has wicked through to the backside of the chromatography paper; 4. Add Al and Ag electrodes with connecting copper tape lines; 5. Dose Technicloth© pads and half-cell regions with 1.7 𝜇L of 1 M AlCl3, 1.7

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University; Vishal R. Mehta, Ohio Northern University

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Materials

memo.3) Assignment 3There are required and optional parts for this assignment. The required part is a PowerPointpresentation from each group to present their results in the class at the end of the semester.Grading of this assignment was based on presentation skills and the content. The optional part isfor the students to make extra points. It is an ambitious plan to ask first semester freshmen towrite a formal project report and do a test that they have never done before. For this last part ofthe project, only those students who feel confident and interested to earn extra points would dothis part. A bending test was asked to be performed in the material lab to find the failure load ofthe component, and then to compare the test result with the