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Materials Division Technical Session 3

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Grace M. Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica Krogstad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Pinshane Y. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicola H. Perry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Paper ID #29797Impact of Integrating Computation into Undergraduate Curriculum: NewModules and Long-Term TrendsMs. Grace M. Lu, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Grace Lu is a Ph.D. student and the computational teaching assistant in the Materials Science and Engi- neering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She obtained her B.A. in Physics and Math from Northwestern University. Her research in the Trinkle Group uses machine learning and a variational principle to calculate mass transport in alloys.Prof. Dallas R Trinkle , University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dallas R. Trinkle

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

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Siddha Pimputkar, Lehigh University; Gregory Mark Skutches, Lehigh University; Sabrina Starr Jedlicka, Lehigh University

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Paper ID #29199Enhancing student appreciation for materials science: Integration ofdomain specific project-based learning in an introductory materialsscience courseDr. Siddha Pimputkar, Lehigh University Siddha Pimputkar earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Ph.D. in Materials from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He joined the Materials Sci- ence and Engineering Department at Lehigh University in 2016 as an Assistant Professor and has since been establishing a lab focused on the bulk and thin-film synthesis of single-crystal nitride materials and other

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Laura Ann Gelles, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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solutions to modern problems.While traditional engineering programs provide students with the technical skills required oftheir profession, students often lack the knowledge and resources on how to incorporate complexenvironmental and social factors into decision-making so that they are prepared to face society’sevolving challenges. As part of a larger initiative to integrate traditional technical skills withenhanced social awareness into the engineering curriculum, a two-part module emphasizing theenvironmental and social design considerations of sustainability was added to an existing moduleseries in a third-year Materials Science course. This paper will describe the design,implementation, and assessment of one part of this module entitled “The

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

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Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford; Kamau Wright, University of Hartford; Paul E. Slaboch, University of Hartford

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significantimprovement in students’ writing skills [21].The primary stage for the effort of improving engineering students’ writing skills can beincorporating writing instruction into laboratory courses which require lab reports. Requiringformal lab reports is an effective tool to integrate substantive learning into a written structure aswell as integrating communication skills into curriculum. It has been suggested that increasingthe number of collaborative writing assignments in the form of lab reports will result insignificant levels of improvement [18].This paper describes a series of teaching strategies to enhance students’ technical writing in thecontext of group-based lab assignments. A description of the methodologies employed, andoutcomes of assessment

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

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Kaitlin Tyler, ANSYS Inc.; Claes Fredriksson, ANSYS Granta; Hannah Melia, ANSYS Inc.

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graduates is alsoevolving; emphasis on more than just technical knowledge: communication, teamwork, and otherprofessional skills are in high demand. Such a shift has occurred that ABET, the accreditationboard used by many universities worldwide, has adapted its student outcomes and designdefinitions to include these topics as fundamental to engineering degrees [8].Materials science and engineering (MSE) as a discipline is also evolving. What started out asmetallurgy and ceramics has now evolved to include polymers, electronic materials, andbiomaterials. The field has become more interdisciplinary, with simulation and softwareprograms are now an integral part of the curriculum. Despite all these changes, degrees take thesame length of time. Since

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Materials Division Technical Session 4

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Jacob Kelter, Northwestern University; Jonathan Daniel Emery, Northwestern University; Uri Wilensky, Northwestern University

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, elementary school children routinely learn long division andmultiplication. Wilensky and Papert [7] termed this type of change in representational form a“restructuration” of knowledge and argued that computational, agent-based representations couldhave equally dramatic benefits for understanding complex phenomena, because they foregroundhow macro-level properties emerge from micro-level rules.Several groups have investigated the use of ABM to help students learn about emergentphenomena in materials science [8] and related subjects of chemistry [9], [10] and physics [11].This study investigates the use of ABM for learning about diffusion as the first step in a design-based research process [12] to create an effective diffusion curriculum for