Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qu Jin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Materials

American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Measuring First Year Engineering Students’ Knowledge and Interest in Materials Science and EngineeringAbstract Previous studies have shown that engineering students were generally not very familiarwith Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). However, career decision theories suggest thatpeople need to be both knowledgeable and interested towards a career in order to make aninformed career choice. The purpose of this study was to measure first-year engineeringstudents’ knowledge and interest in MSE, and to compare the results from students who choseMSE as their major and students who did not. Open ended questions and a Likert-scale surveywere used to collect data from

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tiffany A Mathews, Penn State University; Kirstin Purdy Drew, Pennsylvania State University; Kristin Ann Dreyer, Center for Nanoscale Science (an NSF funded MRSEC)

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Diversity

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State Physics Department and the Center for NanoscaleScience, a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center(NSF-MRSEC), made a rapid pivot of our Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)program from an in-person 10-week research experience to a virtual research preparation andprofessional development program which was designed to prepare science and engineeringundergraduate and master’s students for entrance into the workforce or their continuation in agraduate program. The overarching goal of this virtual experience was to develop and refineprofessional skills that are often not explicitly taught in science and engineering classes. Theprogram had three distinct areas: (1) Career Preparation (Professional

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, The Ohio State University; Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University

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Materials

to your learning of visits Materials Science? 3 What were the benefits, if any, of these visits to your future career? Evaluation of 4 What do you think you missed out on, if anything, by having these online format visits virtually instead of having the visitor come to class in person? Relation to 5 Which visit was the most interesting to you personally, and why? personal 6 Which visit was the least interesting to you personally, and why? interests and goals 7 Which visit was the most beneficial to you personally, and why?Data analysisThematic analysis was used to determine

Conference Session

Creating 'Materials' Awareness

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Bridge, Maine Maritime Academy; Barbara Fleck, Maine Maritime Academy

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Materials

paper clips as examples,students discuss the general classes of materials and their properties. A new cable-stayed bridgeunder construction nearby is used as a prompt for students to generate a list of desirableproperties for structural materials. Demonstrations including tensile tests, compression tests, andthe effects of heat-treating steel are included in the program.Although the main objective of the Discovery Voyage program is to increase applications andenrollment at (our institution), we also want to positively influence the career aspirations ofstudents in the state. Students who participate in the engineering materials discussion anddemonstration learn about classes of materials, mechanical properties of materials and theirmeasurement

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sabrina Starr Jedlicka, Lehigh University

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Diversity

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Materials

Paper ID #29292Using Creative Writing as a Tool for Learning Professional Developmentin Materials Science and EngineeringDr. Sabrina Starr Jedlicka, Lehigh University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Using Creative Writing as a Tool for Learning Professional Development in Materials Science & EngineeringAbstractCourses in professional development can be a catch-all to address student skill building in areassuch as technical writing, communication, career path reflection, and ethics. While each of theseskills is important to student development, the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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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is a professor and associate head in Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University in 2003. Follow- ing his time as a National Research Council postdoctoral researcher at the Air Force Research Labo- ratory, he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a TMS Young Leader International Scholar in 2008, received the NSF/CAREER award in 2009, the Xerox Award for Faculty Research at Illinois in 2011, the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award in 2014, co-chaired the 2011 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research confer- ence, and became a Willett Faculty Scholar at

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bartlett Michael Sheinberg, Houston Community Collelge; Amanda Smith Hackler, STEM Evaluations and Educational Consulting Services, LLC

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Diversity

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Materials

engineering. During his thirty years plus at Houston Community College, he has formed collaborations across the country that have provided the opportunity for HCC students to participate in innovative research and materials programs. A significant number of these students have completed their undergraduate education, entered and finished their graduate education, and transitioned to careers. Mr. Sheinberg has Bachelor’s Degrees from the University of Texas (Austin) and University of Houston and a Master’s Degree from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (Houston). He serves on numerous regional, state and national committees. He is married to Beth Finefield, and they reside in Kingwood, TX.Dr

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Kessler, Iowa State University; Emily Merrick, Iowa State University; Lawrence Genalo, Iowa State University

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Materials

engineers. These societies are also beneficial to the career progression of their members byproviding networking and professional service opportunities.1 Typically, engineers are firstexposed to professional societies as college sophomores or juniors through pre-professionalstudent chapters of the society, where students are able to join at substantially reduced fees andparticipate in a variety of networking, project, and service experiences.2 Most often, studentscontinue their membership upon graduation from college and as a way to stay abreast of thechanges in their field and enhance their professional and technical capabilities.3At universities, active student pre-professional societies can greatly enhance the engineeringcurriculum. Reid and

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kalan Kucera, University of Kentucky; John Balk

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Materials

possible employment inthese areas before they can even learn about the industries. This research describes amethod aimed primarily at integrating information about industrial establishments,particularly those in iron and steel making, into first-year materials engineering curriculain order to acquaint students with a major national and international industry. A secondgoal is to educate students about the close relationship between steel and theirengineering studies. Through these unique integration measures—which involve usingaspects of industry as examples, and providing samples of manufactured products to adda tangible quality to classroom learning—not only would students have a wider array ofinformation leading to more informed career decisions

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Vollaro, Western New England College

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Materials

engineering profession and, the second is to provide an experience that would leave our participants with a positive impression about careers in engineering. WNEC faculty members highlight the creativity and problem-solving traits of engineers with examples from all disciplines of engineering. These ideas are put into action with a hands-on engineering design project, such as looping roller coasters or LegoTM vehicles, to fit the capabilities of girls in our target age group. A workbook, which contains the basic steps in the engineering design process and the specific instructions to complete the activity, was developed. The Girl Scouts work in teams of three or four, along with WNEC engineering students, who are the mentors for the activity. Insight

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

Outreach Activities and Introductory Materials Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter R. Hondred, Iowa State University; Karri M. Haen, Iowa State University; Adah Leshem, Iowa State University; Michael R. Kessler, Iowa State University

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Materials

degrees and careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) related fields.Currently, the pool of engineers in the United States is undersized to meet the needs of our society andeconomy [1]. If current trends do not change, the demand for engineers will surpass the supply ofengineers in the US [2]. A startling number of students in the US are failing to pass science benchmark standards at a Page 25.863.2proficient level. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, fewer than 1 out of 3students perform at or above the proficiency level in 8th grade science [3]. Students from low income andunderrepresented

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis

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Diversity

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Materials

tools [7]. Nonetheless, 24% of those students rankedthe CMSE course as the least valuable course in the curriculum! Studies at other institutions [6,8] have similarly found students respond positively towards computational skills when askedquestions such as “I feel computation (data visualization, modeling, and simulation algorithmdesign) will be useful in my career” [9]. Both studies found no significant change in theseattitudes before and after completing CMSE modules. However, these studies do not provide abasis for comparison to other topics; as Ref. [6] notes, “the students may have answered withaffirming responses simply to make the survey writer happy.” These three studies indicate thatfurther research is needed to understand students

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiao Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Materials

his appoint- ment at UIUC in August 2012. His research interests lie in materials science, molecular simulation, and machine learning, with particular directions in accelerated sampling using deep and manifold learning, and the design of antiviral vaccines, antimicrobial peptides, and self-assembling colloids and peptides. He is the recipient of a 2017 UIUC College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, 2016 AIChE CoMSEF Young Investigator Award for Modeling & Simulation, 2015 ACS OpenEye Out- standing Junior Faculty Award, 2014 NSF CAREER Award, 2014 ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator, and was named the Institution of Chemical Engineers North America 2013 Young Chemical Engineer of the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, The Ohio State University; Glenn S. Daehn, The Ohio State University; Michelle R. McCombs, The Ohio State University

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Materials

, 2016Implementation of Materials Science in the High School ClassroomHigh school science teachers often express two key challenges: teaching science in a way thatencourages students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, andmathematics) fields and equipping graduates with literacy in math and science required forsuccess in those fields. This paper describes a professional development program rooted in thefield of materials science that was developed to address these difficulties. The program is fundedby the U.S. Department of Education’s Math and Science Partnerships (MSP) program. Over thethree-year introductory phase of the program beginning in summer of 2012 and continuingthrough spring of 2015, several key goals were achieved and

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng-Wei Lee, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Shengchang Tang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Laboratory on a project that aimed at a description of non-adiabatic electron ion dynamics. He received the NSF CAREER award, the ONR YIP award, and the ACS PRF doctoral new investigator award.Prof. Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dallas R. Trinkle is a professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio State University in 2003. Following his time as a National Research Council postdoctoral researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory, he joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a TMS Young Leader International Scholar in 2008

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alina Kononov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew L. Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kristopher Alan Kilian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Professor Pascal Bellon is Professor In the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the Univer- sity of Illinois at Urbana-champaign. After earning a PhD in Materials Science from University of Paris 6, France, he worked for 7 years at CEA-Saclay, France, before joining the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 1996, where he was promoted to the ranks of Associate Professor in 2002 and Full Professor in 2009. He received an NSF career award in 1998 and awards from the Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education from the University of Illinois in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He received the Don Burnett teaching award

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, Ohio State University

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Materials

number ofquestions about their perceptions of the importance of various aspects of the MSE curriculum totheir career and their current preparation. Four questions in particular relate directly to theirperceived value and quality of preparation: • How important to your career is the ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice (ABET student learning outcome (k))? • What is your current preparation in the ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice? • How important to your career is the application of computational methods to solve materials problems? • What is your current preparation in the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, University of North Dakota; Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota

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Materials

, more than five years had passed since their last collegecourses prior to enrolling at UND. Approximately half of the students (46.7%) had takendistance courses prior to enrolling at UND.Over half of the respondents indicated that increasing their earning potential was a primarymotivator for enrolling in an undergraduate engineering program. Over a third of therespondents indicated they felt an engineering degree would help them change careers or obtain apromotion in their current career. Table 11 shows the reported reasons for choosing a distance Page 24.298.7degree program for their engineering education. The flexibility of a distance

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac L. Howard P.E., Mississippi State University; Braden T. Smith, Mississippi State University

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Materials

, yet rewarding, challenge withinundergraduate engineering programs. Effective writing and presentation skills are valuable forany profession. Effective communication skills, however, don’t just happen, especially for someengineering students as a strong preference to developing analytical and problem solving skillsisn’t uncommon. It can be difficult to develop communication skills that are likely to affectstudent’s careers during a time where they often do not hold them in high regard.The materials area within the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at MississippiState University (MSU) repeatedly experiences the situation described in the aforementionedparagraph. For example, it is much easier to motivate many students to calculate

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter R Hondred, Iowa State University; Denise Crawford, Iowa State University; Debbie Ann Victor, Des Moines Independent Schools; Michael R. Kessler, Iowa State University

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, talking and showing young people what it is thatyour work can mean, and what it means to you […] to thinking about new creative ways to engage youngpeople in science and engineering,” – words from President Obama at the National Academy of Scienceson the 27th of April 2009 as he urged the scientific community to find ways to cultivate the nextgeneration of scientists and engineers. A task that provides some hurdles considering these words came inthe wake of growing concern for the lack of students pursuing degrees and careers in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math) related fields. According to the National Center for EducationalStatistics, students who perform at or above the proficiency level in 8th grade science is fewer than 1 outof

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; William Joseph Stuart P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Bethany B. Smith, Arizona State University

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Learning Strategies from Spring 2014. For thestrategy of using contextualized hands-on classroom activities, 91% said it supported or stronglysupported their learning. For contextualized mini-lecture, 79% said it supported or stronglysupported their learning. Finally, for the statement, "Material I learned in this class will be ofvalue to me after graduation in career or graduate school," 86% agreed or strongly agreed.Overall, the key feature of contextualization of content in the web-enabled, engagement andfeedback pedagogy in the JTF project played an important role in enhancing student attitude,achievement, and persistence.Introduction The science of learning is moving forward rapidly, as described in How People Learn(HPL): Brain, Mind

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Louis Nadelson, Utah State University; Rick Ubic, Boise State University

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Materials

and five local middle and high school teacherson campus for an 8-week research experiences working with different lab groups. Given therelatively small number of participants, we chose qualitative interviews as our primary source ofdata for assessing the effectiveness of this program.The participants identified numerous positive aspects of participating in the summer researchprogram. Students appreciated the sense of community they developed with both the otherparticipants in the research program and the other members of their lab groups. Although most ofthe participants did not report the summer research experience as having a strong influence ontheir decisions to pursue graduate school or careers involving research, they did report

Conference Session

Curriculum Implementation of Materials Advances

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Santosh Kurinec, Rochester Institute of Technology; Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

desired properties onto the chips1. Variousprocesses and characterization techniques are being employed that need to be included incurricula designed to prepare workforce for seeking careers in the field of emerging technologyof microelectronics, MEMs and nanotechnology. 1980s 1990s 2000sFigure 1. More and more element constituents in materials employed in modern semiconductortechnology over the last two -three decades.The BS Program in Microelectronic EngineeringThe five-year BS program in Microelectronic Engineering began in 1982, consists of 196 quartercredit hour coursework with 15 months of mandatory co-op experience integrated throughout

Conference Session

Computational Tools & Analysis

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kisung Kang, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Matthew D. Goodman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Pinshane Y. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Foundation CAREER award and the NIH New innovator award.Prof. Pinshane Y. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pinshane Y. Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University, as well as a B.A. in Physics from Carleton College.Prof. Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Andr´e Schleife is a Blue Waters Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineer- ing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Diploma and Ph.D. at Friedrich- Schiller-University in Jena, Germany for his theoretical

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Blake Herren, University of Oklahoma; Ryan Cowdrey; Weston Scott Sleeper; Colin Bray; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Yingtao Liu, University of Oklahoma

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Paper ID #30130Enhancing Undergraduate Research across Disciplinaries: Integration of3-D Printing and Advanced Materials to Engage StudentsMr. Blake Herren, University of Oklahoma I am a first year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at the University of Oklahoma. I graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering in May 2018 from OU. I currently work as a TA and RA in a new additive manufacturing lab lead by my advisor, Dr. Yingtao Liu. As I start my career in research, I hope to enhance my creativity and learn to identify and solve problems within my field.Mr. Ryan CowdreyMr. Weston Scott

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Otto Wilson, Catholic University of America

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Biomaterials (BONE/CRAB Lab). Otto is also very involved in K-12 educational outreach. He was recently awarded a NSF CAREER Award for his proposal entitled “Bone Inspiration in Research and Education. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Debra and their wonderful sons, Otto III (7) and Daniel 18 months). Page 12.1095.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Nanoscale Hetero-coagulation and Adsorption Phenomena: Magnetic Bone MineralAbstractThe Magnetic Bone Mineral demonstration was developed to provide students with a simple wayto visualize

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Cadwell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Materials

pursueresearch projects with faculty members, these programs also offer workshops,2,3,4 courses,5,6 andeven “boot-camp”-style summer research experiences7 that focus on topics such as performingscientific literature searches, the role of the engineer in society, research and engineering ethics,communicating research findings, careers in research and even applying to graduate school.The topics covered by these programs and the ones we describe below are among the issues thatthe Council on Undergraduate Research points to as critical for a successful undergraduateresearch experience associated with "socializ[ing] students in the research laboratory culture."8This ranges from topics as diverse as the values and ethics of research, safety, group dynamics

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle M. Blum, Syracuse University; Katie D. Cadwell, Syracuse University; Julie M. Hasenwinkel, Syracuse University

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inspiring introduction, andcan be a clear illustration of how materials play a role in the world around them. It makesengineering both approachable and relevant. The science classes that high school students,college freshman and sophomores take typically present collections of theories and laws usingtechniques that do not foster creativity, experimentation and curiosity. As a result, studentsincreasingly fail to pursue careers in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).For the past 10 years the number of high school seniors who plan on entering an engineeringcareer has dropped more than 35%.1 Additionally, attrition rates of engineering disciplines havebeen as high as 50%,2 and minority students have been shown to receive less than 8

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, University of North Dakota

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) DEDP Campus DEDP Campus DEDP Campus Q14 2.15 2.04 3.20 3.42 1.33 1.58 Q15 2.20 2.24 3.55 3.62 1.83 1.58 Q16 2.00 2.13 3.25 3.09 1.67 1.05Comparison of On-campus and Distance End-of-Term Survey ResultsStudents were asked to report their reason for enrolling in the course. The results are shown inTable 6. Because students could report more than one factor, results add to more than 100%.The single biggest motivation for enrolling in this elective course for both distance and campusstudents was the relevance of the course material to their career field. The second