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

AC 2010-1276: STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANICALPROPERTIES OF METALS IN AN INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS SCIENCEENGINEERING COURSERebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University Rebecca Rosenblatt is a graduate research associate in the physics department working towards a PhD in physics education at The Ohio State University. She is currently investigating the evolution of student understanding of force, velocity, and acceleration, and she is working on this project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science.Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University Andrew F. Heckler is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Ohio State University. His original area of research was in

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Outreach

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith J. Bowman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University

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(MSE) Outreach Efforts of Evolving Design Standards for Elementary EducationIntroductionThe recently awarded National Science Foundation project, Science Learning throughEngineering Design (SLED) is one of nineteen targeted Math and Science Partnerships (MSPs)focused on science education and one of four MSPs focused on elementary education1. Severalstates, including Massachusetts2-4, Indiana5 and Minnesota6, have established engineering design-based standards that have potential implications for effectively engaging elementary schoolteachers and students with content related to materials science and engineering. Thirty-ninestates, the District of Columbia and the U. S. Virgin Islands, have also adopted

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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and high school teachers • Development of a multi-tiered advanced manufacturing program • Implementation of a program designed to promote increased awareness among underrepresented community college students regarding applying to medical and graduate school • Collaboration with federal labs and universities to prepare HCC students for summer research projects as part of a Homeland Security award • Development of specialized topic seminars in high-performance computing and programming • Numerous student and faculty research experiences at regional universities and federal agencies, and • Development and

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bre Przestrzelski, University of San Diego; Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Computing in the American Anthro- pological Association. She studies experts and their work in relation to environments, technologies, and human lives. Her current research projects deal with earthquake risk management technology in Mexico and the United States, environmental data justice in the US/Mexican borderlands, and the development and practice of engineering expertise.Dr. Susan M Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teach- ing and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Xinyue (Crystal) Liu, University of Toronto; Simo Pajovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cheuk Yin Larry Kei, University of Toronto; Yasaman Delaviz, York University; Scott D. Ramsay, University of Toronto

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Institute of Technology Simo Pajovic is a graduate student in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, where his research focuses on nanoscale transport phenomena. In 2019, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.ASc. in Mechanical Engineering. His capstone project was to design and prototype a benchtop universal testing machine for educational use. As an undergraduate research assistant, he worked on micromechanical characterization of lubricants used in aerospace applications and later designing and prototyping medical devices.Mr. Cheuk Yin Larry Kei, University of Toronto Larry Kei obtained his BASc in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2019. He is currently working in the

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

N 52 100 (A) the surface area of the indentation A 38 73 (B) the projected area of the indentation B 13 25 (C) the depth of the indentation C 1 2L3/Q5 In a K-alpha doublet diffraction peak of a metallic phase, the K-alpha-2 line N 52 100 (A) is always at a higher angle than the K-alpha-1 line A 33 63 (B) is always at a lower angle than the K-alpha-1 line B 14 27 (C) may be at a higher or lower angle than the K-alpha-1 line C 5 10L4/Q8 In plain carbon steels

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marguerite Anne Tuer-Sipos, University of Toronto; Stephen Manion, University of Toronto; Yasaman Delaviz, University of Toronto; Scott D. Ramsay, University of Toronto

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Paper ID #25924Quantifying Effectiveness of Three Unique Video Lecture Formats in a LargeFirst-Year Engineering Chemistry CourseMiss Marguerite Anne Tuer-Sipos, University of Toronto Marguerite Tuer-Sipos is a fourth year University of Toronto Materials Science and Engineering student currently pursuing her major thesis project in Engineering Education. Marguerite’s supervisor for the thesis project is Scott Ramsay, Associate Professor in the Materials Science & Engineering department at the University of Toronto.Mr. Stephen Manion, University of Toronto I am an undergraduate student in my final year of Materials

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Sarah Hoyt, Arizona State University

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Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Sarah Hoyt, Arizona State University Sarah Hoyt is currently the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tracy Zhang, Michigan State University; Robert Allen Bubeck, Michigan State University; Therese Aimei Joffre, Midland High School; Grace Anne Bremmer, H. H. Dow High School; Logan Patrick McNamara, H. H. Dow High School; Aaron Michael Heydenburg; Bingbing Li, Central Michigan University

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allowscustomized design and fabrication of scaffolds that can meet specific needs of each patient.Therefore, 3D printing has been heavily studied for prototyping tissue scaffolds that can mimicthe mechanical strength and biological environment of host bone tissues.8–10An eight-week summer project on 3D printed bone materials was designed for aspiring highschool rising seniors who are interested in biomaterials and engineering research. In this project,the Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) 3D printing technique was used for the fabrication ofbone scaffold models using various polymer and biopolymer filaments. Polymer scaffolds(1×1×1 cm3 cubes) with different infill geometries and densities were fabricated. The mechanicalproperties of these scaffolds were

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay M. Corneal, Grand Valley State University

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Materials

five questions (questions 6-10) assessed specific course components. For question 6,which assessed whether the lectures improved their understanding of the course material, themajority of the respondents indicated that they “extremely” agreed with the statement in thisquestion. Questions 7, 8, and 9 assessed the classroom discussions, group work, and Page 23.699.5assignments, projects, tests, and/or papers, respectively. For these questions, the majority of therespondents indicated that they “mostly” agreed with the statements in these questions. Forquestion 10, which assessed the course textbooks and readings, the greatest number

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University

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Materials

intensityfactor range (the so-called Paris Law), and use this to analytically estimate the number of loadcycles required to grow an existing crack from an initial size to a final size. The students aremade aware of the fact that Paris Law is applicable for stress intensity factor range higher thanthe threshold value ΔK th, a material parameter that is available in literature [1, 2] Page 23.193.2As a complementary exercise to the rotating beam fatigue test, an analytical activity has beenintroduced as a lab project to obtain the S-N curves for typical steels. In this activity thestudents construct S-N curve analytically using the crack propagation

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Andrea Marta Eller, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University

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Materials

engineering. His research interests are evaluating conceptual knowledge, miscon- ceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is cur- rently conducting research with NSF sponsored projects in the areas of: Modules to Promote Conceptual Change in an Introductory Materials Course, Tracking Student Learning Trajectories of Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Property Relationships, and Assessing the Effect of Learning Modes on Conceptual Change. Page 22.232.1

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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#3: Cold Working and Rockwell Hardness TestingLab #3 focuses on cold working and Rockwell hardness testing. In the demonstration, six HRC indents aremade on three different cold rolled Steel test blocks, and imaged using a 9600 dpi scanner. Using FijI, anellipse is fitted to each indent, and its area and perimeter values are recorded. In research, MeyerHardness, defined as Load in Kgf divided by the projected area of indentation in mm2, is often used.Meyer hardness correlates extremely well with HRC. From the perimeter and the cone angle of thediamond indenter, the depth of the indentation is calculated.For the assignment, students are provided with images of six HRBw indents on three different coldrolled Brass test blocks. They are asked to

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

Outreach and Hands-on Materials

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Magda, Weber State University

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Materials

AC 2009-1685: HANDS-ON LAB DEMONSTRATION TO TEACH HOWMECHANICAL PROPERTIES CHANGE DUE TO COLD WORKING ANDRECRYSTALLIZATIONDaniel Magda, Weber State University Page 14.663.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Hands on Lab Demonstration to Teach how Mechanical Properties Change Due to Cold Working and RecrystallizationAbstractLaboratories that employ hands-on demonstration to change material properties play animportant role in understanding why materials are selected for different design specifications.Engineering students take courses in mechanics of material, machine design, finite elementanalysis and capstone senior projects. These courses require

Conference Session

Outreach and Hands-on Materials

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dana Medlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael West, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Deborah Mitchell, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jon Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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of Mines and Technology. She is also Director of the Apex Gallery which is located on campus. She received a South Dakota Arts Council Fellowship in 2007. In addition to being an active professional artist she also has been conference chair for the Third Annual Conference on Art Culture Nature, an Arts Consultant for the state of Washington under the Western Sates Arts Federation, and a project director for Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Arts International. In addition she has written exhibition catalogs for artists such as Heidi Oberheide and Jane Catlin. She is a member of the College Art Association and FATE: Foundations in Art: Theory and Education.Jon Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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. Decker, JOM Sept 2006, p. 32-36 • Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artistry, Chemistry, Secrecy, M. Byko, JOM Sept 2007, p. 16-20 • Vocabulary words: cryolyte, electrolysis, bauxite, semiconductor, transistor, polyethylene, crosslinkI would like to add a “Today and Tomorrow” section that covers issues of the 21st century, but Ihave yet to find time in the curriculum to get that far. Potential topics include greenmanufacturing and recycling, sourcing rare earth materials, projected markets and how pricefluctuations could affect design, and materials for space travel.Student AssessmentAssessment was designed to balance making sure students were prepared for class discussionswith allowing them as much time as possible to explore their

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Afshin H. Zahraee, Purdue University Northwest

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industry working with the ”Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat” where he worked on funded projects to compare different structural systems performance when made of steel vs. concrete. He also worked as an intern at Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for two summers. Part of his work at IDOT involved collection and analysis of aggregates from different queries and sending reports to headquarters in Springfield, Illinois. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Enhancing Student Learning Through Pre-Lab Assignments and Virtual Reality / Simulation Components in the Strength of Materials Laboratory ExperimentsAbstractApplied Strength of

Conference Session

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Santosh Kurinec, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Jackson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Thomas Schulte, Rochester Institute of Technology; Nathaniel Kane, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elaine Lewis, Rochester Institute of Technology; Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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implementation of a cardboard boat race that included AP students from WestIrondequoit High School and Batavia High School. This was the culminating project forstudents who had challenged the AP-B Physics course. Student teams were tasked withdesigning a boat made solely from cardboard and duct tape that would carry two students acrossa school swimming pool. Understanding concepts in structural design and buoyancy werecritical to this project. It provided faster response to student questions and certainly made for astronger learning environment in teacher’s classroom. The response to this program during thefirst quarter was positive from both a student perspective as well as a teacher perspective. Theability to have someone with the necessary technical

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

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Materials

AC 2008-116: GUIDED INQUIRY LESSONS FOR INTRODUCTION TOMATERIALSElliot Douglas, University of Florida Elliot P. Douglas is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. His education research focuses on critical thinking, active learning in the classroom, and qualitative methods for engineering education. Page 13.660.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Guided Inquiry Lessons for Introduction to MaterialsAbstractThis proposal describes a project to develop and test new classroom materials for theIntroduction to Materials course within

Conference Session

Novel Approaches to Teaching Materials

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Materials

as a leader of innovation7. Based on these reports and findings it became obvious that education institutionsare key stakeholders to solve these challenges facing the nation at this juncture. Forexample, one of fourteen Grand Challenges for Engineering proposed by the NAE isidentified as Advancement of Personalized Learning8. In essence, the proposed changesare all focused on implementing student-centered learning pedagogies such as, activelearning, inquiry-based and project-based learning strategies into the classroom. Thebenefits of these instructional techniques include: peer learning, interactions &communications with instructors and peers, student monitoring of their learning,application of their learning to real world

Conference Session

Materials Lab Experiments and Demonstrations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Kessler, Iowa State University; Prashanth Badrinarayanan, Iowa State University

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Materials

relationship between the glass transition temperature and degree of crystallinity?4. Determine the melting point of each specimen? Does melting point depend on degree of crystallinity?5. Does the observed enthalpy of melting depend on the degree of crystallinity of the specimen?Lab 5: RHC DSC. In the next lab, Lab 5: RHC DSC, a prototype rapid heating and cooling rateDSC was used to investigate the same PET material. The course instructor’s research team atIowa State University has been serving as a “Beta”-testing site to evaluate TA Instrument’s (NewCastle, DE) pre-commercial rapid-scanning DSC (Project RHC DSC). This advanced instrumentis capable of making controlled scanning measurements at heating rates of over 1000 K/min andsimilarly fast

Conference Session

Interactive Approaches to Teaching Materials Fundamentals

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anastasia D Micheals, San Jose State University; Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University

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Materials

operation, experimental techniques and resulting data. Generalexperimental factors include systematic errors, and the correct interpretation of the role of errorsdue to instrumentation. Concepts specific to the characterization techniques themselves must alsobe mastered. For example, in SEM, the beam interaction volume affects the size of the sampledregion. For accurate EBSD results, the surface must be carefully prepared and free ofdeformation to avoid artifacts.The -Brass SystemThe present work derives from experiments performed as part of a graduate research project, Page 23.1345.4with the objective of characterizing alpha-brass (-brass), a

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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ToE. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020The Final Straw: Incorporating accessibility and sustainability considerations into material selection decisionsAbstractEngineers are called upon to balance and adapt to the competing demands of industry, theenvironment, and society to develop sustainable and equitable

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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, 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 work on transparent conducting oxides. Before he started at UIUC he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a project that aimed at a description of non-adiabatic electron ion dynamics. His research revolves around excited electronic states and their dynamics in various materials using accurate computational methods and making use of modern super computers in order to understand

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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Stanford University. Subsequently, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, also at Stanford University. He has been with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Illinois since 2006, where he now serves as Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, where he leads a research group that works on a diverse set of projects (http://bretl.csl.illinois.edu/). Dr. Bretl received the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award in 2010. He has also received numerous awards for undergraduate teaching in the area of dynamics and control, including all three teaching awards given by the College of Engineering at

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lessa Grunenfelder, University of Southern California

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component of thecourse. No negative comments were made about the labs. While the theory has not been tested, itis possible that the terminology choice of “Labs” for class activities labs was beneficial, asengineering students are familiar with a lab setting and respect labs as a valuable component ofthe discipline. This can be contrasted with connotations that may exist for words like “activities”or “group projects,” which may engender student resistance.Most negative comments related to the online system used for textbook readings and homework,an issue encountered in previous studies in which the same system has been implemented [8].While it has flaws, the WileyPLUS system enabled access to all course materials from onelocation (the Blackboard

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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understand? STUDENT 7: Well, [the resident engineer] has a lot of hands-on projects that we do. Experiments. And lately we have been doing a lot of labs too. MODERATOR: What makes science interesting to you? STUDENT 4: Well [the resident engineer], well sometime he makes it interesting with experiments. It was fun … and he helps put you into groups so you learn what you Page 23.67.7 don’t learn. STUDENT 1: [the resident engineer] makes it easier to learn. STUDENT 3: [the resident engineer] makes it fun and like you get to experiment with

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Holt, MSE at VT

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-reviewed publication.IntroductionThe Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research (JUMR) was developed in 2004 by thedepartment of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Virginia Tech. The primary purposeof this journal is to provide undergraduate students a chance to publish their research. Thesecondary purposes are to provide undergraduate and graduate students experience with the fullpublishing process.HistoryIn August of 2004, MSE graduate students at Virginia Tech formed the first editorial board forJUMR. The project was conceived after the department head received several publications fromother departments which had a wide variety of formats and various depths into materialsresearch. He discussed the possibilities of creating a

Conference Session

Materials Science and Engineering of 2020

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne (ET)

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45 seconds, and is independent of the university’s networksoftware. The third issue was more time-consuming: creating better handouts. As the second yearprogressed, several shortcomings of the 6-slides-to-a-page format became obvious: 1. Line thicknesses appropriate for a projection screen are too thick on a printed page, so graphs and engineering diagrams look like cartoons. These lines should be thinner, because 600 or 1200 dpi laser printing shows detail not visible with the current generation of low resolution projectors, and a reader can adjust the position of the page relative to the eye more easily than an audience member can move closer to a screen in a crowded lecture hall. Slides are designed to be