Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

, laboratory skills, personality and availability. Typically, half of the instructors arereturning students who have taught this or another sophomore lab in the past, and the other halfare teaching a lab course for the first time.Training of Instructors: In the week prior to each lab experiment, student instructors as a groupare provided two hours of training in experimental principles and procedures, hands-on use of Page 14.1143.7equipment and instruments by the faculty coordinator. In this training session, we also identifywhere an equipment or instrument could malfunction, and how to fix it. Often one or morestudent instructors have a prior

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Folz, Virginia Tech; Christine Burgoyne, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

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Materials

AC 2009-313: REDESIGNING A JUNIOR-LEVEL MATERIALS PROCESSINGLABORATORY COURSE TO AID STUDENTS IN APPLYING THEORY TOPRACTICEDiane Folz, Virginia Tech Diane Folz is a Senior Research Associate and Laboratory Instructor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. She also is the faculty advisor for the Material Advantage Student Professional Organization and of the Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research (JUMR). In addition to teaching the materials processing laboratories, she mentors at least one team each year in their senior capstone project.Christine Burgoyne, Virginia Tech Christine Bala Burgoyne is the Assistant Director and Instructor of the

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Materials

instructions that were assignment-specific. Therefore, I started to add handouts and lecture discussion points for each labexperiment, emphasizing key points needed for each assignment. Table 1 summarizes thetimeline of teaching of graphing skills to 122 students in twelve materials classes over ninesemesters. The following discussion explains these improvements in more detail.Semester Class size ImprovementS04 10 New laboratory manual and guide for creating graphs for lab reports.F04 –S05 9F05 11 Rockwell vs. Brinell diagram in lab manual.S06 8 Rubric for grading lab reports.F06 15 Handout explaining how to set up the spreadsheet for

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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Materials

metallurgicalengineering curriculum as a kinesthetic teaching tool will be implemented in several levelsstarting at the sophomore level. The first metallurgical/materials engineering courses availablefor SDSM&T undergraduates are sophomore level courses and they include two concurrentcourses: a 3 credit hour lecture “Properties of Materials” (MET-232) and a 1 credit hourlaboratory “Structure and Properties of Materials Laboratory” (MET-231). The next set ofcourses in the undergraduate curriculum sequence are “Physics of Metals” (MET-330) and the“Physics of Metals Laboratory” (MET-330L), and finally “Mechanical Metallurgy” (MET-440)and the “Mechanical Metallurgy Laboratory” (MET-440L). The curriculum modifications tothese lectures and laboratories are

Conference Session

Outreach and Hands-on Materials

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bahr, Washington State University

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Materials

AC 2009-2437: A MATERIALS OUTREACH PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY MSEUNDERGRADUATES FOR JUNIOR-HIGH STUDENTS FOCUSED ONGRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONSDavid Bahr, Washington State University Page 14.47.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A Materials Outreach Program Developed by MSE Undergraduates for Junior High Students Focused on Grade Level ExpectationsAbstractThe Material Advantage chapter at Washington State University has developed a teaching toolkitto address materials related topics for students at the 7th and 8th grade levels in the state ofWashington. The students in the chapter surveyed junior high school science teachers in regardsto topics they

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan; Crisca Bierwert, University of Michigan; Lindsay Shuller, University of Michigan

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Materials

U-M. Her current research interests include the effect of instructional technology on student learning and performance, effective teaching strategies for new graduate student instructors, and the impact of GSI mentoring programs on the mentors and mentees.Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan Joanna Millunchick is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and is affiliated with the Applied Physics Program and the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining UM in 1997, Millunchick was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. She received her B.S. in Physics from DePaul University in 1990, and her Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

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Materials

at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design. He has also co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes.Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Materials

point of emphasis that seems to fallsomewhere between plea and demand. “It is extremely important that you read the textbook”, henotes. “It is very difficult for you to understand the concepts and succeed in this class withoutreading the text and attending all lectures.”As he sets the syllabus aside, the instructor expresses his desire for the class to work hard andenjoy the semester of materials science. He then pauses for a moment. “But above all else,” henotes, “I would like you use this course to become a more creative, more innovative engineer.”BackgroundCollege instructors have been struggling with a lack of creative skill development in theirstudents for many decades. Creativity is by no means a new topic in teaching and learning, but