Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Materials

preparation, testing, and properties of Portland cement. Implementing a methodologygenerally consistent a project based learning approach, the students worked in teams toexplore real-world problems involving mixing, placing, curing, and testing of concrete. It iswidely held that project based learning contains two essential components: (1) a drivingquestion or problem that serves to organize and drive activities, which taken as a wholeamounts to a meaningful project; and (2) a culminating product(s) or multiple representationsas a series of artifacts, personal communications, or consequential tasks that meaningfullyaddresses the driving question.1 In this project, the students were challenged to examine aeqoogtekcnn{"cxckncdng"Ðtgcf{-to-wugÑ"eqpetgvg

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schubert, Packer Engineering; Kara Cunzeman, Purdue University

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Materials

AC 2008-969: ULTRA-HIGH TEMPERATURE MATERIALS FOR LUNARPROCESSINGPeter Schubert, Packer Engineering Dr. Schubert conducts research into alternate energy, space-based manufacturing, and engineering education at Packer Engineering in Naperville, IL. He is Senior Director, and has served as PI on projects from DOE, NASA and the GSA. He has published 51 technical papers, has 26 US patents, and is an instructor with the Society of Automotive Engineers. Prior experience includes 21 years in automotive electronics with Delphi Corporation, where he was a Technical Fellow. His doctorate in EE from Purdue was sponsored by a GM Fellowship. His MSEE is from U. of Cincinnati on a Whirlpool

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Induction Pulse Electric MotorIntroductionThis is an excellent design and fabrication project that can be used in introductoryengineering classes to teach motor principles as well as material selection. The basicconcept of this activity was originally developed by Beakman’s World, and I haveimproved it over the past ten years while teaching motor principles at the university level.Standard Radio Shack materials can be used. One of the most important improvements isreplacing the paperclip based motor cradle for one made from copper wire.The primary objective of this project is to gain an understanding of electric motorprinciples; and the materials needed to convert electricity and magnetism into motion.Keywords related to this project include

Conference Session

Materials Education Perspectives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Blicblau, Swinburne University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

AC 2008-1374: USING ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO REPOSITORIES AS ASTUDENT RESOURCE FOR MSE APPLICATIONSAaron Blicblau, Swinburne University of Technology "Aaron Blicblau graduated as materials engineer and worked in the manufacturing and steel industry for ten years. He then commenced lecturing at Swinburne University of Technology specialising in materials science and engineering to students ranging form first year to final year. . He has been involved in implementing novel teaching procedures to improve the learning aspects of students as well as his own teaching processes. Over the past few years he has adopted and implemented active learning measures including problem based and project based

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz, Purdue University Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Materials

. Page 13.248.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Basswood BridgesAbstractThe “Elementary Engineering Design” course for freshmen students at Purdue UniversityCalumet consists of two components: one ME and one EE. Due to the two part structure and inorder to expose the students to the faculty, it is also team taught. The course counts as twocredits, with the format one hour lecture and three hours lab. The basswood bridge is the majorproject of the ME half and counts for one quarter of the total course grade. The object, as isusual with bridge projects, is to design, build and test a truss bridge having a high strength toweight ratio. The design process includes statics analysis in combination

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Bream, Granta Design, Ltd.; Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge

Tagged Divisions

Materials

them to develop this interest further.This paper presents the methodology, tools and resources of CES EduPack. Thisteaching aid provides a simple, highly visual and engaging framework that enablesstudents to build a perspective, understanding and an enthusiasm for the subject ofmaterials and processes. The paper also illustrates how CES EduPack’s tools can beused to complement a range of teaching and learning styles, including: design-led,science-led, and project-based techniques.Approaches to materials teachingThere are two main approaches to teaching materials: the science and the design-ledapproaches. In many circumstances (for example, when teaching students of Physicsor of Materials Science) it makes sense to use the traditional science

Conference Session

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Targeted Academic Research Center), and Semiconductor & MicrosystemsFabrication Laboratories (SMFL). Materials characterization and testing needs in these researchprojects are partially met by equipment available in the Advanced Materials Lab (AML).AML is the only facility at RIT that has equipment for scanning probe microscopy (SPM), x-raydiffraction (XRD), micro- and nano- indentation, and quantitative imaging. With greaterparticipation of undergraduate students in research projects involving microelectronic thin films,photo-voltaic materials, MEMS devices and nano-crystalline tribological coatings, AML hasexperienced a surge in demand for its materials characterization and testing services in the lastfive years. To help undergraduate and

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Materials

laboratory experiments are typical examples of active learning.Depending on the course objectives, the laboratory experiments are either of a cookbook typewhere students follow a set of instructions and all produce similar results, an organized projecttype where the instructions are not precise and allow for some creativity, an open-ended projecttype where the course instructor has a reasonable knowledge of the final outcome, or researchwhere neither the students nor the instructor know the final outcome of the experiments. Thedescribed experiment falls in the organized project type category since the given instructions arenot precise. In addition, the steps whereby students analyze the obtained results, compare themwith the results obtained by

Conference Session

Materials Education Perspectives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajiv Asthana, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Tagged Divisions

Materials

, 2008 Writing a Book on the Role of Materials Science in Manufacturing for Instruction and Research: Lessons LearnedAbstractIn 2006, the author and two colleagues published a materials science book that tried to integratebasic elements of processing science and manufacturing technology from a materials scientist’sviewpoint. The book project essentially evolved as a scholarly experiment designed to 1) addressopportunities and challenges faced over a decade of instructing students from diverse disciplines,and 2) create a cross-over instructional resource that emphasized the solid role of materialsscience in manufacturing for use chiefly by students of engineering studying manufacturingprocesses and materials science. The goal

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mir Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

impact properties are studied as part of overall materials education within anundergraduate curriculum. Materials and mechanical design are interrelated which wasorchestrated by this project. A student group designed and built a bench top tensile impact testerfor polymers. The prototype is successfully tested. Experimental procedure has been laid outclearly for easy experimentation. The quality of data and confidence in procedure can beimproved by using standard and accurately produced specimens. The design can be scaled up fortesting stronger or larger specimens as energy is limited by the arm length and weight of thependulum. However, it is not practical to keep building new testers but a well calibrated testerand carefully designed laboratory

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

Tagged Divisions

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

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

Tagged Divisions

Materials

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Holt, MSE at VT

Tagged Divisions

Materials

-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

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and a manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop