Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 6

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Paul Steimel, Humboldt State University; JuEun Lee, Humboldt State University

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Diversity

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Materials Division (MATS)

problem-solving.A key innovation is the use of AI-driven modeling tools alongside open educational resources(OER), eliminating financial barriers from costly textbooks and software. Students publish theirsimulations on the Mathematica Demonstrations platform, gaining professional feedback andexperience with scholarly publication. The course structure promotes engagement, teamwork,and equity, ensuring all students—particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds—actively participate and build confidence in both experimental and computational research.Preliminary results suggest improvements in student performance, engagement, andpreparedness for careers involving AI and data-driven engineering. In particular the cohortshowed a statistically

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Lisa Lao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; LAY POH TAN

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Diversity

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Materials Division (MATS)

critical challenges society faces. In the ever-advancing engineeringindustry, how would our Materials Engineering education system adequately prepare ourstudents with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to adapt and excel in their career?What are the learning outcomes that are required to support such excellence?To design these learning outcomes in our curriculum, gathering and analysing relevantstakeholders’ input is crucial. This paper presents our endeavour in partnering thestakeholders (students, educators/faculty, alumni and employers) to understand the gaps andneeds of Materials Engineering education. Consultations with the stakeholders were designedto rally around three main focus areas namely (i) to evaluate the existing

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 5

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Chambers, University of Michigan; Katie Snyder, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Materials Division (MATS)

general public as well as business leaders. As such, we redesigned the communicationactivities and deliverables for the course to better prepare students to interact with non-academicaudiences in their careers. The course consists of four major projects, each lasting 3-4 weeks. In the fourth project,students choose their own topics and conclude with a poster fair; that project will not bediscussed here. For the first three projects, as instructors we considered a variety ofcommunication scenarios, genres, and deliverable types that might make sense in connectionwith each of the technical topics. Our goal was to help students develop skills in communicatingwith a wide variety of audiences, including different levels of technical expertise on