. Minor’s honors include the LBL Materials Science Division Outstanding Performance Award (2006 & 2010), the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS (2012) and the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America (2015). In 2023 he served as President of the Microscopy Society of America. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: Integrating programming-based modules into a materials characterization laboratory course to reinforce data science and scientific writing Abstract The interdisciplinary nature of materials science and engineering (MSE) asks under- graduate majors in MSE to