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Conducting remote materials education and outreach with in-person communities: implementation and reflections

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Page Count

23

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41477

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https://peer.asee.org/41477

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456

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Brian Iezzi University of Michigan

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Current PhD student at the University of Michigan in Materials Science and Engineering. Have experience with materials outreach locally with our graduate student organization as well as internationally with the Joint Undertaking for an African Materials Institute (JUAMI). More information about our outreach efforts at Michigan can be found here (https://bit.ly/mseoutreach) and JUAMI here (https://bit.ly/juamiocf). Looking forward to the conference!

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Paul Chao University of Michigan

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Kyle Bushick University of Michigan

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Joshua Cooper University of Michigan

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Joshua Cooper is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan in Professor Rachel Goldman's research group. He studies solute incorporation in semiconductor alloys such as GaAsN, GaAsNBi and ZnTeN primarily by ion beam analysis techniques. Joshua is also a member of the University of Michigan's Materials Science and Engineering Outreach Team. The MSE Outreach Team puts on events including demonstrations and labs that are designed to expose grade school students to fundamentals, topics, and career info in the field of materials science and engineering.

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Tathya Shinde University of Michigan

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Tathya Shinde is pursuing a Master's degree at the University of Michigan. He advised by Dr. Pena-Francesh and works on polymeric systems for soft acutation.

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Timothy Chambers University of Michigan

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Lecturer in Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. Go Blue!

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Duncan Greeley University of Michigan

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted educators all over the world and a major area of disruption has been the ability for higher education institutions to provide meaningful STEM education activities to the broader community. In this work, methods to adapt materials science outreach activities to meet the needs of students, teachers, and the community at large during the pandemic are explored and outcomes and recommendations are provided. This is accomplished through a focus on three efforts: fully-virtual classroom visits, remote visitation for in-person classrooms, and an innovative hybrid museum tour that showcases materials science in art for general community outreach. Results show that methods developed with restrictions on in-person interaction in place can have benefits in terms of the ability to reach broader audiences while also fostering more consistent interaction between those broader audiences and those conducting outreach. These methods also have the potential to remain effective even following a return to "normal" conditions and thus supplement and positively augment pre-pandemic methods.

Iezzi, B., & Chao, P., & Bushick, K., & Cooper, J., & Shinde, T., & Chambers, T., & Greeley, D. (2022, August), Conducting remote materials education and outreach with in-person communities: implementation and reflections Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41477

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