Adventures with a Flipped Classroom and a Materials Science and Engineering MOOC : “Fools Go Where Angels Fear to Tread”

2013 ◽  
Vol 1583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce M. Clemens ◽  
Chinmay Nivargi ◽  
Antony Jan ◽  
Yuxiang Lu ◽  
Emily Schneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Energy Solution ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Future ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering

ABSTRACTIn the fall of 2012 the Stanford University materials science course Solar Cells, Fuel Cells and Batteries: Materials for the Energy Solution was offered as a flipped class and a massively open online course (MOOC). To the best of our knowledge, this was the first materials science MOOC. Here we describe how the course was implemented, and present results on performance, demographics and other observations that were made. Finally, we provide some perspectives for the future of the implementation of these engineering MOOCs.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence to Power the Future of Materials Science and Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1900143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wuxin Sha ◽  
Yaqing Guo ◽  
Qing Yuan ◽  
Shun Tang ◽  
Xinfang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Future ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence to Power the Future of Materials Science and Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 2070042
Author(s):  
Wuxin Sha ◽  
Yaqing Guo ◽  
Qing Yuan ◽  
Shun Tang ◽  
Xinfang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Future ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering

A System for Production and Dissemination of Modular Instructional Materials

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Hewitt ◽  
Rustum Roy ◽  
B. E. Knox
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Experimental System ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
The Future ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Computerized System

The textbook is greatly limited as a means of meeting the educational requirements of new syncretic disciplines like materials science and engineering. Print modules may be the direction of the future in these cases. Accessed by key words in a computerized system, custom made courses of such modules could be quickly prepared. An experimental system is being developed to do this with a special emphasis on cost efficient dissemination through a Journal with free reproduction rights.

The Future of Materials Undergraduate Programs: Can we Avoid Extinction?

2005 ◽  
Vol 909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Vanasupa
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Nature ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Engineering Majors ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Future ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
Undergraduate Programs

AbstractIn materials research, the current funding focus has shifted from largely mechanical-properties based aspects of materials to their molecular-level chemical nature, such as biomaterials or nanoscale phenomenon. Along with this shift in emphasis, we have seen many undergraduate materials programs become absorbed by other programs as a concentration in other engineering majors. Many programs have absolved departments in favor of a model where faculty from a variety of departments have adjunct appointments in, say, an interdisciplinary materials science and engineering program. What exactly is the fate of undergraduate materials programs? Is it time for materials science and engineering undergraduate programs to be absorbed into the sea of interdisciplinarity? In this talk, I will present data on the landscape of trends within the undergraduate materials community against the changes in the global arena. What is our role as materials science and engineering educators in the societal state of flux that we face? What are the opportunities? In an attempt to see into the future, we will consider all these questions.

Everything you've always wanted to know about what your students think they know but were afraid to ask.

2000 ◽  
Vol 632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Werwa
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Museum Exhibit ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Properties Of Materials ◽  
Formal Science ◽  
Lay Public

ABSTRACTA review of the educational literature on naive concepts about principles of chemistry and physics and surveys of science museum visitors reveal that people of all ages have robust alternative notions about the nature of atoms, matter, and bonding that persist despite formal science education experiences. Some confusion arises from the profound differences in the way that scientists and the lay public use terms such as materials, metals, liquids, models, function, matter, and bonding. Many models that eloquently articulate arrangements of atoms and molecules to informed scientists are not widely understood by lay people and may promote naive notions among the public. Shifts from one type of atomic model to another and changes in size scales are particularly confusing to learners. People's abilities to describe and understand the properties of materials are largely based on tangible experiences, and much of what students learn in school does not help them interpret their encounters with materials and phenomena in everyday life. Identification of these challenges will help educators better convey the principles of materials science and engineering to students, and will be particularly beneficial in the design of the Materials MicroWorld traveling museum exhibit.

scholarly journals Metal Nano/Microparticles for Bioapplications

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 4543
Author(s):  
Xuan-Hung Pham ◽  
Seung-min Park ◽  
Bong-Hyun Jun
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Functional Materials ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Micro Particles ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering

Nano/micro particles are considered to be the most valuable and important functional materials in the field of materials science and engineering [...]

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