NSF NSDL Materials Digital Library & MSE Education

2005 ◽  
Vol 909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Bartolo ◽  
Sharon C. Glotzer ◽  
Cathy S Lowe ◽  
Adam C. Powell ◽  
Krishna Rajan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
State University ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
National Science ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Research And Education

AbstractThe National Science Foundation created the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) in order to establish a technical, communal, and organizational framework for access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. As part of the NSDL, the Materials Digital Library (MatDL) Pathway focuses specifically on serving the materials science (MS) community with a target audience that includes MS undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and researchers. MatDL is a collaborative effort involving the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Kent State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Iowa State University, and Purdue University. Our network of collaborations also includes a Nanoscience Interdisciplinary Research Team, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and International Materials Institute. A primary goal of MatDL is to bring materials science research and education closer together. MatDL provides innovative uses of digital libraries and the web as educational media in the MS community with particular emphasis on providing: 1) tools to describe, manage, exchange, archive, and disseminate scientific data 2) workspace for open access development of modeling and simulation tools 3) services and content for virtual labs in large undergraduate introductory science courses, and 4) workspace for collaborative development of core undergraduate MS teaching resources for emerging areas. This paper will provide an overview of the NSDL MatDL Pathway, details about specific aspects of the project, as well as interactions between research and education.

MatDL.org: The Materials Digital Library and the National Science Digital Library Program

2004 ◽  
Vol 827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Bartolo ◽  
Sharon C. Glotzer ◽  
Javed I. Khan ◽  
Adam C. Powell ◽  
Donald R. Sadoway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Soft Matter ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Workflow Technology ◽  
National Science ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Institute Of Technology

AbstractThe National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Program is a premier collective portal of authoritative scientific resources supporting education and research. With funding from NSF, the Materials Digital Library (MatDL) is a collaborative project being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (NIST/MSEL), the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M), with Kent State University and University of Colorado at Boulder providing the materials science informatics and workflow technology backbone. As part of the NSDL program, MatDL aims to supports the interface of materials science information and its cognate disciplines, with an emphasis on soft matter. Initial content of MatDL begins with resources selected from NIST/MSEL. Students and faculty in three types of materials science and engineering (MSE) courses at MIT and U-M are taking part in a pilot to use and contribute to MatDL utilizing domain-specific authoring tools. Given the central and interdisciplinary role of materials science in science and engineering, two goals of MatDL are to: 1.) expand its founding partnership with additional participants from the MSE community; and 2.) facilitate the flow of digital materials related knowledge from laboratories where the most recent research discoveries are taking place to the classrooms where new scientists are being trained.

The Changing Paradigm for Business Success in Advanced Materials and Components Manufacturing

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Barnett ◽  
H.K. Bowen ◽  
K. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Electronic Materials ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Molecular Engineering ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The use of manmade materials progressed rather slowly until the science and technology of metals, refractories, and glass burst forth in the mid-1800s and continued its infancy through the first decades of the 20th century. In fact, much of the scientific wherewithal in industrial nations focused on the development of manmade materials from the standpoint of properties and fabrication processes. From the discipline of metal physics, which emerged in the 1930s, and from the scientific activities in ceramics, polymers, and electronic materials that blossomed in the 1940s and 1950s, a science and engineering base was established, enabling advanced materials and components to be fabricated, often for specific end-user applications. The molecular engineering of crystals, for example, has its roots in von Hippel's studies of dielectric materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which began in the 1930s. In this time frame, society, which had primarily used such materials as wood, gypsum, clay, copper, zinc, lead, and iron, turned to a broader set of materials to meet new uses. These new applications required an understanding not only of the composition of matter, but of novel and difficult processes as well. Research specialties broadened.From the late 1950s to the present, the knowledge base for materials and components has exploded. In this period, the scientific and technological field of endeavor—materials science and engineering (MS&E) — evolved from a collection of discrete, disparate arts and crafts with varied amounts of science and practitioners who generally did not stray from their own specialties to a more diffuse field where researchers take a broader approach to materials research and practice.

The Use of Web-based Virtual X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory for Teaching Materials Science and Engineering

MRS Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (31-32) ◽  
pp. 1687-1692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yakov E. Cherner ◽  
Maija M. Kuklja ◽  
Michael J. Cima ◽  
Alexander I. Rusakov ◽  
Alexander S. Sigov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Actual Equipment ◽  
Performance Based Assessment ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Institute Of Technology

ABSTRACTA virtual X-Ray Laboratory for Materials Science and Engineering has been developed and used as a flexible and powerful tool to help undergraduate and graduate students become familiar with the design and operation of the X-ray equipment in visual and interactive ways in order to learn fundamental principles underlying X-ray analytical methods. The virtual equipment and lab assignments have been used for: (i) authentic online experimentation, (ii) homework and control assignments with traditional and blended courses, (iii) preparing students for hands-on work in physical X-ray labs, (iv) lecture demonstrations, and (v) performance-based assessment of students’ ability to apply gained theoretical knowledge for operating actual equipment and solving practical problems. Students have also used the virtual diffractometer linked and synchronized with an actual powder diffractometer for blended experimentation. Using the associated learning and content management system (LCMS) and authoring tools, instructors kept track of students’ performance and designed new virtual experiments and more personalized learning assignments for students. The lab has also been integrated with the MITx course available on the massive open online course edX platform for Massachusetts Institute of Technology for undergraduate students.

From a "Dead Albatross" to Lincoln Labs: Applied Research and the Making of a Normal Cold War University

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Slayton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Education Administrators ◽  
The Cold War

Large, military-funded, applied research laboratories became a common and controversial feature of Cold War academe. This paper examines the origins and first twelve years of Lincoln Labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with two primary purposes. First, it extends our understanding of who encouraged the rise of large laboratories in the Cold War academy, when controversy over these changes arose, and why. Second, it ties academic efforts to privilege theoretical over applied forms of education and research, to academic concerns about competing with industry for military funding. By defining a "normal" MIT in terms of fundamental research and education, administrators sought to negotiate the rapidly changing institutional environments for Cold War science and engineering.

The NSF NSDL GREEN Digital Library: Green's Functions Research And Education Enhancement Network

2002 ◽  
Vol 760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Bartolo ◽  
Adam C. Powell ◽  
Gregory M. Shreve ◽  
Vinod K. Tewary
Keyword(s):  
Technology Education ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Green's Functions ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Green’S Functions ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Engineering And Technology Education ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
National Science

ABSTRACTGreen's functions are powerful mathematical tools with strong pedagogical value providing not only solutions to difficult problems but also visualization for understanding phenomena. The majority of upper division engineering and materials science students receive very little exposure to Green's functions and the boundary element method. The Green's Functions Research and Education Enhancement Network (GREEN) Digital Library which the authors are developing will, therefore, play an important role in undergraduate and graduate education. The National Science Foundation has launched the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) program to stimulate and sustain continual improvements in the quality of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education. The NSDL Program is a major digital library initiative and the GREEN Digital Library is a collaboration of the Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Kent State University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This paper describes the primary components of the GREEN Digital Library, an organized collection of educational materials integrating research, education, and application of Green's functions to serve undergraduate and graduate communities:1. Problem Bank: A bank of available “real-world” problems, introduced by industrial participants.2. Code Bank: Working code for solved Green's functions routines.3. Archive: A list of citations to relevant literature, and published / unpublished works subject to copyright restrictions, with links elsewhere for additional information.4. Teaching Bank: A collection of lecture / course notes from existing university courses, as well as providing a forum for discussion of approaches to teaching this material.

“Materials” Education: The Second Time Around

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Rustum Roy
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
School Committee ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Synthesis And Processing ◽  
Institute Of Technology

Robert Sproull, the director of AREA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the Pentagon, recorded that Pennsylvania State University and Carnegie Institute of Technology first made proposals in 1957 for “interdisciplinary block funding” in what would essentially become “materials” research. But it was the industrial push (by W.O. Baker of AT&T Bell Laboratories and C.G. Suits of General Electric) that helped ARPA start the funding of 12 interdisciplinary materials research laboratories (IDMRLs) between 1960 and 1963. Pennsylvania State University was added in 1963 as a special modest grant limited to materials preparation (synthesis and processing). NASA and the Atomic Energy Commission added six more within two years. The first interdisciplinary degree program in “materials” (then called solid-state technology), administered directly by a graduate school committee drawn from 10 departments, was started under my chairmanship, at Penn State in 1959-60. Probably the first departmental degree program in which a metallurgy department expanded its scope (and changed its name) to include other materials was started at nearly the same time at North western University by Prof. M.E. Fine. It is noteworthy that at least in these two cases the intellectual and curricular argument for integration of degree work preceded the research grants and organization. These two separate patterns have both now permeated the entire national system, and we should clearly distinguish between them. By 1969 the first national colloquy on materials, held at Penn State and published under the title Materials Science and Engineering in the U.S., took an evaluative look at materials education.

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