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Symposium W: Forum on Materials Science and Engineering Education for 2020

Symposium W: Forum on Materials Science and Engineering Education for 2020 Image

November 27 - 28, 2007
Chairs
Laura M. Bartolo     Kent State University
Katherine C. Chen     California Polytechnic State University
M. Grant Norton     Washington State University
Greta M. Zenner     University of Wisconsin-Madison

Symposium Support
Ceramic Materials
National Science Foundation



* Invited paper

SESSION W1: Bringing Materials Science and Nano to the General Public
Session Chairs: Greta Zenner and Ethan Allen
Tuesday Morning, November 27, 2007
Room 300 (Hynes)

8:30 AM W1.1
Molecularium: Merging Entertainment with Education, Outreach, and Scientific Literacy. Shekhar Garde1, Linda Schadler2 and Richard W. Siegel2; 1Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 2Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institite, Troy, New York.

8:45 AM W1.2
Bridging Formal and Informal Learning Through Cutting Edge Science. Ethan Allen, GEMSEC, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

9:00 AM *W1.3
Bringing Nano to the Public through Informal Science Education. Wendy C. Crone, Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

9:30 AM BREAK

10:00 AM *W1.4
Developing an Infrastructure of Partnerships with Science Museums to Support the Engagement of Scientists and Engineers in Education and Outreach for Broad Impact. Eric D. Marshall1, Jill Andrews2, Wendy C. Crone3, Jim De Yoreo4, Douglas Gorham5, Renee Miller6, Marylou Molina7, Wendy Pollock8 and James J. Wynne9; 1New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York; 2NSF Research Center Education Network (NRCEN) and Office of Engineering Outreach and Engagement, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 3Interdisciplinary Education Group, MRSEC on Nanostructured Interfaces, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; 4MRS NISE subcommittee (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; 5IEEE Educational Activities, IEEE, Piscataway, New Jersey; 6Randi Korn & Associates, Alexandria, Virginia; 7Corporate Community Relations, IBM, Armonk, New York; 8Association of Science Technology Centers (ASTC), Washington, District of Columbia; 9Local Education Outreach and Engineers Week, IBM Research Headquarters, Yorktown Heights, New York.

10:30 AM W1.5
Addressing ``Broader Impacts" through Research Center - Museum Partnerships. Carol Lynn Alpert, Strategic Projects, Museum of Science, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; Research/ISE Partnerships, NSF Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, Boston, Massachusetts; NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers, Harvard University, Northeastern University, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts.

10:45 AM W1.6
Collaboration between the Exploratorium Museum (San Francisco) and the University of Chicago MRSEC in Educational Outreach Programs. Eileen Sheu1, Heinrich M. Jaeger1,2, Sidney R. Nagel1,2,3, Barry Kluger-Bell4, Shawn Lani4 and Charles Sowers4; 1James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 2Dept. of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 3Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 4Exploratorium, San Francisco, California.

11:00 AM W1.7
Public Understanding of Novel Technological Materials: The Role of Science Expositions. Theodoros E Karakasidis1 and Denis Vavougios2; 1Civil engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece; 2Special Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

11:15 AM W1.8
Piloting an Integrated Art and Materials Chemistry Workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tami Lasseter Clare1, Barbara A. Bassett2 and P. Andrew Lins1; 1Conservation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 2Education, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

11:30 AM W1.9
Free Engineering Resources from PBS’ Design Squad. Thea Sahr and Ellen Robinson; WGBH, Boston, Massachusetts.

SESSION W2: Increasing the STEM Pipeline
Session Chair: Dave Bahr
Tuesday Afternoon, November 27, 2007
Room 300 (Hynes)

1:30 PM W2.1
Engineer Your Life: Talking to High School Girls About Engineering. Thea Sahr and Ceit Zweil; Educational Outreach, WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts.

1:45 PM W2.2
Inspiring 1000 Middle School Students at Princeton University’s Materials Science and Engineering Expo. Daniel Steinberg and Shannon Swilley; PRISM, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

2:00 PM W2.3
Incorporating Nanotechnology into Connecticut High School Science Classes: 5 Hands-on Modules, 17 Teachers, Reaching 400+ Students. Kate Bagnoli1, Ali J. Langston1, James Bosse1, Robert Veith2 and Bryan D Huey1; 1Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; 2Science Education, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, East Hartford, Connecticut.

2:15 PM W2.4
Integrating Materials Science and the Visual Arts in the Secondary Classroom: A Teacher Professional Development Project Through the U C Santa Barbara Materials Research Laboratory. Dorothy Pak1 and Lynne Cavazos2; 1Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; 2Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

2:30 PM BREAK

3:00 PM *W2.5
Relation between Efforts in Science Education and Economic Prosperity as Revealed from the Database of the Human Development Reports and the OECD Reports. Hanns-Ulrich Habermeier, MPI-FKF, Stuttgart, Germany.

3:30 PM W2.6
Increasing Diversity in Materials Research Opportunities. Sarah E. Morgan and Kim Lambert Wingo; School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

3:45 PM W2.7
Strategies for Developing Research Internships in Nanoscience for High School Students. Daniel Reich, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

4:00 PM W2.8
The Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM): Highlights and Successes from the California State University Los Angeles (CSULA)/Caltech Collaboration. Robert Michael deGroot1, Frank A. Gomez2 and Harry A. Atwater1; 1Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; 2Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

4:15 PM W2.9
A Partnership Inspiring Interest in MSE Careers: The Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP). Christine Caragianis-Broadbridge1, Heather Edgecumbe1, Ann Lehman1, Greg Osenko2, Lisa Alter3 and John Tully4; 1Physics, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut; 2Center for Community and School Action Research (CCSAR), Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut; 3CT Scholars Academy, New Haven Public Schools, New Haven, Connecticut; 4Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

4:30 PM W2.10
The Nanoscience and Engineering High School Research Internship program at the University of Alabama. David Eugene Nikles and Gregory B. Thompson; Center for Materials for Information Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

4:45 PM W2.11
Evaluation Framework of Module Based Science Activities. Nev Singhota and Kevin Dilley; Cornell Center for Materials Reserach, Ithaca, New York.

SESSION W3: Incorporating New Research into New Teaching Strategies
Session Chair: Laura Bartolo
Wednesday Morning, November 28, 2007
Room 300 (Hynes)

8:30 AM *W3.1
Are You Connected? Enhancing the Student Experience Through Personalization and Integration of Broader Context. Jonathan Stolk and Robert Martello; Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Massachusetts.

9:00 AM W3.2
The Asemblon Self-Assembled Monolayer Demostration Kit: Macroscopic Visualization of Nanometer Thick Surface Modifications.  Dan Graham, Asemblon Inc., Redmond, Washington.

9:15 AM W3.3
Converting Traditional Materials Labs to Project-based Learning Experiences: Aiding students' Development of Higher-order Cognitive Skills. Linda Vanasupa1, Katherine C. Chen1, Jonathan Stolk2, Richard N. Savage1, Trevor Harding1, Blair London1 and William Hughes1; 1Materials Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California; 2Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Olin College, Needham, Massachusetts.

9:30 AM W3.4
HELICAL Learning Model Applied in a Nanotechnology for Science and Engineering Course. Eric Peterson1, David Cocke1, Jerry O'Connor2 and Jewel Andrew Gomes1; 1Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas; 2Physics, Engineering & Architecture, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas.

9:45 AM W3.5
Interdisciplinary Virtual Labs for Undergraduate Education in the NSDL Materials Digital Library. Donald R. Sadoway1, David Yaron2, Laura M. Bartolo3, W. Craig Carter4, John Portman5, Jodi L. Davenport6, Colin A. Ashe7, Michael Karabinos8 and Arthur W. Barnard9,7; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 3Materials Informatics Lab, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; 4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 5Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; 6Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 7Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 8Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 9Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *W3.6
Educating the Ethical Engineer of 2020. Trevor Scott Harding, Materials Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.

11:00 AM W3.7
Cups to Cleaners, Trash to Treasure: A Green Campus Initiative. Jennifer Boice and Richard Gurney; Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts.

11:15 AM W3.8
The Use of A Multidisciplinary Project to Expand the Materials Science Curriculum. Robert A Heard1 and Deanna Matthews2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2Civil and Environmental Engineering and Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

11:30 AM W3.9
Instructional Project for Introductory Course in Materials Science at James Madison University Scott A. Paulson2, Brian H. Augustine1, W. Christopher Hughes2 and Jon Wyrick2; 1Chemistry, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia; 2Physics, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

11:45 AM W3.10
Emerging Cybertools for Soft Matter Education. Sharon C. Glotzer1,2, Christopher R. Iacovella1, Aaron S. Keys1, Laura M. Bartolo3 and Cathy S. Lowe3; 1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 3Materials Informatics Laboratory, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

SESSION W4: Implementing New Course Materials and Strategies
Session Chair: Kathy Chen and Jon Stolk
Wednesday Afternoon, November 28, 2007
Room 300 (Hynes)

1:30 PM *W4.1
Getting Students Interested in Material Science and Engineering Through Realistic Nanotechnology Modeling Problems. Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2:00 PM W4.2
Science of the Small - A New Upper-Division Undergraduate Nanoscience Course at James Madison University. Kevin Lawrence Caran, Barbara A. Reisner, Brian H. Augustine and Stephanie Lyn Torcivia; Chemistry and Biochemistry, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

2:15 PM W4.3
Incorporating Nanomaterials into a New Ceramics Textbook. Grant Norton1 and Barry Carter2; 1Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; 2University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

2:30 PM W4.4
Scanning Probe Microscopy as an Undergraduate Educational Tool: Web-Based Database and Portable NanoManipulator Instrument. Brian H. Augustine1, Scott A. Paulson2, John E. Wyrick2 and John F. Magnotti3; 1Chemistry, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia; 2Department of Physics, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia; 3Department of Computer Science, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

2:45 PM W4.5
Classroom Demonstrations, Laboratory Experiments, Technical Updates for Materials Science and Engineering Education for 2020. James Allen Jacobs1, Thomas G. Stoebe2 and Mary Kaye Bredeson3; 1School of Science & Technology, Norfolk State University, Virginia Beach, Virginia; 2Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 3Center of Excellence for Materials & Process Development, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, Washington.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *W4.6
PANEL DISCUSSION: MRSEC REU Students Pilot Using & Contributing to the NSDL MatDL Soft Matter Wiki. Nevjinder Singhota1, Susan Rosevear2, Klara Mueggenburg4, Daniel Steinberg5 and Laura M. Bartolo3; 1Cornell Center for Materials Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 3Materials Informatics Lab, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; 4Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; 5Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

4:00 PM W4.7
Academic/Industrial Partnerships as a Factor in Improved Education: Experiences of the Partnerships of the IBM Almaden Research Center, Stanford University, and San Jose State University. Charles Wade1, Dolores C. Miller1, Curt Frank2, Kristin G. Black2, Marni Goldman2 and Joseph Pesek3; 1Science and Technology, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California; 3Chemistry, San Jose State University, San Jose, California.

4:15 PM W4.8
A Multidisciplinary Case For Teaching Materials Science At High School And Undergraduate Levels. Laura Fornaro and Hector Espinosa; Compound Semiconductors Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.

4:30 PM W4.9
Training Undergraduates in the Broader Context of the Research Enterprise. Katie D. Cadwell1, Greta M. Zenner1, Thomas F. Kuech1,2, James P. Blanchard3 and Wendy C. Crone1,3; 1Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; 2Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; 3Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

4:45 PM W4.10
An Intensive ``Camp” Format to Provide Undergraduate Research Experiences to First Year Students. David F. Bahr and Kip O. Findley; Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.



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