Ohio State hosts North American Materials Education Symposium
“We’re thrilled to be able to host the North American Materials Education Symposium at Ohio State,” said Rudy Buchheit, associate dean of academic affairs and administration and professor of materials science and engineering. “There is a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the country who will address a broad array of issues ranging from novel hands-on lab approaches to course and curriculum development and assessment, K-12 outreach and engagement, and the emerging role of databases, visualization, simulation and computation in materials teaching.”
Symposium presenter Michael Ashby, emeritus professor of engineering at the University of Cambridge, will also present “Materials and Sustainable Development,” the Energy & Environment Discovery Themes lecture at Ohio State on March 25. The talk develops an approach to analysis of articulations of sustainable development that recognizes the complexity but is sufficiently straightforward that it can be used for project work in undergraduate teaching.
The 2015 North American Materials Education Symposium is coordinated by Granta Design, with support from an independent academic advisory committee, ASM International, the ASEE Materials Division, the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), The Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), The Ohio State University and the University of Cambridge.
