Undergraduate Materials Education Initiative: Development and Implementation of a New Materials Synthesis and Processing Laboratory

该项目的目标是创建一个新的统一的上层合成和加工实验室，将整合所有不同材料类别的合成和加工。这个新实验室提供的经验将补充和加强麻省理工学院十年前建立的核心课程，其具体目标是让学生了解材料科学和工程的基本统一概念。随着这个新的合成和加工实验室的引入，学生将第一次有机会通过实验探索各种不同材料（包括复合材料）的加工-结构性质关系。重点将放在以设计为导向的项目上，在这些项目中，学生将在有明确目标和项目任务的团队中工作。实验室的设计将使学生了解计算机在现代加工、过程设计和模拟、数据采集和过程控制中的重要性。该项目将通过学生入学和毕业评估、访问委员会的建议、特别产业委员会等方式进行评估。除了开发和实施新实验室外，还将生成供其他机构使用的综合学生练习册和教师指南，并将在专业学会会议上举行教育专题讨论会。

The goal of this project is to create a new unified upper level synthesis and processing laboratory that will integrate the synthesis and processing of all of the various materials classes. The experience provided by this new laboratory will complement and enhance the core curriculum, which was established at MIT a decade ago with the specific goal of exposing students to the fundamental unifying concepts of materials science and engineering. With the introduction of this new synthesis and processing laboratory, students for the first time will have the opportunity to experimentally explore porcessing-structure property relationships in a wide variety of different materials, including composites. Emphasis will be placed on design-oriented projects in which students will work in teams with well-defined goals and project missions. Laboratories will be designed to expose students to the importance of computers in modern processing, in process design and simulation, in data acquisition, and in process control. The program will be evaluated through student entrance and exit evaluations, recommendations of a Visiting Committee, and an ad hoc industrial panel. In addition to the development and implementation of the new laboratory, comprehensive student workbooks and instructor's guides will be generated for use by other institutions, and educational symposia will be held at professional society meetings.