Educating Tomorrow's Scientists and Engineers: A Session at the Spring Materials Research Society 2004 Meeting; San Francisco, CA; April 12-16, 2004

该基金支持2004年4月材料研究学会（MRS）春季会议的教育研讨会。研讨会的题目是“培养未来的科学家和工程师”。该研讨会自1996年以来连续举办，目前每18个月在秋季或春季MRS会议上举行一次。今年的研讨会包括通过将纳米科学和纳米技术引入本科课程，教学计算材料和改进K-12课程的课程来创新教学的会议。研讨会的与会者包括来自四年制学院和大学的教育工作者，与行业相关的人士，以及与K-12教师密切合作的人士。本科生和研究生都能从改进后的课程中受益。在K-12领域，材料研究人员可以从与在物理和化学大学预科课程中介绍材料科学的教师的教育合作中受益。

This grant supports the education symposium of the April 2004 Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS). The symposium title is "Educating Tomorrow's Scientists and Engineers". This symposium has run continuously since 1996, it is currently held every 18 months at the Fall or Spring MRS meeting. This year's symposium includes sessions on innovating teaching through the introduction of, among others, nanoscience and nanotechnology to the undergraduate curriculum, teachingcomputational materials and improving the programs available to the K-12 curriculum. Symposium attendees include educators from four-year colleges and universities, people associated with industry, and people who work closely with K-12 teachers. Both undergraduate and graduate students can benefit form an improved curriculum. In the K-12 area, materials researchers can benefit from education partnerships with teachers that introduce materials science in the physics and chemistry pre-college curriculum.