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

这笔赠款用于支持材料研究学会(MRS)2004年4月春季会议的教育研讨会。研讨会的题目是“培养明天的科学家和工程师”。该研讨会自1996年以来一直持续举行，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在本科课程中引入纳米科学和纳米技术等来创新教学的会议，教授计算机材料和改进K-12课程可用的课程。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。本科生和研究生都可以从改进后的课程中受益。在K-12领域，材料研究人员可以受益于与教师的教育伙伴关系，在大学前的物理和化学课程中引入材料科学。

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.