Web-Based Development and Dissemination of Educational Resources in Materials Science and Engineering

技术：作为一个服务于材料科学和工程社区的专业协会，作为工程技术认证委员会，负责大学冶金和材料工程项目的课程，矿物，金属和材料学会（TMS）也有强烈的愿望，培养学生和教师的发展，并为下一代实践工程师提供学习机会。该项目旨在显著增强在线学习资源社区，旨在帮助参与材料科学与工程（MSE）课程的教育者和学生。具体而言，将扩大一个新兴的在线教育社区（www.materialstechnology.org），以大力促进教学辅助资料的共享，并在各院系和大学之间开发最佳实践。国家科学基金会的资助将极大地提高社区成员可用资源的范围和价值，并允许这个处于萌芽状态的站点时间获得广泛的利用和教育社区的参与，并最终实现自我维持运作。该项目的智力价值在于它能够有效地为MSE教育社区提供教学资源，这些资源以前是分散的，可以通过一对一联系和自制网站等效率较低的方法获得。TMS特别适合作为这些资源的宿主，因为它是一个非营利组织，其使命是为MSE社区的利益收集和传播技术信息。TMS还授权并部署了一个基础设施来容纳和维持教育社区资源，并在网站的初始版本中添加了大量内容。该站点采用实践社区模式，该模式由TMS员工支持、签约技术版主和现场志愿者领导的指导提供支持。有了这种结构，教育界就有了执行项目所需的基本资源。非技术性：该项目更广泛的影响是通过提供易于获取的、记录良好的、同行评审的资源来支持和增强本科生和研究生的教学，这些资源可以补充讲座和演示。特别是，通过提供一个有效的过程和中立的环境，将最近的研究成果转化为全国各地的广泛教室将产生重大效益。最新和高质量的教育资源的可用性将提高本科和研究生教学的质量，并更好地装备这些项目的毕业生，以满足他们未来选择的任何职业道路的迫切需求。第二个影响是为教育专业人员之间的网络提供社区环境，本质上是为讨论和交流思想提供一个在线家园。TMS已经并将继续通过其在线和印刷出版物，会议以及通过大学材料委员会等合作伙伴团体的直接推广，广泛地传播教育社区的可用性。

TECHNICAL: As a professional society serving the materials science and engineering community and as the Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology body with curricular responsibility for university programs in metallurgical and materials engineering programs, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) also has a strong desire to nurture the development of students and faculty members and facilitate learning opportunities for the next generation of practicing engineers. This project seeks to significantly enhance an online community of learning resource designed to aid educators and students involved with materials science and engineering (MSE) programs. Specifically, a nascent online Education community (www.materialstechnology.org) will be expanded to robustly facilitate the sharing of instructional aids and the development of best practices across departments and across universities. NSF funding would greatly enhance the scope and value of the resources available to community members and allow this embryonic site time to gain broad utilization and engagement by the educational community and eventual self-sustaining operation. The intellectual merit of the project resides in its ability to efficiently provide pedagogical resources to the MSE education community that were previously dispersed and available through less efficient methods such as one-to-one contacts and home-made web sites. TMS is especially well-suited to serve as the host for these resources as it is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of collecting and disseminating technical information for the good of the MSE community. TMS also has licensed and deployed an infrastructure to house and sustain the Education community resource and has populated the inaugural version of the site with substantial content. The site employs a community-of-practice model that is powered by TMS staff support, contracted technical moderators, and guidance by volunteer leaders in the field. With this structure, the Education community has the baseline resources necessary to carry out the project. NON-TECHNICAL: The broader impacts of the project are to support and enhance undergraduate and graduate teaching by providing readily accessible, well-documented, and peer-reviewed resources that can supplement lectures and demonstrations. In particular, by providing an efficient process and neutral environment, translation of recent research results into a breadth of classrooms throughout the country will have significant benefits. The availability of very current and high quality educational resources will enhance the quality of undergraduate and graduate teaching and better equip graduates of these programs to address the pressing needs of the future in whatever career path they choose. A secondary impact is to provide the community environment for networking among educational professionals, essentially providing an online home for discussion and exchange of ideas. TMS has and will continue to communicate the availability of the Education community broadly through its online and print publications, meetings, and direct promotion through partner groups such as the University Materials Council.