Undergraduate Materials Education Initiative: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in Materials Synthesis and Processing

亚利桑那州立大学将开展一项为期三年的计划，以开发、实施和评估四门关于材料合成和加工的核心课程。这些课程以跨学科方法为特色，涉及工程、物理和化学领域的学生和教职员工。这些课程将被整合到亚利桑那州立大学的学术项目中，作为工程、物理和化学学位项目中的材料科学选修课。它们将对亚利桑那州立大学材料科学和工程专业的整合产生直接影响，并将补充和加强材料科学与工程专业的研究生课程。拟开设的四门课程分别是：1)两门先进材料合成和加工课程，重点讲授电子材料薄膜；2)两门实验课程，每学期从20门课程中挑选3个专题，重点是合成和加工，然后是先进材料的表征和性能评价。大多数项目将在专门用于这些课程的新实验室进行。这些课程的新特点包括在课堂上使用案例研究，以及在实验室项目中录制学生陈述。这些课程将由教职员工、学生和外部咨询委员会进行评估。计划出版一篇讲课课文，实验室课程的实验将以手册的形式提供。它还计划在材料研究学会公报上发布对课程的描述。

Arizona State University will undertake a three year program to develop, implement and evaluate four core courses on Materials Synthesis and Processing. These courses are distinguished by an interdisciplinary approach, involving students and faculty in Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry. The courses will be integrated into academic programs at Arizona State University as a Materials Science option in the degree programs in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry. They will have a direct impact on the integration of programs in Materials Science and Engineering within ASU and will complement and strengthen the graduate program in the Science and Engineering of Materials. The four proposed courses are: 1) A sequence of two lecture courses in advanced material synthesis and processing with emphasis on thin films of electronic materials; and 2) Two laboratory courses consisting of 3 projects each semester chosen from a wide range of 20 topics that emphasize synthesis and processing, followed by characterization and property evaluation of advanced materials. The majority of the projects will be carried out in a new laboratory specially dedicated to these courses. Novel features of the courses include the use of case studies in lectures and videotaping of student presentations in laboratory projects. The courses will be evaluated by faculty, students and an external advisory committee. It is planned to publish a text on the lecture courses, and the experiments for the laboratory course will be available in manual form. It is also planned to publish descriptions of the courses in the Materials Research Society Bulletin.