Textbook Development for a General Education Course on Materials Science

工程-材料科学（57）我们已经开发了一本教科书和配套的光盘，专门为非科学专业设计的材料课程。这项工作建立在成功的过程中开发的华盛顿州立大学的非科学专业，解决了材料的方式影响社会在区域，国家和全球范围内。课程“材料：社会与科技的基础”是针对第三和第四年的本科生，是我们的通识教育课程的“顶点”课程。这本教科书是基于我们在开发过程中准备的大量笔记和我们在本提案的主持下进行的研究。这本教科书是以这样一种方式编写的，它可以很容易地被一般大学人口使用。为了帮助决定在自己的机构教授类似课程的教师，我们开发了一个CD-ROM。我们的CD-ROM有重要的教育和信息资源的链接。此外，它还包括家庭作业问题和建议的作业，以及有关基本工程和科学原理的背景信息。

Engineering - Materials Science (57)We have developed a textbook and accompanying CD-ROM for a course in materials specifically designed for non-science majors. This work builds on the success of a course developed at Washington State University for non-science majors that addresses the manner in which materials impact society on a regional, national, and global scale. The course "Materials: The Foundations of Society and Technology" is targeted at third and fourth year undergraduates and is a "capstone" course in our General Education Curriculum. This textbook is based on the extensive notes we have prepared in developing the course and on research we have undertake under the auspices of this proposal. The textbook has been written in such a way that it can readily be used by the general college population. To assist faculty that decide to teach similar courses at their own institution we have developed a CD-ROM. Our CDROM has links to important educational and informational resources. In addition it contains homework problems and suggested assignments as well as background information regarding basic engineering and scientific principles.