Materials Science and Engineering Educational Advances Workshop

非技术描述：材料科学和工程专业的学生在从钢铁制造到半导体制造到汽车和能源生产的先进复合材料等领域的工业中需求量很大。毕业生需要能够使用复杂的工具，批判性和创新性地思考，并适应快速变化的世界。 现在是材料研究和教育界探索教学法，有效学习原则和教育内容交付方面的进步，以更好地为学生服务的时候了。虽然这个研讨会的主要重点是本科材料学位课程和介绍材料课程使用的广泛的科学和工程专业，社区学院和研究生教育也正在解决。 本次研讨会旨在确定目前在提供创新和包容性教学方法和工具方面的最佳做法。结果通过共识报告发布，将使理工科大学毕业生更好地准备在所有材料科学和工程行业使用现代工具。技术支持：研讨会汇集了广泛定义的材料研究和教育领域的领导者和从业者，为期两天的研讨会将分享教育内容交付的新创新，以影响最广泛的学生。 研讨会包括新的在线学习模块的演示，将计算模拟工具纳入讲座和实验室，并在课程中增加积极学习和创业成分，以培养更具包容性的学生群体和未来的劳动力。研讨会的重点是如何将这些创新植入大学水平的材料课程，并建立在以前的会议上，这些会议有助于塑造跨几个科学学科的材料课程中不断发展的内容。组织者主要来自一个由大学材料科学和工程系主任组成的国际组织，致力于确保与会者代表材料研究和教育界的所有部门和层面。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Materials science and engineering students are in high demand from industry in areas ranging from steel fabrication to semiconductor manufacturing to advanced composites for automotive and energy generation. Graduates need to be able to use sophisticated tools, think critically and innovatively, and be adaptive to a rapidly changing world. Now is the time for the materials research and education community to explore advances in pedagogy, effective learning principles, and educational content delivery to better serve students. While the primary focus of this workshop is undergraduate materials degree programs and introductory materials courses used by a wide range of science and engineering majors, community college and graduate education is also being addressed. This workshop is identifying the current best practices in providing innovative and inclusive teaching methods and tools. The results, distributed through a consensus report, will better prepare science and engineering college graduates for using modern tools across all materials science and engineering industry sectors.TECHNICAL DETAILS: The workshop brings together leaders and practitioners from the broadly defined materials research and education field for a two-day workshop to share new innovations in educational content delivery to impact the widest range of students possible. The workshop includes demonstrations of new online learning modules, the incorporation of computational simulation tools into both lectures and labs, and the addition of active learning and entrepreneurship components to the curriculum to foster a more inclusive student body and workforce of the future. The workshop"s focus is on how these innovations are implanted in the materials curriculum at the college level, and builds on prior meetings that helped shape the continuously evolving content in materials courses across several science disciplines. The organizers, drawn primarily from an international organization of university materials science and engineering department chairs, are committed to ensuring attendees represent all sectors and dimensions of the materials research and education community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.