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The Junior Laboratory: A Place to Introduce Basics as Well as New Findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

Luz J. Martínez-Miranda ,
O. C. Wilson  and
L. G Salamanca-Riba Jr
Luz J. Martínez-Miranda
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742–2115
O. C. Wilson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742–2115
L. G Salamanca-Riba Jr
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742–2115
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Abstract

Since its establishment in 1997, the undergraduate program at the University of Maryland has successfully established laboratories where new findings are introduced and used to teach the basic concepts and basic experimental methods in Materials Science and Engineering. This presents the challenge of changing the materials, keeping in mind that the students are being introduced for the first time to many of the concepts. In the junior laboratory of materials, we have successfully changed three laboratories (optical microscopy, rectifying components and X-ray) and a demonstration (TEM) in order to introduce nanomaterials and biomaterials. These laboratories show that currently used techniques can aid in studying the new developments in materials and that most, if not all, the basic concepts can be applied in studying them. They also help the students look at the effects of the structure – processing – properties relationship that is basic to Materials Science and Engineering. We relate all laboratories to experiments and studies currently happening in materials science, even if we have not had the opportunity or the facilities to change it. The laboratory has been approved by ABET 2000.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 760: Symposium JJ – The Undergraduate Curriculum in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) , 2002 , JJ4.5
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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