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Started by Steven Pollack
Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:31
Can of Worms revisited
Author: Steven Pollack
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:31
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:31
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As expected everybody flamed me on this one. I should have phrased this one differently. Most MS&E Departments have evolved from Metallurgy Programs. As such, the general trend has been to take a bandaid approach in adding in the necessary topics relevent to the polymers and ceramics that would fall under the same catagories as those taught in the traditional Physical Metallurgy class. We have a pair of courses entitled Science of Materials I & II and they are of this ilk. I am, as a polymer scientist, trying to assess what should be taught it this sort of course that crosses the three subdisciplines. I am in no way advocating that we drop Phys. Met. from the MS&E curriculum. I am looking for a less specific introductory class for the three subdisciplines that is a a level higher than a general engineering introduction to materials (al'a van Vlack/Smith/Callister etc.). So.... Topics? Textbooks? _______________________________________________________________________ Steven K. Pollack | University of Cincinnati | Department of Materials Science | I notice that you are still & Engineering | using polymers! 498 Rhodes Hall ML#12 | - Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012 | U.S.S. Enterprise pollack@ester.mse.uc.edu | ________________________________________________________________________
advanced courses/topics in school (was Re: Can of Worms revisited)
Author: purna
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:27
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:27
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Steven Pollack writes > As expected everybody flamed me on this one. I should have phrased this > one differently. Most MS&E Departments have evolved from Metallurgy > Programs. As such, the general trend has been to take a bandaid > approach in adding in the necessary topics relevent to the polymers and > ceramics that would fall under the same catagories as those taught in > the traditional Physical Metallurgy class. We have a pair of courses > entitled Science of Materials I & II and they are of this ilk. I am, as > a polymer scientist, trying to assess what should be taught it this sort > of course that crosses the three subdisciplines. I am in no way > advocating that we drop Phys. Met. from the MS&E curriculum. I am > looking for a less specific introductory class for the three > subdisciplines that is a a level higher than a general engineering > introduction to materials (al'a van Vlack/Smith/Callister etc.). > > So.... > > Topics? > Textbooks? hi! well, i am a grad student in MS&E at UH, and i have had some thoughts about this. it seems (from what i've encountered) that it is very difficult to get an advanced, general-level course put together. the reason is that the amount of material to teach/learn would be immense! speaking from a student's point of view, i wouldn't WANT such a course. instead, i'd prefer a curriculum (maybe 2-3 courses) which deal with all of the areas systematically and sequentially (kind of like the way calculus is taught in 3 parts : differential, integral, and multi-variable). that way, all of the "necessary" material (no pun intended) could be taught without having to cram things together. just my opinions, -purna
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