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Short Course and Workshops
9th International
Materials Education Symposium
April 4-5, 2017, Cambridge
Optional short courses and workshops precede the main Materials Education Symposium.
Tuesday & Wednesday |
Wednesday Afternoon |
Wednesday Afternoon |
Wednesday Afternoon |
Course leader: |
Workshop: Enhancing the blended learning experience through learning design Organisers: |
Workshop: Teaching Sustainable Development with CES EduPack Organisers: |
Workshop: Beyond CES EduPack – advanced teaching and research with CES Selector Organisers: |
CES EduPack Short Course
When: April 4 (9:30-17:00); April 5 (9:00-12:30)
Organiser: Granta Design
Cost: Full Event package includes this course, the Symposium, and any Wednesday Workshop.
Who is the course for?
Anyone new to the CES EduPack teaching resources, or seeking a refresher. Professors, Lecturers, and Program Directors of university and college courses related to materials and manufacturing. The course is relevant to the following disciplines: mechanical engineering; production engineering; aerospace engineering; materials science and engineering; industrial and product design; polymer science and engineering; eco-engineering; chemical engineering; bio-engineering; and architecture and the built environment.
What is the course about?
CES EduPack has been created by Professor Mike Ashby of Cambridge University and his colleagues over the past 20 years. Both the resources that it provides and the ideas that it implements are valuable to educators across a broad range of engineering-related courses, and from first to final-year teaching. They have been used to support and reinforce existing courses that use a variety of teaching approaches and texts, as well as in the design of new courses.
At the heart of CES EduPack is a database of materials and process properties, supported by textbook-style explanations of materials attributes and behavior. This provides a rich, interactive information resource that can engage students with the world of materials. The CES EduPack software applies the information in the database, enabling exercises and projects to analyze and compare materials properties, and to select materials for engineering applications. These computer-based learning tools are augmented with PowerPoint lectures, teaching resource books, student projects and exercises, and textbooks.
The course will show, through lectures interspersed with hands-on tutorial sessions using the software, how such resources can assist materials teaching.
Note: attendees will need to bring their own laptop computers for the hands-on sessions, and will be provided with the new CES EduPack software. Please ensure this is a Windows machine and that you have administrator privileges.
Tue, April 4, Day One—Introduction to CES EduPack
The course will consist of a series of units, each including a short lecture, a software demonstration, discussion time, and a "hands-on session" during which attendees can use the CES EduPack software. Members of the Granta education team will be present to help and to answer questions.
09:30 | Registration & refreshments |
10:00 | Course opens—Welcome |
10:05 | Introductions, Granta's Education Hub and Agenda Review (Marc Fry) |
10:15 | Unit 1-2: Materials, Data and Charts for CES EduPack (Mike Ashby) |
11:15 | Hands-on exercises |
11:40 | Unit 4: Manipulating Properties: composition, microstructure, architecture (Claes Fredriksson) |
12:15 | Hands-on exercises |
12:30 | Lunch |
13:30 | Unit 7: Materials Selection (Claes Fredriksson) |
14:30 | Hands-on exercises |
15:00 | Coffee & refreshments |
15:30 | Unit 12: Eco design and the Eco Audit Tool: introducing students to life-cycle thinking (Mike Ashby) |
16:15 | Hands-on exercises |
16:45 | Advanced CES EduPack Databases: Standard Level 3, Bioengineering, Polymer Aerospace and Sustainable Development (Hannah Melia) |
17:15 | Wrap up & discussion (Mike Ashby). Course evaluation. |
17:30 | Close |
Weds, April 5, Day Two—Advanced Materials Selection
09:00 | Registration & refreshments |
09:30 | Course opens—Welcome. Brief review of Day 1 (Mike Ashby) |
09:45 | Unit 8: Objectives in Conflict (Claes Fredriksson) |
10:15 | Hands-on exercises |
10:30 | Advanced Industrial Case Studies (Luca Masi) |
11:30 | The Synthesizer tool (Nicolas Martin) |
12:15 | Wrap up & discussion (Mike Ashby). Course evaluation. |
12:30 | Lunch |
13.15 | Registration for parallel workshop sessions (Introduction to CES Selector, or Materials and Sustainable Development) |
Enhancing the blended learning experience through learning design Mark Endean, Andrew Green, |
Teaching Sustainable Development with CES EduPack Mike Ashby, Tatiana Vakhitova |
Beyond CES EduPack – advanced teaching and research with CES Selector Charlie Bream, Claes Fredriksson |
13:30 | Workshops (first half) |
15.00 | Coffee & refreshments |
15.30 | Workshops (second half) |
17.00 | Wrap up & discussion. Workshop evaluation |
17.30 | Close |
18.00 | Travel to Clare College, Memorial Court |
Workshop: Enhancing the blended learning experience through learning design
When: April 5, 13:30-17:30
Cost: Adds £20 to Symposium fee (covers catering and administration); included free for Short Course attendees.
Facilitators:
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Abstract
The student learning experience is becoming increasingly complex. Students routinely use online resources and purpose-designed software to support their studies, either as a planned part of the syllabus or through their own independent enquiries. For students to gain the maximum benefit from the incorporation of such interactive eLearning resources it is important to plan the learning journey carefully.
The materials community has led the field on the development of eLearning resources. Beginning with Materials Science on CD-ROM in the 1990s and continuing to DoITPoMS, developed at the University of Cambridge, and the CORE-Materials repository of open educational resources, the materials educator has been able to draw on a very wide range of digitised content and active learning resources to incorporate in their teaching.
The distance learning community has long practised structured approaches to designing learning. With funding from JISC, The Open University has recently developed a programme of workshop activities and resources that is now available to the higher education sector as Learning Design (www.open.ac.uk/iet/learning-design/).
In this workshop you will:
- Introduce a number of the Learning Design activities that provide a sound basis for a structured approach to developing enjoyable and effective blended learning experiences
- Review online and interactive learning resources and examine exemplars of current practice in materials education
- Provide you with an opportunity to apply what you have learnt to create an outline for a new learning activity to develop for your learners.
The facilitators come from the conventional and the distance learning sectors and together have many decades of experience in developing and presenting learning in Materials Science and Engineering, both traditionally and online.
The workshop will interleave short presentations and demonstrations from the facilitators with small group work involving the participants.
At the conclusion of the workshop, you should be able to:
- Locate reputable online learning resources with appropriate rights clearances to incorporate in your teaching programme
- Apply Learning Design techniques to construct an effective short blended learning experience to meet your learners’ requirements
- Engage your immediate peer community in the issues covered by the workshop.
Teaching Sustainable Development with CES EduPack
When: April 5, 13:30-17:30
Organiser: Granta Design
Cost: Adds £90 to Symposium fee; included free for Short Course attendees
The workshop will be led by Professor Mike Ashby and Dr Tatiana Vakhitova.
Abstract
The workshop will focus on Granta’s sustainability-related teaching resources, including the recently developed five-step methodology to evaluate proposals for technologies, enabling Sustainable Development. The methodology is used in teaching interdisciplinary courses and has been developed by Granta Design in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Barcelona (UPC) and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This approach is now used in several courses with interdisciplinary groups of students around the world.
The Sustainability Database os CES EduPack will be used to demonstrate the application of the methodology in its fact-finding stage. The Sustainability Database includes comprehensive database of materials with environmental properties for all classes of materials, e.g. carbon footprint, embodied energy, water use and durability. This Database has also a unique set of socioeconomic data to analyse and discuss the key concepts, such as materials criticality, geo-political risk, legislative and social aspects relevant to materials (resources). The Sustainability Database includes an enhanced Eco Audit Tool, which helps to assess environmental performance of products at the design stage, to be able to analyse energy and carbon load of a product at each of its life stages, as well as associated costs.
In this workshop you will:
- Learn about problem-based cases on assessing the sustainability of technological developments
- Gain practical knowledge and skills regarding Ecodata and Ecoinformed materials selection
- Get insights and tips on how to teach Life-cycle thinking via the Eco Audit methodology
- Find out about case studies, exercises, lecture units, and other teaching resources available for educators.
At the conclusion of the workshop, you should be able to:
- Implement a problem-based system approach in your materials-related teaching
- Know how to use CES EduPack to teach students sustainability concepts
- Get a copy of a textbook, a practical guide with the templates and the fully developed case study to use in your teaching
- Get a one-month access to the test license of CES EduPack to try out with your students.
Workshop: Beyond CES EduPack – advanced teaching and research with CES Selector
When: April 5, 13:30-17:30
Organiser: Granta Design
Cost: Adds £90 to Symposium fee; included free for Short Course attendees
This workshop will be led by Dr Charlie Bream.
Workshop facilitator: Claes Fredriksson
Abstract
This session provides an introduction to the CES Selector software, used in industry and research for materials selection and decision-making, and to support advanced teaching of materials.
CES Selector is the industrial version of CES EduPack, used to select and compare materials in industry, research and advanced teaching. Here the primary aim is to help people to quickly identify candidate materials, so they can justify and focus their development efforts on the most promising solutions. To support this, CES Selector includes additional efficiency tools that let you get to results and make decisions faster and more effectively. These include the ‘Performance Index Finder’ that enables material indices to be quickly defined and plotted, the ‘Find Similar’ tool for finding drop-in replacements with minimal information on the design requirements, ‘Comparison tables’ for identifying the differences between materials or ‘key’ properties that you may have overlooked, as well as CES Constructor, a software toolkit that lets you add your own data and modify existing databases in the platform.
In the workshop, you will:
- Enjoy case studies showing how the tools and features are used to solve real industrial problems
- See demonstrations on how constructor can be used to create and edit databases
- Try the software in hands-on exercises, with a time-limited license.
At the conclusion of the workshop, you should be able to:
- Use the Performance Index Finder to select materials efficiently
- Set reference materials and make comparison tables, showing nearness
- Understand ways that materials can be replaced, for different reasons
- Start using constructor to create and modify databases in the CES platform.
More information on CES Selector »
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