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Short Course and Workshops
Optional short courses and workshops precede the main Materials Education Symposium.
| APRIL 10 | MORNING | CES EduPack Short Course |
| APRIL 10 | AFTERNOON | Beyond EduPack – preparing students for industry with CES Selector |
| APRIL 10 | AFTERNOON | Getting to know the CES EduPack Materials Science and Engineering Database |
| APRIL 10 | AFTERNOON | Life-cycle engineering and Sustainability in the classroom: tackling the issue of plastic waste |
| APRIL 10 | ALL DAY | SusCritMat Short Course on Electric Mobility |
CES EduPack Short Course
When: April 10 (9am-1pm)
Organizer: Granta Design
Cost: Full Event package includes this course, the Symposium, and any Wednesday Workshop.
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.
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.
The course will show, through lectures interspersed with hands-on tutorial sessions using the software, how such resources can assist materials teaching.
- Learn about a highly visual, interactive and systematic material selection methodology
- Discover how to support the teaching of Eco Design and Sustainability from a materials perspective
- Find out about material selection with conflicting criteria (eg. cost, mass, and performance)
- Get one month's access to all CES EduPack databases and editions.
Outline Agenda
| 09:00 | Registration & refreshments |
| 09:30 | Course opens—Welcome, Introductions, Granta's Education Hub and Agenda Review |
| 09:45 | Getting Started with CES EduPack Learn how to engage students using our interactive, visual software, with access to reliable materials data including hands-on exercises. |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Materials Selection: translation, screening, ranking Discover the basics of systematic materials selection methodology, teaching transferable skills to your students, including hands-on exercises. |
| 12:00 | Tools for Materials Development and Innovative Design Discover the Eco Audit Tool enabling life-cycle thinking and eco design to support material selection for greener products. Create hybrids and composites with the Synthesizer Tool. |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
Workshop: Beyond EduPack – preparing students for industry with CES Selector
When: April 10 (2pm-5pm)
Organizer: Granta Design
Cost: Adds £100 to Symposium fee; included in full event fee
Workshop Leaders: Dr. Charlie Bream and Dr. Dandan Zhu
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.
When selecting materials in industry, there are many challenges that often need to be addressed and overcome. These range from a lack of information on design requirements, myths around materials, a resistance to introduce new materials, through to time constraints and a lack of understanding on materials and selection techniques, such as performance indices.
CES Selector is the industrial version of CES EduPack, which includes addition datasets and tools that enable users to address these challenges and help them; quickly identify candidate materials, engage with project stakeholders, and justify and focus their development efforts on the most promising solutions. These tools include; the ‘Engineering Solver’ that converts engineering requirements into material properties, the ‘Find Similar’ tool for finding drop-in replacements with minimal information on the design requirements, the ‘Reference record’ and ‘Comparison tables’ for identifying the differences between materials and flagging ‘key’ properties that you may have overlooked, and the Senvol Database™ of additive manufacturing materials and machines.
In the workshop, you will:
- Enjoy case studies showing how these tools and features are used to solve real industrial problems
- Learn about techniques for engaging non-materials stakeholders
- See demonstrations of the Additive Manufacturing Edition – New for CES Selector 2019
- Try the software in hands-on exercises, with a time-limited license.
At the conclusion of the workshop, you should be able to:
- Select materials efficiently using the Engineering Solver and Find Similar tools
- Set reference materials and make comparison tables to identify differences between material candidates
- Understand the different selection methodologies that can be applied to address material selection challenges in industry.
More information on CES Selector >
Workshop: Getting to know the CES EduPack Materials Science and Engineering Database
When: Wednesday, April 10 (2pm-5pm)
Organizer: Granta Design
Cost: Adds £100 to Symposium fee; included in full event fee
Workshop Leaders: Prof. Mike Ashby and Dr. Harriet Parnell
Abstract
Experience suggests that learning is better achieved by discovery for oneself than by passive listening. The CES EduPack Materials Science and Engineering (MS&E) Package is a set of resources that allows students to explore the relationships between the Processing, Structure and Properties of materials and sets challenges for them to do so. The package includes data for the Elements, for Structural, Functional and Biological materials, and for Processes for shaping, joining and finishing. The package includes interactive Tools to aid understanding of phase diagrams and to stimulate exploration of the process-structure-property relationships. It also provides a set of teaching and learning resources, Exercises (with worked solutions available for instructors) a descriptive Paper, a Lecture Unit and suggested Micro-projects that stimulate discovery.
The tone: informal throughout. The aim: a rewarding and enjoyable afternoon with shared experience.
In this workshop you will:
- Learn more about the CES EduPack Materials Science and Engineering Edition how to use it.
- Take an active part in practical exercises on the main parts of MS&E. This includes:
- binary phase diagrams of the most widely used engineering alloys
- a tool to explore the evolution of microstructure and the Lever Rule
- seven sets of data to illustrate the modification of properties by processing. This contains seven sets of records chosen to visualize how processes such as alloying, heat treatment, mechanical working, sintering and foaming, change mechanical, thermal and electrical properties.
At the conclusion of this workshop, you should be able to:
- Use the new interactive phase diagram tools in the MS&E database
- Explore new visual ways to approach process-property relationships
- Find and use our functional materials data in the extended database
Workshop: Life-cycle engineering and Sustainability in the classroom: tackling the issue of plastic waste
When: April 10 (2pm-5pm)
Organizer: Granta Design
Cost: Adds £100 to Symposium fee; included in full event fee
Workshop Leaders: Prof. Claes Fredriksson and Dr. Mauricio Dwek
Abstract
The workshop will focus on using Granta's data and tools for sustainability and lifecycle investigations in design and materials-related courses. It will be based on our five-step methodology to evaluate proposals for products and technologies, but also makes use of the Eco Audit Life-cycle tool of CES EduPack, hands-on. The problem that will be tackled is the urgent issue of plastic waste and the case of PET water bottles. Participants will explore the Sustainability Database of CES EduPack to analyze and discuss environmental and socioeconomic issues related to material use. The Enhanced Eco Audit Tool will also be utilized as a means to develop critical thinking and awareness in product developmenty and design. The workshop includes a practical group exercise, benchmarking alternatives to PET bottles with actual water containers. Ths demonstrates a problem-based activity that can be directly used in your classroom together with CES EduPack.
In this workshop you will:
- Learn about a problem-based approach to assessing the sustainability of products and technological developments
- Gain practical knowledge and skills regarding eco-data and eco-informed materials selection in life-cycle engineering and eco design
- Experience a practical and hands-on example of how to use the Eco Audit tool to explore the issue of plastic waste
- Find out about case studies, exercises, lecture units, and other teaching resources available for educators.
At the conclusion of this workshop, you should be able to:
- Confidently know how to use CES EduPack to teach students sustainability concepts
- Implement a problem-based system approach in your design or materials-related teaching
- Get a copy of a textbook, and a practical example with the templates and a 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.
SusCritMat Short Course on Electric Mobility
When: April 10 (8:00am - 6:30pm)
Organizer: SusCritMat (Sustainable Management of Critical Raw Materials)
Cost: Free
Short Course Leader: Alessandra Hool
Abstract
At the course, participants experienced a short version of a SusCritMat training school, covering some typical SusCritMat training course modules. Participants will receive the supporting training material (presentations, short films, exercises). The course will cover several topics related to the sustainable management of Critical Raw Materials across the value chain with the case of electric mobility, focusing especially on Cobalt and Lithium for EV batteries: theory and criticality assessment with Co and Li as a hands-on case, primary and secondary sourcing of Co and Li, future demand scenarios, sustainability assessment of electric cars, geopolitical aspects and certification potentials of Co and Li.
Teachers include amongst others Prof. Ester van der Voet, University of Leiden, and Prof David Peck, TU Delft, as well as representatives from Granta Design, University of Bordeaux and the British Geological Survey. For more information on the project SusCritMat, visit www.suscritmat.eu
On the evening of April 9, SusCritMat will offer a “gaming night” in a nearby pub with the SusCritMat trainers and game developer Katie Whalen where we play the "In the Loop Game” on CRMs and the circular economy - free drinks included! Please register here
Provisional Agenda
| 08:00 | Registration & welcome coffee | |
| 08:30 | Electric mobility developments in Europe | Lecture |
| 9:00 | Geopolitical aspects of critical raw materials | Lecture |
| 9:15 | Colbalt and Lithium: Primary and secondary supply | Lecture |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 | Sustainability Assessment: electric car case | Group Work |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Introduction into criticality assessment | Lecture |
| 14:15 | Assessing the criticality of Co and Li | Group Work |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 | Demand scenarios for metals | Lecture |
| 16:15 | Scenario planning for Co and Li | Group Work |
| 17:00 | Certification options for minerals | Lecture |
| 17:30 | Certification potentials of Co and Li | Group Work |
| 18:00 | Final discussion and wrap-up | Discussion |
| 18:15 | Apéritif | |
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