The goals of this course are to provide an elective introduction for freshmen engineering students to materials engineering, to recruit students to major in materials and to inform students about elective courses in materials engineering. For clarification go to Program Goals for Materials Engineering. Objectives Maintain and improve enrollment in materials engineering. Inform engineering students about applications of materials engineering. Enhance knowledge of materials engineering throughout the undergraduate engineering population.
Demonstrations provide an introduction to practical courses given in materials engineering.
Regular quizzes are given to ensure participation. Patents related to complex properties, e.g. magnetostriction, are described and evaluated in group presentations. Assessment Quiz performance is used to track student participation and lecture effectiveness. Group presentations are graded subjectively and used to assess the ability of students to apply lecture concepts in the presentations. This document was used in MSE 190 to obtain student evaluation of MSE 190.