Powerpoint Lecture Units
- Professor Ashby's Lecture Series
- Professor Ashby's Powerpoints Translated Into
- Donated Powerpoints—EN & FR
- Talks from the 2010 Materials Education Symposia
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Professor Ashby's Lecture Units
The files for download marked "Lecture" are Powerpoint files with animations and 'build effects'. The files marked "Printing" have the animations removed so that they can easily be printed out. Presentations were extended and updated in April 2012. There are now 23 lecture units.
Note: make sure to look in the PowerPoint notes section for more information on each slide and a full list of the 23 lectures.
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Unit 1: The materials and processes universe |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (8.4 MB) |
Feb 2012 Lecture |
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Materials Classification and how to find information in the CES EduPack Keywords: Materials, Classification, Properties, Data, CES EduPack. | |||
Unit 2: Material property charts |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.3 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture | ||
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How to display material and process property information. Bar charts, bubble charts. Keywords: Materials, Properties, Data, Charts, CES EduPack. | |||
Unit 3: The Elements: Property origins, trends and relationships |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.1 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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A look at the properties of the elements of the periodic table and how their properties have trends and relate to each other. Keywords: Elements, properties, trends, relationships. | |||
Unit 4: Manipulating Properties: Chemistry, Microstructure, Architecture |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (3.3 MB) |
May 2012
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A look at how the properties of materials can be manipulated on different level. Keywords: Heat treatments, Co-polymers, Chemistry, Microstucture, Architecture, Composites, Foams. | |||
Unit 5: Designing New Materials: filling the boundaries of material space |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (7 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture | ||
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Looking at Materials Design and how hybrid materials are filling gaps in material property space. Keywords: Materials, Hybrids, Foams, Composites. | |||
Unit 6: Material Selection: translation, screening, documentation |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.1 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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General principles of translating design requirements into selection criterial, constraints and objectives. Screening and Ranking. Keywords: Materials, Selection, Design, Constraints, Objectives. | |||
Unit 7: Ranking: material indices |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.6 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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How to create performance indices and rank materials on their ability to perform a function. Keywords: Materials, Properties, Performance Indices, Metrics, Ranking. | |||
Unit 8: Objectives in conflict: trade-off methods and penalty functions |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.8 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture | ||
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How to deal with conflicting objectives. Trade-offs. Keywords: Performance Indices, Objectives, Trade-offs, Penalty Functions, Dominated Solutions. | |||
Unit 9: Materials and shape |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.9 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture | ||
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How to choose the right material and shape combination. Keywords: Material Selection, Shape, Structural Sections, Second Moment of Area. | |||
Unit 10: Selecting processes |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.7 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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How to select processes. Keywords: Processes, Design, Joining, Shaping, Surface Treatment, Cost, Tolerance. | |||
Unit 11: The economics |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (0.8 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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Estimating process cost. Looking at the cost model in the CES EduPack. Keywords: Processes, Design, Cost model, Batch size. | |||
Unit 12: Eco-selection and the Eco Audit Tool |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (3 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture
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For introductory level students. Materials consumption and the life-cycle; LCA problems and solutions; Eco-Audits and the Eco Audit Tool; Strategy for materials selection. Keywords: Eco Audit Tool, Sustainability, Selection. | |||
Unit 13: Sustainability and Materials Efficiency |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.2 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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Looking at sustainability in a materials context. Includes two more advanced eco materials selction case studies and a discussion of materials efficiency. Keywords: Sustainability, Eco Design, Materials, Selection, Design, Materials efficiency. | |||
Unit 14: Materials for Low Carbon Power |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (3.7 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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Looking at the materials and other resources used in Low Carbon Power Systems. Keywords: Renewable energy, resource intensity, materials, low carbon power. | |||
Unit 15: Architecture and the built environment |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (8.6 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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Looking at the Architecture database. Materials for 4 sub-systems of a building. Keywords: Materials, Selection, Design, Architecture. | |||
Unit 16: Structural sections |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.3 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture | ||
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Exploring the structural sections database in the CES EduPack. Keywords: Structural sections, database, attributes, design. | |||
Unit 17: The CES EduPack Bio Edition: natural and man-made implantable materials |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (3 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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Looking at the Bio Edition of the CES EduPack. Natural materials and man-made implantable materials. Keywords: Materials, Tissues, Woods, Fibers, Basic Building Blocks, Nitols. | |||
Unit18: Materials in industrial design |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (7.4 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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Selecting materials for industrial or product design. Sensory properties. Keywords: Materials, Selection, Design, Industrial Design, Product Design, Aesthetics , Perceptions. | |||
Unit 19: Advanced databases: Standard, Aerospace, Polymer |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (1.7 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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A look at the Polymer, Aerospace and Standard Level 3 database in the CES EduPack. Keywords: Aerospace, High temperature data, super alloys, composites, MMPDS, CAMPUS, IDES, ChemRes, Mold Flow. | |||
Unit 20: Hybrid Synthesizer: composites, sandwich panels and cellular materials |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (2.7 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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This lecture looks at the new hybrid synthesizer tool and how it predicts properties for hypothetical materials. Keywords: Composites, sandwich panels, cellular materials, hybrids, tool. | |||
Unit 21: CES in research: editing and creating databases in CES Constructor |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (6.6 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture |
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How to use CES Constructor to create and edit your own database of materials that you can then view in CES Selector. Keywords: Materials, Properties, Database, Research. | |||
Unit 22: CES Selector and Constructor in Research |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PPT (2 MB) |
May 2012 Lecture | ||
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A description of the CES Selector and CES Constructor and how they can be used in research. Keywords: Research, Materials, Selection, Design, Database editing. | |||
Unit 23: CAMPUS database |
Mike Ashby / Granta, EN, PDF (430 KB) |
May 2009
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A look at the data in the CAMPUS Polymer database. Keywords: Polymers, industrial data. | |||
Donated Powerpoints
- Lecture Course based on Materials Selection for Mechaincal Design 3rd Edition.
- Various English language Donated Powerpoints
- Ressources pédagogiques supplémentaires en français (partagées par des utilisateurs francophones)
University of Queensland Course in Materials Selection
For Professor Mike Ashby's CES EduPack lecture notes, see here »The following have kindly been offered for sharing with other CES EduPack users by Carlos Caceres, Reader in Casting Technology at the University of Queensland.
Dr Caceres holds the copyright to these slidesets and is responsible for their content.
Profile of Dr Carlos Caceres and the Materials Selection course at UQ (PDF) »
If you would like to share your teaching materials in this way, please contact us.
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| Intro | Course outline | Download (815Kb) |
| Lecture 1 | Materials Selection: Exploring the world of materials | Download (3.1Mb) |
| Lecture 2 | Understanding Material Selection Charts (1/2) | Download (2.7Mb) |
| Lecture 3 | Understanding Material Selection Charts (2/2) | Download (2.1Mb) |
| Lecture 4 | Materials Selection Without Shape (1/2) | Download (6.3Mb) |
| Lecture 5 | Materials Selection Without Shape (2/2): Case studies | Download (7.6Mb) |
| Lecture 6 | Shape factors (1/3) | Download (2.4Mb) |
| Lecture 7 | Shape factors (2/3) | Download (3Mb) |
| Lecture 8 | Shape factors (3/3) | |
| Lecture 9 | Conflicting constraints | Download (2Mb) |
| Lecture 10 | Conflicting objectives | Download (2.4Mb) |
| Lecture 11 | Design of Composites / Hybrid Materials (1/2) | Download (3.2Mb) |
| Lecture 12 | Design of Composites / Hybrid Materials (2/2) | Download (4.2Mb) |
Various English language Donated Powerpoints
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Design For Sustainability |
Jamie O'Hare, University of Bath, EN, PPT (5.5 MB) |
2008 |
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This presentation looks at Eco Design, its definition, what are its drivers and how it is applied. It gives industrial case studies. Keywords: Eco Design, Sustainaility, Legislation, Life Cycle, Design. | |||
Implementing 4 Quadrant method and creating new structural sections |
U. Fekken, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, EN,PPT (4.6 MB) |
2010
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This contributed resource shows how the structural sections database – available in level 3 of CES EduPack—can be used in selection. The 4-quadrant method is used as explored in Materials Selection for Mechanical Design. However, this method has been taken further by using CES Constructor and Solidworks to create new structural sections. Keywords: Materials, Selection, Structural Sections, Design, Solidworks, Constructor. | |||
Ressources pédagogiques supplémentaires en français (partagées par des utilisateurs francophones)
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Optimisation Produit-Matériau-Procédé |
Lycée Rascol, Albi, FR, PPT (2.5 MB) |
Oct 2003 |
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Détermination du couple matériaux—procédés pour un correcteur de phare de Renault Keywords: Materials, Selection, Properties, Data, CES EduPack. | |||
Couronne de sécateur électrique |
Jean Claude Tachoire, Guy Estadieu, Jacques Magot, Bernard Gilabert, Lycée Rascol, Albi, FR, PPT (2.7 MB) |
Mars 2006 | ||
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Choix d'un couple Matériaux Procédés dans le cadre d'une étude d'un sécateur électrique avec le comparatif de coût. | |||
Étude d'un flasque de protection sur un char à voile. Fichier 1: procédés. |
M. Ferbeyre du Lycée Agora de Puteaux, FR, PPT (13 MB) |
2006 |
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Procédés—Les trois fichiers powerpoints sont à télécharger dans un même répertoire car il existe des liens entre ceux-ci. | |||
Étude d'un flasque de protection sur un char à voile. Fichier 2: matériaux. |
M. Ferbeyre du Lycée Agora de Puteaux, FR, PPT (7 MB) |
2006 |
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Matériaux—Les trois fichiers powerpoints sont à télécharger dans un même répertoire car il existe des liens entre ceux-ci. | |||
Étude d'un flasque de protection sur un char à voile. Fichier 3: CES, un logiciel—une méthode. |
M. Ferbeyre du Lycée Agora de Puteaux, FR, PPT (11 MB) |
2006 | ||
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CES, un logiciel—une méthode. Les trois fichiers powerpoints sont à télécharger dans un même répertoire car il existe des liens entre ceux-ci. | |||
Filtre à lumière |
M. Ferbeyre du Lycée Agora de Puteaux, FR, PPT (16MB) |
2006 | ||
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Étude d'un filtre à lumière fait dans le cadre d'un projet d'élève. Keywords: Material Selection, Shape, Structural Sections, Second Moment of Area. | |||
Étude des contreventements de la structure du centre Pompidou. |
M. Ferbeyre du Lycée Agora de Puteaux, FR, PPT (64 MB) |
2006 | ||
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CES UN LOGICIEL UNE METHODE Les trois fichiers powerpoints sont à télécharger dans un même répertoire car il existe des liens entre ceux-ci. | |||
Talks from the Materials Education Symposium
The following presentations were given at two Symposia on Materials Education in March 2010. They illustrate innovative approaches to materials teaching including, but not limited to, use of CES EduPack.
See also—information on the next Materials Education Symposia »
Cambridge Symposium, March 26, 2010
| Professor Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge | Approaches to Materials Teaching for the 21st Century | Download (2.5Mb) » |
| Dr Erik Tempelman Delft, University of Technology | Selecting Production Processes—it helps if you know a bit more | Download (430Kb) » |
| Professor Alexander Wanner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Using CES EduPack for Tackling Problems Beyond the Textbook | Download (2.3Mb) » |
| Dr Matt Murphy & Dr Andrew Green, University of Liverpool | The Development, Sharing and Effective Use of e-Learning Tools and Resources in Materials Education | |
| Dr Javier Orozco, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia | Materials Selection Projects for Product Design in its Life Cycle | Download (2.9Mb) » |
| Dr Rob Wallach, University of Cambridge | Materials Selection to Excite Students into Choosing Materials Science | Download (2.8Mb) » |
| Dr Joe Carruthers, NewRail, Newcastle University | The Application of CES to the Lightweighting of Rail Vehicles | Download (1.9Mb) » |
| Dr Andrew Green, MeLT | The Collaborative Open Resource Environment (CORE) Project | Download (2.3Mb) » |
Presentations from 2011 are now available for attendees to download from here »
More information on this year's Symposium »
US Symposium, March 20, 2010
| Professor Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge | Approaches to Materials Teaching for the 21st Century | Download (2.5Mb) » |
| Professor John Berry, Mississippi State University | The Incorporation of Materials Selection Into the Design Sequence in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum | Download (9Mb) » |
| Professor Mark De Guire, Case Western Reserve University | Use of Instructional Technology in Materials Courses: First Year and Beyond | Download (3.1Mb) » |
| Professor Sylvain Turenne, École Polytechnique de Montréal | The Use of Integrative Projects to Consolidate the Learning Experience in Engineering Programs" | |
| Professor Richard Sisson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Innovations in the Use of CES EduPack to Teaching and Learning in Aerospace, Environmental, Mechanical and Materials Engineering | Download (2.3Mb) » |
| Charles Hayes, ASM Materials Education Forum | K-12 educational outreach using web-based games, podcasts, discussion forums and virtual textbooks for educators, parents and students and a review of the K-12 CES EduPack experience | Download (510Kb) » |
Presentations from 2011 are now available for attendees to download from here »
More information on this year's Symposium »