CES EduPack Bulletin

September 2011

Quarterly materials education update from Granta Design

1: Downloads & Teaching Resources

Available for two weeks: 'Innovation in Materials Teaching'

Professor Mike Ashby spoke on 'Materials and interdisciplinary education' at last week's EuroMat 11 Conference in Montpellier, France. For the next two weeks only, the presentation slides, annotated with his speaking notes, will be available at no cost on our website. You can also download slides looking at 'Innovation in Materials Teaching: sustainability and hybrid materials'. This presentation, written in collaboration with Mike Ashby, was given by Granta's Materials Education Director, Marc Fry, as invited speaker at two recent events in China: one at the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, and the other at the International Symposium on Education of High Level Engineers held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. More details and downloads »

'How to Write a Paper'

Professor Mike Ashby has updated his helpful student guide, 'How to Write a Paper'. Professor Ashby uses a typical materials project, combining experiment with modeling and computation, as an example. The latest edition is now available to download from the teaching resource website without cost, as an open access educational resource (OER).

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2: 2012 Materials Education Symposia

Final call for abstracts (by September 30), early-bird registration

Arrangements for the two 2012 Materials Education Symposia are now in full swing. The Advisory Committee is still accepting abstracts for presentations and posters—the submission deadline is September 30. All speakers, session chairs, and poster presenters will be invited to attend a pre-Symposia presenters' dinner. The Symposia are being coordinated by Granta Design with the support of ASM International, ASEE Materials Division, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), University of Cambridge, SEFI, FEMS, and TMS.

At the heart of each Symposium will be a series of talks in which speakers describe successful approaches to materials teaching across a broad range of engineering and related disciplines. Discussion sessions, networking, a poster session, and a social program all provide interactivity, with plenty of opportunities to meet people and exchange ideas. Early-bird registration runs until November 30.

This year, key themes will be:

• Innovation and change
• Crossing disciplines—education for interface sciences
• Materials, government, and industry
• Emerging challenges and opportunities in materials

3: CES Selector 2012

Support for research and advanced teaching

The new release of Granta's advanced PC software for materials comparison, materials selection, and eco design is here. CES Selector is widely-used in industry and supports academic research or advanced teaching. It provides advanced graphical analysis of materials data, together with specialist eco design and modeling tools.

CES Selector is an enhanced version of the software provided with CES EduPack. Additional features include the 'Performance Index Finder', which makes it quick and easy to specify complex objectives for a selection project. CES Selector comes with industrial databases such as the ASME BPV Code materials, MMPDS aero alloys, CMH-17 composites, and CAMPUS and IDES Plastics. It is available within an Academic Research package that also includes the CES Constructor software, enabling creation and modification of databases.

The latest release makes it quicker and easier to address some key issues facing engineers, product designers, and researchers. For example, the new tabular comparison of materials data makes it easy to review engineering, economic, and environmental properties for multiple materials. This supports identification and review of candidates for materials substitution.

Web Seminars

You can find out more about this software, used by materials and engineering experts in industry, at our upcoming series of web seminars, which will describe how it can support advanced teaching and research.

4: Eco Design Web Seminar

Web seminar—'Teaching Sustainable Engineering & Eco Design' (October 27)

Sustainability and eco design are topics of considerable interest in design, engineering, materials, and manufacturing courses. University educators are integrating into their courses sustainability concepts such as: Minimizing resource consumption Limiting emissions and waste Analyzing the product life cycle They want to help students develop the skills needed to embed these concepts into design—for example, prioritization, sensitivity analysis, and rational material and process selection based on environmental impact as well as performance criteria.

This short web seminar on October 27, presented by Professor Mike Ashby, will show how the teaching of these topics is supported by CES EduPack and the Eco Design Tool, enabling the student to estimate the environmental impact of a product throughout its life cycle, to consider "what if..." scenarios, and to explore different design options rapidly.

5: Events

Join Granta's education team at these upcoming events

The community events page on the Granta website contains links to all these events, and is regularly updated with information about other conferences and web seminars:

6: Tips

Here are this edition's tips to help you make more of your CES EduPack and CES Selector software.

7: Careers

Granta Design is recruiting!

Granta is growing as more universities use CES EduPack and more companies use our materials information software for industry. We currently have job opportunities for bright, enthusiastic, committed people with a background in science or engineering. We're looking for students graduating from bachelor, masters, or PhD degrees, as well as for people with more experience of university teaching or industry. Please pass the message along to students or colleagues who might be interested! See our jobs page for more information.

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