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2. Next short course - Pittsburgh (at the ASEE Conference), June 22
You can next get your hands on CES EduPack 2008 at Professor Mike Ashby's one-day short course, ahead of the upcoming ASEE Conference.
Register now to ensure your place. Designed for Professors, Lecturers, and Program Directors, these popular courses examine methods and resources that can support your teaching of materials and manufacturing to engineering and design students. They introduce and apply the CES EduPack software and teaching resources. Through lectures interspersed with hands-on tutorial sessions using the new 2008 version of the software, the course will explore ways to engage students and enrich existing courses. |
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3. Recorded web seminar: CES EduPack 2008 with Professor Mike Ashby - listen now Listen now to a recording of Professor Mike Ashby's recent web seminar introducing CES EduPack 2008. The recording is split into 3 parts:
EduPack customers: Login and listen at the teaching resources site (see next item) Others: Register for our Information Pack and you can listen right away |
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4. Are you using the EduPack teaching resources? CES EduPack is accompanied by an extensive set of teaching resources including sample PowerPoint lectures, white papers, sample material property charts, guides to the software, and student projects and exercises. These can all be downloaded from the teaching resources site at the Granta website. Links to recorded presentations providing case studies and background information from EduPack are available from the same place. If you are a CES EduPack customer, you can login to the teaching resources site using your e-mail address and password supplied by Granta. EduPack customers: Login to the teaching resources site Lost your login details or interested in EduPack? Contact us |
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 CES EduPack 2008 - on its way!
In the last Materials Education News we announced the launch of CES EduPack 2008, with key new features including:
New EduPack customers, or those renewing annual licenses, are now receiving the 2008 version. If you have a valid license for EduPack lasting longer than one year, you will receive your update during May. Need to renew or start a license? Contact us |
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6. Eco, Bio, what's your hot topic...? Feedback from users (or prospective users) is very important to the development of CES EduPack. In the 2008 version, this feedback loop is strengthed with a "Feature request" button in the software. Users can press this button, fill out a form, and their requirements will be reviewed as Granta prioritizes future developments. Such input has had a big influence on recent EduPack releases. Interest in supporting introductory materials courses led Granta to introduce different levels of the EduPack database and a range of features for first and second year teaching. Requests for help in more subject areas have resulted in databases for polymers, architecture, aerospace, and, now, bio engineering. Many educators wanted to be sure that EduPack would fit in well with their existing courses, so the 2008 version added references to standard texts such as Callister, Askeland, and Budinski. Eco-design is now clearly a hot topic, and the response to our new Eco Audit Tool has been very positive. EduPack customers - please use the Feature Request button in the EduPack software! Others: Contact us with your requirements for teaching support |
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7. Recorded presentations: CES EduPack editions and case studies - listen now Our library of recorded presentations and case studies is growing. The most recent additions are presentations on teaching materials in specialist subject areas, such as polymer engineering and aerospace. These are added to case studies that show how to use EduPack as an information resource and in materials selection exercises. EduPack customers: Login and listen at the teaching resources site Others: Register for our Information Pack and you can listen right away |
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8. Granta at the International CDIO Conference, Gent, June 16-19 Granta is attending the International CDIO Conference in Gent, Belgium, in June. The CDIO™ initiative is an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineers. It provides students with an education stressing engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving — Designing — Implementing — Operating real-world systems and products. On June 16, Granta will be teaming up with MATTER and running a joint workshop on scenario-based teaching. In this workshop, participants will use CES EduPack to identify and investigate materials and processes that are suitable for a range of different applications. |
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9. Granta at the ASEE Conference, Pittsburgh, June 23-25 Granta is attending the American Society of Engineering Education Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, from June 23-25. As well as running a short course at the event (see item 2), Granta will be exhibiting and our Dr Charlie Bream will be speaking in the "Introductory Materials Science Course" session of the conference program (Monday June 23rd, 2.15-4pm). Visit our booth to see the latest software and pick up a copy of our famous materials property-based card game! |
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