May 2006
Materials Education News

In this issue:

1. CES EduPack 2006 is here!
2. One-day courses with Professor Mike Ashby: Chicago and Berlin
3. ASEE 2006, Chicago - meet the Granta Team
4. EduPack web seminar: the EduPack editions
5. Career and internship opportunities for your graduates or students

Another best-ever for the renowned toolkit for materials and process education

CES EduPack customers with current licenses should now have received their copies of the latest version — EduPack 2006. Install it to check out some great new features! Or, if you have an out-of-date license or haven't yet purchased CES EduPack, here's some of the new reasons to contact us and get hold of an up-to-date copy:

• New scientific content provides excellent support for introductory materials courses.
  
  
• New visualization of materials families expands the conceptual territory of property charts.
  
  
• More developments, including a new architecture edition, revised and extended data.

Read the details of these and other new features.

Find out more about EduPack and how it can help you.

These courses, entitled New Approaches in Materials and Manufacturing Education, offer the perfect opportunity to learn more about EduPack from the main architect of the product, Professor Mike Ashby.

One-day courses have already been held this year in Waco, TX, USA and Cambridge, UK. It is not too late to register for one of the remaining courses:

June 18 - Chicago, IL, USA (during the ASEE Annual Conference)
July 3 - Berlin, Germany

You will discover how EduPack can assist your class teaching, help with student projects, and provide a valuable research resource. The course includes:

• ideas on enhancing materials and manufacturing education
• an introduction to EduPack, with hands-on sessions
• a general discussion on materials education

More details. 

If you are attending the upcoming ASEE Conference in Chicago, IL, June 19th -21st, don't forget to stop at our exhibition stand (322). Granta’s Margo Brown and Patrick Coulter will be there to explain how CES EduPack can work for you in a variety of different courses. You can visit the Granta booth at any time during exhibition hours or you can book an appointment in advance by emailing us.

4. EduPack web seminar: the EduPack Editons

This month’s EduPack webseminar will focus on the EduPack Editions. The seminar will introduce the different editions including: Aerospace, Design, Eco, and Architecture.

Date: June 8th, 2006
Time: 4pm (GMT), 11am (EST).
Duration: 30 minutes

More information and registration.

5. Career and internship opportunities for your graduates or students

We currently have several vacancies at Granta that may be of interest to your graduates with a first degree or Ph.D., or to students seeking a 'year out in industry' or other internship.

These include roles in marketing, sales, technical support and our specialist materials information team.

View the vacancies on our jobs page.

Please feel free to forward these opportunities or to post them on departmental or other noticeboards.

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