Tokyo, Japan March 18 2005

New Approaches in Materials Education in Japan

As part of the week long MITS 2005 meeting held by the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a training course in the use of the CES EduPack 2005 system for university education was presented to more than 30 delegates by Dr David Cebon of Cambridge University Engineering Department. The course was followed by a symposium on Application of Materials Databases for Education. The course introduced the teaching methodology New Approaches to Materials Education, developed by Ashby and Cebon, described the recently relesed CES EduPack 2005 system and enabled participants to try out the software, installed on their own laptops.

Dr Koichi Yagi, Director General of the Materials Information Technology Station (MITS), said: “We were very pleased to host this course on use of the CES EduPack as part of our MITS 2005 event. The participants found the course to be very interesting and it stimulated their thoughts about teaching methods for materials. The CES EduPack software is very easy to use and contains some excellent introductory information about a wide range of materials and processes. This event built on the successful relationship between NIMS and Granta Design, which has included connecting the NIMS databases to Granta’s web portal Matdata.net.”

Further information:

For more information about CES EduPack 2005, click here.

For the NIMS databases, including creep, fatigue, corrosion, high and low temperature materials, contact Masayoshi Yamazaki at NIMS.