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The Materials Education Symposium

An event for materials educators in engineering, science, processing and design

Symposium: April 7-8

Venue: Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College

The 2011 Symposium will be a two-day event, with speakers from leading universities talking about their approach to materials teaching and their use of teaching resources, including CES EduPack.

The keynote presenter will be Professor Peter Goodhew, University of Liverpool.

Other presenters will be confirmed following the abstract submission process (details below) and review by the Advisory Committee.

Key themes will be:

• Inspiring first years; maintaining inspiration into the second year and beyond
• Interdisciplinary materials teaching and service-taught courses; Materials and the Environment - a cross-disciplinary topic
• Use of information technology in Materials teaching
• Education and industry

Call for speakers

If you are interested in presenting your work at the Symposium, please send a title and 300 word abstract to symposium@grantadesign.com.

Submission Process:

We will be happy to consider your presentation for inclusion either as a talk in the Symposium or as a poster in the accompanying poster session.

We are looking for talks covering innovative and interesting teaching approaches and resources for Materials in their widest context, throughout all years of study and across different disciplines; Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Sustainable Engineering, Aerospace, Biomedical and Nuclear Engineering as well as Mechanical Engineering and Material Science. Talks that fit into the four themes outlined above will be preferred. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and ideally contain the following:

• Background and motivation
  
  
• What was done? Methods used and why?
  
  
• Results, i.e., include some evidence and analysis.  What was found?
  
  
• Conclusions and significance, including wider application
  
  

Symposium structure

The main Symposium sessions will include:

• Around 15 presentations from an international speaker panel selected by the Symposium Advisory Committee. Talks will cover teaching in the following topic areas: materials science, manufacturing and processes, mechanical engineering, industrial design, aerospace and nuclear engineering, bio engineering, plastics, and sustainable engineering
  
  
• Interactive discussion sessions
  
  
• Socializing and networking over lunches and the Symposium dinner at a historic Cambridge college (venue tbc)
  
  
• A two-day poster session
  
  

Details of the agenda will be posted here as they are confirmed.

Meanwhile, you can get an indication of the likely content by looking at the 2010 Symposium agenda >>>

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