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Identify the three elements of a good oral technical presentation |
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Describe the process of obtaining material property data |
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Describe the process of evaluating data quality |
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Identify sources of materials information on the internet |
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| To successfully compete in today's industrial environment, it is critical that you develop solid presentation skills. This skill alone may have more impact on your career success than any other skill you have. Here are some key points to remember. | |
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Summary - Substance - Reprise |
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In the first 30 seconds - Present the essence of your presentation (A verbal abstract) |
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Remember your audience |
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Practice before you give your presentation |
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Be prepared for questions and answers |
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Have your sources documented |
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Use media to make the content interesting, clear, and memorable |
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Facts, figures, quotes, timelines, systems, hardware, and equipment are content for media |
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Ashby chapter 10 |
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ASM pages 491 - 506 |
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CMS Software manual (given out day one in class) |
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Can you believe what you read in a handbook? |
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How do you reconcile different values reported for the same property? |
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How do you keep people awake during a lecture? |
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How good is the internet as a source of materials data? Do you think it is cost effective? |
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How can you incorporate presentation skills to present your case study introduction? |
Ashby chapter 10- problems: B 6.1 through B 6.6-
Use of materials data sources
(Due 9/16/98)
Subject: Week
2 - Ashby B 6.1 through B 6.6
In these problems the data can be found in the library or on the net. The purpose of these exercises is to get you familiar with the available material data sources. Thus it is not a waste of time to spend a couple of hours in the library finding the available reference material plus some time on the net seeing what is available there. Having gone through the exercise once you will need less time to do so in the future . Furthermore , the use of the (rather limited but specific to the homework) data base in the software will provide you with an appreciation of database resources when they are available.
Compose Case Study Introduction (Due 9/18/98)
Subject: Week
2 - Case Study Introduction
This week you should further narrow your choice of a case study topic. Contact me about any questions and for final topic approval. The first draft of the Introduction is due no later than the end of the class period, Friday, September 18, 1998. You may e-mail it earlier.
The case study introduction discusses what you believe are the key problems, the role you will be writing from, the relevant personalities, and constraints of your chosen engineering case study. Make it as compelling to the reader as you can. Like a good short story, it should engage the reader's interest in the eventual outcome.
The introduction:
Introductions should not include your conclusions or detailed
technical discussion. Background is the history and principles needed to
understand the content of the case study. The introduction is the context
and setting for the case.
Click here to review a well written introduction. The following case study introductions are also good examples:
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Overfelt, T. and T. Glasgow, "The Thermophysical Properties of Molten Materials," Journal of Materials, September, 1993, 13 - 15 |
| Links to Professional and Technical Societies | |
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American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers |
| http://www.idis.com/aime/ | |
| "AIME was founded in 1871 by 22 mining engineers in Wilkes- Barre, PA. Just as when it was founded, the goal of AIME today is to advance the knowledge of engineering and the arts and sciences involved in the production and use of minerals, metals, materials and energy resources, while disseminating significant developments in these areas of technology." | |
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ASM International |
| http://www.asm-intl.org/ | |
| "ASM International is the society for materials professionals, a worldwide network dedicated to advancing industry, technology, science, and applications of metals and materials. Through the efforts and involvement of our members, ASM develops and distributes timely, reliable technical information through electronic media, publications, conferences, training programs, and chapter activities." | |
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ASTM |
| http://www.astm.org/ | |
| "ASTM has developed and published over 10,000 technical standards, which are used by industries worldwide. ASTM members develop the standards within the ASTM consensus process. Technical publications, training courses, and Statistical Quality Assurance Programs are other ASTM products; ASTM services include The ASTM Institute for Standards Research." | |
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Materials Research Society |
| http://www.mrs.org/ | |
| "The Materials Research Society is an organization of technical professionals from a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. Its primary purpose is to hold symposia on topics of materials research which, because of their multidisciplinary nature, do not have adequate forums within more traditional societies. Through these symposia, MRS attempts to promote interactions between chemists, physicists, metallurgists, engineers and others studying different aspects of a particular materials topic. Membership in MRS is open to anyone with an interest in materials development, processing or characterization." | |
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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society |
| http://www.tms.org/ | |
| "The mission of TMS is to promote the global science and engineering professions concerned with minerals, metals, and materials." |
| Links to Web Sites by Materials | |
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Ceramics and Industrial Minerals |
| http://www.ceramics.com/ | |
| "widely used list of resources dedicated to the professional interested in ceramics, industrial minerals and related topics" | |
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WWW Virtual Library: Technical Ceramics |
| http://www.ikts.fhg.de/ceramics.html | |
| "This Virtual Library is part of the WWW Virtual Library. The Virtual Library is currently mirrored at Stanford (USA), Penn State (USA), East Anglia (UK) Geneva (CH), Geneva-2 (CH), Argentina. This Technical Ceramics Library is maintained by the Fraunhofer Institute IKTS in Dresden, Sachsen." | |
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The Composites Corner |
| http://www.advmat.com/links.html | |
| Site maintained by the publishers of COMPOSITES: An Insider's Technical Guide to Corporate America's Activities. Third Edition. It is a comprehensive guide to corporate activities in the area of advanced composites. | |
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Composites On-Line |
| http://www.composites-online.com/ | |
| "A "Card Catalog" to the Internet to help locate online material and manufacturing resources for the composite materials industry. Find links to the industry's online articles, publications, company and university sites and product literature." | |
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Institute of Corrosion |
| http://www.finishing.com/icorr/ | |
| "The Institute of Corrosion is an accredited learned society that has been serving the corrosion science, technology and engineering management and economic needs of individuals, academe and industry since 1959 in the fight against corrosion, which costs the UK around 4% of GNP per annum. Key to this fight are the establishment and promotion of sound corrosion management practice, the advancement of cost effective corrosion control measures, and a sustained effort generally to raise corrosion awareness at all stages of design, fabrication and operation." | |
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Material Properties - WWW Resources |
| http://ixeab4.larc.nasa.gov/amsd/materials.html | |
| "This page was born from the need to have a more comprehensive listing of webbed sources for (mechanical) material property information." | |
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MatWeb |
| http://www.matls.com/ | |
| "Online materials information resource. From MatWeb's Search page, you can employ the powerful search engine to identify engineering materials based on your property" requirements." |
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