Steve and Tim talk with Professor Rob Beck at the University of Michigan. Rob and Steve teach a joint course combining MSE with Archaeology & Anthropology to teach materials engineering students about the humanities and to teach humanities students about engineering. The course is called "Making Things: Three Million Years of Materials and Culture". It is based on work that Kevin Jones (see podcast episode S1E8) did in his Impact of Materials on Society project. This version was reworked with Archaeology instead of the Sociology. We discuss all aspects of the course, including many tangents into the wild world of materials history and culture!
You can find a video where Rob and Steve talk about the course for a virtual talk they presented on the meaning of social learning here: https://youtu.be/osBdpU5VA_s
This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).
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SY
Host
Steve Yalisove
TC
Host
Tim Chambers
What is Undercooled: A Materials Education Podcast?
A look into active learning, flipped teaching, team based/project based learning and much more. Everything related to teaching materials science and engineering will be covered. Kindly sponsored by the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering Department