Diran Apelian

Steve and Tim talked with Professor Diran Apelian from UC Irvine.  Diran talks about his journey to Materials Science and Engineering through his days at Drexel, MIT, Bethlehem Steel, back to Drexel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, to Irvine.  He explains his foray into project based learning and now his new course on Professional Skills that he is teaching at Irvine. 

You can find more about Diran here:
https://engineering.uci.edu/users/diran-apelian
https://www.nae.edu/19579/165897/20676/166043/20685/55293/148200/148206/Dr-Diran-Apelian

You can find the YouTube video here:
https://youtu.be/7vtXdbdASl0

This episode is sponsored by the North American Materials Education Symposium, a gift from Prof. Ron Gibala, and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Please attend the North American Materials Education Symposium next summer, August 5th - 6th at Georgia Tech.  Workshops on August 4th:
https://www.names25.mse.gatech.edu

Creators and Guests

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