The Gateway Materials Group is developing education modules that demonstrate materials science and engineering concepts at introductory and intermediate levels. These modules contain hands-on laboratory and instrumentation procedures, multi-media instruction modules, and video demonstrations. The following is a list of each university participating, its contributions, and the project representative(s):

Case Western Reserve University - Philip Perdikaris

Researchers are developing classroom demonstrations of several mechanical loading situations with the goal of creating modules on video tape with specific tests that include both data acquisition for the test and video clips of the setup.

Drexel University - Surya Kalidindi, Alan Lawley, Gary Ruff, John Dinardo

There is a new required course in Materials Engineering which utilizes three modules developed in this Gateway project (Fracture Toughness, Optical Properties and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy). A team provided assistance to USC for implementing the Fracture Toughness lab in their Mechanical Engineering lab course. Researchers also enhanced a required introductory materials course at Drexel by adding four other Gateway modules (Electrical Conductivity, Materials Degradation, Tensile Test, Impact Test).

Ohio State University - John Lannutti

The Welding Module is under review at the Edison Welding Institute. The team is beginning image digitization for the Microscopy Module.

University of Pennsylvania - Charles McMahon

The team produced the following labs:

• Tensile testing - small-scale deformation
• Tensile testing - large-scale deformation
• Charpy impact testing of 1020 steel and the ductile-brittle transition
• SEM fractography of 1020 steel fractured at various temperatures.

University of South Carolina - Jed Lyons, Jamil Khan

The team provided beta-testing and/or peer evaluations for six modules developed by the Materials Project Area group. Members of the group successfully translated both CAI modules provided by Drexel from Mac to Windows format. USC faculty used Drexel's Fracture Mechanics CAI module and lab manual to create a new lab for USC's mechanical engineering students during 1996.

There is a list of project pages that are linked to the Materials Program page at their web site, and many of the modules can be downloaded. The web address is:

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