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Pilling-Bedworth Ratio Calculator
15 Apr 2022 | Contributor(s):: Zachary D McClure, Alejandro Strachan
Query unit cell structures from the Materials Project and calculate Pilling-Bedworth Ratio between metal and oxides
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Model Rockets and Composite Materials: Design, Build, Launch
27 May 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
Students will gain experience with polymer matrix fiber composites, composite production, and the tradeoffs inherent in the engineering design process by designing, building and launching their own model rocket. Composite materials are created via hand layup and vacuum assisted resin...
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Materials Simulation Toolkit for Machine Learning (MAST-ML) tutorial
07 May 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Ryan Jacobs, BENJAMIN AFFLERBACH
Tutorial showing the many use cases for the MAST-ML package to build, evaluate and analyze machine learning models for materials applications.
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DFT Results Explorer
17 Feb 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Saaketh Desai, Juan Carlos Verduzco Gastelum, Daniel Mejia, Alejandro Strachan
Use visualization tools to explore correlations in a DFT simulation results database
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Materials Camp for High School Students
01 Jul 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
These activities were all developed for the Materials Camp program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), which began in 2011. The camp is a five-day, non-residential program designed to introduce mostly local 10th-12th grade students to the field of materials engineering and the...
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Materials Matching Mixer Activity
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This materials-themed ice breaker activity is great for the first day of a camp program to get students thinking about basic material properties, as well as talking to each other and speaking out loud in front of the group. The name of a common engineering material (steel, rubber, concrete,...
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Pineapple Packaging Design Challenge
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This activity asks students to work in teams to consider the pros and cons of different materials as a container for cut pineapple (metal can plastic jar, glass jar). It reinforces the differences between different categories of material, weighing conflicting factors to reach a design...
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Engineering Communication with Tinker Toys
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This resource describes three variations on an engineering communication activity using Tinker Toys. In the main activity, small groups of students are given a bag of Tinker Toys and instructed to build anything they like. They are then asked to write down building instructions for...
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Citrine Tools for Materials Informatics
05 Dec 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Juan Carlos Verduzco Gastelum, Alejandro Strachan
Jupyter notebooks for sequential learning in the context of materials design. Run your own models, explore various methods and adapt the notebooks to your needs.
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MSEN 201 Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
Fundamental principles of materials science and engineering and their application toward complex engineering challenges; relationship between materials structure and structural and functional properties of engineered materials; property-performance relationships; principle classes of materials,...
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MSEN 201 Lecture 1.1: Atomic Structures - Orbital Filling
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 1.2: Atomic Structures - Quantum Mechanics
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 2.1: Bonding - Interatomic Force & Energy Curves
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 2.2: Bonding - Atomic Bonding
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.1: Crystalline Solids - Single Crystal, Polycrystalline, Amorphous
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.2: Crystalline Solids - Crystallographic Points
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.3: Crystalline Solids - Crystallographic Directions
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.4: Crystalline Solids - Crystallographic Planes
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.5: Crystalline Solids - Families of Directions, Planes
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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GUI for the Surface Evolver - Polycrystalline Grain Growth
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Kevin K Ngo, Lucas Darby Robinson
This poster summarizes how the the online simulation tool, GUI for the Surface Evolver, was created as well as how it will impact research in polycrystalline grain growth. Polycrystalline grains have surface energies and tensions associated with them that cause grain boundaries to move...