NAMES 2013 - 4th NAMES: North American Materials Education Symposium

The main Symposium sessions will include:

Around 15-20 presentations from an international speaker panel selected by the Symposium Advisory Committee. Talks will cover teaching in the following topic areas: materials science, manufacturing and processes, mechanical engineering, industrial design, aerospace and nuclear engineering, bio engineering, plastics, and sustainable engineering
Interactive discussion sessions
Socializing and networking over lunches and the Symposium dinner
Two days of Poster sessions, with 'Poster Teasers' sessions allowing presenters to briefly introduce their work in the main lecture theater
Other actvities on the two preceeding days and Saturday, including a Presenter's dinner, short courses, networking, and the CES EduPack development meeting

Materials science, as Prof. Mike Ashby argued in his opening talk for this session, is a bridging discipline, linking the pure and applied sciences across many fields. Materials science and materials engineering sit at the intersection of many different subject areas (see figure, right), and play an important role in education and industry as they link the pure and applied sciences across many fields. This breadth makes these subjects uniquely well placed to contribute to the solution of many of today's challenges. The interdisciplinary nature of materials teaching will be a major focus for the Symposia as we explore how materials can link different subjects together, and learn from experiences of teaching materials and processes across the curriculum.