Materials scientists, enginers and product designers:
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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Materials scientists, enginers and product designers:
Not so different after all
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Teaching materials to diverse student audiences can be difficult
Teaching materials to diverse student audiences can be difficult; especially when the course (or module, or discipline, depending on the country) is to be taught by materials scientists to architects or product designers for example. In this case, the professor will have a fundamentally different notion of what materials are from the students' perception of what materials should be and how they would be used in their future profession.
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This leads to problems of:
- lack of motivation,
- excessive fail rates and poor grades, and
- a generalized feeling of lack of communication and connection with real life.
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Real life means
different things to different people!
A broader vision of what the materials discipline means to each stakeholder group needs to be acknowledged in order to build a common materials education thread.
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Materials science is
a multi-dimensional area of expertise
Materials science is a multi-dimensional area of expertise with complex links between the production methods, the materials microstructure, the properties and the applications of different materials classes
Also, however different the knowledge they need, it is still about materials, and the continuum of knowledge that is combined by all of these materials user groups is something developed here that can be referred to as ‘materials systems and design’. The paper presents the different visions of three common materials user groups and notes the differences and similarities amongst them when it comes to materials knowledge and education.
Also, however different the knowledge they need, it is still about materials, and the continuum of knowledge that is combined by all of these materials user groups is something developed here that can be referred to as ‘materials systems and design’. The paper presents the different visions of three common materials user groups and notes the differences and similarities amongst them when it comes to materials knowledge and education.
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Fundamental knowledge
- Engineers
- Materials Scientists,
- Architects
- Product Designers
Engineers, materials scientists, architects and product designers (to name a few) all need some fundamental knowledge of materials and their behavior under different settings to be able to extract the most out of them for a specific application
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What do you learn?
- Gaining insight in materials.
- Converting knowledge into materials design.
- Materials selection and evaluation.
- Analysis and modelling of materials and materials processing.
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ARCHITECTURE vs. ENGIENEERING
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