17 Aug Engr 201 project

This class is a broad overview of materials science fundamentals. The project is to take a specific topic or material and do a more in-depth/complete study and report your findings. Learn of others research.

Timeline:

I encourage you to have your topic picked and start the project by the midterm.

Your final project will be due 2 days before the last day of the quarter. Your peer reviews will be due the last day of the quarter.

No in class time will be devoted to project work.

Picking your topic and project type:

I am giving freedom to pick your own topic, but check with me so that I can okay the topic.

All projects must be in an electronic form; no hard copy or live presentations will be accepted for credit.

The type of project you may do is also open ended, below are two options.

1) a paper (any format)

2) a presentation (video)

Your project does not have to be a paper or video presentation, but must get instructor approval first.

Grading:

The project is broken into 2 parts

Part 1: Your Project

I will not be supplying a detailed rubric, but the project will be broken down as follows:

– 70 points on content

– 20 points on organization and flow (not disjointed or skipping around)

– 10 points on grammar and structure

Part 2: Reviewing others Project

After everyone has submitted their project then each person will need to look over 5 other students project and write a 5+ sentence overview, summary, review, etc.

– 25 points; 5 points per review

Requirements:

I am not giving you a length that the completed project needs to be.

The project can be any format you would like (paper, video, etc.).

The project needs to be long enough to complete/fulfill the goal of the project. Make sure that it completely covers the topic (their is no need for filler).

Since content is the main point values on this, make sure it has plenty.

Possible topics (incomplete list; this is mostly for ideas):

thermal insulators

photo voltaic cells

superconductors

piezoelectric

super capacitors

hydrogen storage

space elevator

biomaterials

biomimicry

nanomaterials

medical materials

drug delivery systems

cancer treatments

quasicrystals

materials in automotive industry, sports, electronics…

thin films

hydrophobic materials

spectroscopy, microscopy, stereology…