Materials Research Society

Monday, November 29:

SESSION PP1: Education, Curriculum and Reaching Students
Chair: Fiona Goodchild
Monday Morning, November 29, 2004
Back Bay Ballroom B (Sheraton)

 

Breakfast on your own and opportunity to meet with your mentors

8:30 AM PP1.1

Citizen Scientists - Advocate Educator

Dennis M. Bartels, President, TERC, Cambridge, Massachusetts

9:00 AM PP1.2

Materials Science and Technology: A Curriculum That Works

Tom Stoebe1 and John Rusin2; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2Engineering, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, Washington.

9:15 AM PP1.3

Exploring Constructionist Learning Environments for Middle-School Science Students: Problem-based Scientific Inquiry Using Electron Microscopy

Andrea J. Harmer and Sujata Jagota; Materials Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

9:30 AM PP1.4

Teaching Materials Science and Engineering through the Writing and Use of "The World of Materials" Essays

Paul R. Howell, Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

9:45 AM BREAK

10:15 AM PP1.5

National Science Teachers Association unrivaled professional learning network, Building a Presence for Science, a Communication solution for time-starved teachers

Caroline Goode, Building a Presence for Science, National Science Teachers Association, Arlington, Virginia

10:45 AM PP1.6

New Approach Application to Classroom Teacher Activity

Boris N. Kodess1,2, Polina Kodess1 and Sergey A. Kononogov1; 1Crystals Metrology, VNIIMS, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2ICS&E, Aurora, Colorado

11:00 AM SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS BY HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS:

Education, Curriculum and Reaching Students

11:00 AM

Minds-On Science

David Ruth, South Seneca High School, Ovid, New York

11:12 AM

Computation and Science in High School

Charles Powell, Wheat Ridge High School, Wheat Ridge, Colorado

11:24 AM

Wind Tunnel for use in High School Classroom Activities

Dean Walker, Lewistown Area High School, Lewistown, Pennsylvania

11:36 AM

Teaching Nanoscience in Classrooms using TranSIESTA-c Software and Graphics Package

Manju Prakash, School Plus, SUNY Stonybrook, Stonybrook, New York

11:48 AM

Returning to learning and the benefits to be gained that are imparted through your teaching

Woodward Maxwell, Ventura High School, Ventura, California

 

12:00 – 1:30PM Lunch on your own: Opportunity to meet with your mentor

• 12:00 – 1:30 PM Other Technical Talks with Pizza, Grand Ballroom (Sheraton)

 

Symposium X Frontiers of Materials Research-Innovations to Impact

SESSION X1: Materials Innovations to Impact: Established and Novel Optics
Chairs: Julia W. P. Hsu and Richard A. Vaia

• 12:05 PM X1.1

Optical Fiber: A Materials Innovation

Donald B. Keck, State University of New York, Big Flats, New York.

• 12:45 PM X1.2

Holography -- Lighting the Way to the Next Generation of Storage

Lisa Dhar, Sharon Smith and Leslie D. Kramer; Media Development, InPhase Technologies, Longmont, Colorado.

 

SESSION PP2: Creating Materials Science Connections
Chair: Wendy Crone
Monday Afternoon, November 29, 2004
Back Bay Ballroom B (Sheraton)

1:30 PM PP2.1

The 'ABCs' of Nanotechnology: Atoms, Bits, and Civilization

Arthur B. Ellis, Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia

2:00 PM PP2.2

A New Type of Partnership for Science Outreach: Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Strange Matter and the Liberty Science Center

Daniel Steinberg, Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2:30 PM PP2.3

Materials Matter: Demonstrating Material Science to the General Public

Beth Tinker2, Andrew Greenberg1,3 and Ronald D. Redwing1,4; 1Center for Nanoscale Science, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 2The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 3Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; 4Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

2:45 PM BREAK

3:00 PM PP2.4

The NanoKids Project

James M. Tour, CNST, Rice University, Houston, Texas

3:30 PM PP2.5

Exploring Materials Science with LEGO® Brick Models

Dean James Campbell, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

3:45 PM SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS BY HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS:

Creating Materials Science Connections

3:45 PM

Summer Research Experience at Drexel University

Steven Fine; Dr. Charles E. Brimm Medical Arts High School, Camden, New Jersey

3:57 PM

Nanotechnology Research at Northwestern Univeristy

Caroline Makere; Curie Metropolitan High School, Chicago, Illinois.

4:09 PM

Research experiences for middle and High school leaders at IBM and Cornell University : back to the classroom

Stephen Zielinski1 and Ann Phinney-Foreman2; 1South Seneca Middle School, Ovid, New York, 2Waverly High School, Waverly, New York.

4:21 PM

Teacher information, involvement and rewards for interships at Carnegie Mellon University

Robert Wesolowski; Taylor Allderice High School, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

4:33 PM

Scientific Method Leads to Successes in the Lab

Christine Talbot; Manchester Memorial High School, Manshester, New Hampshire

4:45 PM

Research Experience for Science Teachers at Northwestern University

Harry Kyriazes; Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinios

5:00 PM Dinner on your own: Opportunity to meet with your mentor

• 6:00 PM Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel

Plenary Session Speaker: Addressing Grand Challenges Through Advanced Materials.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus Massachusetts Institute of Technology

http://www.mrs.org/meetings/fall2004/plenary.html

• 8:00 – 11:00PM Technical Poster Sessions

Evening poster sessions will be held Monday through Thursday in Exhibition Hall D of the Hynes Convention Center.

• Optional highly suggested sessions

Please refer to the MRS Fall Meeting Program book for additional Technical Talks and Exhibits