Steve Yalisove
Appears in 57 Episodes
Tim and Steve Recap Teaching Experiences from the Fall 2024 term
In this episode, Steve and Tim reflect on their recent teaching experiences, focusing on Tim's new math course and Steve's grading for growth experiment. They discuss ...
Ellen Solomon and Multidisciplinary Design
Steve and Tim talk with Dr. Ellen Solomon, one of the program managers of the Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) at the University of Michigan. Ellen graduated wi...
Tresa Pollock: The 2024 Van Vlack Lecturer in MS&E at U. Michigan
Steve and Tim talk with Professor Tresa Pollock from UC Santa Barbara, the 2024 Van Vlack Lecturer in the MS&E department at U. Michigan. Tresa has had a very long an...
Tershia Pinder-Grover and CRLT Engineering: How teaching centers help faculty and students improve learning
Steve and Tim talk with Dr. Tershia Pinder-Grover, the director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering (CRLT-Engin) in the College of Engin...
Tim's new math course for Materials Science and Engineering students
Steve talks to Tim about his new math course. He explains how it is going, what is challenging, and what is better than expected. He also discusses his grading, stud...
Micah Gendich - MSE Student Association President
Tim talks with Micah Gendich, the University of Michigan MSE student association president. UM has an organization called the Michigan Materials Society (MMS) that is...
Getting Ready for Classes - starting a new class and making major changes to an old one
Tim and Steve talk about how they are getting ready for classes - which start next week!Tim is creating a completely new class that has never been taught before - Math...
Cindy Anderson and Engineering for One Planet
Cindy talks with Tim and Steve about Engineering for One Planet and how she worked with the Lemelson Foundation to launch it.You can find the information talked about ...
Marcus Collins: Marketing Materials Science and Engineering
SummaryIn this conversation, Steve, Tim and Marcus discuss the challenges of attracting students to material science and engineering (MSE) programs. They explore the c...
Season 2: New guests, new segments
Steve and Tim talk about the new season for the 2024-2025 academic year. They plan to continue having great guests and add some curricular topics. Please help us wit...
Gerard Mourou - A Nobel Prize Laureate talks about undergraduate research
Gerard Mourou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 along with his former student Donna Strickland. The Nobel Prize was for developing chirped pulse amplific...
Ray Decker
Steve and Tim talk with Dr. Ray Decker today. Ray earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the U. of Michigan. He spent most of his career at International N...
Blacksmithing with Tim - Student voices
You can find the YouTube version of the Podcast here:https://youtu.be/cyw4_vGhy34?si=6CIQBrkptLvgv2m5We also have a condensed video version that can be found here:http...
Professor Aeriel Murphy-Leonard
Tim and Steve talk with Aeriel about her experience being a student and transitioning to an assistant professor at the Ohio State UniversityYou can find the YouTube vi...
Chip Keough - ASM and the ASM Foundation
Tim and Steve talk with Chip Keough, the former CEO of Applied Process, Inc and the past chair of the ASM Foundation. Chip is a UM Alum and currently and adjunct facu...
Projects
Steve and Tim talk about projects they have students do instead of exams.You can find the YouTube video here:https://youtu.be/Lrp4zelzJ1c?si=2fYK-W9y8ZJWq1zbYou can fi...
Peg Jones and the ASM teacher camps
Peg and Tim talk about the ASM Foundation teacher camps.You can find out more about the teacher camps at this link:https://www.asmfoundation.org/teachers/materials-cam...
Jeff Fergus - What is ABET accreditation and how materials programs can easily succeed at their next visit
Jeff Fergus joins Steve and Tim to talk about ABET. Jeff has been the chair of the Engineering Accreditation Commission at ABET, is currently working on the ABET accr...
Recruiting Materials Science and Engineering Students
Steve and Tim talk about how we can convince students to become Materials Science and Engineering StudentsYou can find the YouTube video here:https://youtu.be/-TNEW7Ni...
Assessing ABET Outcomes for Materials Programs
Steve and Tim talk about how we do our ABET outcomes assessment, analyze the results, and use it as input to our continuous improvement process.Link to the YouTube ver...