Steve Yalisove
Appears in 68 Episodes
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...
Susan Gentry
This week we talk with Professor Susan Gentry from UC Davis. Susan is a teaching professor in the Materials Science and Engineering department. She is very active in...
30 minutes with Chat GPT
A discussion about Materials Science and Engineering education with the Open AI app, Chat GPT - the free voice model.You can find out more about the North American Mat...
Student managed Materials Societies - Michigan Materials Society
Today we talk with Alexa Goldstein, the President of the Michigan Materials Society - a student run organization. She explains what it is like to manage the events, s...
Materials and math: teaching MSE students the mathematical tools they need to succeed
Tim and Steve talk about math education at the college level, what engineering students are and are not getting from their math courses, and the math skills MSE studen...
Willie Rockward talks about how materials programs can best support African American students
Willie Rockward has been teaching at HBCUs for many years. He is now the chair of the physics department at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Previously he taugh...
Materials and Art Museums with Dave Choberka
Tim talks with Dave Choberka, a curator at the University of MIchigan Museum of Art. YouTube link: https://youtu.be/InXwN-zoAtE?si=MmNxRpzeJfjEidjdThis episode is sp...
Team Based Teaching
Tim and Steve talk about their experiences using team based teaching in a laboratory setting and to replace lectures. They talk about how they make their teams, what ...
Alloy design in undergraduate labs
Steve talks to Tim about his alloy design module in the undergraduate lab he teaches. He has students use ThermoCal and COMSOL to design an alloy, make the alloy, and...
Kevin Jones and the Impact of Materials on Society
Kevin Jones is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He has been working on the Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) project...
