Materials Education Council Becomes First MRS Affiliated Organization
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Materials Education Council Becomes First MRS Affiliated Organization
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MRS Président Bob Chang has announced that the Materials Education Council has been accepted as the first member of the new MRS Affiliated Organization Program. The MRS Affiliated Organization program was established this summer to initiate and recognize coopérative interactions with other organizations concerned with materials research (see the August 1989 MRS BULLETIN, p. 52).. The Materials Education Council and MRS already hâve a long history of coopérative innovative activities. This is perhaps not surprising since several figures prominent in founding MRS also helped to establish this educational effort. Harry Gatos, the first président of MRS, and Robert A. Huggins, currently an MRS coundllor, were involved in beginning an expérimental film project; and Rustum Roy, a former MRS coundllor, was the director of several key projects of the Council. The Materials Education Council was founded as an advisory committee, first to the National Materials Science Film Project (1970) and then to its successor, the Educational Modules for Materials Sdence and Engineering Project—both supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Council has since evolved into the international materials sdence and engineer-
ing community's self-help program in what they need, selecting a "best set" of preparing and distributing educational modules on a particular topic from back ismaterials. sues. The Journal is now translated into The initial and continuing rationale for Japanese for distribution in Japan. the Council's development was the récogCoopérative efforts of the Materials Edunition that producing new instructional cation Council and MRS hâve recently materials in forms other than textbooks been extended to video projects. In addiwas a key to improving content, moderniz- tion to videotaping the proceedings of ing curriculum, and integrating the many Symposium X at both the MRS Spring and fields of materials. From this base the con- Fall Meetings, oral historiés of the foundcept of modules was developed. The mod- ing of interdisciplinary materials research ules, pedagogically sound study packages and the discovery of high Tc oxide superon various materials topics, utilize à variety conductors hâve been recorded. At the of média—print, movies, télévision, and 1989 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston in Nocomputer software. They are generated vember, the Materials Education Council from various sources, indtfding module and MRS will co-produce a live national préparation workshops, individual sub- satellite broadcast of some of the most exmissions, and review papers presented at citing advances in the materials field. The scientific meetings such as those character- National Technological University (NTU) ized by the Symposium X séries (Frontière and PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service of Materials Science) at MRS meetings. Fu- will broadcast the présentation to industure plans of the Council indude PC soft- trial and académi
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