UK Centre for Materials Education
Working with you to enhance the student experience
Working with you to enhance the student experience
The UK Centre for Materials Education is announcing two funding schemes to support the development and implementation of innovative approaches to materials education. The schemes are open to anyone involved in sub-degree, undergraduate or postgraduate teaching of materials science and closely related disciplines.
'I want to explore a completely new approach to my teaching but need funding to allow me to properly research the subject, to develop new teaching materials and to introduce and evaluate a new module.'
Perhaps you want to introduce a problem based approach to your teaching, or investigate the use of web based learning and assessment, or develop methods to enhance the employability of your graduates.
Our Teaching Development Project scheme is aimed at those lecturers who wish to develop, implement and evaluate truly innovative methods in teaching materials science. The subject matter of these projects is not restricted but each should aim to develop approaches to enhance student learning, to improve student recruitment or to support the needs of students with special needs. Five grants of up to £5000 will be awarded for projects to begin early in 2004.
'There is a new teaching method I would like to try but I just can't find the time to prepare for and introduce changes to my approach.'
Have you discovered a new approach to materials education that you feel could be applied to good effect in your own teaching? Perhaps one of your colleagues has used industrial case studies to enhance their teaching of failure analysis, or you have come across a computer aided learning package that supports the study of dislocation theory. Would you like to adopt similar methods and tools yourself but don't have the time to change your approach?
Our new Implementation Project scheme intends to provide a small amount of funding to allow you to buy in support to ease your existing workload, to provide you with packs of resources and information to support your work, and team you with a mentor - a materials lecturer who has already adopted a similar approach and can give practical advice and guidance. Ten grants of up to £1000 will be awarded for projects to begin early in 2004.
More information on these funding schemes and the projects supported in the past can be found at www.materials.ac.uk/grants.
The closing date for proposals is January 30 2004 and the funding will be available from April 01 2004.
