UK Centre for Materials Education
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The DoITPoMS Project is a FDTL Phase 3 consortium project which focuses on the use of the Web for the dissemination of teaching and learning resources for materials science. The project is led by the University of Cambridge in partnership with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester, North London, Oxford Brookes and Sheffield. |
Among the outcomes of the project are two new web-based resources aimed at supporting the teaching and learning of materials science: a Micrograph Library and a Library of Teaching and Learning Packages (or TLPs).
The Micrograph Library is a fully searchable collection of over 650 materials micrographs intended for use in teaching and learning. There is good representation of all the main categories of materials.
Each micrograph has stored with it descriptive 'metadata' including a brief description, keywords, system, composition, processing, and microscopy technique. All binary alloys represented in the Library are linked to an interactive phase diagram. Keywords are linked to the corresponding entry in a new web-based version of the MATTER Glossary of Materials Science where this exists.
The DoITPoMS TLP Library is a growing collection of self-contained teaching and learning packages, each focusing on a topic in materials science commonly met with in undergraduate teaching and learning. TLPs include video clips of experiments, questions and answers, references for further study, and links to a web-based version of the MATTER Glossary of Materials Science.
The 11 TLPs completed to date include: Atomic Scale Structure of Materials, Beam Stiffness, Introduction to Dislocations, Fracture: the Effect of Flaws, Phase Diagrams and Solidification, and Diffraction and Imaging.
There will be an opportunity to learn more about DoITPoMS resources and their use in undergraduate teaching and learning at a one day workshop at Cambridge University on 24 June 2003.
Further information is also available at the DoITPoMS project web site: www.doitpoms.ac.uk.
