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Resources for School Teachers and Students
Materials Science is an important part of the NSW HSC curriculum and UoW offers a number of ways to assist students and teachers. Each year, we host year 12 students in an Engineering Studies Day. Students complete hands on practical activities in measuring material properties and these activities support the learning objectives in Engineering Studies.For more information on the Engineering Studies Day please contact the Faculty. In addition, we list below useful web resources that help to explain some of the fundamental and applied aspects of MSE. We hope that they are helpful to students in Engineering Studies. Chemistry students may also find the information relevant to the Yr 12 topic Production of Materials.
List of Resources
| MATERIALS STRUCTURE | Operate a “virtual microscope” and explore the operation of light microscopes and electron microscopes http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/virtual/virtual.html |
| MATERIALS PROPERTIES |
AZoM - The A to Z listing of materials - info about materials, properties, uses, conferences Web Elements - multi-award winning periodic table with heaps of information about elements, compounds, their properties and uses http://www.webelements.com/ MatWeb - materials properties data on over 40,000 different materials http://www.matweb.com |
| MATERIALS PROCESSING | Lots of animations and process demonstrations for steelmaking http://ilsap.matter.org.uk/ |
| ADVANCED MATERIALS and NANOTECHNOLOGY |
Overview of nanostructured materials with information on synthesis and properties Latest news in nanotechnology |
| POLYMERS |
Polymer Discovery Web Site and resources for HSC students: http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/discovery/ Business news in rubbers and plastics http://www.rubbernews.com/subscriber/headlines.phtml |
| CERAMICS |
The American Ceramic Society - professional association for those involved in industry or research into ceramic materials. Has information about ceramics, and range of publications Corning Museum of Glass - cool stuff about glass making, history of glass, watch glassmaking, technical information and glossary |
| METALS AND ALLOYS | Steel MATTER an interactive website for ferrous metallurgy http://www.matter.org.uk/steelmatter/ |













