Materials Engineering Homepage

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
http://www.azom.com/materials.asp.

An interactive experiment where students “measure” the Young’s modulus of steel http://schools.matter.org.uk/Content/YoungModulus/Default.htm

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
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/materials/COURSES/NANO/overview.htm

Latest news in nanotechnology
http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/main.html
   
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
http://www.ceramics.org/

Corning Museum of Glass - cool stuff about glass making, history of glass, watch glassmaking, technical information and glossary
http://www.cmog.org/
   
METALS AND ALLOYS Steel MATTER an interactive website for ferrous metallurgy
http://www.matter.org.uk/steelmatter/
        
Last reviewed: 25 October, 2011