Volume 32, Numbers 1 - 2 | University of North Texas

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS EDUCATION

Volume 32, Numbers 1 - 2

Schools with Technology, or Schools Versus Technologies? Cláudio de Moura Castro Positivo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil	1
Materials Education and Innovation: Globalization Opens New Frontiers, Opportunities and Challenge Sergio Mascarenhas Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil	19
Cascade Approach to Learning Nano Science and Engineering: A Project of the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering S.W. Dugan and R.P.H. Chang Northwestern University, Evanston, IL60201, USA	21
The Perception of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology by Children and Teenagers M. Knobel^{1, 2}, S.E. Murriello², A. Bengtsson3 , A. Cascón³ and R. Zysler³ ¹ Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil; ² Laboratório de Estudos Avançados em Jornalismo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil; ³ Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Bariloche, Argentina	29
ASM City of Materials: Interacting in a Virtual World Jan Edwards¹, Sarah L. Lewis², Marian Kennedy³, Patrick Ferro⁴ and Charles R. Hayes⁵ ¹JE Consulting, Round Lake, IL 60073; ²Starfire Systems, Inc., Malta, NY 12020; ³Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634; ⁴Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 99258; ⁵ASM Materials Education Foundation, Materials Park, OH 44073, USA	39
Challenge of Materials Education for Medical Physics Students A. De Almeida Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil	53
Integration between Graduate Studies in Polymer Science and Technology and Technical High Schools Elizabete F. Lucas and E.A.V. Roldan Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil	59
Materials Science Education: Ion Beam Modification and Analysis of Materials D. Ila, R.L. Zimmerman and C. Muntele Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL 35762, USA	67
Taking Materials Engineering to High School V. Villas-Boas, F. P. Missell, A. M. C. Grisa, M. A. R. Pacheco, O. I. Rochefort and J. E. Zorzi Universidade de Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil	73
Interdisciplinary Research and Education - NSF IGERT Program on Integrating Nanotechnology with Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University of New Mexico Marek Osiński^1,2, Michael C. Wilson³, Janet M. Oliver⁴, James L. Thomas⁵, Shannon McCampbell⁶, and Linda M. Bugge^1,7 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA	83
Preparing Graduate Students to Make Oral Presentations Elizabete Lucas and Luis C. Mendes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil	93
Physics and Material Science: Opportunities for the Interdisciplinary Link in the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Arcelio Hernández Fereira and Liubov Del Risco Cabrera University of Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba	99
FORUM REPORT: "Future Priorities for Materials Education" - 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-25 September 2009 Robert L. Zimmerman¹ and John Baglin² ¹Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL 35762, USA; ²IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120, USA	107
BOOK REVIEW: "Dynamics of Self-Organized and Self-Assembled Structures", by Rashmi C. Desai and Raymond Kapral Witold Brostow University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA	111