| Team Leader: | Lorenz Drake Division of Engineering and Industrial Technology Tidewater Community College 7000 College Drive Portsmouth, VA 23703 (757) 822-2426 |
| Team Reporter: | Maria Cooper Tallwood High School Va. Beach, VA (757) 474-8555 mmcooper@pen.k12.va.us |
| Team Recorder: | Eric Helmer Ocean Lakes High School Va. Beach, VA (757) 721-4110 Helmer3@webtv.net |
Introduction:
This web site will be organized, presented and managed by selected faculty and students of the Engineering and Technology Division of the Portsmouth Campus of Tidewater Community College and area high schools in the Tidewater area. The faculty and students involved in this project would like to generate interest in and promote a better understanding of the world of engineering/industrial materials and processes. This home page is designed to provide a gateway to general information about these topics in the Tidewater area of eastern Virginia (Va. Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, and Suffolk).
We hope to be a place where students from area high schools, colleges, and the public at large can come and learn about the world of engineering/industrial materials and the related manufacturing processes and design considerations that are necessary for effective and efficient utilization. Furthermore, it should become clear that engineering and industrial materials, and the design and manufacturing processes that enhance their performance and utilization are not distinct from the fields of math and science but are rather the practical applications of such principles by creative minds. If we don’t cover what you want on our home page we will direct you to other web sites, and or additional resources that may assist you.
GOALS:
 | Better place to get concise research materials. |
| Improve student interest and insight into science and math by showing the applications of these principles to the field of the design, engineering/industrial materials and their related manufacturing processes. |
| Show students what is actually happening in local and national industries and show the students what these industries are looking for in terms of employment (what does it take to work for this particular company?). |
| Generate interest in Material Science through cooperative interaction between area high schools, colleges, and supporting industries. |
| Create a locally supported source of organized information on industrial materials processes and design to be utilized for the purposes of general information, research, and or as a gateway to more information from the references provided. For example an instructor could assign materials related research and direct the student to the home page to begin their studies and then have them branch out from their. |
Time line for Construction of web page
| July 1997 | Draft outline and plan out physical layout of web page. Devise plan of action. Obtain permission for usage to run web page. |
| Aug 1997 | Begin construction of web page(basic layout) |
| Sept. 1997 | Gather student input for ideas on content for web page. |
| Oct. - Dec. 1997 | Incorporate student views into actual running Materials Science web page. Hook-up all links. |
| Dec. 1997 | Progress Report to Dr. Stoebe |
| May 1998 | Final Report to Dr. Stoebe. |
Student Involvement:
| Use results from other students projects to begin new studies in the field of Materials Science. |
| Actual work on the web site. |
| Construction |
| Research ideas to include or not include |
| Involvement between community college students and high school students during research and experimentation. |
Additional resource links on Engineering/Industrial Materials, and related Design and Manufacturing Processes Information:
Industry links
| G. E. |
| Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Boeing |
| Stihl |
| General Foam Plastics? |
| 3M |
| Line-X |
| K2 inc. |
| Other interesting industries |
Educational links on Line
| Cal Tech |
| MIT |
| Penn State |
| Norfolk State |
| Old Dominion University |
| Virginia Tech |
| University of Maryland |
| University of Washington |
| Other community colleges |
Recommended References
| Journals |
| Selected books |
| Video tapes |
| CD ROMS |
| Other informative web sites |
Professional Organizations
| ACerS | American Ceramic Society P.O. Box 6136 Westerville, OH 43086-6136 http://www.acers.org |
| AISI | American Iron and Steel Institute |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute http://www.ansi.org/ |
| ASM | Formerly the American Society for Metals International Materials Park , Ohio 44073 Ph (216) 338-5151 FAX (216)338-4634 http://www.asm-intl.org/ |
| ASME | (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) http://www.asme.org |
| ASTM | (American Society for Testing and Materials) http://www.astm.org |
| AWS | (American Welding Society) http://www.aws.org |
| HTS | Heat Treating Society - (An Affiliate Society of ASM
International) Ph (800) ASM-4HTS or (216) 338-5151 FAX (216) 338-4634 |
| MAST | |
| SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers http://www.sae.org |
| SAMPE | Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process
Engineering P.O. Box 2459 Covina, CA 91722-8459 Ph (800) 562-7360 FAX (818) 332-8929 http://www.et.byu.edu/~sampe |
| SME | Society of Manufacturing Engineers One SME Drive P.O. Boz 930 Dearborn, MI 48121 0930 Ph (313)271-1500 FAX (313) 271-2861 E MAIL ADDRESS Records@SME.ORG http://www.sme.org |
| TMS | The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society 420 Commonwealth Dr Warrendale, PA 15086-7514 http://www.tms.org |
Governmental links
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Association http://www.nasa.gov |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD http://www.nist.gov |
Word 97 doc file of this project: virginia.doc
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