Modules to Support Online Delivery of Advanced Ceramic Course

Abstract

Advanced ceramic materials play a crucial enabling role in many industrial sectors including energy, bio-medical, automotive, and aerospace. Therefore, knowledge of the unique properties of this class of materials is a key component of a materials engineering curriculum. These programs are often among the smallest undergraduate programs within an Engineering Faculty, and therefore it is difficult to regularly offer this type of specialized course. This project will create modules to support the teaching of specialized advanced ceramic materials topics, which taken together would constitute a stand-alone online course at the 4th year or introductory graduate student level, the first such open access course available in eCampus. Individual modules could also be incorporated into existing courses to add specialized content.