Steve ran into Christina Haden at the 2025 ABET symposium in San Diego two weeks ago. Christina has developed a multi step method of assessing student outcomes using performance indicators that span a period of time across an entire curriculum to gain knowledge of learning growth. She is experimenting with longer times and using her methods to perform longitudinal studies of learning gains. She also talked about how this work has influenced one of her more exciting projects that is focussed on first year engineering residence course she is piloting next term.

You can learn more about Christina here:

https://engineering.lehigh.edu/faculty/christina-viau-haden

Christina’s department website is here:

https://engineering.lehigh.edu/meche

You can find the YouTube video here:
https://youtu.be/pLKtgqSzxR0

This episode is sponsored by the North American Materials Education Symposium, a gift from Prof. Ron Gibala, and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Please attend the North American Materials Education Symposium next summer, August 5th - 6th at Georgia Tech. Workshops on August 4th:
https://www.names25.mse.gatech.edu

Steve and Tim ran into Taylor Sparks at the TMS meeting and decided to do a podcast. Taylor is a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at U. Utah. He is also the host of the long running materials science podcast called "Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast".

You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts at the link below or you can just search for it on any podcast platform:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/materialism-a-materials-science-podcast/id1448663986

You can find out more about Taylor and his research here:
https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0203991
or here:
https://my.eng.utah.edu/~sparks/group.html

You can also find out about many of his excellent educational resources and courses on his YouTube Channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@TaylorSparks⁩

You can find the YouTube video of the podcast here:
https://youtu.be/yJJcskRX7cs

This episode is sponsored by the North American Materials Education Symposium, a gift from Prof. Ron Gibala, and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Please attend the North American Materials Education Symposium next summer, August 5th - 6th at Georgia Tech. Workshops on August 4th:
https://www.names25.mse.gatech.edu

Tim and Steve were at the TMS meeting in Las Vegas and ran into Professor Jerry Floro from the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Virginia. We talk about his efforts to bring active learning into his classes, his work in helping start an undergraduate program at UVa, and lots of other fun things. You can learn more about Jerry and the MS&E department at UVa at the links below:

About Jerry:
https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/jerrold-floro

About the MS&E department at UVa:
https://engineering.virginia.edu/department/materials-science-and-engineering

You can find the YouTube video of the podcast here:
https://youtu.be/Wy4FhPOK3SI

This episode is sponsored by the North American Materials Education Symposium, a gift from Prof. Ron Gibala, and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Please attend the North American Materials Education Symposium next summer, August 5th - 6th at Georgia Tech. Workshops on August 4th:
https://www.names25.mse.gatech.edu