MSE8022 - Frontiers in Materials | ||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||
The goal of this course is for student to be made aware of the fun and difficulty of science and engineering by experiencing cutting edge initiatives in science and engineering, thus providing an opportunity to strongly motivate them academically. Furthermore, students will gain an understanding of how individual science and engineering results are related to and contribute to society. Students will acquire the following skills from taking this course on cutting edge science and engineering: 1) The skills to process cutting edge science and engineering, and gain an understanding in addition to one's own surveys; 2) The skills to attempt to actively understand the links between science and engineering and society; 3) The skills to engage with interest in science and engineering topics they are encountering for the first time, and to back cast that knowledge to their own learning. • One-hour presentation for each student including presentation, questions and answers. • The presentation includes: 1) Introduction, basic knowledge of this topic, operation mechanism, working principle; 2) literature review about this field, current status of this field, what progress already achieved, what kind of problem still need to be resolved; 3) Motivation and objective, what kinds of problem you want to solve, why you want to solve this kind of problem, how you are going to solve this kind of problem, from synthesis, characterization, and application aspects, etc. also what is the impact or result on solving this kind of problem; 4) Research methods, future research direction, what kind of research directions you are going to do, list 1, 2, 3, 4 research directions, for each research direction, what kind of problem you want to solve, list the main characterization techniques that want to use to conduct your research, introduce these main characterization techniques, including the operation mechanism, working principle of these characterization techniques, difference student can mention different aspects of the same characterization technique, such as TEM, SEM, XRD, XPS, etc. what kind of results you expect to obtain, what kinds improvements you expect to achieve: such as electrical conductivity, photoluminescent yield, band gap, FET ON/OFF ratio, overpotential, Tafel slop, energy storage capacity, Lithium ion diffusion coefficient, etc. Then explain the improvements or achievements from thermodynamic or kinetic point of view, or molecular point of view, or quantum mechanics. 5) Project timetable, list the research schedule and milestones. • During the presentation, every student needs to attend the class, asking some questions, asking good questions will be counted in the final marks. • For the PPT presentation, please try to deliver fluent presentation, if you can’t present the PPT fluently, mark deduction will be applied, so the student is better to prepare the lecture notes under the PPT slide and repeatedly practice the presentation before his or her presentation timeline. • After presentation from every student, the student is required to compose a proposal based this PPT presentation. For the assignments, there is no final exam, only this PPT presentation and proposal for final evaluation. | ||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 100% | ||||||||
Examination Duration: 0 hours | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
| MSE8022.pdf | ||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||
| Department of Materials Science and Engineering | ||||||||
