Open House Events

The College of Engineering will hold its annual Open House on April 12, 2008 from 9:00 a.m-1:00 p.m. The Materials Science and Engineering Department will have information tables, students and faculty out meeting and greeting, and five events designed to let people see what Materials Science and Engineering is all about.

We invite you to check out this year's Open House, or contact us for more information.

Overview of This Year's Events

• Nano Ice Cream - Ice cream is made with liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen causes a rapid freeze which results in nanoscale ice cream particles. The resulting ice cream has a very smooth texture.
• Atmospheric Plasma - A demonstration of how materials can be manipulated using atmospheric plasma. Demonstrates how previously unsalvagable waste materials can be recycled.
• Mechanical Strengthening of Nanomaterials - Metal samples are processed in a way that causes them to form nanoparticles, making the material stronger. Tensile tests are done to prove that this is the case. (A tensile test is where you clamp a specimen into a machine which pulls on both ends of the specimen while measuring the specimen's response to the tension.)
• Seeing Atoms - Visitors to the “Seeing Atoms” demonstration look at the atomic structure of an electronic device of a next generation computer chip with a transition electron microscope (TEM).
• Nanoscale Computations - Computer simulations of atomic-scale nanostructures.