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Emerging Professionals: Science for Society & Future Focus
Science for Society articles: Rishabh Kundu and Ryan C. Eaton: “One small tweak to the lens of materials research, one giant leap for mankind” Grace Dunham: “Microwave firing: Inspiring young scientists through rapid ceramic demos” Hossein Libre: “Shaping materials science through policy engagement” Future Focus articles: Kartik Nemani: “Hope and…
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Emerging Professionals: Research Articles
Experiential learning: Developing the next generation of engineers By Ryan Eaton When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Goodhart’s law, coined in reference to monetary policy, is readily applicable to engineering education. When students begin optimizing their study habits to pass an exam rather…
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Durable and programmable metasurfaces enabled by phase change materials
Controlling light with high spatial precision enables technologies ranging from imaging and sensing to communications. Traditionally, optical components such as lenses and filters rely on bulk materials and fixed geometries, which limit their ability to adapt dynamically. Metasurfaces offer a fundamentally different approach. These materials consist of planar arrays of…
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From campus to commerce: Four things every academic inventor needs to know
Knowledge can be its own reward—or the gateway to a discovery with commercial potential. Creating something that may have market value introduces academics to unfamiliar territory in the business world. How they navigate that territory depends in part on the role they are prepared to play in a fledgling enterprise.…
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Tackling SiC manufacturing challenges for a sustainable future
Silicon carbide (SiC) has evolved from a niche ceramic material into a foundational platform for power electronics, extreme-environment components, and high-efficiency energy systems. Its wide bandgap, high thermal conductivity, and superior breakdown field make SiC the material of choice for next-generation power devices—enabling lighter, smaller, and more efficient converters for…
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Multimaterial research as the key to innovation in ceramic additive manufacturing
The current rapid advances in the field of ceramic additive manufacturing (AM)—driven by the industrial sector’s emphasis on scalability, cost efficiency, and reliable production of high-performance components—can sometimes obscure the long path scientists have forged over decades to set the fundamentals of ceramic science and engineering,1 which are widely employed…
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How standards can speed the development of ceramic additive manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) of ceramics is a promising technology that has already demonstrated the ability to speed the prototyping of parts, enable the production of complex geometries, reduce the waste of materials, and save money on tooling costs. Despite this potential, ceramic AM is at a much earlier stage than…
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Preparing a data-aware workforce: Applied data science at Case Western Reserve University
Modern scientific research produces data at an unprecedented rate. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is an extreme example, producing roughly 1 petabyte (1015 bytes) of raw data per second from particle collisions. But even more standard facilities produce copious amounts of data, such as the beamlines at different synchrotron…
