Lehigh University program reaches out to high and middle school students.

Advanced Materials & Processes, October, 2003 by Wardlow, Kelly P.

This is the story of how a private research university of any size can make a difference in reaching out to the community to bring understanding and interest in the materials world. Materials Science and Engineering, although a key to almost every emerging technology, is often one of the least known engineering disciplines.

The Lehigh University Institute for Metal Forming (IMF) has developed a K-12 outreach program that disseminates materials engineering into local schools through demonstrations, web sites, lesson plans and sending engineering students to teach in local schools. Web sites: The Lehigh team began outreach by developing two web sites that could be used by teachers for basic understanding of materials engineering principles and to refer their...

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