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Graduate students in a Chemistry Lab.
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The degree programs of graduate students in the Center
are enhanced by courses that parallel their research activities.
The CSM graduate students benefit not only from courses,
but also from regular IRG and Center meetings. From
these informal sessions, students develop a broad perspective
of the materials field and the team-based approaches needed to
solve multidisciplinary problems in materials research.
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Graduate work at the Engine Research Lab
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Industrial scientists and engineers learn about sensor materials and their applications
through continuing education courses. Two examples of formal MRSEC-related
academic offerings are: Internal Combustion Engines, organized
by Dr. Harold Schock, which features guest speakers and participants from
the automotive industry; and Plasma-Assisted Materials Processing,
taught by Dr. Jes Asmussen and Dr. Tim Grotjohn, which is delivered on-campus
and by TV broadcast to audiences including Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard,
Micron, Motorola, Fairchild, IBM, and Intel. The CSM is also experimenting
with distance learning techniques that will provide state-of-the-art sensor-related
information to professional scientists and engineers. For example, the
CFMR/CSM Symposium on Electronic Oxides: Properties and Applications,
in April 1997 developed as a Web-based continuing education course at
Michigan State Since 1995, the Center has sponsored an annual Workshop
onMagnetic Multilayers, held in November of each year and organized
by Dr. Peter Schroeder.
CSM shares with the CFMR responsibility for the
Academic Affiliates program which brings faculty
and students from small colleges for research collaborations. The
Visiting Scholars
program engages international faculty and research
leaders for short visits to MSU for teaching and research
on topical subjects.
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