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Dear Prospective Graduate Student, As a graduate student and an early career faculty member, I developed research skills on structure-property-processing relationships in advanced materials and composites. My students and I have broken a lot of stuff, including aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloys, short fiber reinforced ceramics, polymer composites and reinforced plastics of all sorts, concrete, superalloys and friction stir welds. I love figuring out why things fracture, and how to prevent it. As my faculty career developed, I also became interested in understanding how people learn to become engineers. How do we learn to design experiments? What do we learn from mistakes that we don't from successes? How does learning to teach relate to learning to research? How can we increase diversity in our engineering student and graduate populations? Understanding and improving engineering education is a grand challenge of this century. Who are you? What is your passion? If your interests and mine align, we should talk. If you're a working engineer, I can help you complete your MS or PhD degree with a focus on engineering materials through our distance education APOGEE program. If engineering education is your game, then there are opportunities for full-time graduate study on the Columbia campus as well as part-time study at a distance. I expect a lot from my students but I give a lot too. This is an exciting time for graduate education at the University of South Carolina! Be a part of it! Contact me:\ Jed S. Lyons, Ph.D., P.E. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Director, Center for Teaching Excellence University of South Carolina 300 Main Street. Room A132 Columbia, SC 29208 803.777.9552 lyons@sc.edu |
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Engineering Education PhD and MS
Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education. GK-12 Fellows get $30k fellowships to enhance science education in SC schools.
Pi Fellows get $10k supplements to their regular assistantships to enhance science education in SC schools.
Supporting African American, Native American and Hispanic American students in their pursuit of the PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
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