This unique textbook is designed to serve as an active learning tool that uses carefully selected information and guided inquiry questions. Guided inquiry helps students reach true understanding of concepts as they develop greater ownership over the material presented. First, background information or data is presented. Then, concept invention questions lead the students to construct their own understanding of the fundamental concepts represented. Finally, application questions provide the students with practice in solving problems using the concepts that they have derived from their own valid conclusions.
Key Features
- An active learning tool with carefully selected information. You’ll notice this textbook is slimmer than your average textbook. Students do not need to be told every detail about every topic, but they do need to learn the fundamental concepts. The focus of this book is on enabling students to actively engage in the content, struggle with the concepts, and ultimately discover those concepts for themselves.
- Guided inquiry helps students use their own valid conclusions to understand concepts–as opposed to having it simply told to them. This book can be used in many ways, but was written based on the approach of Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning™ (POGIL), where students work in small groups on specially designed guided inquiry questions. To make sure that students understand the important concepts, they are guided through the information by answering 3 types of specific guided inquiry questions:
- Exploration questions ask students to find information that is already presented in the text, or that they can answer from common knowledge.
- Concept Invention questions ask students to use the answers from the exploration questions to figure out a general concept or approach to solving a problem. These are the key questions of every chapter, because this is where the discovery occurs.
- Application questions help students practice using the concepts.
- Additional features will help students master the material.
- Concept Checks test students’ understanding of key points. Answers to the Concept Checks are in the back of the book.
- Example Problems help students understand how to apply the concepts. Some of the example problems include hints that will help when they have to solve similar problems.
- Application Spotlights show how some of the concepts and ideas are actually used in engineering, with an emphasis on issues related to the environment.
Contents
Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: What is Guided Inquiry?
- Chapter 2: What is Materials Science and Engineering?
Part II: Atomic and Molecular Structure of Materials
- Chapter 3: Bonding
- Chapter 4: Atomic Arrangements in Solids
- Chapter 5: The Structure of Polymers
- Chapter 6: Microstructure: Phase Diagrams
- Chapter 7: Diffusion
- Chapter 8: Microstructure: Kinetics
Part III: Properties and Uses of Materials
- Chapter 9: Mechanical Behavior
- Chapter 10: Materials in the Environment
- Chapter 11: Electronic Behavior
- Chapter 12: Thermal Behavior
- Chapter 13: Materials Selection and Design
Book Details
- Spiral-bound: 400 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (c2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132136422
- ISBN-13: 978-0132136426
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.3 x 1 inches
- List Price: $136.00