Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Guided Inquiry, 1st edition

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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.¿

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• 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. The problems are divided into two categories, skill problems and conceptual problems. Skill problems are very similar to the example problems in the chapter. Conceptual problems ask students to think a bit beyond the example problems. They are still based on the same concepts, but they apply those concepts in different ways from what students have seen in the chapters.
• 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.
• MasteringEngineering, the most technologically advanced online tutorial and homework system available, can be packaged with this edition.¿MasteringEngineering is designed to provide students with customized coaching and individualized feedback to help improve problem-solving skills while providing instructors with rich teaching diagnostics.