Instructors:
Earle Ryba
122 Steidle
865-3760 (office)
355-5949 (home)
rx7@psu.edu
David Green
230 Steidle
863-2011 (office)
djg7@psu.edu
Course Info
Spring '08 Groups
The New English
Required reading!!
Download writingapaper.pdf file, a brief, very readable manual on technical writing by Mike Ashby. He emphasizes all the points we make in class.Photos past student visits to industries
Links to reference and other info:
Search the web with thousands of metals-related links at this site:
Steelynx!!!
For a neat place to look up compositions and properties of all kinds of materials, check out:
http://www.matweb.com/
All about Al alloys:
Austenitizing, annealing, normalizing temperatures for steels (on phase diagram):
Steels diagram
Hardness of MAR:
hardness
Exercises and writing stuff:
Problem solving exercises
Say/do exercises
Funnel effect
References
Citations for electronic information
Figures & tables
Examples of past papers
Current Status Paper Example
Background Paper Example
Review Paper Example
Analysis Paper Example
Proposal Paper Example
Read newsgroups!
Newsgroups; sci.engr.metallurgy
Some things about the classes:
'before' survey responses - 2005
Survey results