What is CES EduPack?
CES EduPack is a unique set of teaching resources that support Materials Education across Engineering, Design, Science and Sustainable Development.
- Enjoy teaching engaged students using interactive, visual software
- Teach transferable skills, including rational materials selection
- Get fast access to reliable materials data, saving time
- Keep courses up-to-date with the latest resources and data (recent additions cover sustainability and Additive Manufacturing)
- Use self-study resources to stretch stronger students and to help others catch up
- Apply real industrial case studies
- Encourage inter-disciplinary learning, communication, and sharing of resources
CES EduPack 2013 gives educators a head start in interdisciplinary undergraduate materials teaching
New
release supports materials education across engineering, science, and
design with new data, models, resources, and improvements to usability.
Cambridge,
UK – April 24, 2013 Granta Design today announced that CES EduPack™
2013 is ready for shipment, providing educators with updated software
and teaching resources as they prepare lectures, project work, student
exercises, and course handouts for next academic year’s undergraduate
teaching. The new version of this world-leading teaching resource for
materials in engineering, science, processing, and design has a
particular focus on interdisciplinary teaching. There are also new ways
to get students started quicker, enhanced search capabilities, and more
data and resources for advanced teaching.
CES EduPack 2013 is a
common resource across all years of study in a wide range of
materials-related courses (from mechanical engineering and materials
science to more specialist areas such as sustainability, aerospace, or
polymer sciences). Now used at over 800 universities and colleges
worldwide, CES EduPack combines comprehensive materials information,
specialist software to access and use that information, and extensive
supplementary teaching materials.
For many universities,
sustainability is a common thread linking these courses. In CES EduPack
2013, a new Sustainability Database helps students to explore the social
and environmental factors that must often be considered alongside
engineering equations when making material choices.
At this
year’s CES EduPack Short Courses, held in recent weeks at Philadelphia
University (PA) and Cambridge University (UK), participants previewed
the new software. The courses included widely-praised lecture units
which are now being shared with the materials education community
through Granta’s Teaching Resource Website. This is accessible to all
educators who use CES EduPack. The lectures join hundreds of exercises,
teaching aids, and background papers developed at Granta or contributed
by university and college teachers. Some of these resources are
available as ‘open access resources’. The resources are valuable to
anyone constructing a materials-related course, particularly those
charged with integrating materials modules into related disciplines.
Feedback
from the CES EduPack community of over 5,000 materials educators,
including short course participants, plays a key role in driving ongoing
developments. This feeds into Granta’s innovation program, guided by
Granta co-founder, Professor Mike Ashby of Cambridge University. An
example of this user-focused innovation is the significantly-improved
search engine in the CES EduPack software. This is not only faster, but
has been further optimized for materials data—for example, to handle
variations in expressing material designations. Course attendees also
appreciated improvements to usability such as a new start-screen, which
gives students quick access to the right information for exercises and
project work, and the ability to watch video tutorials on YouTube.
For
more advanced teaching, CES EduPack 2013 offers new information to
support study of heat treatment and other means of improving the
performance of metals. The Hybrid Synthesizer tool, which aids teaching
about composites and other hybrid materials and structures, includes new
predictive models and enables users to add their own models – aiding
investigation of key technologies in the topical area of lightweighting.
“Educators
appreciate gaining access to both the latest software and many updated
teaching resources well in advance of the new academic year,” comments
Prof. Mike Ashby. “This allows them to get ahead in their preparation,
enabling great lectures, classroom-based teaching, and student-led
exploration and evaluation of materials and their applications.”
Users of CES EduPack 2013 with a license entitling them to an update will receive their new version during May.
Who is using CES EduPack?
CES EduPack is used at over 1,000 universities and colleges worldwide to support Materials Education from teaching of introductory materials topics to post-graduate courses.
Does it support my subject?
Editions support Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Design, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science, Bioengineering, Sustainable Design, and more...
What is in CES EduPack?
CES EduPack provides a comprehensive database of materials and process information, powerful materials software tools, and a range of supporting resources: textbooks, lectures, projects, and exercises.
The team behind CES EduPack
CES EduPack was founded on the pioneering work of renowned materials educator Professor Mike Ashby (pictured), working with colleagues at Cambridge University and around the world. It has been developed for over twenty years by working closely with the global network of CES EduPack users and collaborators, and through the work of the CES EduPack team based at the Granta headquarters in Cambridge, UK.
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