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Outreach
The scope of CSEM's activities ensures that the impact
of the Center reaches beyond the Caltech campus. Our outreach
efforts include science education, technology transfer,
and interaction across the international materials science
community.
Educational
Outreach
Currently CSEM pursues four educational outreach programs
that enrich science education at the undergraduate, high-school
and middle-school levels, in particular reaching a large
number of under-represented students.
Primary Educational Outreach Programs
These programs comprise the focus of CSEM's Broader
Impacts Activites:
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Material
World Television Series,
A partnership between CSEM, Summer Productions,
and WETA - Washington, D.C. The pilot sponsored
by CSEM, Material World: Modern Alchemy serves
as an educational film, designed to expand
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Other
Educational Outreach Programs and Collaborations
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Calfornia
State University Los Angeles (CSULA) - Caltech
Partnership for Research and Education in Materials
(PREM)
The
CSULA-Caltech PREM Collaborative was established
in April of 2004 to enhance and promote diversity
in materials science research and education in
the Southern California area by fostering and
nurturing interdisciplinary interactions between
faculty and students at CSULA and Caltech that
advance the discovery and understanding of new
materials.
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Nanoscale
Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net)
Advances in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology
are revolutionizing medicine, computing, materials
science, energy production, and manufacturing. Yet
to the general public, these advances remain largely
invisible and difficult to understand. The
Museum of Science - Boston, the Exploratorium, and the Science
Museum of Minnesota have joined together with a group
of partners and advisors to develop a Nanoscale Informal
Science Education (NISE) Network. NISE Net research
indicates that the public knows very little about nanoscience,
engineering, and technology, and has little understanding
of the properties and forces active at the nanoscale
(Multimedia Research, 2005). This five-year project
is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
CSEM is an active partner in the NISE Network through
faculty and staff participation in the NISE
Net Science Advisor Program and participation in NISE exhibits development, testing,
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Partnership with the
Office of Community Activities of the American Chemical
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Past
Educational Outreach Programs
Since
being established in September 2000 CSEM has participated
in several exciting and high impact educational outreach
programs. This section
is an archive of CSEM's broader impacts activities that
have been completed.
Industrial
Outreach
 To promote technology transfer and industrial interaction
with the Center, CSEM holds an annual topical workshop,
with speakers drawn from CSEM, as well as speakers from
industry and academia from
across the US and abroad. The Center also sponsors visits
to industry by graduate students who are active in CSEM
research. Our efforts are coordinated with Caltech's Office
of Technology Transfer.
International Collaboration
CSEM research programs are linked to an extensive network
of international collaborators who bring unique perspectives,
methods, and expertise to the activities of the Center.
Representative collaborative programs include:
Media
Articles
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Fuel
Cells: Powering Progress in the 21st Century, Sossina
Haile (pdf 935KB)
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Squishy Is Good, Douglas L. Smith (pdf
571KB) |
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