Materials science education in Japan

✍ Scribed by Hiroshi Kamimura; Koichi Kakimoto

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 683 KB
• Volume: 199
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-5093
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-5093(95)09903-4

✦ Synopsis

An example of materials science education in Japan is given. Then key factors in materials science education are discussed. We emphasize that it is important to give students a dream and pleasure in new discovery, and the ambition to open a new frontier field by artificially synthesizing a new material. In this respect the following two subjects are chosen as those appropriate for materials science education, in particular for a graduate course; the dream of a room temperature superconductor and the ambition to see crystal growth visually.