A look into active learning, flipped teaching, team based/project based learning and much more. Everything related to teaching materials science and engineering will be covered. Kindly sponsored by the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering Department
Franklin Hobbs: Life as a Materials Science and Engineering teaching professor at University of Wisconsin
Tim and Steve talk with Professor Franklin Hobbs from University of Wisconsin's Materials Science and Engineering Department. Franklin is a teaching professor with an uncanny resemblance to Tim Chambers at UM. We talk about his career, the lab courses he developed at Wisconsin, and his really interesting course for non-materials and non-STEM majors.
Here are some interesting tidbits and links related to the episode:
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik. Fun fact, For the past two years I think my Spring class has made this the top selling Materials Science book on Amazon in January.
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape our Man-Made World
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18222843-stuff-matters
The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542265/the-alchemy-of-us/
Wisc MS&E department:
https://engineering.wisc.edu/departments/materials-science-engineering/
Franklin's directory page:
https://directory.engr.wisc.edu/mse/Faculty/Hobbs_Franklin/
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https://youtu.be/IuDLeNtf4e4 (https://youtu.be/IuDLeNtf4e4)
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http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials (http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials)
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This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMSFoundation/Default.aspx), The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).
27 Sept 2026
Jason Carroll: His career at Eaton and his views for success as a Materials Scientist and Engineer
Tim and Steve talk to Dr. Jason Carroll about his career at Eaton and his views for success as a Materials Scientist and Engineer.
You can find the YouTube version of the podcast here:
https://youtu.be/kM_T-Pc3EpU (https://youtu.be/kM_T-Pc3EpU)
Our YouTube channel can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials (http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials)
If you want to add a voice comment on this or any other of our podcasts, suggest a guest, or volunteer to be a guest, please visit our website:
https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled
This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMS..., The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).
13 Sept 2026
Dave Eaglesham: From Bell Labs to Electric Hydrogen
Steve talks with Dave Eaglesham, the CTO of Electric Hydrogen, at a lobster co-op in Bath Maine as well as in a brew pub in Brunswick Maine. They talk about Dave's career as a faculty member at U. Liverpool in Materials Science and Engineering, his time at Bell Labs, his stint at Lawrence Livermore labs as the Chief Technologist for the Materials Division, his time at Applied Materials and how he ended up becoming the CTO for First Solar corporation. Then Dave became the CEO of a battery company, worked at Breakthrough Energy (an alternative energy investment firm) and finally a founder of Electric Hydrogen.
You can find the YouTube version of the podcast here:
https://youtu.be/Z0zfeXTi0iU (https://youtu.be/Z0zfeXTi0iU)
Our YouTube channel can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials (http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials)
If you want to add a voice comment on this or any other of our podcasts, suggest a guest, or volunteer to be a guest, please visit our website:
https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled/ (https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled/)
This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMSFoundation/Default.aspx), The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).
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