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Meeting 2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Symposium Preparing Undergraduate and Graduate Students - and the Faculty who Prepare Them - for Materials Careers (The Judson Education Symposium)
Sponsorship TMS: Accreditation Committee
TMS: Education Committee
Organizer(s) Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University
Alison Polasik, Campbell University
David F. Bahr, Purdue University
Timothy Chambers, University of Michigan
Donald W. Brenner, North Carolina State University
Subhadra Gupta, University of Alabama
Yanfei Gao, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Scope The materials community is responsible for both pushing the understanding of the structure-processing-properties paradigm and producing a workforce ready to generate technological change in future generations. This symposium is dedicated to understanding and improving how we prepare students (and the faculty who prepare them) for materials careers. Organizers envision that speakers will include a range of faculty including those contributing to engineering education research, program directors, master teachers, and grant recipients of awards such as the National Science Foundation CAREER, IUSE, ADVANCE, RET, REU, NRT, IGE, etc.

Talks are anticipated to align with the following topical areas:

* ABET accreditation of materials engineering programs.
* Assessment and accreditation of materials graduate programs.
* Professional formation of materials engineers through curricular design.
* Materials engineering workforce needs and training.
* Assessment of student learning, experience, retention, resilience, mental health, etc.
* Supporting early-, mid- and late-career faculty in the classroom
* Partnerships to increase student pipelines
* Materials faculty formation and development


The Elizabeth Judson Memorial symposium was first held in 2011 to help academic engineering program learn about ABET and prepare for ABET accreditation evaluation visits but has evolved to include other aspects of education. Elizabeth Judson was a leader in engineering education having served on the Executive Committee of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. In the latter role she initiated review of ABET criteria that, after much deliberation, led to the current EAC Student Outcomes 1-7. The implementation of these improved outcomes in 2019 – nearly a decade after her death – is a testament to the lasting impact of Dr. Judson’s work.

Abstracts Due 07/15/2025
Proceedings Plan Undecided

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