The Materials Design Summer School is being established to engage and interact with the top undergraduate students in the country. Within the Materials Design Summer School, employed students will receive technical training/lectures, professional development seminars, and laboratory experience with LANL staff and external mentors. Students will explore specific topical areas and work in small teams, and overall, the projects are integrated into a larger team effort, thus exposing students to technical efforts and teaming exercises. At the end of the summer, students will be expected to present their work in a technical forum.
The 2007 Materials Design Summer School will be focused on AuZn. This fascinating material displays shape-memory behavior and accompanying martensite transformation at low temperature (Ms = 60K) allowing the separation of diffusional and non-diffusional transformation effects. Recent measurements on AuZn have called into question fundamental distinctions between 1st and 2nd order transformations as well as provided insight into martensitic precursor effects. Student projects on this material will include processing (solidification, thermo-mechanical and single crystal growth) , characterization (microstructure, thermodynamic, and mechanical properties), and first principles modeling, cross-cutting a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines.
The Materials Design Summer school program will last nine weeks June 11 - August 10, 2007. The summer school will be held at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, NM.
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