Powerful Science Search Engine -WORLDWIDESCIENCE.ORG

Those of my readers who read the previous post will notice that this finding arose from the research done to write the previous post entitled: "Superplasticity - superelasticity

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KEY WORDS: 

alloy,superplastic,forming

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Superelastic materials

Science, Technology, and Society and much more @ MIT OPEN COURSES-Free online

Science, Technology, and Society and much more @ MIT OPEN COURSES-Free online

This was a timely find via twitter search on "Materials Science".

On the principle of "Don't keep a good thing to you" I rushed to share this new and easy to reference presentation of MIT OPEN COURSES-(ie. Free online).

The MIT site spans the full scientific and cultural field an as such may prove to be an indispensable continuous learning tool for students and perhaps even more so for professional Materials Scientists, Technologists and Engineers since their careers evolve and their responsibilities increase in our complex and information abundant world.

An easey access link has been added to Materials Science Free online Resources scroll down the vertical side bar menu.

By a happy coincidence, it so happens that I am currently reading the significance of technology and entreprise in The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain by Roland Marx in French (La revolution industrielle en Grande Bretagne Ed Armand Colin). I expect to find more and more parallels with the current day Industrial and Economic situations (Hindsights-Foresights the focus of my newer management pages This-Above-All

Reference (en référence à ): Free Online MIT Course Materials | Science, Technology, and Society | MIT OpenCourseWare (afficher sur-read on- Google Sidewiki)

New look at the Processes of Science_How Science Really Works_A Big Picture.

Step back for a minute and take a new look at our fundamentals as is said in rugby football circles.

No I am not asking the reader to embark on what can be seen as some unpleasant introspection of the human condition it's weakness or failure. On the contrary let's take a break from my/our current bandwagon of economic, climate and energy dilemmas if only to better our approaches to finding "sustainable solutions" to these very serious issues and to look at the positive and strong supportive role of science (in society).


"Science's Big Picture."
A newly developed website has made understanding science, its processes, it's interactions and it's wide reach, a relatively simple, very attractive and enjoyable task. Although the site has been designed by teachers and lectures for teachers and includes elementary teaching resources, I firmly believe that the site will prove highly significant in clarifying the scientific method not as a linear process but as a system of interactions. It is, not only, a timely reminder and support for all professional in the science industry: a must for all scientists technologists, engineers including science communicators, be they scientists or laymen, but also to the general public, intrigued often worried by the influence of the scientific industry, its technology and engineering on their daily lives.

In fact we are all to some extent scientists, for science arises from observation: observation of our surroundings both the natural world and change as well as man's contribution, material products and systems.

Of course testing ideas remains central to the new presentation, but it's no longer a simple thumbs -up or thumbs-down on a hypothesis. Instead, the data need to be interpreted, and researchers are often forced to go back and either revise their hypothesis, or the assumptions on which the hypothesis is based. No matter what happens, the arrows in the diagram make it clear that the process must be viewed as a system with multiple rounds of testing and revision are needed to refine ideas.

More...

Sources

1. Ars Technica.com/

2. Understanding Science accessed on 20 March 2009. University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Metallurgy-Materials-Advanced Processes

In these web-logs, I intend to refer regularily to to the large corpus
of ever expanding member journals online made available by my life-long

The Institutes; The Iron & Steel Institute, The Institute of Metals,

The Metallurgist, all this and more today, are grouped under one Institute,

The Institute of Materials Mining and Minerals. (IOM3).

Their many available journal resources are as follows:

1. Advances in Applied Ceramics (formerly British Ceramic Transactions)
2. Appied Earth Science (IMM Transactions section B)
3. Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology ((formerly British Corrosion Journal)
4. Energy Materials: Materials Science and Enginering for Energy Systems

5. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

6. International Heat Treatment & Surface Engineering
7. International Materials Reviews,

8. Ironmaking & Steelmaking
9.Materials Research Innovations
10. Materials Science & Technology (My seminal paper is in the first edition Feb 1985)
11.Materials Technology: Advanced Performance Materials
12.Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy (IMM Transactions section C)
13.Mining Technology (IMM Transactions section A)
14.Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Plastics, Rubber & Composites : 15.Macromolecular Engineering
16.Powder Metallurgy
17. Science & Technology of Welding & Joining
18. Surface Engineering
19. Tribology-Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces

All titles are available via Ingenta's enhanced website http://www.ingentaconnect.com/.

and to members via IOM3' members site. In many of theses matters,

I among others members, constitute your privileged access and interpretation route, feel free to get in touch.

I hope also to use my french to review work carried out under the banner of
SF2M much of which is available in english to their members.

Looking forward to a useful & successful blog experience.