CEM shared its transformational research and world-class facilities during the College of Engineering’s Women in Engineering (WiE) “Change the World: WiE Are the Future” program on November 14, 2008. Nine girls (grades 10-12) from Ohio and Michigan attended the event. The girls observed thin film growth by pulsed laser deposition and had the opportunity to operate an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer while touring laboratories on campus. At the Campus Electron Optics Facility, the students witnessed the Titan 3 scanning/transmission electron microscope and Nova-600 dual-beam focused ion beam in action. Participants were also given a “hands-on” opportunity to drive a Sirion high-resolution field-emission gun scanning electron microscope.

Over 350 Ohio eighth graders explored science, math, and engineering at Ohio State during the Breakfast of Science Champions held on November 5, 2008. CEM faculty, staff, and graduate students hosted 20 students for a morning full of materials science activities focused on shape memory alloys, liquid nitrogen, and magnetism. Activities also included a superconducting model train.

The CEM plans to host another breakfast in February 2009 and students will return again to campus in May to present reports on their learning activities throughout the year.