Monthly Archives: March 2009
Goverdhan Mehta Committee Report …
… is now available online. Thanks to Giridhar for posting it; he also has a summary of the key recommendations regarding the salary structure at IISc, IITs, IIMs and IISERs.
Materials Quotes: 015
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self. — Benjamin Franklin
From Edison’s Desk: Blog of the GE Global Research Center
Here, with posts written by GE researchers working on all kinds of interesting things. Given the central role of materials in many of the advanced technologies being developed by GE researchers, the blog has quite a few posts that touch … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Atomistics, CMC, Composites, First Principles, Fracture, Grain boundary, Innovation, Modelling, Toughness
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An Ideal Materials Curriculum
I was writing a comment on Ashish’s post about the need for revamping the materials engineering curriculum, and since the comment became too long, I decided to ‘upgrade’ it to a regular post. Ashish’s post forced me to think about … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching
Tagged bachelors program, curriculum, materials, materials engineers, MSE, university
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Stiffer than steel!!!
Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Muscles can be stiffer than steel by weight despite being as light as air, and elasticity comparable to a rubber as reported in the latest issue of Science magazine. Here are two articles, one is the perspective … Continue reading
Materials Curriculum: A need for overhaul
From my own experience as a student and then as a teacher for about six years, I think that there is a strong need to overhaul the curriculum of Materials education in India. We need to introduce subjects such as … Continue reading
Materials Quotes: 014
Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the … Continue reading
GATE-09 results: A quick analysis
Inspired by Giridhar’s post, I got some — but only some! — information on the scores for the metallurgical engineering paper in GATE 2009 [Update: I have posted the data in the first comment on this post]. Let me run … Continue reading
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Materials miscellany: cast-iron guarantee
S Upendran, in today’s Know Your English edition of the Hindu explains the expression.
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Tagged cast-iron guarantee
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Classics in materials science: Vegard’s law of linear relationship between lattice parameter and alloy composition
Let us consider a pure metal, say copper; let us consider the case in which we remove some copper atoms and substitute for them with gold atoms; since gold atoms are slightly bigger than copper atoms, it is natural to … Continue reading
Posted in Classics
Tagged alloys, composition, L Vegard, lattice parameter, solid solution, stoichiometry, The Giant's Shoulders, Vegard's law
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Materialia Indica 