In 1989-90 Prof. McHenry taught courses at the graduate level entitled "Mathematical Methods in Materials Research" (27-778), "Transport Properties of Materials" (27-781). He has developed two courses, one at an undergraduate (UG), the other at a graduate level entitled "Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Materials" (27-432 and 27-770) (EMOP). He developed and taught (1993) a graduate course (in Physics) with M. Garfunkel on "Superconductivity and Applications" offered jointly at CMU and the
University
of
Pittsburgh
.
Prof. McHenry began developing, in 1995, Multimedia Courseware for UG crystallography. Funding from his NSF NYI award and from LANL (FAST program) and a collaboration
Chatham
College
was used to produce introductory course materials. A CD was distributed to selected universities. Prof. McHenry is working on a book on crystallography co-authored by Marc DeGraef to be published by the Cambridge University Press (due to publisher Summer 2005). Prof. McHenry, De Graef and Laughlin gave ASM short course: "A Crystallography and Diffraction Tutorial", sponsored by the ASM-MSCTS Structures Committee, presented at the 2000 ASM meeting in
St. Louis
.
Prof. McHenry received NSF funding (NSF- DUE-9451280 and DUE-9850422) used to upgrade the CMU MSE Department's UG laboratories. He taught the “MSE Undergraduate Laboratory” (27-301), between 1994-1999. Equipment obtained through the first grant was focused on new superconductor laboratory experiments. The superconductivity laboratory was subsequently modified and included in the UG “Phase Relations and Phase Diagrams” (27-217) class. A second NSF laboratory equipment grant was used to upgrade equipment for study of synthesis, structure and properties of amorphous and nanocrystalline soft magnets. These labs were taught by Prof. McHenry as part of CMU course 27-217 from 2001-2004. Prof. McHenry participated in the NSF funded CMU project “Business and Ethics in Engineering Education”. 27-217 incorporates a Business and Ethics in Engineering Education (BEE) module where business and ethical decision making is explored in issues of intellectual property.
Prof. McHenry and Prof. Laughlin have co-taught a graduate course on “Applied Magnetism and Magnetic Materials” (27-715) from 2000-2003. This course syllabus will be revised in the future to offer UG course credit as part of the Magnetic Materials Track of the UG curriculum. Local industries, Seagate and Magnetics, Inc. will be consulted as to course content.
Prof. McHenry is active in the CMU Chapter of Sigma Xi serving in several officer roles (currently Corresponding Secretary). Sigma Xi is a conduit for UG research sponsoring the Undergraduate Research Symposium in which over 50 students compete annually. Prof. M. E. McHenry has supported over 25 UG research projects during the past 10 years. He has sponsored research experiences for undergraduates in the following forums: (a) through the NSF sponsored Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program; (b) through the NSF sponsored Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) REU Program; (c) as co-supervisor the CMU Buckyball Project, an interdisciplinary undergraduate research project (1991-96); (d) through the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) REU program and (e) through sponsorship of student UG research (SURG) projects.