This Forum will comprise of a series of keynote presentations from education experts covering issues and strategies that are important in order to sustain materials education in an environment of rapid change. The Forum will focus on the following topics:

• Funding for (materials) education from K1-12 to graduate and beyond
• An evolving curriculum: core versus hot topics
• Using (electronic) resources in materials science and engineering education
• Difficulties and solutions for laboratory-based materials education
• Teaching the teachers
• Educating the public and policy makers
• Global perspectives

Keynote speakers:

John Baglin（IBM, USA）
Bob Chang（Northwestern University, USA）
Adil Al-Tamimi（American University of Sharjah, UAE）
Steve Fonash（Pennsylvania State University, USA）
Christina Sweeney（Northwestern University, USA）
Nobuyuki Sano（University of Tsukuba, Japan）
Luis Fuentes-Cobas（AMRC, Mexico）
Gyu Tae Kim（Korea University, Korea）
Riko Ozao（SONY Institute, Japan）
Tim White（ANU, Australia）
Daryush ILA（Fayetteville State University, USA）
Ralph Cooney（University of Auckland, NZ）
Jim Williams（ANU, Australia）

Forum organizers：

Jim Williams
Research School of Physics and Engineering
Australian National University
Canberra 0200, Australia
Phone: +612 61252476
Fax: +612 61255455
e-mail:

John Baglin
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd., K10/D1
San Jose, CA 95120, USA
Phone: 408 927 2280
Fax: 408 927 2100

Robert P.H. Chang
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208, USA

Teri Odom
Chemistry Department, Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Phone: 847-491-7674
Fax: 847-491-7713

This Forum / Workshop is co-sponsored by NSF-International Materials Institute at
Northwestern University.