Materials Week Event Schedules:

 Agenda April 16, 2002
at Eli Whitney Museum

1.       Breakfast ($15) – 7:30 AM

2.       Program 8:00 AM – Talk on significant materials historical sites in Connecticut

3.       Demonstrations of materials.

4.       Special Recognitions/Announcements.

5.       Visit to Yale Peabody Museum.

Seminar: April 17, 2002 at 10:30 am in IMS Plaza Complex Room 159 at UConn

Modifying the Materials Properties of Steel Reinforced Concrete to Decrease Life-Cycle Costs in Corrosive Environments by Neal S. Berke, Grace Construction Products.

Student Poster Session – 9:30-10:30 AM

Agenda April 18, 2002
at Marriott Hartford Windsor Airport.

1.       Noon start first tour group to Travelers Forensic Lab. (Tour ~1½ - 2 hours).

2.       Exhibition Room open from noon to 5 PM. Material displays by industry and societies. UConn Students Research poster displays.

3.       Six Materials Forensic/Failure Problems seminars. 2-5 PM. * Forensic Applications of the SEM * Failures in Ceramic Products * A Day in the Life of a Forensic Engineer * Modeling the Survival of Hard Alpha Inclusions in Titanium * Analysis of Adhesive Bond Joint Failures * Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center Roof

4.       5 to 6 PM reception. Cash bar.

5.       6 to 7:45 PM dinner

6.      8 to 9 PM talk by Joseph Epperson, NTSB.

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Materials Week Event Locations:

 The Eli Whitney Museum    (April 16)
915 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517-4036

University of Connecticut (April 17)

Marriott Hartford Windsor Airport (April 18)
28 Day Hill Road
Windsor, CT 06095