Approaching Educators and Students in the Teaching of Ceramic Materials through the Use of Computational Simulation

Reference	Presenter	Authors (Institution)	Abstract
07-004	Rodolfo Timoteo da Silva	da Silva, R.T.(Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados); Silveira, W.d.(Universidade federal da grande dourados);	The Education in College faces serious problems and challenges. There have been several technological evolutions in the last century, but the way the college teaches is still the same as it was taught in the nineteenth century. This is reflected in the classroom. Increasingly, students are unmotivated and consequently spend most of their class time using their cell phones instead of paying attention to class. Due to its characteristics and properties, ceramic materials have a wide-ranging application in our society. High hardness, high melting point, chemical stability, low thermal and electrical conductivity among other properties give the ceramic materials the ability to be used in the manufacture of floors, tiles, car candles, turbine rotors, etc. Given these facts, it is of the utmost importance that engineers from different areas are prepared during their undergraduate period to be able to work in the respective industrial branches that make use of common or advanced ceramic materials. Unfortunately, there is a difficulty for the undergraduate student addressing previous knowledge acquired in the disciplines such as Chemistry, Physics or Calculus with the new information that the disciplines such as Materials Science and Ceramic Materials will present in order to be added to the undergraduate student knowledge. In addition, possible structural problems such as absence of practical laboratories, difficulty accessing the raw material for experiments propitiate a distance between the teacher who teaches the discipline and the students who attend it. It is then necessary to develop methods that will bring the student closer to the subject and the educator In this work we intend to show how computer simulation tools used in a discipline of ceramic materials can make the students become more interested in the classroom and with this the knowledge retention indexes increase and consequently the failure rates decrease.
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