Undercooled: A Materials Education Podcast

Tim and Steve talk with Professor Franklin Hobbs from University of Wisconsin's Materials Science and Engineering Department. Franklin is a teaching professor with an uncanny resemblance to Tim Chambers at UM. We talk about his career, the lab courses he developed at Wisconsin, and his really interesting course for non-materials and non-STEM majors. Here are some interesting tidbits and links related to the episode: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik. Fun fact, For the past two years I think my Spring class has made this the top selling Materials Science book on Amazon in January. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape our Man-Made World https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18222843-stuff-matters The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542265/the-alchemy-of-us/ Wisc MS&E department: https://engineering.wisc.edu/departments/materials-science-engineering/ Franklin's directory page: https://directory.engr.wisc.edu/mse/Faculty/Hobbs_Franklin/ You can find the YouTube version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/IuDLeNtf4e4 Our YouTube channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials If you want to add a voice comment on this or any other of our podcasts, suggest a guest, or volunteer to be a guest, please visit our website: https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled/ This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMSFoundation/Default.aspx), The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Tim and Steve talk to Dr. Jason Carroll about his career at Eaton and his views for success as a Materials Scientist and Engineer. You can find the YouTube version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/kM_T-Pc3EpU Our YouTube channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials If you want to add a voice comment on this or any other of our podcasts, suggest a guest, or volunteer to be a guest, please visit our website: https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMS..., The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Steve talks with Dave Eaglesham, the CTO of Electric Hydrogen, at a lobster co-op in Bath Maine as well as in a brew pub in Brunswick Maine. They talk about Dave's career as a faculty member at U. Liverpool in Materials Science and Engineering, his time at Bell Labs, his stint at Lawrence Livermore labs as the Chief Technologist for the Materials Division, his time at Applied Materials and how he ended up becoming the CTO for First Solar corporation. Then Dave became the CEO of a battery company, worked at Breakthrough Energy (an alternative energy investment firm) and finally a founder of Electric Hydrogen. Learn more about Electric Hydrogen here: https://eh2.com You can find the YouTube version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/Z0zfeXTi0iU Our YouTube channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials If you want to add a voice comment on this or any other of our podcasts, suggest a guest, or volunteer to be a guest, please visit our website: https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled/ This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMSFoundation/Default.aspx), The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Steve and Tim talked with Ron Gibala. Ron was the chair of MS&E at UM and was also the interim dean. We talked about his career and how he used fundamental materials science to earn quite a bit of money consulting. He gave us two great examples. One where knowledge of TTT diagrams and a bit of common sense helped him solve a problem for a metals fabricator of spring clips. The second was how his knowledge of thermodynamics helped prove that ballasts for fluorescent light fixtures were not to blame for fires in a legal case in Texas. You can find the YouTube version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/Z0zfeXTi0iU Our YouTube channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials If you want to add a voice comment on this or any other of our podcasts, suggest a guest, or volunteer to be a guest, please visit our website: https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled/ This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMSFoundation/Default.aspx), The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).

Tim and Steve give a recap of the North American Materials Education Symposium that was held July 29-31, 2026 at the University of Victoria in Canada. We discuss some of our favo(u)rite talks and what made them so interesting and informative. We also have a travel saga of the journey trying to get home through many cancelled flights! Finally, we have some testimonials from NAMES attendees about why they love the conference. The next NAMES will be at the University of Delaware in 2027 - hope to see you there! When the information about next year's NAMES meeting is available, you will be able to access it here: https://www.materialseducation.com/ You can find the YouTube version of the podcast here: https://youtu.be/8Kd91N_sBvM Our YouTube channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.Materials If you want to add a voice comment on this or any other of our podcasts, suggest a guest, or volunteer to be a guest, please visit our website: https://java.engin.umich.edu/undercooled/ This episode is sponsored by the TMS Foundation (https://www.tms.org/TMSFoundation/TMSFoundation/Default.aspx), The Electric Vehicle Center (EVC) at the University of Michigan (https://evc.engin.umich.edu/), and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).