CTech2

C-Tech2 Program 2003
MSE Glass Lab

In July, the MSE Department participated for the third year in the C-Tech2 program offered to high school girls through Virginia Tech's Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. The primary aim of this program is to interest young women in the field of engineering. Approximately 30 high school girls from New York to South Carolina traveled to Virginia Tech for 2 weeks to discover what different engineering disciplines have to offer. This year, Diane Folz and Carlos Suchicital, with the assistance of one of our graduate students, Carlos Folgar, performed a two day demonstration laboratory in glass melting and casting. (Click on each picture to see an enlarged image)
Students explored technologies for traditional as well as high tech applications of glass products and learned about job opportunities as well as curriculum for materials engineering students.		Diane Folz demonstrates heating properties of space shuttle tile material.	Students also learned about the MSE department and the different types of materials they could focus on as undergraduates of MSE.
	A highlight of the day was the glass melting and casting demonstration. Here, Carlos Folgar removes molten glass from the furnace.
Carlos Suchicital explains the purpose of mixing in the glass batching process.
Below, students watch as Carlos Suchicital and Carlos Folgar work with the molten glass.