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Theory & Experiments Meet at SMRC Labs

Students from MSE 250Students from MSE 250 (Introduction to Materials Kinetics and Transport Phenomena) had the opportunity to connect the theory learned in class to the actual experiments at the Scintillation Materials Research Center (SMRC). Dr. Mariya Zhuravleva and Mrs. Merry Koschan kindly showed the MSE 250 undergraduates how Czochralski and Bridgman methods were used to grow single crystals, while Dr. Yanfei Gao, the instructor of MSE 250, had taught the underlying theories in class. The abstract concepts of forced and natural convection, thermocapillary convection, and motion of solid/liquid interface became better understood by the students, as shown by their smiling faces.