Teaching
Certificate in Effective Instruction
This certificate signifies Dr. Zheng's completion of a 25-module course in effective teaching practices requiring the implementation of evidence-based instructional approaches. The credential is co-issued by the American Council on Education and distinguishes faculty for their commitment to educational excellence and student success.
MSE710 Electron Microscopy
(Spring 2020, 2022)
MSE710 serves to provide the graduate students in the College of Engineering with the fundamentals of advanced electron microscopy, including SEM, FIB and TEM, and the hands-on experience of these techniques at the Electron Microscopy & Microanalysis Facility (EMMF).
MSE415/615 Materials Characterization
(Fall 2020, 2022)
MSE415/615 serves to provide the undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Engineering with the fundamentals of various materials characterization techniques, including OM, XRD, SEM, FIB and TEM, and the hands-on experience of optical microscopy.
MSE420/620 Ferrous and Non-ferrous Alloys
(Spring 2021, 2023)
MSE420/620 (new course designed by Dr. Zheng) is to provide the senior undergraduate students and graduate students in the College of Engineering with the physical metallurgy of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, including steel, Al alloys, Mg alloys, Ti alloys and Ni-based superalloys.
MSE417/617 Scanning Electron Microscopy
(Fall 2021)
MSE417/617 (new course designed by Dr. Zheng) serves to provide undergraduate and graduate students with the advanced topics in scanning electron microscopy, including imaging, energy dispersive spectroscopy and electron backscattered diffraction. The course will also provide the students with the hands-on experience of scanning electron microscope in the lab.
MSE460/703 Physical Metallurgy
(Fall 2021)
MSE460/703 is to provide the senior undergraduate and graduate students with the physical metallurgy principles of metals and alloys. The emphasis is on the advanced quantitative treatments of microstructural evolution in engineering materials that undergo plastic deformation, recovery, recrystallization, grain growth and solid state phase transformations.
Useful links to learn Electron Microscopy:
1. Virtual Online Microscopy
1) Virtual OM: MyScope virtual light microscopy
2) Virtual SEM: MyScope SEM simulator
3) Virtual TEM: MyScope virtual TEM
4) Virtual Microscopy Interactive Tutorials by Olympus
5) UD Virtual Compound Optical Microscope
2. Tutorial.
1) Introduction to Electron Microscopy by FEI
2) MyScope training for advanced research by Microscopy Australia
3) Introduction to EBSD by Oxford Instrument
4) CASINO: monte CArlo SImulation of electroN trajectory in sOlids
3. Analysis Softwares
1) Materials Image Processing and Automated Reconstruction (MIPAR)
2) Fiji: an image processing package
4. Electron Microscopy Center
1) Electron Microscopy & Microanalysis Facility at UNR
2) Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS) at The Ohio State University
5. Short Term Electron Microscopy School
1) Lehigh Microscopy School at Lehigh University
2) CCEM Summer School on Electron Microscopy at McMaster University
3) HREM Winter School at Arizona State University
NSF CAREER AWARD: Education Program
Remote TEM Education
TEM Museum
