-Grading criteria: 1.Format: abstract, introduction, material properties, comparisons, applications, processing, testing, conclusions. 2.Do not include Table of Contents; not necessary for a paper that is 8 pages maximum. 3.Avoid the use of quotes; Too many quotes, “copy/paste”, not student’s work. 4.Appropriate Technical content; the paper is not an infomercial with superficial content. The paper is not significantly beyond the scope of the course and obviously not the student’s work. 5.Organization of paper; coherent sections, integrated paper; avoid chunks of text with no section headings; 6.Start early, so paper is not a rough draft done at the last minute. 7.Quality of research – use multiple relevant sources. 8.Figures and tables are included, relevant to topic, formatted properly (numbered and captioned). 9.Figures are discussed in text. 10.Good quality photos/images/tables are included and are not blurry. 11.References – proper format, consistent format, and cited throughout text; 5 minimum, not including course textbook. 12.Approved topic, submission of term paper. 13.Quality of analysis or summary; student appears to understand what is being explained. 14.Interesting or informative. 15.Conscientious effort is apparent in final result. 16.Focus of paper is on materials and engineering. -important notes: 1.you must use the uploaded files as a resource for the paper and you can add some of your own if you find it good.