"Uncooled: A Materials Education" podcast was recently featured in a cover story on "podcasts to try" in TMS' JOM Magazine. Hosted by Tim Chambers and Steve Yalisove, 'Undercooled' is currently in its third season; it's catalog contains 53 episodes.

Launched in 2023, the podcast provides a look into active learning, flipped teaching, team-based/project-based learning, and much more, covering everything related to teaching materials science and engineering.

Some 'Undercooled' episodes feature interviews with distinguished guests, including Bill Callister, author of the widely used Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction textbook, and Diran Apelian, professor at the University of California, Irvine, who discussed project-based learning and his new course on professional skills. Some are more casual conversations about teaching methods between Chambers and Yalisove, and a few are roundtable discussions with a group of guests, such as one featuring U-M students who attended the TMS 2025 Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS2025) in Las Vegas last spring.

Some episodes are planned and scheduled, while others are recorded as the opportunity arises, like when they interviewed Taylor Sparks on the fly at TMS2025. “That’s what’s so great about education—it is so dynamic,” said Chambers. “There’s always something new happening. There’s always some change occurring, whether it’s new technologies that are happening that are driving things that we want to teach our students, or whether we just meet a cool, interesting new person who’s doing something different in their courses that we want to learn about.”