A hands-on learning program linked with a lecture “Materials Processing” has been developed and executed for sophomores in mechanical engineering course in Nagoya University, under a collaboration of a professor and technical staffs. Students learn ideas of elastoplasticity, workhardening, and plastic-strain energy dissipation in metals during the lecture. Within a month after the class, students take the exercise, where three typical modes of deformation; tensile, compressive, and bending, are experienced. It is planned so that they use their own muscles and senses for deforming metals and measuring data before calculations. Obtained success and problems in the program are discussed after the first three years of the program execution.
