`Titanic`

Mentioned only as an example student paper topic. No technical treatment.

Example topics: Japanese sword smithing — some students were interested in those; they actually made their own swords, not as part of this course, but as something they were doing with Mike Tarkanian. Someone was interested in the material and why the Titanic broke up, which is brittle fracture. Some people are nuclear engineers and were interested in some of the materials in nuclear power plants — you've got to focus that down a little bit more because there's a lot of materials in nuclear power plants. Pole-vaulting materials. Best if you pick a topic that you're interested in.