MSE350
Structures of Materials
Basic principles of Materials Science & Engineering, including bonding, structure, microstructure, and how they are influenced by thermodynamics, and kinetics.
Course Objectives
- To illustrate quantitatively and in depth fundamental concepts of bonding, structure, microstructure, which are applicable to all classes of materials.
- To teach students the physical and chemical origins of bonding and structure and their implications for the processing and properties of metallic, covalent, ionically bonded solids and soft materials.
- To provide knowledge and information in materials science and engineering which are applicable and requisite for other courses in the curriculum.
Course Outcomes
- To illustrate quantitatively and in depth fundamental concepts of bonding, structure, microstructure, which are applicable to all classes of materials.
- To teach students the physical and chemical origins of bonding and structure and their implications for the processing and properties of metallic, covalent, ionically bonded solids and soft materials.
- To provide knowledge and information in materials science and engineering which are applicable and requisite for other courses in the curriculum.
Assessment Tools
- In-class closed book quizzes and/or exams to test outcomes #1-15 for individual students.
- Frequent problem sets to test outcomes #1-15 in the spirit of less time pressure and with allowable student collaboration.
- Official end-of-term anonymous written course evaluations by students to allow subsequent-year improvements/corrections.
Course Topics
- Structure of crystalline and non-crystalline solids, and liquid crystals and self-organized systems. Solutions and phases.
- Structure determination by diffraction
- Imperfections in crystals
- Binary and ternary phase diagrams, grain growth, phase transformations