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MAT_SCI 314 Thermodynamics of Materials (1): Classical and statistical thermodynamics; entropy and energy functions in liquid and solid solutions and their applications to phase equilibria. Lectures, problem solving. Cannot be used toward 15-course requirement without special permission. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
MAT_SCI 315 Phase Equilibria and Diffusion in Materials (1): Applications of thermodynamics to ternary phase equilibria. Defects and diffusion in solids. Interdiffusion. Short circuit diffusion. Defects and transport in ionic solids. Lectures, problem solving. Cannot be used toward 15-course requirement without special permission. Prerequisites: MAT_SCI 314.
MAT_SCI 316-1,2 Microstructural Dynamics (1)(1): Principles underlying the development of microstructures. Defects, diffusion, phase transformations, nucleation and growth, thermal and mechanical treatment of materials. Cannot be used toward 15-course requirement without special permission. Prerequisites: MAT_SCI 315 or equivalent.
MAT_SCI 318 Materials Selection (1): Methods of specifying materials, and the processes for making them, in the context of a given application. Service performance of materials based on their physical and chemical properties.
MAT_SCI 322 Kinetics of Heterogeneous Reactions (1): Rates and mechanisms of heterogeneous gas-solid, liquid-solid, and solid-solid reactions such as carburization, reduction, oxidation, corrosion, stress-corrosion, and heterogeneous structural transformations. Role of microscopic and macroscopic defects. Prerequisites: MAT_SCI 314.
MAT_SCI 331 Physical Properties of Polymers (1): Different kinds of polymeric solids. Relationships between structure and physical properties: rubber elasticity, the glassy state, and crystallinity in polymers.
MAT_SCI 332 Mechanical Behavior of Solids (1): Plastic deformation and fracture of metals, ceramics, and polymeric materials; structure/property relations. Role of imperfections, state of stress, temperature, strain-rate. Cannot be used toward 15-course requirement without special permission. Prerequisites: MAT_SCI 316-1,2; MAT_SCI 316-2 may be taken concurrently.
MAT_SCI 333 Composite Materials (1): Introduction to ceramic-, metal-, and polymer-matrix composites for structural applications. Emphasis on structure (reinforcements architecture), properties (elasticity, strength, toughness, creep), processing, and role of interface. Prerequisites: MAT_SCI 316-1,2 and MAT_SCI 332.
MAT_SCI 335 Polymer Processing and Properties (1): Effects of processing flows on microstructure and properties of solid polymers, glassy and semicrystalline. Extrusion and molding; structural characterization and mechanical behavior; additives.
MAT_SCI 340 Ceramic Processing (1): Steps in production of fired ceramic articles. Powder preparation and characterization, compact formation, slip casting, extrusion and injection molding, firing, liquid phase and solid-state sintering.
MAT_SCI 341 Introduction to Modern Ceramics (1): Conventional and high-technology applications of ceramic materials with emphasis on structure (bond, crystal, glass, defect, micro); properties (thermal, electrical, optical, magnetic, mechanical); and processing (powders, forming, densification).
MAT_SCI 351-1,2 Introductory Physics of Materials (1)(1): Quantum mechanics; applications to materials and engineering. Band structures and cohesive energy. Thermal behavior. Electrical conduction. Semiconductors. Amorphous semiconductors. Magnetic behavior of materials. Liquid crystals. Cannot be used toward the 15-course requirement without special permission.
MAT_SCI 355 Electronic Materials (1): Principles, models, and characterization of semiconductor materials. Crystal growth and doping. Diffusion, epitaxy, and monolithic processes. Current transport, nonequilibrium processes, thin films, low-mobility materials, and interfaces. Prerequisites: MAT_SCI 316-1 or permission of instructor.
MAT_SCI 360 Introduction to Electron Microscopy (1): Theories and practice involved in application of scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Primarily for undergraduates, non-MSE graduate students. Cannot be used toward the 15-course requirement without special permission.
MAT_SCI 361 Crystallography and Diffraction (1): Elementary crystallography. Basic kinematic diffraction theory; reciprocal space. Applications to structure analysis and preferred orientation. Film and counter techniques.
MAT_SCI 362 Point, Line, and Planar Imperfections (1): Introduction to point defects, dislocations, and internal interfaces in crystalline solids. Interactions among point, line, and planar imperfections. Metals, ionic solids, and semiconductors. Cannot be used toward the 15-course requirement without special permission.
MAT_SCI 370 Biomaterials (1): Biomaterials from a science perspective, including materials used for human repair and for drug delivery, tissue engineering scaffolds, materials synthesized through biotechnology, and biomimetic materials copying natural microstructures.
MAT_SCI 376 Nanomaterials (1): Introduction to structure-property relationships of materials processed at the nanometer scale. This highly interdisciplinary course is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students in other departments.
MAT_SCI 380 Introduction to Surface Science and Spectroscopy (1): Surface spectroscopy, including Auger spectroscopy, photoemission, and LEED. Surface dynamics and thermodynamics. Electronic properties of surfaces and interfaces. Gas-surface interactions.
MAT_SCI 385 Image Analysis (1): Quantitative analysis of microstructures in materials, from measurements on two-dimensional sections, transmission micrographs, and scanning electron micrographs.
MAT_SCI 390 Materials Design (1): Analysis and control of microstructures. Quantitative process/structure/property/performance relations with case studies. Computer lab for modeling multicomponent thermodynamics and transformation kinetics.
MAT_SCI 391 Process Design (1): Design and analysis of experiments to rapidly and efficiently identify key parameters and to optimize these to obtain desired properties and performance. Resolving conflicting requirements. Statistical process control methodologies. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department.
MAT_SCI 395 Special Topics in Materials Science (1): Topics may be suggested by students or faculty, with the approval of the department.
MAT_SCI 398 Introduction to Plasma Science and Processing Technology (1): Plasma production, properties, transport, and characterization. Plasma processing of thin films, powders, and advanced materials.
MAT_SCI 401 Analytical and Statistical Thermodynamics of Materials (1): Chemical thermodynamics via analytical and statistical approaches, including chemical potentials, conditions for equilibrium, distribution functions, ideal and regular solutions, and phase diagrams. Graduate core course.
MAT_SCI 404 Imperfections in Materials (1): Point, line, and planar imperfections in metals and ionic and semiconducting crystals. Diffusion. Interactions between crystal imperfections. Graduate core course.
MAT_SCI 405 Physics of Solids (1): Reciprocal lattice representation, diffraction, Brillouin zone construction, bonding, lattice vibrations, phonon dispersion, and energy band structure of solids. Graduate core course.
MAT_SCI 406 Symmetry and Mechanical Properties of Materials (1): Point group symmetry of crystals and the symmetry of properties; stress and strain tensors, piezoelectricity, elasticity, low- and high-temperature deformation of crystalline and non-crystalline materials, fatigue, and fracture. Graduate core course.
MAT_SCI 408 Phase Transformations in Materials (1): Surfaces and interfaces, thermodynamics of phase transformations, nucleation, growth of precipitates, coarsening, and spinodal decomposition. Graduate core course.
MAT_SCI 411 Phase Transformations in Crystalline Materials (1): Advanced treatment of order-disorder transformations, spinodal ordering, effects of stress on transformations, and displacive transformations.
MAT_SCI 415 Fundamentals of Thin Film Materials (1): Vapor-phase film deposition techniques, adsorption, nucleation mechanisms, selective deposition, structure-zone diagrams, epitaxy, and composition.
MAT_SCI 420 Self-Assembled and Colloidal Materials (1): Introduction to concepts, experimental techniques, and recent developments in complex assemblies of organic molecules. Thermodynamics, interactions and phase behavior of molecular self assemblies; applications from materials chemistry, nanomaterials, ceramics, and biomaterials.
MAT_SCI 434 Fatigue and Fracture (1): Theory and experimental results on fatigue and fracture of metals.
MAT_SCI 435-1,2 Special Topics in Mechanical Behavior of Solids I, II (1)(1): Current research fields such as environmental effects on mechanical behavior at elevated temperatures, advanced instrumentation, advanced techniques, and surface interactions.
MAT_SCI 441 Selected Topics in Ceramic Science (1): Topics include crystal field theory, diffusion in ionic and semiconducting compounds, mechanical behavior, and theoretical aspects of ceramic processing.
MAT_SCI 444 High Polymers in the Solid State (1): Molecular and crystal structure of high polymers. Morphology and microstructure. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Polymer glasses and the glass transition. Mechanical behavior of solid polymers.
MAT_SCI 445 Special Topics in High Polymer Science (1): Topics include application of statistical mechanics, morphology and crystallinity, spectroscopy, flow theory and molecular motion, and statistical theories of polymer composition and structure.
MAT_SCI 451 Physics of Materials (1): Energy bands in solids, electronic conduction processes, dielectric properties, optical properties, semiconductors, magnetism, superconductivity, artificial structures, and amorphous materials.
MAT_SCI 452 Selected Topics in the Solid State (1): Topics include electrical and optical properties of solids, magnetic properties, theory of solids, and surface and interface physics.
MAT_SCI 456 Functional Metamaterials (1): Ordered composite materials with properties distinct from those of the component building blocks. Structure-property relationships for designing metamaterials with electronic, optical, magnetic, and thermal functionality.
MAT_SCI 460 Electron Microscopy (1): Electron optics. Kinematic and dynamical theory of electron diffraction. Introduction to microanalysis.
MAT_SCI 461-1,2 Diffraction Methods in Materials Science I, II (1)(1): Advanced theory of diffraction. Diffraction effects accompanying imperfections. Thermal motion, cold-work, formation of solid solutions, transformations, liquids, gases, dynamic scattering.
MAT_SCI 465 Advanced Electron Microscopy and Diffraction (1): Theories of electron diffraction; theories of diffraction contrast and their application to lattice disorder; phase transformation. Current topics in electron and other charged-particle microscopy.
MAT_SCI 466 Analytical Electron Microscopy (1): Diversity of analytical techniques in modern TEM, fundamental concepts in quantitative x-ray, EELS, CBED microanalysis, advanced AEM instrumentation, techniques and applications to physical and life sciences.
MAT_SCI 499 Projects (1-3) : Individual problems, including library or experimental work with a comprehensive report on some specific phase of materials science. Permission of instructor and department required. Materials Science and Engineering students may apply one unit of 499 toward their 15-course requirement.
MAT_SCI 510 Seminar (1): Topics may be suggested by students or faculty, with the approval of the department.
MAT_SCI 511 Seminar (0.5) : Topics may be suggested by students or faculty. Offered as a supplement to 15-course requirement of materials science and engineering graduate program.
MAT_SCI 590 Research (1-3) : Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.
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