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MSE 345: Introduction
to Engineering Materials (3 cr.) |
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| Prerequisites: |
Junior standing in engineering, with General Chemistry.
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| Corequisites: |
NONE
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Textbooks:
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R. A. Flinn and P. K. Trojan, Engineering Materials and Their Applications,
Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1990.
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering.
Encyclopedia of Biomedical Science and Engineering.
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.
A. M. Usmani, Asphalt Science and Technology, Marcel Dekker, 1997
A. M. Usmani, Diagnostic Polymers, ACS/Oxford University Press, 1994
and 1998.
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| Description: |
Structure/property relationships and other fundamental concepts of engineering
and medical materials and their applications are discussed in this course.
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| Goals: |
Our principal objective is to provide theoretical and practical information
on major materials e.g., polymers, polymeric materials, composites, ceramics,
glasses, metals and alloys, and semiconductors for students to become problem
solvers.
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| Outcomes: |
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| Topics: |
Topics covered include:
1. Polymers and Polymeric Materials; Medical Polymers.
2. Composites.
3. Advance Composites.
4. Glasses.
5. Advance Ceramics.
6. Electrochemistry mid Corrosion Engineering.
7. Electronic Materials; Semiconductors; Superconductors; Molecular and
DNA Chips.
8. Failure Analysis; Mechanical Testing; and Material Characterization.
9. Material Properties.
10 Material Selection. |
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