Materials Science and Engineering
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MSE 260

MSE 260 - Stucture and Properties of Materials I
Spring Semester

2000-01 Catalog Data:MSE 260-Structure and Properties of Materials I   II Principles of structure and structure-property relationships in materials. 4ES. P, MSE 222.

Textbook:

  None (set of notes used instead)

References:

    C. Kittle, Introduction to Solid State Physics,   Wiley
    L.H. Van Vlack, Elements of Materials Science & Engineering,   Addison Wesley
    D.D. Pollock, Physical Properties of Materials for Engineers,   C.R.C.

Instructor:

  P.A. Deymier, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Prerequisites by Topic:

  1. Structure of materials. 
  2. Integral and differential calculus

Method for Assessing Student Knowledge of Prerequisite Topics:

Assessment test given the first week of semester.

Overall Educational Goal:

The course give students in MSE the concepts of thermal, elecrical (electronic), dielectric, optical and magnetic properties of materials and their relation to structure.

Specific Instructional Goals:

Demonstrate an ability to relate:
  1. Fundamental physical phenomena to materials properties.
  2. Demonstrate a knowledge for orders of magnitudes of porperties for several classes of
    materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, etc.).
  3. Demonstrate an ability to estimate some properties from fundamental principles.
  4. Develop the ability to calculate properties of materials systems (e.g.,composites) from
    properties of constituents.
  5. Demonstrate an ability to predict trends in the evolution of propeties withvariation in
    temperature, composition, structure.
  6. Develop ability to calculate a materals response (thermal, elecrical, etc.) to a prescribed
    stimulus (thermal, electrical, etc.).

Course Topics (Class Hours):

  1. Introduction to properties of materials (3),
  2. thermal properties (10),
  3. electrical propeties (10),
  4. semiconductors (10),
  5. dielectric propeties (10),
  6. optical properties (7),
  7. magnetic properties (7).

Class Requirements:

  1. Three lecture sessions per week.
  2. One recitation session per week.
  3. One homework per week.
  4. Two class examinations and a final examination.

Computer Useage:

  None

Laboratory Projects:

  Experimental homeworks require the design of experiments, the
implementation of experiments to measure properties of materials.

Assessment of Course Goals:

  1. Through class examinations.
  2. Through active participation (real time at-the-board problem solving) of students during
    recitation session.
  3. By instructor in MSE 434 (electrical and optical properties of material).

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