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ENGR086 HM - Materials Engineering

Credit(s): 3

Instructor(s): Dato, Krauss, Spjut

Offered: Fall and Spring

Description: Introduction to the structure, properties, and processing of materials used in engineering applications. Topics include: material structure (bonding, crystalline and non-crystalline structures, imperfections); equilibrium microstructures; diffusion, nucleation, growth, kinetics, non-equilibrium processing; microstructure, properties and processing of: steel, ceramics, polymers and composites; creep and yield; fracture mechanics; and the selec­tion of materials and appropriate performance indices.

Prerequisite(s): CHEM023A HM , CHEM023B HM , (MATH030B HM  or MATH030G HM ), MATH040 HM , and PHYS024 HM