Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Course Description :

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Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Materials Science and Engineering

Course Description :

Recognize MSE nomenclature, microstructure, associate terms with the appropriate structure/phenomena, and be able to differentiate between related structures/phenomena– Calculations to quantify material properties and microstructural characteristics – Recognize the effect of composition and microstructure on material properties – Processing sequence to produce materials with specific microstructure and/or properties. Structure/property relationship of crystalline,quasicrystalline, nanocrystalline and amorphous solid –Structure and properties of polymer, ceramics and composites – Semiconductor, magnetic materials and optical materials properties, processing and applications – Environmental degradation of engineering materials – Materials and process selection– Materials balance.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Materials Science and Engineering

Course Description :

Laws of Thermodynamic–Functions of state – Internal energy, heat and work – Types of paths (isobaric, isochoric, isothermal, adiabatic) – Enthalpy, heat capacity, heat of formation, phase transformations –Changes in composition – Chemical potential – Maxwell equations –Theory of Martensitic Transformation – Multi-component (ternary, quaternary) phase diagrams. Kinetics of phase transformations – Activation free energy barrier –Thermodynamics of diffusion – Supercooling and superheating – Driving force for phase transformation – Mechanisms of nucleation–Solidification and growth morphologies–measurement techniques.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Materials Science and Engineering

Course Description :

Key concepts in the atomic structure and bonding of solids such as metals, ceramics, and semiconductors - Symmetry operations - Point groups - Lattice types - Space groups - Simple and complex inorganic compounds - structure/property comparisons - structure determination with X-ray diffraction Ionic, covalent, metallic bonding compared with physical properties - Perfect and imperfect solids – Point, line surface and volume imperfections – Theory of dislocation – Staking fault and twinning – Homogeneity, segregation and precipitation.