Teaching
Current and former courses taught:
MTE 121: Introduction to Materials
This introductory course provides entering engineering students a survey of materials properties, how they are processed and fabricated and their impact on society. The course aims at providing a basic foundation from which students will be prepared, and appreciate, the role of materials in their future engineering curriculum.
MTE 252: Mass & Energy Balance
This course is directed to the metallurgical and materials engineering student who will need to have a fundamental understanding of calculating mass and energy balance equations. This course will provide the basic tool set for the analysis of metallurgical and materials processes. The student will be able to set up equations describing the material process under study and, given the requirements, design the process itself. Concepts of stoichiometry, mass and energy balance will be introduced and applied to metallurgical process analysis. Programming methods will be applied to the formulation and solution of metallurgical problems, with a particularly attention to algorithm formulation and logical structuring.
MTE 271: Engineering Materials: Structure and Properties
Materials form the foundation for engineering applications. Ultimately, all engineering designs are limited by materials’ properties. Thus, engineers, regardless of discipline, should gain an understanding and appreciation of the primary concepts that govern materials properties. This course will provide the undergraduate engineering student the fundamental principles that direct structure-processing-properties interrelationships in variety of different materials classes. From this understanding, the engineer will have the toolset necessary to devise means to exploit engineered materials for a variety of applications. Student Learning Outcomes include 1) Understand the basic classes of materials and their relevant structures, properties and applications. 2) Understand how engineering structure, from multiple length scales, influences properties. And 3) understand how a materials’ structure can be engineered and exploited.
MTE 380: Synthesis, Processing and Manufacturing of Materials
The major objectives of this course are to provide a fundamental understanding of the main processes which materials, primarily metals, are formed and manufactured. Different types of manufacturing processes can have a substantial influence on the final properties of a material, such as strength, ductility, and microstructure. This course will address the interrelationship of materials properties to manufacturing. The course provides the student a base of knowledge on several manufacturing processes including bulk deformation (forging, rolling, extrusion, etc.), casting and solidification, joining, machining, powder metallurgy, rapid prototyping and microelectronic fabrication. Course instruction will be through lectures, laboratories (when appropriate) and assignments to assess student progress.
MTE 579: Advanced Physical Metallurgy
This graduate-level course provides a fundamental introduction to principles of materials science as applied to physical metallurgy. Specifically, this course will address, in a quantitative manner crystal defects (point, line and 2D), diffusion, phase transformations (liquid-solid and solid-state), microstructure evolution (under thermal-mechanical processing) and application in ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy. Course instruction will be through lectures and assignments to assess student progress.
MTE 655: Transmission Electron Microscopy
Topics include basic principles of operation of the transmission electron microscope, principles of electron diffraction, image interpretation and various analytical electron-microscopy techniques as they apply to crystalline materials. Course instruction will be through lectures and laboratories.
MTE 596/696: Seminar
Coordinated departmental seminars