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Materials Engineering Graduate Programs
Materials engineering addresses the design, manufacture, and characterization
of engineering materials for specific applications. Materials development
is an enabling step to the production of advanced engineering devices.
Materials selection is a key element in the design, manufacturing,
and quality control of structures and devices. Materials, including
metals, intermetallics, polymers, ceramics, composites, and electronic
materials are critical to modern industrial society. Through courses
and research activities, the College of Engineering offers graduate
programs leading to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials engineering.
Materials Processing and Characterization
Crystallography and x-ray diffraction, materials synthesis and
processing, processing and properties of ceramic materials, polymer
science and engineering, corrosion, principles of deformation
processing, welding, structure and properties of composite materials.
Mechanics of Solids
Continuum mechanics, elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, fracture
mechanics, wave propagation, mechanics of composite materials,
and finite elements.
Materials Engineering
Properties of materials, thermodynamics of materials, experimental
fracture mechanics, kinetics of reaction and phase transformation,
diffusion phenomena in solids, deformation mechanisms, and dinterfacial
phenomena.
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