Engineering 390 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN ENGINEERING

Topics course. Materials science and engineering is at the forefront of technologies addressing elder care, manipulating weather, walking robots, plastic bridges, the body as a network, photonics, biomimetics and fashion. At the heart of this conversation is the need to understand material's structure (defect chemistry) and the manipulation of this structure. In this seminar, topics include the influence of structure on electrical, optical, thermal, magnetic and thermomechanical behavior of solids. An emphasis is placed on ceramics and glass. Students address materials selection with respect to thermomechanical design. Prerequisites: EGR 272 or permission of the instructor.

Topic: Materials Science. Not open to first-years, sophomores