Graduate Courses in Materials Science and Engineering
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ENMA 620: Polymer Physics (3) (Core Course)
Course Description: The thermodynamics, structure, morphology and properties of polymers. Developing an understanding of the relationships between theory and observed behavior in polymeric materials.
ENMA 622: Polymer Characterization (3)
Course Description: Characterization of polymeric materials: molecular weight, molecular size distribution, solution properties, thermal properties, fractionation, etc.
ENMA 624: Radiation Engineering (3)
Course Description: Ionizing radiation, radiation dosimetry and sensors, radiation processing, radiation effects on; polymers, metals, semiconductors, liquid, and gas, radiation in advance manufacturing, radiation-physical technology.
ENMA 625: Advanced Biomaterials (3)
Course Description: Examination of materials used in humans and other biological systems in terms of the relationships between structure, fundamental properties and functional behavior. Replacement materials such as implants, assistive devices such as insulin pumps and pacemakers, drug delivery systems, biosensors, engineered materials such as articicial skin and bone groth scaffolds, and biocompatibility will be covered.
ENMA 627: Nanotechnology Characterization (3)
Course Description: This course covers techniques to characterize the properties of materials whose characteristic dimensions are a few to a few hundred nanometers, including "conventional" nanocrystalline materials, but concentrating on "novel" nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, quantum wires, and quantum wells. The emphasis is on recent results from the scientific literature concerning those properties that make nanostructures interesting: quantum effects, novel transport phenomena, enhanced mechanical properties associated with localization and with small crystallite size.
ENMA 640: Advanced Nanoprocessing of Materials with Plasmas (3)
Course Description: Plasmas are used to control the micro-and nanoscale level structure of materials including patterning at the mico-and nanoscale level using plasma etching techniques. The course establishes the scientific understanding required for the efficient production of nano-structure using plasma techniques.
ENMA 646: Ceramic Materials Processing (3)
Course Description: Ceramic powder processing: design of experiments; modern and traditional methods of preparing powders and devices; characterization of powders and products; sintering theory and practice.
ENMA 650: Nanostructure (Physics) of Engineering Materials (3) (Core Course)
Course Description: The structural aspects of crystalline and amorphous solids and relationships to bonding types. Point and space groups. Summary of diffraction theory and practice. The reciprocal lattice. Relationships of the microscopically measured properties to crystal symmetry. Structural aspects of defects in crystalline solids.
ENMA 651: Electronic Structure of Engineering Materials (3)
Course Description: Electronic and magnetic materials in relationship to their applications. Metallic conductors, resistive alloys, superconducting materials, semiconductors, hard and soft magnetic materials, piezo-electric and piezo-magnetic materials, optical materials. Emphasis on relationships between electronic configuration, crystal structure, defectstructure and physical properties.
ENMA 659: Special Topics in Electronic Materials (3)
Course Description: This special topics course is offered in different forms with focus on different topics. Past courses have included the following: Systems Design for Microelectronics Materials Processing, Systems Engineering Design Project, Technology and Systems for Microelectronics Materials Manufacturing, Materials and Processes for Microelectronics, and Materials and Processes for Microelectronics.
Prerequisite: One or more 400-level ENMA courses or equivalent, and permission of the instructor.
ENMA 660: Thermodynamics in Materials Science (3) (Core Course)
Course Description: Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of engineering solids. Cohesion, thermodynamic properties. Theory of solid solutions. Thermodynamics of mechanical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena in solids. Chemical thermodynamics, phase transitions and thermodynamic properties of polycrystalline and polyphase materials. Thermodynamics of defects in solids.
ENMA 661: Kinetics of Reactions in Materials (3) (Core Course)
Course Description: The theory of thermally activated processes in solids as applied to diffusion, nucleation and interface motion. Cooperative and diffusionless transformations. Applications selected from processes such as allotropic transformations, precipitation, martensite formation, solidification, ordering, and corrosion.
ENMA 663 Advanced Photonic Materials and Devices (3)
Course Description: The understanding of the basic optical processes in photonic devices and systems composed of waveguides, light emitting diodes and lasers, as well as modulators is developed. Lectures on basic degradation mechanisms of such systems will be presented. The area of organic based LED reliability will be covered from the point of view of the stability of the organic-inorganic interface.
ENMA 669: Special Topics in the Chemical Physics of Materials (3)
ENMA 671: Defects in Materials (3) (Core Course)
Course Description: The nature and interactions of defects in crystalline solids, with primary emphasis on dislocations. The elastic and electric fields associated with dislocations. Effects of imperfections on mechanical and physical properties.
ENMA 672: Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials (3)
Course Description: The mechanical properties of single crystals, polycrystalline, polyphase materials and non crystalline materials. Yield strength, work hardening, fracture, fatigue and creep are considered in terms of fundamental material properties.
ENMA 679: Special Topics in the Mechanical Behavior of Materials
(3)
ENMA 680: Experimental Methods in Materials Science (3)
Course Description: Methods of measuring the structural aspects of materials. Optical and electron microscopy. Resonance methods. Electrical, optical and magnetic measurement techniques. Thermodynamic methods.
ENMA 681: Diffraction Techniques in Materials Science (3)
Course Description: Theory of diffraction of electrons, neutrons and X-rays. Strong emphasis on diffraction methods as applied to the study of defects in solids. Short range order, thermal vibrations, stacking faults, microstrain.
ENMA 683: Structural Determination Laboratory (1)
Course Description: Formerly ENMA 698L. The operation of an electron microscope is covered. TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) techniques that are used to characterize the structure, defects and composition of a sample are presented and used to study a variety of materials. These techniques are: electron diffraction patterns, bright/dark field imaging, high resolution lattic imaging and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. Also covers different sample preparation techniques for TEM. The goal is that the students become independent users of the TEM.
Prerequisite: Permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENMA698L or ENMA683.
ENMA 689: Special Topics in Experimental Techniques in Materials
Science (3)
ENMA 691: Special Topics in Engineering Materials (3)
ENMA 697: Seminar in Engineering Materials (1)
ENMA 698: Special Problems in Engineering Materials (1-16)
ENMA 698D: Special Problems in Engineering Materials: Liquid Crystals and Other Monomeric Soft Matter Materials (3)
Course Description: Liquid crystals and their applications, role in biology, and nanometer structure.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
