Undergraduate
Courses in Materials Science and Engineering
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ENMA 150: Materials of Civilization (3)
The basic structure and properties of materials at an introductory level will be presented and connections will be drawn to show how many of the major advances in throughout history have been preceded by advances in materials.
This is a Marquee Science and Technology Course designed for Non-Science Majors. See: http://www.marqueecourses.umd.edu/
ENMA 181: Introduction to Nanomaterials Seminar (1)
Course Description: Seminar series introducing nanotechnology and the conceptual and analytical challenges for developing future nanomaterials. Class activities and guest lectures cover the role of nanomaterials in materials science and engineering.
ENMA 300 (formerly ENES 230): Introduction to Materials and Their Applications (3)
Course Description: Structure of materials, chemical composition, phase transformations, corrosion and mechanical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers and related materials. Electrical, thermal, magnetic and optical properties of materials. Materials selection in engineering applications.
ENMA 310: Materials Lab I: Structural Characterization (3)
Course Description: Introduction to experimental methods in materials characterization; diffraction (X-ray, TEM, optical); scanning techniques (SEM, AFM); optical microscopy; vibrational spectroscopy.
ENMA 311: Materials Lab II: Electromagnetic Properties (3)
Course Description: Introduction to experimental methods in materials transport properties measurements: electrical, thermal, magnetic. Emphasis on structure—processing—properties relationship.
ENMA 362: Mechanical Properties (4)
Course Description: Overview of Mechanical Behavior, Elastic Behavior, Dislocations, Plastic Deformation, Strengthening of Crystalline Materials, Composite Materials, High Temperature Deformation of Crystalline Materials, Permanent Deformation of Noncrystalline Materials, Tensile Fracture at Low Temperatures, Engineering Aspects of Fracture, High Temperature Fracture, Fatigue, Embrittlement, and Experimental determination of Mechanical Properties including Hardness of Metals and Strength of Metals, Polymers, Ceramics and Composites.
ENMA 420: Intermediate Ceramics (3)
Course Description: Introduces basic concepts such as crystal chemistry, defect chemistry and ternary phase equilibria which can also be used to illustrate the various types of advanced ceramics (superconductors; superionic conductors; dielectrics including ferroelectrics; optical materials; high temperature structural materials; etc.) and allow an understanding of their behaviors.
ENMA 421: Design of Composites (3)
Course Description: This course covers fundamentals of design, processing and selection of composite materials for structural applications. The topics include a review of all classes of engineering materials, an in-depth analysis of micro and macro mechanical behavior including interactions at the two-phase interfaces, modeling of composite morphologies for optimal microstructures, material aspects, cost considerations, processing methods including consideration of chemical reactions and stability of the interfaces and material selection considerations.
ENMA 422: Radiation Effects (3)
Course Description: Ionizing radiation, radiation dosimetry and sensors, radiation
processing, radiation effects on polymers, metals, semiconductors,
liquids, and gases. Radiation in advanced manufacturing, radiation-physical
technology.
Prerequisite: ENNU 215 or 310 or ENMA 300 (formerly ENES 230) or
permission of instructor.
ENMA 423: Manufacturing with Polymers (3)
Course Description: This course introduces students to the broad spectrum of issues associated with the use, manufacturing and processing of polymers, which includes addressing issues of blending of materials, design and production of a polymer formulation and the characterization of material properties. The participants of the course will be organized into teams to work for a semester on an open ended design problem of producing and characterizing a polymer formulation for advanced materials use.
ENMA 424: Manufacturing Ceramics (3)
Course Description: Relationships between properties and manufacturing, effect of manufacturing process on product cost, case studies of modern ceramics like electronic packaging, high temperature bearings. Laboratories and field trips will supplement the lectures.
ENMA 425: Introduction to 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 artificial skin and bone growth scaffolds, and biocompatibility will be covered.
ENMA 440: Plasma Processing of Materials (3)
Course Description: A plasma is an electrified gas consisting of electrons, ions and neutrals. Plasmas have become indispensable for advanced materials processing. This is due to the ability to control the micro-and Nanoscale structure of materials at low synthesis temperatures, and also produce micro-and Nanoscale patterns in materials by plasma etching techniques. This course covers sustaining mechanisms of plasmas, especially low-pressure electrical gas discharges, fundamental plasma physics, sheath formation, electric and magnetic field effects, plasma-surface interactions in chemically reactive systems, plasma diagnostic techniques and selected industrial applications of low pressure plasmas. These topics will be illustrated by presenting examples of current research and important technological applications.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
ENMA 441: Nanotechnology Characterization (3)
Formerly ENMA 489T.
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.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
ENMA 443: Introduction to Photonic Materials, Devices and Reliability (3)
The course focuses on the understanding of the basic optical processes in semiconductors, dielectrics and organic materials. The application of such materials in systems composed of waveguides, light emitting diodes and lasers, as well as modulators is developed.
ENMA 460: Physics of Solid Materials (3)
Course Description: Classes of materials; introduction to the behavior ideal and real material, including mechanical, electrical, thermal, magnetic and optical responses of materials; importance of microstructure in behavior. One application of each property will be discussed in detail.
ENMA 461: Thermodynamics of Materials (3)
Course Description: Thermodynamics of Materials is a basic theoretical material science and engineering course. It is devoted to analysis of fundamental material properties and processes for near equilibrium conditions.
ENMA 463: Macroprocessing (3)
Course Description: Processing of modern, bulk engineering materials. Raw materials, forming, firing, finishing, and joining. More emphasis on metals and ceramics than polymers.
Prerequisite: ENMA 300 (formerly ENES 230) or consent of instructor.
ENMA 464: Environmental Effects on Engineering Materials (3)
Course Description: Introduction to the phenomena associated
with the resistance of materials to damage under severe environmental
conditions. Oxidation, corrosion, stress corrosion, corrosion
fatigue and radiation damage are examined from the point of view
of mechanism and influence on the properties of materials. Methods
of corrosion protection and criteria for selection of materials
for use in radiation environments.
Prerequisite: ENMA 300 (formerly ENES 230) or consent of instructor.
ENMA 465: Microprocessing
(3)
Course Description: The course provides an overview
of the microprocessing - and indeed nanoprocessing - of materials
as used in the fabrication of ultrathin layers and structures
of materials for use in semiconductors and other devices based
on thin film fabrication.
ENMA 471: Kinetics, Diffusion and Phase Transformations (3)
Course Description: Fundamentals of diffusion, kinetics of reaction
including nucleation, growth and phase transformations are
discussed. Topics include diffusion in substitutional solid
solutions, interstitial diffusion, nucleation and growth theories,
solidification, diffusional transformations and growth of
crystalline solids.
ENMA 472: Technology and Design of Engineering Materials (3)
Course Description: Relationship between properties of solids
and their engineering applications. Criteria for the choice of
materials for electronic, mechanical and chemical properties.
Particular emphasis on the relationships between the structure
of solids and their potential engineering applications.
ENMA 481: Introduction to Electronic and Optical Materials (3)
Course Description: The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with basic as well as state of the art knowledge of some technologically relevant topics in materials engineering and applied physics. The topics include dielectric/ferroelectric materials, magnetic materials, superconductors, and optical materials. There will be an underlying emphasis on thin film and device fabrication technology. Lectures will be on fundamental physical properties and description of different materials as well as new developments in the fields.
ENMA 489B: Selected Topics in Engineering Materials: Smart Materials (3)
Course offerings vary.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
ENMA 489C: Selected Topics in Engineering Materials: Introduction to Electronic Packaging Materials (3)
Course Description: Integration of materials,
design, reliability, electrical performance and environment into
package design; interconnect issues; materials and electronic
phenomena; fabrication and testing.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
ENMA 489G: Nanosized Materials
Course Description: This course covers practical aspects of nanoscale materials fabrication and utilization. It presents various approaches for the synthesis of nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanotubes, and discusses the unique properties observed in these structures and devices made with them.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in solid state physics, general chemistry.
ENMA 489L: Selected Topics 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.
ENMA 489M: Selected Topics in Engineering Materials: Diffraction Techniques in Materials Science (3)
Course Description: Introduction to diffraction from materials
due to their structure or lack thereof.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
ENMA 489N: Nanomaterials (3)
Course Description: Coming soon.
ENMA 489R: Selected Topics in Engineering Materials: Reliability of Materials (3)
Course Description: The main objective of the course is to understand the basic degradation mechanisms of materials, devices and components through the understanding of the physics, chemistry, mechanics of such mechanisms. Mechanical failures are introduced through understanding fatigue, creep and yielding in materials, and devices. Physical or chemical related failures are introduced through a basic understanding of physical mechanisms such as diffusion, electromigration, defects and defect migration, surface trapping mechanisms, charge creation and migration. Failure mechanisms observed in engineering materials will also be presented as well as failure mechanisms in semiconductor devices.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
ENMA 489X: Selected Topics in Engineering Materials: Physics, Material Chemistry and Device Applications at the Nanoscale (3)
Course Description: Coming soon.
ENMA 490: Materials Design (3) (Syllabus | Overview and Sample Projects)
Course Description: Capstone senior level design course. Students will work in teams to evaluate a society or industry based problem in Materials Science and Engineering and then design and evaluate a strategy to address the problem. The course will include written and oral presentations of the design strategy, implementation and evaluation.
ENMA 495: Polymeric Engineering Materials (3)
Course Description: (Cross-listed in Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering). Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENCH 490 or ENMA 495. The elements of the polymer chemistry and industrial polymerization, polymer structures and physics, thermodynamics of polymer solutions, polymer processing methods, and engineering applications of polymers.
ENMA 496: Polymer Processing and Engineering (3)
Course Description: (Cross listed in Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering). A comprehensive analysis of processing and engineering techniques for the conversion of polymeric materials into useful products. Evaluation of the performance of polymer processes, design of polymer processing equipment.
ENMA 499: Laboratory Project (3)
Course Description: Students work with a faculty member on an individual laboratory project in one or more of the areas of engineering materials. Students will design and carry out experiments, interpret data and prepare a comprehensive laboratory.
