Mathematical and Computational Methods for Materials Science and Engineering

3 Units

The course combines fundamental topics of material science and engineering with underlying mathematical methods and coding for computation. Focusing on the mathematics of vectors and using Mathematica as computational framework, the course teaches how to solve problems drawn from crystallography, diffraction, imaging of materials, and image processing. Students will develop a fundamental understanding of the basis for solving these problems including understanding the constituent equations, solution methods, and analysis and presentation of results. Prereq: ( ENGR 130 or ENGR 131 or CSDS 132 or ECSE 132 ) and ( ENGR 145 or CHEM 106 or PHYS 221 ).