COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS MODELING

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

Physico-chemical principles augmented by ever-advancing computation technology have become a tool for explaining rich materials properties, designing nanostructures and their possible functionality. This course overviews basic quantum principles of materials structure, and a hierarchy of approximations broadly used in computational models. This includes classical multi-body potentials, tight-binding approximations, electronic density functional theory methods, etc. MSNE 533 requires additional work. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: MSNE 433 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for MSNE 533 if student has credit for MSNE 433 .