Materials Selection and Engineering Design A

3 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, five hours. Enforced requisites: two courses from 132, 150, 160. Explicit guidance among myriad materials available for design in engineering. Properties and applications of steels, nonferrous alloys, polymeric, ceramic, and composite materials, coatings. Materials selection, treatment, and serviceability emphasized as part of successful design. Design projects. Letter grading.